Guild Wars 2: Pre-Release Discussion

[Shuichi]

Did they ever add the music changer to the game? I know they mentioned before that it would be in the game.

[vrumpt]

Did they ever add the music changer to the game? I know they mentioned before that it would be in the game.

Its in, but its just all handled through command line or something. There isn't any UI elements for it. But it does work exactly how they detailed it would.

yeah what he said
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[Zerocool]

It's been in there, but you have to do it sort of manually.

It’s actually in and working, but the feature wasn’t publicly documented. Here’s how it currently works:

Under [Your Name]\Documents\Guild Wars Gw2Dev folder, you’ll see that GW2 creates a Music folder next to the Screens folder (where screenshots go). All you need to do to get your external music collection playing in the game is to create a playlist of the appropriate name and type in this folder.

Supported playlist formats are .wpl, .m3u, .pls, .asx, and .wax.

Supported audio types are everything FMOD supports by default, which includes .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .wav. aiff, and a bunch of old-school music formats, like .mid or .it files.

There are eight specific playlists the game recognizes, and these are designated simply by the playlist’s file name. They are: Ambient, Battle, Underwater, City, Crafting, BossBattle, NightTime, and MainMenu. Hopefully these are somewhat self-explanatory in terms of when you might expect to hear them play.

So, for example, if you create a playlist called Ambient.m3u, anything in that playlist will be heard instead of the standard in-game ambient music (the general music you hear when running around in the world).

Each internal playlist can designate a primary and secondary playlist to look for. Most of the playlists will fall back to Ambient if they do not exist. This means that if you’d like to simply replace the majority of the music in the game, you can just create an Ambient playlist, or maybe just Ambient and Battle. However, if you really want to customize your playlist in detail, you can create the more specialized playlists such as NightTime or Crafting.

The easiest (and at the moment, the only) way to test this is with a MainMenu playlist, since that will replace the music at the login screen.

Sure, we can easily change up how this works. Instead of a generic “City” playlist, we could just as easily have specific playlists for each city in the game (e.g. “Lion’s Arch.m3u”, “Black Citadel.wpl”, etc). Initially, I really had no idea how specific people would want to make their custom playlists, so I chose a somewhat conservative set. If there’s enough interest in making them more specific, then we can do that as well.

[Tagus]

wow, that's awesome. I didn't see that we could do that before.

[Dranio]

obviously I'll be making playlists tonight after work.

[Skai]

Aw yeah gonna make me some Yoko Shimomura playlists.

[Arelian]

I'd really recommend at least listening to some of the hard work the sound artists have put into the game before you write it off completely.

[Siya]

Think we're gonna get a heads up or will the servers just randomly pop online? CAN'T WAIT

[Ohemgee]

I'd predict 15 minutes before midnight edt they'll announce they'll let people on

[Takiwaki]

Anyone getting that awesome 3hr pop window feeling!!?? lolol

This will be the only time we would ever experience that horror in GW2 lol

[Shuichi]

Got my Twizzlers at the ready!

[Siya]

Anyone getting that awesome 3hr pop window feeling!!?? lolol

This will be the only time we would ever experience that horror in GW2 lol

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[arus2001]

Camping my PC, more or less. I didn't get much sleep yesterday since I forced myself awake to keep an eye out for UPS so my new monitor didn't sit outside for hours (and possibly get stolen). Naturally, after hooking it up, I wanted to take it for a spin, so I never did go back to sleep. Suspect if I can last to 3am EST, I may wind up crashing soon after.

[Kachiko]

Next window in 30 minutes

What's that lvl 1 Warrior over there doing?

[Rhyis.]

Am I playing yet?

[Katlan]

I doubt they will announce the moments servers are up. most likely they will open the servers first and then make an announcement a few minutes later. That way to prevent the total rush of ppl since some whoa re spamming will already be in

[Siya]

Passing time with The Hunger GameZ (Dayz hunger games).

Spoiler: show

[Kachiko]

Window in 5.

[Rhyis.]

Don't claim a darter guys.

[Ohemgee]

GATHER TOGETHER - CASTING MY BUFFS