The great mystery that is LWOTC crippling of the music system. That mod team needs to push out a fix so its compatible with music mods again.

Or someone with a real high IQ need to figure out a fix, wink wink... :)

As others have stated, this mod does not work with LWOTC (Long War). Some missions have no ambient/exploration music at all. Others only seem to play the "Lost and Abandoned" theme and nothing else, regardless of the mission setting. Between these two issues, I've had to disable this mod. It worked great for me for vanilla WOTC.

Does it work with just the download with the workshop? Or do we have to do others things?
I installed it but i didn't answer any of those musics yet

It's a tragedy that there seems to be no simple way of replacing the WOTC squad loadout song with the original. Is it possible to simply make a copy of the original song, rename that file to whatever the WOTC song is called, and replacie the WOTC song with the renamed original? Does anyone know what folders the music files are stored in?

@Dragon32
Thanks!
Seems that my issue was not using that AML which completely turns off vanilla X2 mods.

@Socrates
Works for me.
https://old.reddit.com/r/xcom2mods/wiki/mod_troubleshooting

seems to be not working with the community highlander or am I missing something?

@ArtanisKAI
XCOM1 is EU / EW
XCOM2 is this game
TLE is added by DLC

currently, my only concern is wether the numbering of the music sets listed here correspond to the right set number that can be listened too on youtube. example is wether Set01_XCOM2 is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9McFTDn_cA&list=PL_eztCDu33iE28AWPhI87Vcsm4WG92CwH or Set02_XCOM1 is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqfHuaHvaT4&list=PL92y0qwKnU6NSp13sViD2iIxwMImf8uir&index=2

How do I disable the track that has heavy guitar riffs and sounds like pokemon music? not sure what it is called

AML is showing a conflict between this mod and RoboJumper's "Music Modding System" mod since they both use 'XComTacticalSoundManager'.

Is it safe to use both even with the conflict? I use other other mods which require the "Music Modding System" mod.

Crashed multiple times with this mod, seems to want to reference some kind of soundtrack but can't and that loops and crashes. Once I removed it I no longer had any crashes in combat but this happened in the tactical legacy pack, I assume it's because tactical legacy pack has it's own soundtrack it wants to play instead of this mod's music. Had used this solidly without any crashes for around 10 hours in wotc. Seems to only happen in tactical legacy but I'll try again with this mod and post here if I get anymore issues.

Is there any way to stop the XCOM2 squad select track from playing? I tried to comment it out in the ini but it didn't work... Then again I know close to nothing about editing inis...

Can you use this with the MMS?

Is it possible to create a version that replaces the WOTC Soundtrack entirely with the Original Base Game soundtrack?

Can this work alongside the music modding system?
I see Sethorven use the Half-life music alongside the normal sound track in his live streams

Ah, dammit, thats sad. Oh well, the tactical legacy and enemy within themes are more than enough already.

@Nikitaw99
No, unfortunately.
Krzyzyk [author] 19 Jan, 2019 @ 1:14pm
Unfortunately there is no way to trigger the original XCOM2 squad select using the method that this mod is using (switching between wwise states), as it has been entirely replaced by the new one from WOTC. Files are still there somewhere, but I could not figure out how to trigger them (you would have to do custom audio playback the way robojumper's mod does).

Fantastic mod! Really makes the game that much less monotonous. Little sad it doesn't bring back the Squad Loadout theme from the basegame though; Is there no way to bring it back?

This mod is fantastic, Hearing the same tracks over and over and over again was miserable. This is so much better. Thank you.

@ОГУЗОК
Oh. Adding new music. That'd be Music Modding System.

@Dragon32
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv5xZGLYLVGEYvEJ-iYzJFdacu7GHC_hW

@ОГУЗОК
What do you mean?

ADVENT version ?

Okay, I can now confirm that both XCOM1 and XCOM2 soundtracks play random music regardless of the settings, but the TLE music functions fine.

Update: It seems that the TLP tracks work as intended, so I'm going to assume the issue is solely with the EU/EW tracks.

Okay so having used this mod for two months now, I can say I like it. but lately I've been getting confused with the EU/EW soundtrack; setting a set seems to select a random track. is that normal?



