Release the unreleased music!#222

We’ve heard snippets of a number of songs already in trailers for Loxodont, Forsburn, and Slade (potentially even more). Assuming these are complete and waiting to be put in the game, is there any reason they can’t be added now? It’s kinda painful knowing that such good music only exists in a form that’s a) incomplete and b) got sound effects over the top.

Also, going forward, it would be nice to make sure that doesn’t happen again (so any added music can be listened to in-game).

I’m sure an aspect of this is that these are meant to be stage themes, perhaps intended for stages that don’t exist yet – but if the release cadence for stages is so long, then we never get to hear the music in all its glory.

Ideally the songs should be added to appropriate stages (Fire Capital/Tower, or Merchant Port/Sinking Shipwreck). A My Music-esque feature is probably a bigger undertaking, and for the size of the soundtrack that probably isn’t a big deal.

In one stream they stated something like making music for trailers is part of the trailer team’s job and not aligned with the audio team’s work. So those trailers are made separately and haven’t been developed far enough to be added to the game.

Despite this I think it makes a loooooot of sense to finish them out so they can play in game. I love both Loxodont and Slade’s themes and it’s sad to only have that.

Most of the music that exists only in the trailers currently was made specifically for these trailers and don’t have a full “gameplay” version already. We do have plans to both bridge that gap and have options for more music available in-game in the future but we can’t commit yet to a date when this will be done.

Some trailer versions of tracks that are already in the game are also quite different, e.g. the electric guitar in Kragg’s. Would be great to get clean rips of the trailer versions too!