"My Lord, we have lost half our men!" - Any way to shut that idiot up?

[MonkeyChief]

SOLUTION FOUND!!

To silence the in-battle announcements forever, follow Ishan's simple solution:

The easiest way is to disable them all but you can remove this particular sound also but it requires a bit more.
How to disable all battle notifications:-
For it u have to recompile the snd .dat and .idx files so delete them first in the SS data\sounds folder.
After that there will be a file called export_descr_sounds_units_battle_events.txt just delete this one and start the game(SS that is) the sounds .dat and .idx will be regenerated and there u go.
Do make a backup if u screw up.

PROBLEMS??

I just thought of something that might stop this fom working. If you use Vista (Win7 might be the same) try deleting the 'Sega' folder from Virtual Store. This can be found here:

C:\Users\(you)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files

Vista stupidly duplicates some files here, and deleting the folder will allow the .dat and .idx files to be rebuilt in the right place.

[Meneth]

Plus, they often come when around 70% of the enemies are dead.
I think I've even gotten it at 85% or so once (against one army, not two)

[Rogal Dorn]

Plus, they often come when around 70% of the enemies are dead.
I think I've even gotten it at 85% or so once (against one army, not two)

Yeah well 70% is half of 140%, so you can't say he's wrong. He just says "half."

Anyways, I think if you start messing around with voice files, you'll screw yourself over. I tinkered with speeches once and kept getting CTDs (though I could've been the special case... derpderp).

[Iguand]

Plus, they often come when around 70% of the enemies are dead.
I think I've even gotten it at 85% or so once (against one army, not two)

Maybe because of the reinforcements? Cause when the enemy brings reinforcements, he says it twice, once for every army, but in the percentage line, it tells u how many procent of all units are dead.

[Meneth]

Maybe because of the reinforcements? Cause when the enemy brings reinforcements, he says it twice, once for every army, but in the percentage line, it tells u how many procent of all units are dead.

Read that again
"Against one army, not two", meaning no reinforcements.

[preachercheeze]

Read that again
"Against one army, not two", meaning no reinforcements.

I think it is about how many you ACTUALLY killed... not counting self inflicted kills and tower kills...

[Meneth]

I think it is about how many you ACTUALLY killed... not counting self inflicted kills and tower kills...

Getting it at 70ish% is pretty common in field battles too. No towers, and not that much friendly fire.

[Amaranth]

I must admit I laughed when I read the title of the thread, that is really anoying cause it serves no purpose in my opinion, I always win even though that I hear that over and over through battles.

[Tony83]

"The day is oouurrs!" - good times, eh!

[MonkeyChief]

So no-one's found a way to mute him? That really sucks - after playing MTW2 since release, i feel like screaming everytime i hear that bastard! And since i'm at uni, i'm running the game on a pretty awful laptop, and the announcements keep causing short drops in frames-per-second. A real pain in the arse.

[TheHappyCrusader]

That, and the: "Our men are under attack, we need to act!" just makes me want to rip that guy's throat out.

[SinerAthin]

Serves you right for picking an Italian state.

Though the 'Norse' announcer is just as bad...


Is it just me or is it just the British and the Muslim announcers that sound somewhat decent?

[Meneth]

Serves you right for picking an Italian state.

Though the 'Norse' announcer is just as bad...


Is it just me or is it just the British and the Muslim announcers that sound somewhat decent?

I don't really like the Muslim one. The Roman one is okay, though.
Norse one is also okay.
I don't play as England, so I haven't actually heard their announcer. I've heard the French, though, I think it's horrible (one of the reasons I haven't tried more than a few CS campaigns )

[RabidSheepLegion]

Sicilian one earlier "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! Saints preserves us, the gate is down!"

Soda snorted out of my nose as soon as he said holy mother of god, was so darn dramatic... like that guy from the sharpe series who says "I die!" during the siege lol

[MonkeyChief]

Well yes - it seems i'm not the only person fed up with them. They are just so loud and intrusive. Plus the accents are so over the top - i'd preffer it if they actually spoke French or Italian. Plus i'm English, and i've never heard anyone who sounds like the English announcer.

Please, someone step forward and show us how to rid ourselves of these meddlesome idiots!

[RabidSheepLegion]

I like the Xenophonia mod, but I believe either newt or bane_tw said that was not possible with SS 6.3 I think. I loved that little mini-mod, made almost all factions speak in native tongue, or close to it at least. Had to read subtitles to see what they were saying in English lol

[Ishan]

@MonkeyChief
The easiest way is to disable them all but you can remove this particular sound also but it requires a bit more.
How to disable all battle notifications:-
For it u have to recompile the snd .dat and .idx files so delete them first in the SS data\sounds folder.
After that there will be a file called export_descr_sounds_units_battle_events.txt just delete this one and start the game(SS that is) the sounds .dat and .idx will be regenerated and there u go.
Do make a backup if u screw up.

[MonkeyChief]

@MonkeyChief
The easiest way is to disable them all but you can remove this particular sound also but it requires a bit more.
How to disable all battle notifications:-
For it u have to recompile the snd .dat and .idx files so delete them first in the SS data\sounds folder.
After that there will be a file called export_descr_sounds_units_battle_events.txt just delete this one and start the game(SS that is) the sounds .dat and .idx will be regenerated and there u go.
Do make a backup if u screw up.

Ah thanks a lot - i will try tomorrow morning! +rep

(And yes, Jason Statham would be a good choice for the English voice acting).

[chris7ian]

Dont lose half of your men??? Someone needed to say it. I agree the advisor is annoying as hell. Like people saying Romans when they mean Byzantines.

Well yes - it seems i'm not the only person fed up with them. They are just so loud and intrusive. Plus the accents are so over the top - i'd preffer it if they actually spoke French or Italian. Plus i'm English, and i've never heard anyone who sounds like the English announcer.

Please, someone step forward and show us how to rid ourselves of these meddlesome idiots!

They need Jeremy Stratham to revoice the English. I played vcod for 4-5 years before I realized that was his voice for the Brits...

[RabidSheepLegion]

Dont lose half of your men??? Someone needed to say it. I agree the advisor is annoying as hell. Like people saying Romans when they mean Byzantines.



They need Jeremy Stratham to revoice the English. I played vcod for 4-5 years before I realized that was his voice for the Brits...

you mean Jason Statham? Guy from Transporter and Crank? I tried looking for Jeremy Stratham but couldn't find him anywhere lol

I'd so much rather have Sean Pertwee who did the Voice Over for MTW 1 His voice is like filled with experience of war almost lol He would inspire me to jump into a wall of pikes to breach it haha