Soundtrack Playlists?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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There are various music playlist modes: Classic, Immersive etc.
Anyone can explain what each does?

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Standard plays your civilization theme and then all tracks in the order they appeared when the game or expansion first came out (aka in the order of the official soundtrack), Classic does the same but omits the civilization theme. Immersive plays only the tracks the developers consider to better fit the civ you’re playing right now (the “African sounding” tracks play when you use Berbers or Malians, for example), whereas Dynamic plays first the ones from Immersive and then the rest of tracks. I think there is a Reverse option that plays the tracks of Standard mode but, well, on reverse. Shuffle plays all tracks on random order. This info can be found by hovering your mouse over the option tab if you have the tooltips activated.

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@StepS7578 Can you please name those? The list of musics that appear in each civ’s playlist of immersive.

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There isn’t a comprehensive list of which soundtracks play in immersive mode for each civ afaik and I usually don’t play with music on, so I wouldn’t be able to give you a list. I remember some of them, for example, Diamond Dragon usually plays when you play African or Asian civs, Shamburger when you play European, The Monkey Book and Pork Parts if Mediterranean, and so on.

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Thanks my tool tip was not active

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Yes playlist list please.

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Actually, no, the name “immersive” is mislaeding, this setting only makes it so, after playing the unique civ’s theme, the music from the expansion that civ came from (or roughly the nearest one release-wise) plays first, so:

  • Age of Kings civs play the Age of Kings soundtrack (12 tracks total, 9 come from the OG game and 3 are exclusive from the OG demo/trial version)
  • The Conquerors play The Conquerors soundtrack (10 tracks)
  • The HD expansions civs (The Forgotten, African Kingdoms and Rise of the Rajas) play the Rise of the Rajas soundtrack (only 3 tracks)
  • The DE expansions civs (Last Khans, Lords of the West, Dawn of the Dukes and Dynasties of India*) play the Last Khans (DE) soundtrack (only 3 tracks + a different version of “Neep Ninny Bod” from AoK’s trial version)

*I actually haven’t checked if the DoI civs actually use the DE list, but I think they do

Once the particular tracks run out (very quickly for HD and DE civs) the soundtrack starts to play ALL themes in the order above (so AoK, Conquerors, HD and DE)

This is how I understand this mode works, I haven’t tested it much (I honestly always play on shuffle) but it’s documented in a comment in the “Audio Sources - Music” tab of this google docs (that also has more info if you are curious, like the exact civs and tracks from each group)

It has nothing to do with culture, architecture sets or geographical location, for example, almost all European Mediterranean civs are in different groups (Byzantines are in AoK, Spanish in the Conquerors, Italians and Portuguese in HD and Sicilians in DE)

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Ohh that’s interesting. Given that a lot of soundtracks are meant to sound similar to the civs they come along with, I assumed they had some sort of custom playlist, but this makes sense. Kind of a lame implementation actually. Thanks for the explanation.

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