Our men are under attack!

[St Naffatun]

We need to act!

Our men are under attack! We need to act!
Our men are under attack! We need to act!
Our men are under attack! We need to act!

I don't need to be told this because I'm neither a child, elderly or a yank - how to turn off in the preferences file? (other than turning speech volume down)

[zznɟ ǝɥʇ]

CA/SEGA introduced this with the 1.2 patch (or was it 1.1? either way it wasn't in 1.0). I don't think there's an easy way to remove it, though I'm hoping the next guy to post proves me wrong.

Also as if yanks need to be told

[Miraj]

I'm not sure how to turn this off, I agree it is quite annoying and a rather dissapointing gimmick by CA. I believe it will require some edits to the one of the dozen or so sound text files that you can find in the BC data folder.

[Mr_Fluffy]

We've been here before - here you go...


I copied and pasted this from a thread hidden in the depths of the available mods forums and can claim no credit. It works for me:

"1) Download from http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/Sound_text_files the .rar -file that can be found at the top of the page. (The page also has the instructions based on which I worked this solution.) The .rar -file contains .txt -files.
2) Unpack the .txt files to /data/ -folder.
3) Rename event.dat and event.idx -files from /data/sound/ -directory to something else, so the game doesn't find them.
4)* Change the .txt files as you want. (More later) These files are read-only, so you have to change that first in order to edit them.
5) Start the game normally. The game creates new event.data and event.idx files automatically. Changes you made should be working.

* Well then the changes we want to make:
The most easiest way to silence the Captain Obvious is to change from descr_sounds_battle_events.txt -file "probability 1" to value "probability 0". This means that there will be 0% probability that a battle event sound will be played.
This worked for me, and I did not test any further.

However, if you want to try making some other adjustments, maybe you might want to try change from that same file "repeat_timeout" -value to a higher number, which would mean that the guy doesn't repeat the same lines so often. Or you could look into export_descr_sounds_units_battle_events.txt and remove(?) the events that you do not want to hear.

Should be easy -- I hope it works for everyone.

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Then couple other fixes, which I'm sure most of you already know:
In game's main folder there is medieval2.preference.cfg -file. From it you might want to change the following:

advisor_verbosity = 0
blind_advisor = 1
mute_advisor = 1

This gets rid of rest of the advice. (But doesn't work on v1.2. assistant captain).
Other things which you might want to try out are:
disable_arrow_markers = 1
show_banners = 0 ([video]-section)

It's probably best to change this file to read-only after the changes, as the game has a habit of changing the values back. (But if you do this, you have to remember to remove the read-only flag if you want to make some changes using the game options menu.)"
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Hope it's of some help.

[St Naffatun]

ok thanks, the music in this mod is really great makes the guy breaking in with useless info even more irritating. Were it a real campaign, he'd find himself being nailed to a tree (along with my prisoners hehehe).

[Kennylz]

Advisor: Our men are under attack! We need to act!
Salah Al-din: ...
Advisor: Our men are under attack! We need to act!
Salah Al-din: O Rly?
Advisor :We need to act!

----Meanwhile on the other side of the field----

Advisor: Things are going well! Over half of the enemies forces are destroyed!
King Richard: You don't say?
Advisor: That's in the Bible!