Hey guys, here’s something i really want the devs to add to the game: a free play mode for the music skill.
Right now, the music skill is basically guitar hero, so you have fixed songs for fixed instruments giving you a preselected buff for your performance. But i would love to just play my own chords / notes on any of the instruments to create my own music. This of course should come without buffs or exp or at least with greatly reduced exp, so people can’t just macro their way to 200 music skill. but it would be a great way of expressing your creativity, especially for the real life musicians like me.
There could be a check box in the performance window that lets you enter free play mode, maybe with the added option of a metronome click and then you can use keyboard and mouse inputs to trigger certain notes or chords.
At the very least I would like to auto play any song I have unlocked just for fun while waiting for a quest to start. Auto play mode would not give XP or buffs. It would just be to have fun and perhaps show off your cool instrument that you earned through a future quest line or the skin you bought in the store.
I hear what you are saying about Free Play for music. The downside is it can open a can of worms for copyright issues. I would not be surprised if it never happens on that fact alone.
hmmm i don’t think playing something on a virtual instrument is enough for a copyright strike, and even if, that would only affect streamers and not the rest of the population. i don’t see grounds for copyright infringement here.
BDO’s music system is almost nothing but copyrighted songs made by players. If it was that big of an issue i think that wouldn’t be the case. There’s definitely a way around it.
Very old game but its music feature is just what you are looking for,very involved too.However the groups that form to play in bands ingame are awesome,they even run yearly festivals with the most popular being “Weatherstock”.
Good old Weatherstock, a very popular event. I did security a few times for it.
For those that never played the game this event is held in a level 20’ish area so Security teams would run around killing all the mobs so lower level players could freely come and watch the music without risk of death.
Hopefully this game will develop the type of Community based events like Lotro. I remember also doing the regular Hobbit patrols where a group of Hobbits would walk around the boundary of the Shire on ‘patrol’. I am starting to ramble off topic so going to stop typing after this one last sentence,
We really need a dedicated RP server in each region so like minded people can get together.
Current music system is not built on chords/note system. Its all pre recorded sound tracks that play on the background giving and illusion of “playing” music. Missing displayed notes will play automatic “missed note” sound and then the track returns. Free play mode would require music overhaul from the core system where user input would actually have note value. Most likely not going to happen in near future as music just launched.
It doesn’t require an overhaul at all, it’s just added functionality. samples of preset chords and notes are easy to do for the sound team and then you just need to map them to certain keys and maybe allow a remapping of said keys so everyone can customize their inputs. it’s a whole different system that has nothing to do with the guitar hero mini game.