Vote for GNB Sounds

[Kyser96]

I'm still in awe that we got nothing but a one or two sentence response after two years. Like obviously the old sounds were something that they worked hard on. They had a whole section of a video dedicated to crafting and capturing the light slicing sound effects of a Gunbreaker.

They knee jerk changed them within a week, and gave no future plans to adjust or re-imagine what a gunbreaker should sound like. I had hopes for something like this in Endwalker, but from the trailers and gameplay, the sounds are still exactly the same. I can still say that the sound effects actively turn me away from the job.

Sounds are a really important part of the game, and your personal attacks are at the forefront. Gunbreaker would absolutely be my first choice of a tank job, but even after all this time, I can't get past how bad the sound effects make it feel.

[Vahlnir]

I'm still in awe that we got nothing but a one or two sentence response after two years. Like obviously the old sounds were something that they worked hard on. They had a whole section of a video dedicated to crafting and capturing the light slicing sound effects of a Gunbreaker.

They knee jerk changed them within a week, and gave no future plans to adjust or re-imagine what a gunbreaker should sound like. I had hopes for something like this in Endwalker, but from the trailers and gameplay, the sounds are still exactly the same. I can still say that the sound effects actively turn me away from the job.

Sounds are a really important part of the game, and your personal attacks are at the forefront. Gunbreaker would absolutely be my first choice of a tank job, but even after all this time, I can't get past how bad the sound effects make it feel.

Oh yeah, I wouldn't complain if they reverted the changes at some point. I just don't think they will. I love the job enough, however, that it doesn't really bother me quite as much as most. I'm digging the new sounds for the new abilities though. They are perfect.

[Kyser96]

As stated in a recent known issues post: "We will also check for feedback such as "it's getting harder to hear" or "the sound doesn't feel right" individually, and if any adjustments are needed, we will fix them in the patch as well."

I'd strongly urge anyone that still cares to look into providing constructive feedback before 6.01. They seem to be doing a pass over looking for things like this, and if there's any time that we could possibly actually get a change, this would be it.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Got to lvl 86 for the newest ability Hypervelocity and very disappointed to find that it sounds next to nothing like it does in the job actions trailer. It lost that metal grind sound right before the loud explosion sound and now just makes a somewhat neutered explosive sound. Not sure why they didn't keep it the way it was. As for the 90 ability not able to say yet, but I imagine it got changed from the trailer too.

Though to be perfectly honest, as someone who has leveled up just about every job, I really think sound design just isn't that important to them. Most abilities of most jobs sound very low volume and lack impact. Animations are incredible, but the actual sounds themselves don't do them justice on average. It's not really a GNB unique problem it's an overall issue with the team's approach to sound. Just tried sage recently and though I like the sounds they also have the same low-volume problem (not enough to bother me but still). A lot of issues would be resolved if they just turned up the bloody volume on a lot of sounds. Feels like they team's approach to sound is deliberately restrained and I don't really get why since they're the exact opposite with animations. They need to realize people WANT loud and impactful sounds, not like people who don't can't just turn down the sound effect volume.

Safe to say though that Soken or whoever is in charge of sound design just wants sounds to be downplayed heavily, for whatever reason. They're more interested in how abilities LOOK than how they sound. But it's not really appealing when you watch a job trailer and see this incredible animation of a spell only to hear it to have the impact of a wet noodle.

[WhyAmIHere]

I disagree. I play with reduced visual effects, so for me learning how impactful sounds sound is important, especially for raids so as to identify things like trick attack, battle litany, chain stratagem, et al.

sound is the other half of the audio/visual experience. to have one half of that lacking is bad.

[Karious]

Yeah, Hypervelocity sounds nothing like it did in the trailer. I literally only hear the boom. I submitted a feedback report, but I don't have much faith given how they busted GNBs main combo previously.

[gilmorej]

The strangeness of the new sounds might be stemming from the absence of the "combo ping/zing" sound effect that is supposed to play when you successfully complete a weaponskill combo. For whatever reason, this sound effect doesn't play anymore since patch 6.0, and as such weaponskill sounds always seem like they're "cut off" or otherwise sound like you simply used the ability out-of-order or pressed it without it being "lit up" as part of a combo.

The actual sound effect file of the combo ping/zing (whatever you want to call it) seems to still be there, it just looks like for whatever reason the game isn't calling it up anymore. No idea if it's intentional or accidental. I hope it's the latter, because the sound effect was helpful to know if you were performing properly just by listening, and the sound effect also made up a portion of what we perceive as the "correct way" that weaponskills sound (since we should have always heard them sound this way up until now).

[Shin96]

The strangeness of the new sounds might be stemming from the absence of the "combo ping/zing" sound effect that is supposed to play when you successfully complete a weaponskill combo. For whatever reason, this sound effect doesn't play anymore since patch 6.0, and as such weaponskill sounds always seem like they're "cut off" or otherwise sound like you simply used the ability out-of-order or pressed it without it being "lit up" as part of a combo.

The actual sound effect file of the combo ping/zing (whatever you want to call it) seems to still be there, it just looks like for whatever reason the game isn't calling it up anymore. No idea if it's intentional or accidental. I hope it's the latter, because the sound effect was helpful to know if you were performing properly just by listening, and the sound effect also made up a portion of what we perceive as the "correct way" that weaponskills sound (since we should have always heard them sound this way up until now).

What was the point of doing that... You'd think they want people to use their combo correctly and then this. I suppose you can also go 3-2-1 right Square?

I miss the sounds, the whole impact is significantly reduced now.

[Joshieboy]

amazing this thread is still here 2 years goin strong. keep at it, hopefully the ffxiv team will at least give the option the change switch out the sounds. I remember gunbreaker was my favorite job by far when it came out, but the hollow cardboard banging sound ruined it for me. The og sounds synced with the the hits perfectly and sounded great. Dont know what compelled them to so this. I hope they change it or atleast give the option to switch out at some point, there is no way they have not seen this thread. I know Pc has a mod for the sound effects that make them sound like the og but alas Im a console peasant. Im rocking with reaper atm, which is amazing and fluid but I would switch back to gunbreaker in a heart beat if the sounds changed back.

[NyneSwordz]

I hope we get the old gnb sounds back