Guild Wars 2

One of the things music should do in a game is help setting a mood.
GW2 has amazing music, but it suffers from a problem, it doesn’t change quick enough when going from one place to another, taking sometimes minutes to change, and thus setting the wrong mood for the place.
When I’m walking in a field and then I enter a creepy swamp the music keeps being all flowers and butterflies for minutes before it changes to something more fitting.
the same when using waypoints, the music just keeps on playing the past map tune and it doesn’t help much. When I’m in verdanr brink and then use a waypoint to lion’s arch, the music keeps being the jungle one for quite some while and it is pretty immersion breaking.
I know this is not the hugest bug around the place and many people might not even care, but I figure it should not be too hard to fix, change the timer to play the next music to be 10 secs or so instead of 2 minutes or more…

In my opinion, the worst is when fighting against enemies, especially in PvP. It’s always the same tracks. That is why I got my own soundtrack ready and added it into the game for me.

We also only get one piece of music for underwater, which gets old pretty fast.

EDIT: Actually, maybe only two, now that I think about it. One is creepy-ish, the other not. But, still…

Have you set your option for more frequent or less frequent? Might help, I don’t know. My music changes pretty quickly, it seems.

I have tried more frequent, but nothing has changed, I’ll try with less frequent.

Yeegh, thanks for the reminder. Tangled Depths is horrid for background music.
Two chords with a slide in the middle. That’s it. I can’t believe someone got paid for that.

I’m not a musician by any stretch, so I know my opinions don’t count for much, but I think the music for HoT had a lot more… character than vanilla GW2.

I liked the music for Auric Basin, but I especially loved the piece used in the final boss fight. Original GW2 used a lot of orchestral (choral?) sounding melodies, in my opinion, while HoT had a wider range of instruments, making the music sound less dreary and a lot more exotic.

Rauderi.8706:

Yeegh, thanks for the reminder. Tangled Depths is horrid for background music.
Two chords with a slide in the middle. That’s it. I can’t believe someone got paid for that.

Eh… from what I remember TD music is pretty good and blend really well with the map .

Takoyakii.2146:

Eh… from what I remember TD music is pretty good and blend really well with the map .

I think he/she is unlucky and only wp into Chak Gerent fail maps: when the Chak Gerent event fails, DS music start to play and simple keep looping just the “two chords with a slide in the middle” part forever lol

Heraldusluminare.2946:

I’m not a musician by any stretch, so I know my opinions don’t count for much, but I think the music for HoT had a lot more… character than vanilla GW2.

I liked the music for Auric Basin, but I especially loved the piece used in the final boss fight. Original GW2 used a lot of orchestral (choral?) sounding melodies, in my opinion, while HoT had a wider range of instruments, making the music sound less dreary and a lot more exotic.

HoTness does have some beautiful moments in its music score, especially for combat music. Core GW2, I was using the music replacement thing to make the combat music less blag and droning, especially since the triggers for it were usually after a big fight is halfway over.

Banchou.5628:

Takoyakii.2146:

Eh… from what I remember TD music is pretty good and blend really well with the map .

I think he/she is unlucky and only wp into Chak Gerent fail maps: when the Chak Gerent event fails, DS music start to play and simple keep looping just the “two chords with a slide in the middle” part forever lol

It’s possible! But the DS music didn’t bother me. (Spent a few hours there this week on empty maps, so I would have noticed.)

I don’t know if there’s something about certain spots in TD I end up in to get “trembelo, glide, WHOMP,” but it was really irritating.