Reverting to old battle speeches?

[King Beowulf]

In 6.3 due to the changes everyone has a one-liner battle speech, of course whlile fixing a few factions who didn't have a speech. Is there a way to revert to the old - overly long English pre-battle speech? I really miss it! :'(

[Nalkarauke]

oh yeah I miss that long speeches too! sometimes the general gives you hints on the tactics to use.

[King Beowulf]

Imo it was the part of the battle I looked most forward to

[gracul]

The long speeches are still in. Only that there is also a lot of one liners so there is a chance to get a one liner, and a chance to get a longer speech.

[King Beowulf]

ahhh okay, thanks for clearing it up Gracul (:

[Nalkarauke]

good to know friend!

[Politilenas]

Is it just me or something is wrong. It has been for over 68battles and all of them.. I repeat all of them were 1 liners. It doesint matter its my captain ,my general with 10(commanding) stars or a king.. doesin't matter the odds its 1-1 1-2 or 1-5 all of the times its 1 liners and I am playing as english... Is there any way I can errase 1 liners and maybe that way some decent regular speeches could start rolling in?...

[RabidSheepLegion]

same here, all one-liners or two if lucky lol

[withfriend2]

yep i have this too. i miss the generals rambling on about pixies and stuff haha

[RabidSheepLegion]

haha I know.... the snake and nice banners are the funniest ones

[ninja51]

Ive never gotten anything but a one liner, I dont think long speeches are in at all. I got reminded of how cool they were while play the third age, even though it was an elf with a Norman voice, it was still awesome

[gracul]

Well i think i had the non-one-liner speeches for factions that had them. Guess my memory had to play tricks on me

[Ishan]

Pre battle speeches is categorized in two sets one is accent wise and other is Traits wise(dread and chivalry thingy).
Now u can fix this by yourself if SS6.3 doesn't have it(though i doubt that SS doesn't have it in the first place) but first a bit of explanation.
Every accent(hence faction) has one liners, there are a total of 49 one liners for every faction.

The prebattle event(from sound perspective) deals with two text files.
descr_sounds_prebattle.txt(this file basically has nothing but the background theme for the dialogue)
export_descr_sounds_prebattle.txt(It contains all the fancy speeches and one liners info)

Now basically One liners are meant for Captains since they don't have traits and hence they can't spill out fancy words acc to chivalry or dread so full speeches are for Generals only and not all accents have full speeches traits wise(coz CA didn't made them for that accent type).

Now in the export_descr_sounds_prebattle.txt long speeches are categorized into:-

1. Traits wise(CA didn't covered all traits type but a few like badcommander, boring speaker etc etc)
2. Based on enemy(Like if it's Milan then the general mock Milan)
3. Situation wise(Like defending or attacking a major city or castle or like on crusade and many more types)[this is the most important one]
4. Terrain wise(Like defending or attacking Hills and in woods)
5. Unit strength wise(Self explanatory like lots of cavalry, elephants, cannons etc).

Now not all accents have the above points i said above.

• English accent has all of the above.(Complete)
• But Scottish accent only have Traits wise and Based on enemy speeches.(Incomplete)
• French accent has only Traits wise, Based on enemy and Terrain wise speeches.(Partially Incomplete)
• German accent has all of the above.(Complete)
• Mediterranean accent has all the above.(Complete)
• East European only has one liners speeches.(Incomplete)[Terribly ed up by CA]
• Arabic only has one liners speeches.(Incomplete)
• Mongolian only has one liners speeches.(Incomplete)AAAHHHH

So if someone like me knows how to fix as max as possible he can but we can't really help it coz not all sound files are in every accent type.


But there are several sound editing programs by which we can edit the pitch of the sound to change it a bit and then use some of them in other accent types but it's not really worth it.

Hope this will clear things up.

Now if guys think that SS is missing these sounds even for HRE and England for eg then simply add them and if u don't know how to add sounds in this files and make it appear in game then ask me here.

[withfriend2]

so how do i put english speeches for a french general

[Ishan]

so how do i put english speeches for a french general

You know what are the French missing(from the above post). Ok then simple copy the English lines from it and paste those entries in the Accent type French and save the file(export_descr_sounds_prebattle.txt) then go in the sounds folder and delete the .idx and .dat files and start the game and the game will regenerate all it's sound info from those text files are u are set to go.
Make sure u have the backup before u do stuff in case u dont get it right.
And for all the sounds to work remember these sound are 39 in total and they need to be inside the data folder of SS.

[withfriend2]

sweet thx ishan :

[Ishan]

One is Glad to be of Service. and

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European Football is better and more entertaining than American football.

[RabidSheepLegion]

One is Glad to be of Service. and

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

European Football is better and more entertaining than American football.

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go HULL CITY! they gots a tiger as a mascot ya know

[withfriend2]

One is Glad to be of Service. and

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

European Football is better and more entertaining than American football.

perhaps in another thread and i could teach you how wrong that statement is

[Ishan]

perhaps in another thread and i could teach you how wrong that statement is

Nice counter.