Empire: Total BACH mod

ABOUT THE MOD:

Even though I like the vanilla soundtrack, I thought it would be cool to use the music of the period instead. At least in my opinion, it makes the gameplay more enjoyable, especially the campaign.

Despite this is rather a simple mod, it's still unfinished. There are some polishment to be done and, if someone else of the modding community offers his help, I will be really thankful. Those are the thing that still need some work for the mod to be complete:

- There are still vanilla music out there, like in the loading screen, whose file I couln't find.

- There's a bug that makes the volume higher than it should be. It can be fixed by going to the game's sound options and simply touching the music volume bar, but you'll have to do this everytime you start the game.

- During the battles, the soundtracks pieces loop. Those loops were meant for the vanilla songs, and it's a shame because it constantly cuts the much longer classical music pieces. To fix this, I'll have to find the code and modify it, and I'll probably need the help of someone with actual programming knowledge, since I'm just a modding amateur.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

step 1: SAVE A BACKUP of your game's original sounds_music.pack, for if you want to return to the vanilla soundtrack. You can find it inside the game's data folder (Empire Total War\data).

step 2: Download sounds_music.pack.7z and extract sounds_music.pack from it using 7-zip.

step 3: Replace the original pack file in the data folder with the new one.

Finally, to get rid of the volume bug, you'll have to go to the game's sound options and touch the music volume bar. Unfortunately, until I find a way to fix this bug, you'll have to do this everytime you start the game.