Justin Bell

Hello! Thanks for your very kind words. We're looking into it now, stay tuned!

Heyblm_is_your_friend. First off, sincere apologies for taking so long to respond to this. I know you've been working with our support team , and they've done a great job communicating with me about this. The failure is on me. That audio sure does look distorted to me as well. I can't explain why that's the case, but I have the source files here and this is what they look like: I will work with our support folks to see about getting this resolved, please look for a response from them.

I *might* be able to for next patch. Depends on if I have the right conditional available to me so I can script it in.

Good question. Not sure the exact number.

Hi there. The issues you describe of poe1 music playing everywhere should be resolved now. Once the next patch comes out please take a listen. Note that night music will not play until the current district music is over, and day music will not play until the night music is over.

@Phenomenum Seems reasonable. Thank you very much for taking the time to make these suggestions. I will try to integrate these changes, but it might need to wait until the next patch. It's getting very late for me to modify data in this way for this next patch (this modifies more than just Wwise data, which gets slightly riskier considering we're locking the patch imminently) , but next patch will be much safer and I'll look into doing this.

I hear you. Ok if there's another piece from Pillars 1 or 2/White March you guys prefer for night music sound off. It's got to be today or tomorrow my time though to ensure it gets into the build. Two provisos - I reserve the right to decline a suggestion based on music placement elsewhere in the game, AND new music is off the table for now unfortunately

Guys, I definitely appreciate all the feedback. I'm just not sure I have the availability to write new music for night time right now. Take a listen to the next patch, see the improvement to transitions. Who knows, maybe the use of encampment will grow on you over time now that it works properly.

You guys don't like ecampment for the night?

Hey guys, everything has been fixed and will hopefully launch in the next patch. I wasn't handling certain transitions but it's all resolved now. Hang tight!

Hmm, I thought I excluded the taverns? Is that not the case?

Understood. The indoor thing was intentional. I think once #2 is fixed, #1 and 3 will be less aggravating. (hopefully?)

Hear you loud and clear, we're looking into this bug.

Everyone, thanks for saying thanks. It's really my pleasure.

My pleasure, really. We worked hard on this game for you guys. We know we can't make everything perfect, but we will try our best to keep an open mind!

Just wanted to let you folks know that we're doing the following: Night music in all Neketaka districts except for dungeons and inns, and some wilderness areas. It will be two pieces of music, one for towns, one for wilderness areas Boss music for all boss encounters Reactive music turned off by default, but optionally turned on if you so wish. Couple notes to set expectations. We will be re-purposing music from Pillars 1 for the music above. I know that this will likely disappoint some, but my current workload won't allow for anything more than this. That said, I really think it will make the difference you guys hope for and urge you to give it a chance! We're aiming to have this in when Seeker, Slayer, Survivor launches, but like anything we do, I can't guarantee the timing because we need to test it first to make sure we can safely add it to the game. That said, it's looking good so far, and we hope to be able to do this for the 3.0 release. If not for that release, then one shortly thereafter. Stand by!

If you guys want I can see if we can make it so soundtrack reactivity is an option that you can turn on and off. Honestly, I think this would address a lot of the feedback folks have.

Nice! That's awesome to hear, thank you!

Thank you for saying that!

No, never to that degree of reactivity, but it would be pretty cool if we could pull that off. It all boils down to time of course, there was so much to accomplish during this project.

One thing I think a lot of folks miss out on is the fact that ambient music is reactive, especially in Neketaka. If you ever want to hear what the "full" piece of music is for a given district, just idle in a conversation for 5 minutes and listen. It'll be very different than what you hear just exploring!

Aha, yeah that's what I suspected. Let me think it through....

