Preview of the Updated Soundtrack in Path of Exile: Synthesis

Amazing job Kamil,and GGG team

All are awesome highlights for me is

Lion eyes watch captures the Agony and hope of the exiles .

Solaris update is wonderful so much better now .

and the Merveils Sirens Song is Deliciously haunting

Thank you so much

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鬼殺し wrote:

As much as I love Kamil's work, and truly I do, I suddenly treasure my legacy PoE OST by Adgio Hutchings.

Solaris is sadly not an improvement. That was one of Adgio's finest additions to PoE.

The Merveil's cave theme though? With actual eerie singing? Yeah, that is a huge upgrade.

Go search the reddit thread about this post. I don't think Adgio really made the music.

But 1 act Lioneye's Watch and Solaris Temple are my favourite tracks in the entire game!
Please tell me there will be an option to have original sound track.

I mean if my Immaculate Hideout will suddenly have different OST I might as well not play anymore.

LOVE this, the songs are beautiful.
I value a lot soundtracks of games, this gives more personality to the game, and make more outstanding.

Thanks for this update

That merveil one at the end!

Great Work!

Good stuff. The music in this game isn't something that people talk about much but it's always been amazing and iconic to me atleast. Keep it up.

Love it! Especially the last track... which reminds me...

I have to comment, this is a great way to introduce classic chamber music to a new generation. Really excited for these changes!

bravo kamil

I really hope this is an out of season April Fools joke.

I probably garnered a bunch of hate with that comment, but that's just my lousy sense of humor. Bad jokes aside, there's an old saying that you "don't fix what isn't broken". This is a clear example of doing just that.

I'm all about brutal honesty, so here goes: the Solaris Temple track snippet is 100% a clear downgrade from the corresponding part of the current one. I see numerous people in the comments who share the same opinion, and any changes to this particular track need to be very carefully reconsidered. The choice of soundtrack very heavily influences immersion in a game's setting, and the current Solaris Temple theme fits the environment perfectly.

The Grand Arena is also a VERY dangerous one to change. Ironically, if I am not mistaken this one was made by the same composer proposing these changes, so I am not quite as concerned with this one, as Kamil can afford to make small tweaks while keeping a large portion of the track intact, something that is not as easy to do with someone else's intellectual property. However, the music in this zone is already extremely well done - in fact, I actually look forward to this part of act 4 simply because of it - and it is a lot more difficult to improve on an already good track than it is to degrade it. When doing a sweeping change like this, you target the areas that NEED improvement, not the ones that don't.

The Lioneye's Watch theme is also already pretty good, and a number of people have already mentioned that. However, the snippet in the video is not too far off from what is suitable for the environment.

I know that we haven't seen the full slate of changes yet - or even a full track of this rework - but it is my experience with this kinds of games that when a change is implemented it is very rarely reversed - even if it makes the game worse. That is why I am speaking up now, rather than waiting until after the fact.

I am also aware that Kamil is an experienced composer with serious talent - I'm not disputing that. I already mentioned that the existing Grand Arena theme is exceptional. I also absolutely love the themes for Izaro and Avarius, and the track for the Templar Courts area. I'm not certain he composed these, as I can't find anything definitive on it, but Kitava's themes and the Ruined/Ravaged Square pieces also fit very nicely. I also really love these new Merveil's Caverns and Shakari themes (or what I've heard of them). But I VERY strongly feel that some of these tracks should be left alone.