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City of Heroes Music Pack
   
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Sep 6, 2016 @ 2:15am
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City of Heroes Music Pack

Description
Intro
This is a collection of 22 pieces of theme music from the City of Heroes MMO that have been ported into XCOM 2 using Robojumper & E3245's Music Modding System (which is a requirement for this mod to work).

All the main themes are covered with different themes for the HQ in chapters 1, 2 & 3, as well as Geoscape music which changes when the Doom counter is active courtesy of Lord Recluse. Battle music, Exploration music, Dropship & Rope Out music are also included as well as the main Shell.

There is no video because I have neither the time or software to create anything decent.

Credits
Thanks obviously to Robojumper & E3245 for their work in putting the Music Modding System together and also for the tutorials which are concise, and easy to follow. If I can do it - anyone can!

Also - thanks to Paragon Studios for the City of Heroes MMO. The music was (for me) iconic from 2004 to the shutdown in 2012. It's great to hear it in a game again!

Thanks to the Paragon Wiki for the source files and to Ashen Fury at the Titan Network for the downloads.

Changing Inis
Music is a personal thing, and some tracks began to drive me mad - I'm looking at you Vanessa DeVore! The Squad Loadout music is a single track, but in my initial build I had a random collection of about 6 (for me) iconic bits of music. *I* like it, but others may not, so I left it in, but the default is a single track. There are also some tracks I couldn't find a home for, but left them in with their own sound cues so you can call them from inis without much messing about.
Music is called from 4 different inis - Shell, Skyranger, Strategy & Tactical and in each ini I've added comments detailing the names of the unused cues. Just edit the particular ini you want to change - but beware that an update may reset things.

Issues
- This is a large download, so beware before subbing if you have a download limit. ModBuddy complained that anything over 300Mb might be a problem but it runs absolutely fine on my machine. I'll try and avoid too many updates beyond bug fixes.
- I'm not a music whiz. The tracks themselves are not looping, so they fade in/fade out. All tracks (apart from the stings) loop after fade, so you shouldn't get silence.
- The 'sting' music (battle over) is called when the game determines the battle is over, and marginally before the animations play out, so this can be a giveaway - much like when achievemts pop.

Feedback
There's an easter egg in the Skyranger loadout music which is set to about 5% (1 in 20). If you're getting Moon River more often, please let me know. It's funny - occasionally, but could get pretty old, pretty fast.
35 Comments
Evader Apr 29, 2023 @ 8:58am 
Where I can heaer example? Huh?..
harlequin565  [author] Oct 6, 2021 @ 3:37pm 
It's back!
TROCH22 Oct 5, 2021 @ 5:32pm 
COH was awesome back in the day.. miss that!!
†TheReaper† Sep 28, 2019 @ 3:47pm 
ah ok =)
harlequin565  [author] Sep 28, 2019 @ 2:24pm 
Long War of the Chosen...
†TheReaper† Sep 28, 2019 @ 2:01pm 
LWoTC?
harlequin565  [author] Sep 28, 2019 @ 12:21pm 
Been there since May. Only LWoTC is dragging me away at the moment. :)
†TheReaper† Sep 28, 2019 @ 10:40am 
For those that don't know, you can play city of heroes again =) check out city of heroes homecoming
harlequin565  [author] Dec 15, 2018 @ 9:18am 
Not sure why it's suddenly jumped from 5% to more than that (and it is, because it happens to me too!)
Frustratingly, the upk won't open for me to change it, so there's no perma fix, but if you go into the config files and open XcomSkyrangerSound.ini you can change out CoH_HarleyMusic.CoH_Harley_Dropship for any of the commented out sound cues below it, ot just delete the line to have it use Squad Select music.
The Gaming Archaeologist Dec 15, 2018 @ 8:55am 
@Sea Lily Yes I don't know where the hell that farting was coming from either. In all the years I played CoH/V I never heard it. It's like someone messed with this mod.