Just finished the game, need an official soundtrack ASAP

[kafkam]

♥♥♥♥ is absolute bangers, Croteam where you at chuck this ♥♥♥♥ on Spotify ASAP

[LB]

The original soundtrack has been released!

Bandcamp: https://damjanmravunac.bandcamp.com/album/the-talos-principle-2

YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m4CeAySEzDmBTyN-EU9aH34YvGgG7p7_Q

YouTube full album in single video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x9-5sur-Yf8

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4CGD7qLYVO3wrHcqLMvuvJ

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2475690/The_Talos_Principle_2_Soundtrack/

[herbstwerk]

Thanks for the heads up.

[D-VulKan]

Please release in Steam Store.

[LB]

By the way, does anyone know what song on the OST corresponds to the Prometheus ending when the puzzles are disappearing? I'm having trouble finding that one, it's one of my favorites.

EDIT: After commenting on the video, I got a reply from Damjan Mravunac (or whoever runs the channel):

Originally posted by DMJ:

It's not on an OST, as it's part of cutscene audio, which works best with SFX and VO; therefore, those tracks were omitted from the OST.

:(

[StevenRaith]

I saw your comment on Youtube....

I think it'd be this you're looking for?

https://youtu.be/paYPhM5nNEc?t=8250

Gah, I linked it with timestamp, but it didn't keep it. It's 'Ending ? Version 2" you're looking for.

That's a rip of all in game music assets, so if that's not the one you're thinking of, it will be in there somewhere, and it's not like it's a chore to listen to ;-)


( CT staff - I'm assuming it's OK to link from here, as DMJ (who is Damjan) has referred to it himself in other comments in a non-disparaging, helpful way (for others who have also been looking for other tracks not in the official OST) and he is the games Audio Director so I'd expect if he had a problem with it, he'd handle it differently on his public YT channel comments etc. )


I felt it might be a bit cheeky to link to the above in your comment thread, straight after DMJ though ;-)

Also, elsewhere on his own official OST video, Damjan has advised on DLC availability, for those who prefer to have a local copy in good quality:

Originally posted by DMJ:

It's in the works, and will be available on Steam as DLC soon

And also the status of Vinyl:

Originally posted by DMJ:

Working on it ;)

Which is nice for those into that sort of thing. Not for me though, I'm happy with (hopefully) FLAC :-)

[LB]

Originally posted by StevenRaith:

I think it'd be this you're looking for?

Yeah, I had already known about it in an unofficial upload so I can listen to it there, I was just hoping to hear the dedicated version on the OST since multiple different songs play in the endings (and like you I was hesitant about discussing unofficial soundtrack rips). Still, I look forward to the Steam release of the OST.

[herbstwerk]

Originally posted by StevenRaith:

IAlso, elsewhere on his own official OST video, Damjan has advised on DLC availability, for those who prefer to have a local copy in good quality:

Originally posted by DMJ:

It's in the works, and will be available on Steam as DLC soon

And also the status of Vinyl:

Originally posted by DMJ:

Working on it ;)

Which is nice for those into that sort of thing. Not for me though, I'm happy with (hopefully) FLAC :-)

You can get FLAC from Bandcamp, it actually is the better option if you want to support the artist since they only take a 15% cut (on digital, and 10% on physical) instead of Steam/Valves 30%. This info might be out of date though, no idea if it's still valid after the Epic and now Songtradr purchase of the platform.

And vinyl... good to know they are working on it but I'll wait until more info is available. If it's a nice edition that isn't only available at some specialty distributor overseas I'll consider it. But after Manifold Garden, which has a phenomenal soundtrack and really nice pop-up gatefold, I'm not sure I'm willing to spend close to €90 (with more than half of that on shipping and import duties) for something I maybe play once ever again.

[StevenRaith]

I think with Vinyl it's more the collecting par,t isn't it (it's certainly not the audio quality, ho ho, etc), and yeah, for that you want to have really nice liner notes etc I guess. Hopefully for those into that they'll come up with a nice solution.

As for Bandcamp/Steam, I prefer to give a wee cut to Steam because of the stupid amount of work they've put back into the broader community. No, wait, hear me out...

They're not exactly an Open Source hero by any stretch -most of their stuff is highly proprietary, broadly - but as just *one* example, I'd not be playing this game at all without Proton, which is a result of Valve putting serious development resources into the Wine, DXVK, VK3D et al open source projects (which improves those tools for everyone else) allowing them to be so refined now that they'll run damned near anything at launch. Which means any Linux user, not just Steam Deck users, can run any game at launch.

Beyond that, their work for the Steam deck (compositors, kernel tweeks, etc) is giving people ideas for other comparable solutions in Linux too and generally improving the linux ecosystem.

Valves devs have been turning up to conferences around display tech on Linux and sharing what they've done to get HDR working on the Deck - HDR on Linux is a steaming pile of garbage at the moment, and they're contributing towards making it work properly/natively (SteamDeck solution is custom stuff) on regular Linux.

In short, my, say £4 or so for the DLC, a wee cut of that goes into improving tools I use on a daily basis, not just in Steam, so I'm happy to do that.

[The Sojourner]

Originally posted by LB:

The original soundtrack has been released!

Bandcamp: https://damjanmravunac.bandcamp.com/album/the-talos-principle-2

So it is on Bandcamp (as of very recent)! I imagine it'll come to Steam soon too.

Originally posted by LB:

By the way, does anyone know what song on the OST corresponds to the Prometheus ending when the puzzles are disappearing? I'm having trouble finding that one, it's one of my favorites.

EDIT: After commenting on the video, I got a reply from Damjan Mravunac (or whoever runs the channel):

Originally posted by DMJ:

It's not on an OST, as it's part of cutscene audio, which works best with SFX and VO; therefore, those tracks were omitted from the OST.

:(

The closest I can think of is one of the songs from the first game's OST: False God; though that's almost a bootleg for the TTP2 version.

Edit: I did notice that the "Utopia" and "Dystopia" songs were missing as well (at least on the Bandcamp version). Shame, that.

[StevenRaith]

The songs for Utopia and Dystopia are present, as part of of the track New Jerusalem, each getting their own 'movement' within the track.

[Lupercal]

Very smart move only putting the MP3 on Steam so people will go to the bandcamp for lossless.
No reason why steam should be getting a % of sales for a soundtrack.

I think you should really state on the DLC what it is MP3 only though.
I almost bought it on steam without googling first and I would have been very disappointed.

[<( Y v E )>]

I would love to see a vinyl release of the soundtrack.

[Curllee]

The DNA of the music from the Serious Sam games is definitely strong in this game. Often when the music kicked up I kept waiting for a bunch of kamikazes and kleers to emerge, lol. No doubt credit to Damjan Mravunac

[Nolt]

I 100% support the notion of having .flac files available for purchase, might be the difference of buying and just listening on youtube, for me

[LB]

You can download the FLAC format from Bandcamp, it's 1.4 GB of music