Will the old soundtrack be included in any way?

[Woodbeam]

I first played the demo and beta early this year. I came back after the latest beta patch to hear the new soundtrack, and while it's obviously high quality, I really miss the old tracks. I thought they were fantastic already, so I'm surprised that they're seemingly being replaced wholesale.

The new soundtrack is higher intensity and heavily anime inspired, which still works, but doesn't capture what I thought was actually pretty unique about the old, more chiptune-like, synthy tracks. The old initial loadout selection and final victory tracks still remain, and feel out of place with the new tracks, though I assume those will eventually be replaced too.

One track that I definitely feel strongly about is the one for Min's Workshop, which I feel is a straight downgrade - it has so much less of the weirdness that gave the character and place such a great off-kilter feeling that I thought made sense for what is portrayed as a ramshackle operation run by kind of a gremlin. The new piece is too straightforward and sugary for me, though I certainly don't think it's bad on its own.

One other note, I think the incidental sounds during gameplay, the random explosions, radio chatter and enemy vocalizations don't work well with the denser soundtrack. They're less audible and comprehensible and just feel kind of superfluous with how the soundtrack now already takes up all the space they'd otherwise be filling.

It's also sad because there doesn't seem to be a way to hear the old soundtrack at all anymore. If anyone's put it up on youtube it's buried by endless Star Wars stuff because of the game's name.

I doubt that anything can really change at this point, the new soundtrack is in place and scrapping it would be completely nuts, so I'll just have to be a weirdo hipster on this in the end. I really do think that something's been lost here though, the old sound had a more unique identity, though again the new soundtrack is very high quality and far from bland in itself.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. I'm probably in the minority. The game's still great, it seems set to be a hit, and the team should be hugely proud. But as a big fan of the old sound, this has got me down.

[Cartography Dee]

You can't find it because it's Royalty-Free music that wasn't composed for Starvaders specifically.
Allegedly most of it was from Kevin Macleod and you may be able to find them by digging through his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XXqXWIIpCI

[Woodbeam]

...well damn. All praise to Mr. McLeod then, his stuff worked brilliantly for this game!

I guess I'll have to hope the game's sound files can be modded, I'd actually re-add the royalty free tracks if I could, they're that good.