I have sat 4 hours in a queue just to log in and experience the same issues even outside combat. Sound stutter in major city, with static noise on certain parts of the background music. Literally unplayable thanks to how annoying it is. Listening to it would give you a headache after a 30m or so. I've tried to experiment with different settings and stuff. I had launched the client again in a separate window, and logged in at the same time as my character was online - to avoid getting back to the queue. Sadly, didn't work. Back to 9k queue... Maybe in 6 HOURS I will be able to test if I can solve this ridiculous bug. Makes me not want to play the game. I'm still a newbie as my discord pals had made me get the game so I can have fun with them but I don't know if it's worth at this point. Plus, the sub time is running while I haven't been able to play it for 2 days now. (
>inb4 just play without sound
Yeah... a story game without sound sounds BIS, indeed.