About this mod
Does the Metalhead within you stir for something more, an opportunity to show off that metal prowess in your godly bard skills? This is an entire audio pack that replaces all of the vanilla bard songs on the Lute with Custom Songs that I have hand picked and remixed.
Lore Friendly
- Permissions and credits
I felt the vanilla Lute was kind of weak in its musical prowess for the bard, so I decided to go with some custom songs that had some more UMPH, and let's be real, the metal head within me wanted some badass tunes to listen to.
What this Mod Does-
It is essentially an audio replacer. I have taken the instrument codes for the vanilla bard songs and changed them out for 6 other songs that can be played independently and add some excitement to your game if this is what you're interested in.
I wanted to stay lore FRIENDLY. So these audio files are only songs that are played on acoustic guitars, there are no drums, and no vocals.
And sound exactly like what you would want to expect from such instruments.
I also remixed and edited the following files to fit the time limit of each vanilla song (Bard's Dance is only 2:55, that means I only have that exact amount of time available to be used for the song that I attached to Bard's Dance) I made everything as seamless as possible, so you could leave the same song playing for 20 minutes straight, and the loop from finish to beginning is smooth and natural.
I've included all 6 songs. If you do not have the dlc, do not worry.
Here are the songs that I have included and which Vanilla song they replace. And to finish, I will list the links to the songs that I have picked so you may check them out for yourself.
All credits go to the amazing musicians whose renditions I had the honor of listenting to.
Bard's Dance- The Trooper, Iron Maiden
Divinity and Sin- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Metallica
Sing For Me- Unholy Confessions AVENGED SEVENFOLD
The Queen's Sea- FF7 Those Who Fight theme (THE BEST PARTS)
Old Time Battles - Flamenco Diablo, Yngwie Malmsteem
The Power- Man Made God, In Flames
I put a lot of thought and work into these songs, I was very picky about the quality, the feel, and the sound of everything. Smooth transitions, the most exciting part of the riffs, I was very intentional with where I made the edits in the song tracks so that you can get the most out of each one. I hope you guys enjoy this batch as much as I'm going to and as much fun as I had putting it together.
Here are some things to take note of:
So do not worry about not being able to perform the Vanilla tracks in a full ensemble if you download this mod.
If you are using a party extender mod, and have more than the 4 base characters in your party, the extra party members will just play the vanilla tracks if you have them play a lute.
None of these things will hinder, or keep you from enjoying this mod.
Enjoy living out your Medieval metal fantasies!
PS!!!!! YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE BARD CLASS TO PLAY THESE SONGS. In the PAK file the proficiencies have been raised so that every character can play properly.
INSTALLATION: I had to frankenstein this, it works, installation is simple, but you will have to do it manually.
The First file is only the dlc songs, instruments and the proficiencies. For characters
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\Mods
The second file is the download that is REQUIRED. These are the actual audio files.
Follow this Path C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Data\Public
UNINSTALLATION: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Data\Public\Shared\Assets\Sound
Delete Public folder tree from Data in the games Root folder.
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