Option to un-loop BGM

[jamjeeshoul77]

This would be awesome! I love the music in this game, but I’ve always found those short moments where the music isn’t playing and all you hear are the gorgeous ambient sounds around you extremely immersive.

ARR zones are the most immersive zones in the game because their tracks don’t loop endlessly, there’s usually a few minute delay between each track that plays and it does WONDERS for immersion.

I think a simple toggle switch for BGM looping to happen as it does in ARR zones in all other areas of the game would be awesome! Disabling BGM right now also disables some other sounds like “quest complete and accept” and I don’t want to disable the music completely.

Thanks!

[Driavna]

I agree with you. Is one of those few things I dislike about this game, in certain areas I have to turn off the music.

An option for no loop will be great for me.

[Limonia]

This is a great idea!
But I would like this as an option for both. Sometimes I would like the music in the HW+ areas not to loop, and sometimes I would like the music in the ARR areas not to stop. It depends. I would probably change the option every time I feel like it.

[Daniolaut]

None of the open world zones in the entire game have looped back ground music. Some just stop for longer than others, and some have shorter jingles.

The community has been asking that they -loop- the music in the open world since launch.

If they add an option to ... make the pause longer, before they add the option to loop it....... I'm not going to finish that sentence.

For example the music in Pharos Sirius used to not loop, and only played a short jingle at the start of the dungeon. The generic "battle" music used to play just like in the lower level dungeons. Thankfully they moved away from that concept in at least dungeons, because it clearly didnt work.

There is literally already an option to turn off the music.

So if I'm forced to manually hide and un-hide the chat log, I think you can manually turn on and off the music.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

None of the open world zones in the entire game have looped back ground music. Some just stop for longer than others, and some have shorter jingles.

The community has been asking that they -loop- the music in the open world since launch.

If they add an option to ... make the pause longer, before they add the option to loop it....... I'm not going to finish that sentence.

For example the music in Pharos Sirius used to not loop, and only played a short jingle at the start of the dungeon. The generic "battle" music used to play just like in the lower level dungeons. Thankfully they moved away from that concept in at least dungeons, because it clearly didnt work.

There is literally already an option to turn off the music.

So if I'm forced to manually hide and un-hide the chat log, I think you can manually turn on and off the music.

Area music has been looped from HW, at least. You'd know, if you'd actually been in those areas.

[Nestama]

Area music has been looped from HW, at least. You'd know, if you'd actually been in those areas.

They don't though. The music is roughly 3-5 minutes long depending on the zone (Painted Hills is 5 minutes long for example actually it might be shorter, since the uploader on youtube most likely looped it), but once it's done, there will be silence for roughly 30 or so seconds.

For example, here's Civilisations. It plays for around 2:49, stops and then starts up again a few seconds later.

[jamjeeshoul77]

There is literally already an option to turn off the music.

So if I'm forced to manually hide and un-hide the chat log, I think you can manually turn on and off the music.

I addressed that in my post. When you mute the “BGM” slider, it mutes ALL music. Including the quest accept/complete jingles, and all cutscene music, so it isn’t a realistic workaround.

[DoH]

Just make a macro that does "/bgm" to easily toggle it on/off.