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I'm curious, because I've seen this come up a few times in RP, and was not sure about it. If you hear combat music, can you assume that your character hears the sounds of battle?

I'd say not.

I think the battle music triggers the instant any hostile action is taken, such as being noticed by a hostile creature that then starts running for you. This doesn't necessarily imply there are battle cries, sword clangs or the like. The music is player environment rather than character environment, and doesn't account for things like sneaky, stealthy combat or things that otherwise might not be a klaxon of war.

I'd agree and say the music is OOC by Bioware to create some tension and intrigue for the player

You are epic lame.

All the kool people like me plug iPods into the computer speakers.

I doth epicly fail.

I've always done just that. >.>

"Omg wtf battle? " And then I go look. Lots of others do to. .
To eaches own? ^^

They can always get a bad vibe, too. It's sort of hard to not respond to the music if you have it on and you're used to using its cues in Single Player, or in PvE.

Or for those crazy ones with listen skills, roll one of those against a DC you set yourself (25-ish?)

I common sense it.

Indoor/underground like the trog or kobold caves where there's walls and shut doors or just solid rock between you? Eh, no.

Clear wide mountain air of Brogendenstein? You can hear sword-on-shield for miles.

Say no to metagaming fight music!

Music? No.
Battle sound effects? Yes.

Uberuce wrote:

I common sense it.

Indoor/underground like the trog or kobold caves where there's walls and shut doors or just solid rock between you? Eh, no.

Clear wide mountain air of Brogendenstein? You can hear sword-on-shield for miles.

That's what I do, on the rare occasion I have music on. Otherwise I have some nice classical playing through iTunes.

We could fix this by setting all of the area's ambient music to combat music.

The Monolith environs had combat music as its default for a while by accident. No wonder there were so many failing grades, who can concentrate with that going on?

Please don't set everything to combat music. I like the ambient sounds and music. ^^

But yeah, common sense issue.

Uberuce wrote:

I common sense it.

Indoor/underground like the trog or kobold caves where there's walls and shut doors or just solid rock between you? Eh, no.

Clear wide mountain air of Brogendenstein? You can hear sword-on-shield for miles.

Don't forget about Echos, echos.....echooos...*fades*
Caves can be loud, hear the water droplets? ...yesss *sage nod*

Leggomi Eggolas wrote:

We could fix this by setting all of the area's ambient music to combat music.

Pure genius.

Leggomi Eggolas wrote:

We could fix this by setting all of the area's ambient music to combat music.

Na, it would be very annoying and I have a feeling that the music would skip once a fight started, but I could be wrong.

If you specify the same track for day, night, and combat, then the music won't stop when combat begins; however it will stop after combat and then start playing again after the specified delay (defaults to 90 seconds). There might be a stop in between day and night with another delay.

Selmak wrote:

If you specify the same track for day, night, and combat, then the music won't stop when combat begins; however it will stop after combat and then start playing again after the specified delay (defaults to 90 seconds). There might be a stop in between day and night with another delay.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to specify the non-battle-music tracks for the "Combat" option of the Area's Sounds Properties.

I personally prefer listing to other music then NWN's music. There is better ambiant music out there for someone to listen to as it is anyways.

I just have winamp playing with the normal NWN music turned off, so I can't tell if there's battle music either way.

Selmak wrote:

If you specify the same track for day, night, and combat, then the music won't stop when combat begins; however it will stop after combat and then start playing again after the specified delay (defaults to 90 seconds). There might be a stop in between day and night with another delay.

Or, doing it that way, just put "no music" for combat, leaving only day/night music.

As is, most of the new areas I've been designing have no combat music, and many have no music at all, in preference of ambient sound and/or placed area sounds.

Well I think if you have no track selected for combat, then the day or night music will cut out when combat begins.

Obviously in script you can set a specific track to play regardless of the settings in force, which can be useful for dramatic effect.

Nope. When "no music" is selected for combat, then the day/night music plays like normal, uninterrupted.

I just tested it to confirm, using "generic castle interior" as the day/night music. It didn't so much as stutter once combat began. And when the track ended during the long combat, after the delay, it started up again normally.

Well, no music would be good.

Aww, but the combat music is fun.

TormakSaber wrote:

Aww, but the combat music is fun. :(

Bring in the Warcraft II or Baldur's Gate music!

How dare you speak the name of such a horrible game! That Blizzard series is pure turd! ::sag nod::

*puts on eyeliner and white T-shirt*

Leave the combat music alone! JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!

Leave the music on. If you don't want music, go into options and turn the music volume all the way down.

or just turn your speakers off you lazy turds.

If they turn their speakers off they can't hear their playful leader announce "All right crew, let's take them down!"

Uberuce wrote:

*puts on eyeliner and white T-shirt*

Leave the combat music alone! JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!

Tehehehe, classic!

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