Question Faction music stuck on a constant loop.

[Unkownmaskedman]

Is anyone else having this issue when using a faction pack like the Minutemen or the BOS for example . After creating your first outpost you will hear the faction theme plays when you are in the settlement. But after leaving the music doesn't stop the faction music keeps playing even when you are out exploring the commonwealth or in a interior cell. I mean I don't mind the music but I don't want to hear it all the time with it being stuck on a loop, playing over all the other sound tracks in my music pack. The only time this stops is when you enter combat and the combat theme plays. Is this issue with the faction pack or its a bug with conqueror?

 

[nzane]

Yeah, if its not the authors doing something wrong, its the faction pack template that is screwed up, this has been a thing for me for a long time, too.

The "arrival themes" have never worked for me, too, they're in the files and I've had a glimpse at a few like Forsaken Vaulter's , instead of playing the correct arrival song, it plays the normal Fallout 4 music, the one that sounds like the minutemen faction music.

 

[Tyeeozalee]

As far as the Forsaken Vaulters are concerned, I believed for a long time that the Arrival and Background music not playing was due to some sort of encoding error on my part. Weirdly enough, the background music did work in the first version of the mod but stopped doing as much later on (maybe for the best as it was indeed invasive, as reported by UnknownMaskedMan - stopping only through fights). In contrast, the Arrival track has never worked. I asked Kinggath for help and we concluded that the issue was certainly due to the use of an incorrect format on my end. It seemed very likely at the time considering I had little experience and that Fallout is extremely picky with music formats.

However, I've had confirmation two days ago that it has never been a music format error: I've assigned the exact same background music files to a custom interior cell I've finished and the music systematically works as intended. I've also created two fully working radios since then, which tends to debunk the format theory. I am now almost certain that there is a problem with the Faction Pack music template in Conqueror.

With several people signaling the same problem on different faction packs, it might be worth mentioning the pattern to @kinggath

 

[1ae0bfb8]

music with faction packs? who knew! after listening to the music once, when the game started the first time for me, i disabled it on every game since. am i missing out?

 

[nzane]

@Tyeeozalee one of the Institute packs has the issue with the arrival music as well, Can't remember if Institute Surface Recon pack or The Institute Pack, I believe the other faction packs don't present this because they don't use custom background music, that's just me guessing though, since I haven't tried them all, but the few I've tried with music, it's always kinda broken on that end.

Btw, unrelated, but I love the Background music you added for the forsaken, its beautiful, and I also love one of the radios, nice taste

 

[Unkownmaskedman]

thanks for confirming guys, cause I thought it was something on my end. Had to scrap a BOS liberator save cause of this issue. I'll hold out on using faction packs until what is causing music looping bug has been identified.

 

[kinggath]

Thanks for the heads up - will add this to my list.

Once I implement a fix, it should retro repair any save files that are currently experience the music stuck in a loop.

 

[MisterKen]

I just discovered this continual loop. It replaces the vanilla Fallout 4 entirely unless of course I choose a radio station. I use the Children of Atom pack fyi.

 

[ironhead333]

I use the Minutemen faction pack with Militarized Minutemen with my main base in Sanctuary. I am the general of the MM. I don't hear any faction music at all, only vanilla music. I also use Wolf's Music Mod to add extra faction music if that makes a difference. I don't know if this is a different problem or a related one but I figured I'd put this here. I hope this can be resolved!

Thanks for all your work on this