Sorry if this has been mentioned, but is there any info out there about this? I read the G4 article, and this kinda bugged me.



I mentioned it in the G4 preview thread, but on second thought, i felt i could make a new thread about it.

I'm hoping that the raider was already in the PC's line of sight. I hope I don't know an enemy is around the corner before i turn it myself. Any news on this? Thoughts?

In one o fthe interviews they said that you hear the familiar drums when enemies approach or are near.

kinda lame. it honestly took some of the fear out of dungeon crawling for me. i dont mind a scary soundtrack when fighting, but not before. no surprise to it.

I love getting the drums when I'm level 17 and it's just some rat or something...should be changed to th tune that a Jack-in-the-box makes.

I hope they are.
Audible clues are often important to me as my vision isnt 20/20.

I'd like this music to start after the first hit is made, or else it spoils the whole fun.

Yeah the music change is still with us I think it was CVG that I saw this info

Could always turn down the music? If the atmospheric sounds are good enough, I know I'll be playing with the music off.

You can find it in http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3048710 article.

This is the line: "The music is still very much the same (read: awesome), and encounters still have that drum charge reminding you you’re about to get into a fight."

Disappointing, as one of the mods I always look for is something to change the music system. There's a mod for Morrowind that adds regional and location based music tracks and allows the battle music to be disabled for non-threatening (low level) enemies. It's a bit buggy but it's wonderful and it's a shame to see Bethesda not picking up on this.

It's fine by me as You should already be able to tell when an enemy is coming at you regardless of music.

They've taken a lot of inspiration from great mods. Unfortunately it seems they missed http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26892.

Terror, not every enemy comes from the front.

Eh it doesn't bother me, as BGS has done this with all their games since at least Morrowind. While it's truly comical when the battle music cues and you are being attacked by a worm, the sound track for this game will be much more fulfilling and epic than previous installments.

I'll probably just move the music into a player, turn it off in game and put it into a shuffled playlist going in the background, no predictive event music for me!

Remember Fallout 3? The combat music only played when you were attacked something that's an actual threat.

So I'm sure even if it's back, it's going to be more seamless.

nice idea.



i might also do that in caves/dungeons. i want to feel like anything can come at me at any time. i'll be playing as a fighter with as little magic as possible. so i wont have detect life spells and things like that.

Not every enemy is a master of stealth, either.

All you have to do is open the game directory, and delete the music in the battle music folder. even add your own. Only problem is that you can do it with PC only. I think since they already have the seperate folders of battle, exploration, and indoor music, they could just have toggles for each one in the options

I remember that they still had one long ambient music loop that I got sick of 20 hours into my 120 hours with the game, though I'll admit, I did forget that the fly's and stuff didn't trigger the combat music cue. More than the battle music tweaked I'd like to see more regional music. I'd love having really serene music in forested areas and more subdued, atmospheric noises in more rugged, snowy areas. BUT HEY, who knows? Maybe they've already done something like this.


AM SO HYPED

This.

I hope the battle music is just plain better. I found it irritating in Oblivion and I'd like something that sounds really cool, like in Lord of the Rings when those creepy dead kings in robes are chasing the hobbits in the first film or the music during the huge battle scenes. Something suitably awesome like that would be great, but obviously something using the Elder scrolls' composer's style.

I definitely hope they are planning to fix how it cues up too though. I don't like having a warning before I'm even aware of an enemy anymore than anyone else, and I don't like having to turn off the music completely as I like most of it. It's soothing and nice to listen to when I'm just exploring. And obviously during battle, as I said, I'd like something dangerous and cool sounding.

Since when did Enemies sneak although that could happen in Skyrim.

I'm not bothered that its still there as the first thing I do is turn of the ingame music.

Makes for a much more atmospheric game in my view, as I dont have a 100 piece band following me through the dark damp caves lol

I don't know that they sneaked, but that doesn't mean they never came up behind you undetected as you walked down a path minding your own business. If you don't detect them, you should suffer the consequences (I'd like that anyway) without having battle music warning you beforehand.




I get that too and I've thought about it myself, but I think having battle music cue up correctly is a happy middle ground for people who want to be immersed and have music... and music that doesn't ruin the surprise attacks of enemies at that, which is far more jarring for immersion than music by itself, for me anyway.

Ok, music off then. Battle music is one of the top three immersion killers in Bethesda games for me. I seriously don't understand how they can describe their dungeons as 'scary' if there is such a silly action movie thing as battle music. Zombies ahead! *trombones* *drums* Oh. Scary.

I like playing without music anyway, but a subtle tune playing in the background while exploring or walking through a dungeon wouldn't hurt.