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Yet Another NieR Music Mod (ver 1.22)

As the name implies, this is yet another music mod that replaces the default XCOM music with nearly 65 songs from the NieR Franchise. For those unfamiliar with the music from this franchise, you can expect epic orchestral music in the tactical layer and more melancholic songs in the strategic layer, with a healthy mix of beautiful vocals all around and some special songs for key events in the campaign. This is a passion project originally made for personal use, however I feel many people will be able to appreciate this.

Current Version: 1.22: Added NieR Reincarnation music and extra music originally intended for a potential WOTC update, implemented bug fixes for reported bugs, updated config files.

Below is a list of all the music included in this mod. I would include YouTube links but Steam is a bit iffy with outside links and Square Enix already purged a lot of the original videos.

Main Menu Music:
Fortress of Lies – NieR Automata
Significance – NieR Automata
Kaikyo – NieR Reincarnation

Avenger Music (changes as you progress through the campaign):
Pascal’s Village – NieR Automata
Song of the Ancients Devola Instrumental – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Song of the Ancients Popola Instrumental – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Sun and Moon 2 – NieR Reincarnation
Peaceful Sleep – NieR Automata
Song of the Ancients Devola – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Song of the Ancients Popola – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Sun and Moon 1 – NieR Reincarnation
Grandma – NieR
Kaine Salvation – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Treasured Times – NieR Automata
Fleeting Words: Family – NieR Reincarnation ver 1.22

Geoscape Music:
Fortress of Lies – NieR Automata
Grandma – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Significance – NieR Automata
Toriame – NieR Reincarnation
Crumbling Lies – NieR Automata (when your about to lose the game)

Loadout Music:
Hills of Radiant Wind – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Sun and Moon 3 – NieR Reincarnation
War and War – NieR Automata (both for normal and retaliation missions)

Loadout Music:
A Beautiful Song – NieR Automata

Exploration Music:
Amusement Park – NieR Automata
City Ruins Light – NieR Automata
City Ruins Shade – NieR Automata
Forest Kingdom – NieR Automata
Memories of Dust – NieR Automata

Combat Music:
Alien Manifestation – NieR Automata
Birth of a Wish – NieR Automata
BluBird – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
Possessed by Disease – NieR Automata
Snow in Summer – Nier Replicant ver 1.22
Song of the Ancients Atonement – NieR Automata
Gods Bound by Rules – NieR
Deep Crimson Foe – NieR Replicant ver 1.22
End of the Unknown – NieR Automata
Iko – NieR Reincarnation
Ruten – NieR Reincarnation
Shinpan – NieR Reincarnation

Retaliation Music:
Dark Colossus – NieR (two versions for exploration, two for combat)
Dependent Weakling – NieR Automata
Grandma Destruction – NieR Automata
A Beautiful Song – NieR Automata (one version for exploration, one for combat)

Golden Path Music (SPOILERS):
Wretched Weaponry – NieR Automata (Blacksite exploration)
Wretched Automatons – NieR (Blacksite combat)
Temple of Drifting Sands – NieR Replicant ver 1.22 (Forge exploration)
Gods Bound by Rules – NieR Replicant ver 1.22 (Forge combat)
Grandma – NieR (Avenger defense exploration)
Grandma Reunion – NieR Replicant ver 1.22 (Avenger defense combat)
Vague Hope Spring Rain – NieR Automata (Psi Gate exploration)
Analogous Memories – NieR Replicant ver 1.22 (Psi Gate combat)
The Tower – NieR Automata (Broadcast Tower exploration)
Bipolar Nightmare – NieR Automata (Broadcast Tower combat)
The Ultimate Weapon – NieR (Final mission loadout)
Shadowlord’s Castle Memory – NieR Replicant ver 1.22 (Final mission exploration)
Shadowlord’s Castle Roar – NieR (Final mission combat)
Shadowlord – NieR (Final mission combat)

Miscellaneous Music:
Kaine Escape – NieR Replicant ver 1.22 (mission victory, no casualties)
Cold Steel Coffin – NieR (mission victory, took casualties)
Dispossession – NieR Replicant ver 1.22 (mission defeat)
End of YoRHa – NieR Automata (campaign victory)
Mourning – NieR Automata (campaign defeat)

As of Version 1.1, some of these songs are also repurposed for use during the Alien Hunters and Shen's Last Gift DLC quest locations. You should not need those DLCs for this mod to function, but in the event of issues simply comment out the relevant code in the XComTacticalSound.ini file.

This mod requires E3245’s and robojumper’s Music Modding System, and thus is incompatible with any mod that is incompatible with this. It should be compatible with any other mod otherwise, including other music mods, though there may be some issues if too many music mods are installed at once. (Addendum: after personal testing I’ve found issues with having Wwise Mms installed, so avoid installing Wwise Mms.)
Also, I am not sure if this mod is compatible with vanilla XCOM 2. It should be since there are no references to WOTC locations, but this mod was made with the WOTC modding tools, and since I have no intentions of playing a vanilla campaign in the future I have no desire to test.

Unfortunately, XCOM 2 uses the .wav format for it’s music. This means that the music is as high quality as it can get due to it being uncompressed, but it also means that each music file is about 50MBs. Combo that with how many songs there are in this mod and you have a really big mod.

Fix any reported bugs, but this mod is now feature complete.

Special Thanks to:
Keiichi Okabe for making all of this beautiful music.
Yoko Taro for making the NieR franchise.
Koda Kazuma for the displayed art.
All of the extra musicians, artists, singers, baristas, and other supportive staff who helped Yoko Taro and Keiichi Okabe make this art.
E3245 and robojumper for making the Music Modding System and the corresponding tutorial.
The two previous NieR music mods on the workshop, whose strengths and weaknesses inspired me to make this mod.
And to mod connoisseurs like you.