Wow, that was quick!To your question: Yes and no. There were certainly different music "pairs" for day/night, but some of them repeated in other areas. Examples for outdoor: - Cloackwood forest (Day): www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wwo7gpC3I&t=1615s - Night in the cloakwood: (Night): www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wwo7gpC3I&t=1813s ---------------- - Exploring the plains (Day): www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wwo7gpC3I&t=633s - Night on the plains (Night): www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wwo7gpC3I&t=770s Examples for cities: - Daytime in the slums (Day): www.youtube.com/watch?v=W80tmfVcQCo&t=591s - At night in the slums (Night): www.youtube.com/watch?v=W80tmfVcQCo&t=3965s ---------------- - Waukeens Promenade (Day): www.youtube.com/watch?v=W80tmfVcQCo&t=475s - Waukeens Promenade (Night): www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMVPS9GtdU In the last example with Waukeens Promenade there was no music at all in the night, only ambient sound if I remember correctly. Sometimes even silence does the job it seems. Or they just ran out of time, but I dig it. Silence before the storm. PS: Sorry for making those links unclickable but having multiple YouTube videos messed with the timestamps. Got it, thanks! Not sure how or if we can pull this off, but I'll look into it. Can't promise anything, but I'll try. Watcher Prevails is awesome, so it definitely would. Out of curiosity, is the track Rise Again Rise Again used anywhere? It's on the soundtrack but I don't recall ever hearing it in the game. It would make a pretty good boss track also Hmmmmm, Rise Again Rise Again *should* play. Wonder what's going on. RE Watcher prevails I'll look into it! Can't make promises here either, but I'll investigate.

@EdwinOdesseiron thanks for your kind words words and your support! Out of curiosity does Baldur's Gate have the same night time music everywhere? Also, @house2fly, if we played The Watcher Prevails only during boss fights, would that be a step in the right direction?

Nice! Glad you like it Truth be told I was skeptical that people would like it, but I'm glad I was wrong. It felt almost like an intermittent song from a pirate movie. One you might hear between scenes in a film with lots of ale clinking and swinging from ropes. I would love to have some additional similar tracks for one of the future DLCs. In particular, I thought a good place to have some kind of shipboard atmospheric track or sound effects would be during the storm events on the overworld map. All around very good job with the music this go around, it is a massive improvement over the first's soundtrack (which was very repetitive in it's scope sad to say). I would like to echo the sentiments from another user about there needing to be a few areas that should have had unique soundtracks (such as the bathhouse). It might seem like a waste from a development point of view, but one thing that has always stood out to me in games that have become all time favorites is those areas where you get exclusive chills from epic music you've not heard anywhere else in the game. Some very good examples of this type can be found on late SNES early N64 video games. One of my all-time favorite games is Mario RPG (it is the first RPG I ever played to fruition back when I was 10). One of the things that still sticks with me about that game is some of the unique soundtracks for certain areas, from those with a sense of urgency to whimsy. While most areas still use the main soundtrack/themes. Some other good examples of this can be found in Ocarina of Time, though not exactly an rpg they did well with the idea of "unique" tracks to select areas which make them stand out and help one reimagine those places decades later. Just something for your consideration. Thank you for that @Excerpt. Glad you liked it. The scope of the game and the amount of work required meant we had to de-prioritize certain plans, and the bathhouse was one of them unfortunately. I agree with you though and I also would have liked to do something unique for this area. As an alternative, what if I just persist the music from the exterior into the interior? It might be more tonally fitting than the inn music. I like that idea of changing the music to the exterior music, I think it'd be more fitting personally. But I don't presume to speak for everyone. I will tell you this though. I would be willing to pay for an additional music DLC if it was of the appropriate caliber, don't know if you guys have ever thought of commissioning work based on that premise or not. In particular something along the lines of customizable and/or unique battle/dialogue music based on class/reputation/disposition. Overall well done, and I really love and appreciate seeing the Developers interacting so much on the forums here with players/customers. It is an unusual and refreshing thing in the current age of game development. My pleasure really. We make these games for you guys, and it's important that we talk! I kind of agree about the bathhouse music. I'll make the change.