Hey,
On Yesterdays POI Maclaine Diemer, Lena Chappelle (sound designers) and Rubi were talking about music in HoT. There was an interesting info that Maclaine shared there, the new combat music system, link below
https://youtu.be/ZhNniaeirq4?t=44m12s
From the sound of it, i think this might turn out very well. In many games, when You enter a combat, the game plays the same song everytime regardless of the combat “status”. The new system for GW2 designed by Maclaine and folks from sound department may be a very great step forward.
As we have beta right now, have You noticed anything of that? Like music flows and changes depends on intensity of the fight etc?
I put it here, because this kind of info is very nice and not everyone follows POI series
Also i want to thank Maclaine, Lena and all people behind the music in HoT, because so far soundtrack is fantastic and we all probably know, that music is extremly important for games. When did right it can intensify the experience, like squeezing more tears from emotional moments or pump the adrenaline during fights. In games i just like to stop for a while, enjoy the views and sounds around me (my avatar
).