Music replacement mod that combines the music of Mechwarrior 2 / Mercenaries / Ghost Bear's Legacy with the game's music engine, allowing for smooth transitions of music during gameplay. Old-school 'mech tunes to merc' to!
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A New Dawn by Timothy Seals (https://timothy-seals.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-dawn-cover-edition) Mechwarrior 2 / Mercenaries / Ghost Bear's Legacy original soundtrack by Jeehun Hwang, Gregory Alper and Carey James Banner by Dai
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Changelogs
Version 1.1.6
Various volume adjustments
Improved A2M1 Boss to Ambient transition (Freedom Fight / Temper Edge)
Version 1.1.4
Various volume adjustments
Smoothed out the ambient loops of A2M4 (Pyre Light)
Version 1.1.2
Fixed the combat2 end-of-track loop in A2M3 that I broke earlier (Dragon's Teeth)
Version 1.1.1
Fixed a combat to combat transition bug in A1M1 (Arkham Bridge)
Minor volume adjustments
Version 1.1
Version 1.1 adds a few of the boss only music tracks to be played during a combat2 state (personally in combat) because they were too good to be heard on only the campaign missions
Extended the playtime of Dust River a bit
Version 1.0
Initial release, mission and menu music
This mod is currently broken for the DLC. I have some plans in my head for fixing it, but it will very likely involve a complete redo and I don't know when I will have the time to do that again.
This mod aims to replace every piece of music in the game with music taken from Mechwarrior 2 / Mercenaries / Ghost Bear's Legacy, also taking a few pieces from the album "A New Dawn" by Timothy Seals (them being covers of Mechwarrior 2 music themselves) for variety. To make the old music work with Mechwarrior 5's music system I've sampled the individual pieces of music, often remixing them to form different pieces for combat or ambient music so they are blending together seemlessly depending on what's happening in the game, much like the vanilla music.
For the initial release every piece of in-game music has been replaced, including the hangar walk-up portion of the tutorial.
This is still an ongoing process though, I will be tweaking this further as I continue playing. If you try out this mod I'm always glad to listen to feedback so I can improve on the transitions and the mixing. Any feedback is appreciated, but if you can provide a video of any bug or weirdness you encounter that would help me a lot!
Installation:
Find your mod folder by launching the game, going to Mods in the main menu and clicking on "open mod folder"
Unzip the "MW2MusicReimagined" folder into that Mods folder
Restart the game, click on Mods in the main menu again and tick the checkmark next to the mod
To-do:
Finishing the tutorial music
Redoing the hangar music Forgot I did that already for 1.0
Acknowledgements: Morkrah: For the encouragement and helping me deal with Wwise Kh0rnz: For making the "Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries Audio Remaster" mod and providing me a Steiner Scout Lance's worth of MW2 soundbits and resources