Guild Wars 2

Did anything in the audio department or audio engine change? Post Oct 1 patch my thief has become very noisy with a constant rattling of keys sound when moving around. Perhaps this was always there and more subdued but now I have noticed it is quite loud and actually quite irritating. I also incidentally noticed footsteps are quite loud now as well.

Well I didn’t encounter the keys noise, but I noticed earlier today about an hr or 2 before the update, that a group of wargs sound effects changed. They had a weird hoof footstep sound that was annoying loud. I then left the area and found another group of wargs but they didn’t have the same footstep sounds. very odd.

Don’t think it’s just your thief — my warrior has a funny echo to her step and I have noticed I had to increase the sound volume on my speaker setting to hear anything.

additional info:
- if i remove my armour (naked), noise is absent.
- if i put my armour back on, noise returns.
- if i switch to town clothes, noise is absent.
- i can hear the noise on my friends ranger.
- i reinstalled audio drivers suspecting that, no fix.

I will attempt to get a recording of the noise as well.

Psy, I hadn’t noticed the new effect only applying to combat armor.

It’s annoying and a bad idea to have put it in.

video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S87nTACUV0&feature=youtu.be

reset sound settings to default, ignore haste that was accidental dodge at start. can actually here the clink sound whilst im in the options menu.

sound is present with footsteps in armour and town clothes (mistaken in previous post), absent when naked.

More information:
Switched from that armour set to full duelist – sound is gone.
Reached end game and bought full set Norn Cultural Tier 2 – sound came back.
It is really irritating considering how kitten loud it is compared to all other ambient sounds.

I noticed this just in the last day or two… my thief now sounds like it has rubber rain pants on when running around. It also seems like the bat wing sound is extra crunchy and super loud.

update
I just bought the wintersday costume for my Guardian and the costume (specifically the chest piece) replicates the exact same sound issue I wrote about above.

I am not expecting this to be a high priority issue but the constant clinking/rattling sound is majorly distracting and I find it irritating doubly so that I just spent 700 gems on the costume only to have the damnable noise come back on my guardian of all characters.