Why is it gone?

[Tthorumsu]

What happened to episode 3's Timberwolf theme music? I was quite fond of this track because of its Leitmotif usage, but it seems to be gone entirely.

This is made worse by the fact that casual music still plays even when timberwolves attack. It's very unfitting to hear casual, thoughtful music while a pack of timberwolves are literally hunting you. 

I know that ambient music also doesn't get cut off by Timberwolves in survival either, but that has always been the case there. It is way more obvious in Wintermute, which has music more interactive in nature.

There is a chance that the timberwolf theme itself being gone is intended, as episode 4's timberwolves didn't have it. But if that's the case, at least the ambient music should get cut off when they aggro on you. This has always been an annoyance on survival, and it's now part of Wintermute.

 

 

Edited November 19 by Tthorumsu

[Veskaida]

By "Timberwolf Theme Music" you mean this song ("The Timberwolf" by Chris Velasco)?

Sounds like it may be a bug, though I haven't played Episode 3 of Wintermute since the TFTFT expansion was released so I can't verify it easily. From what I remember: this song should start each time a pack of Timberwolves aggros with the player.

Spoilers for "Wintermute Episode 3 - Crossroads Elegy"

Spoiler

Basically there are two types of Timberwolf packs in Episode 3: static packs which move around the map (similar to other animals, or how they behave in Survival Sandbox), and those created by triggers (e.g. the player enters area X, so the game spawns a pack to chase you for particular story moments)

From what I can remember of playing EP3, I think that song is 'supposed' to play each time a pack aggros the player, but I haven't looked at anything under the hood for Wintermute. My guess is that this is either something Hinterlands has deliberately changed (e.g. in response to player feedback), or a bug you're experiencin (I'd guess more that it's a bug). If you believe it is a bug, I'd recommend making a Support Ticket to Hinterlands directly with as much information as you can provide (e.g. your Wintermute EP3 save file).

[Pencil]

I was wondering what happened to the music too. I hope it's a bug and the music returns because it was very thrilling. 

[ThePancakeLady]

1 hour ago, Pencil said:

I was wondering what happened to the music too. I hope it's a bug and the music returns because it was very thrilling. 

May or may not be related, but not too long ago a few players on Steam noticed that the OST was playing tracks out of order or playing a different track than what was shown on the list of songs as being played. So, maybe a bug with song trigger events in the game and ordering in the OST (at least on Steam? Like I said, it may or may not be related.

[mintietcatm]

3 hours ago, Pencil said:

I was wondering what happened to the music too. I hope it's a bug and the music returns because it was very thrilling. 

On the xbox vers of wintermute, during an episode it only plays music from episode 3, its weird hearing the crossroads theme while in episode 1 🤣 havent had this issue in steam tho. As for the timberwolf theme I actually noticed it SINCE episode 4 came out, thought it was an xbox bug but also noticed it once i switched to steam

[Leeanda]

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