What I mean is that for some reason, the set that should play this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTkkysQPGhM&list=PL92y0qwKnU6NSp13sViD2iIxwMImf8uir&index=9
ends up playing other tracks, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e1oyEExLtU&list=PL92y0qwKnU6NSp13sViD2iIxwMImf8uir&index=1

Is there a mod out there for Soundtrack Restoration that might, in a convoluted way, still get that original squad loadout music in the game? I am not fully understanding what exactly it is that makes the game go: 'I don't recognize this specific file above all others', especially given that it isn't too difficult to find the track (or a version of it) on the internet.
From what I've been told there was a problem with the fact the DLC was made with a different version of WWise, which caused issues with the files. Shouldn't it be possible to create, if necessary, an entirely new WEM file that can replace the current one? Just speculating here.

how does one actually customize the config to allow for more music?

the fact that the Base Squad Select track is missing IS unfortunate, but other than the fact I don't know which TLE track is which (Really wanna have that ADVENT Burger mix for my victory theme), I'd say this is an excellent mod... or I would if I had actually tried it out yet.

This mod is superior to Music Modding System (MMS) in every possible way. Its flawless with no hitching (lag), music over cinematics, or missing music during combat -- all problems of the latter mod.

@Krzyzyk is probably MIA but damn, if the modding community could use his code to make a better MMS for other music packs. That would be the dream!

This mod is amazing!!!

does this also spread out mod soundtracks?

Hands down one of the best QOL mods ive used for XCOM. Well done.

@Anakameron
Does this work with the music modding system mod?

Nope.. The game will load but music modding system takes priority.
Also you will have horrible lag spikes on all loading screens.

Hello, I've been trying to get this mod to work with LWOTC and the new mission types it has.

You see, it seems that some missions consistently do not play ambient music with this mod active, most likely because the mod doesn't recognize the mission type. I decided to peer into the src folder and see what is going on, but I have to ask about one of the few lines that I think controls the recognition of certain missions:

Let's say for example this line:
if (MissionState.GetMissionSource().OverworldMeshPath == "UI_3D.Overwold_Final.Retaliation")

Where are we finding the retaliation bit at the end? In the default mission sources, I don't recall any of them being named retaliation alone.

Does this work with the music modding system mod?

Any way to make this compatible with the normal wotc mod launcher?

Small bug report: anyone using the current LWOTC build and this may experience a no music bug during City Jailbreak missions. I just tested it without this mod and it seems to be an issue with LWOTC which I'll report shortly.

@atomaweapon
Maybe check before posting?

You can also just add RequiresXPACK=true to the mod file and it will work fine

@Alex
Yeah, that new launcher apparently can't parse .XComMod files with long descriptions. Just use the Alternate Mod Launcher: https://github.com/X2CommunityCore/xcom2-launcher/wiki/Installation

The new launcher seems to flag this as incompatible with WOTC, even though the file have the RequiresExpac line.
Wherever could the problem be?

@Tek03 You could set "Debug=True" at the beginning of XComSoundtrackRestoration.ini, which would tell you song names that are being triggered by the mod in log file (I sadly do not remember the exact location of the log file).

@IAmTheClayman I believe it's ".SquadSelectOST=SquadSelect_TLE" and ".MissionSuccessOST=MissionSuccess_TLE", so you should comment out other from same SquadSelectOST and MissionSuccessOST groups to have only these two played in squad select and mission success screens (just remember that there are two mission success screens, one in tactical gameplay and another after returning back to Avenger).

Any idea which variables are for what songs? I see that there's a few commented out, but are there really 10 songs from each game soundtrack? Mostly curious, as there's some from WOTC I like, some I don't... Some from TLP I like, some I don't... Etc, etc...

This mod conflicts with Music Modding System:

Conflict found for 'XComStrategySoundManager':
Music Modding System
Soundtrack Restoration - WotC + TLE

Conflict found for 'XComTacticalSoundManager':
Music Modding System
Soundtrack Restoration - WotC + TLE

What is the track name variable used in the .ini for the XCOM UFO Defense Remix? After watching ChristopherOdd's Season 5 playthrough I'm looking to set it up like he did where that awesome rock track plays during the squad selection screen and the mission success screens

I like this mod, but can you NOT randomise the music for DLC missions that use their own unique tracks, such as Shen's Last Gift. There doesn't even seem to be an option to change this in the config. The "Special Mission OST Overrides" does not provide any options for Alien Hunters or Shen's Last Gift missions.

@Sohaim:
No, no idea. I don't and have never had the SDK installed.

I'd love to have the old music most of the time and the new for golden path missions and, maybe, Chosen stronghold and facility raids.

Dragon32, do you know any way to replace the new one with the old music? i do know that the game uses WEM files, but i have no ideia which one is the loadout music, would that even work?