Audio popping issue

[HyoMinPark]

I played all through Early Access without experiencing any sort of audio problems, but after the emergency maintenance a couple days ago, now I notice it all the time. Battle effects stop working, boss skills/AOEs don’t play, skill sounds from us or other party members don’t play, character voices cut in and out. Background music seems fine—it’s the only thing that doesn’t cut out for me. Sometimes the sounds come back within a few seconds. Other times they stay broken.

I tend to have the bug where my sound all cuts out except the background music—and interestingly enough, my character wasn’t performing the animations for the actions when the sound was cutting out. I checked my VPN and did not see any packet loss or other ping spikes that could have caused the issue instead, since I know lag will cause animations not to play sometimes.

Sadly, the only remedy I’ve found is closing the game completely and restarting it. Simply relogging did not fix it. And sadly that’s not a great fix given the state of the queues in this game. It only really works if you do it in the late night/very early morning hours when queues aren’t thousands of people. :c

I hope this is fixed because it’s incredibly jarring. And I rely on sound queues in battle with regards to certain mechanics, so it’s kind of messing with that a bit.