Guild Wars 2

I’ve been writing an “RPG Soundtrack” as a side project for a while. (Making the RPG itself is also a long-term goal, but not one I’m anywhere near being able to finish.) When I found out GW2 has custom playlists, I took a bunch of them, edited some, and put them together into a compilation. Here’s the description I wrote up a while ago:

This is a bunch of tracks by me, organized for use as custom music in Guild Wars 2. Included is 20 tracks, playlists to put in the game’s /Music folder, and an instruction file. I may add more tracks in the future. These may just be added to this release or published separately.

There’s some cross-over between the playlists since I think some of the tracks work well in multiple places, and the game doesn’t let you be very specific about what plays where, and there’s cross-over in the game as well (“NightTime” gets played in cities and in the wild at night, for example).

A couple notes on how GW2 is handling the custom tracks:
1 – It seems to disproportionately play the first track in a playlist a lot more than the rest, and the second track gets played a ton too. There doesn’t seem to be a fix for this right now (except for maybe editing the playlists and randomizing the order from time to time) but once the initial rush dies down I might send in a ticket.
2 – NightTime seems to replace both Ambient and City at night.
3 – The Underwater tracks don’t seem to want to play unless you’re underwater a few seconds before the previous track ends. And they tend to cancel out if you surface, too.

HOW TO DO the whole adding-to-game thing:

1 – Read the instructions, that has detailed info on everything you should need to do.
2 – Bandcamp is awesome and let me upload the playlist files, so the step listed here is no longer necessary. Yay, Bandcamp!
3 – Enjoy.

I am not affiliated in any way with ArenaNet, NCSoft, Guild Wars, or Jeremy Soule. All tracks are written and produced by myself, mostly from other projects of mine.

You can get the official GW2 soundtrack here: http://www.directsong.com/mobile/productdetails.php?productid=2250

tl;dr version: Everything’s included to just plop the files into the custom playlist folder, playlists and all. I’ve since fixed the playlist thing by adding a short ‘intro’ track that’ll make the playlists randomize correctly.

You can grab the whole thing over here: http://xerol.bandcamp.com/album/gw2custom