[FotS] Battle Advisor Silencer

[Kurisu Paifuaa]

This mod silences the American battle advisor in Fall of the Samurai. Rather than hearing his repetitious commentary, you will hear the sweet sound of... nothing

It simply replaces the speech for the Aide de Camp with 0 length audio tracks. I went with these over silenced tracks of the same length as the originals and it seems to be ok. I didn't do the tutorial tracks as I haven't listened to those to know if they're helpful or not (though I can't imagine they're less irritating). It also doesn't touch the pseudo Japanese advisor for S2 or RotS. I may do that later if there are no issues with this and there's not already an existing mod for that.

Installation

This is a 'patch' type pack file which overrides the advisor/adc folder in local_en.pack (just drop it in the data folder) There may be future issues with CA updates to local_en.pack, local_en_patch.pack or other sound mods. We'll have to wait and see. I've seen no issues thus far, but I'm not using other sound mods at present.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems with the mod alone or in conjunction with other audio mods.

minor update: I changed the mod title to 'Battle Advisor Silencer' as some may not recognize the Aide de Camp reference. Also changed mod status to release as I've had no reported issues.

acknowledgments

Credit to Live2sculpt for locating the original Aide de Camp files in S2

[Gorhaax]

I'll give it a shot in my darthmod campaign. BTW what exactly does the Aide de Camp actually do?

[Kurisu Paifuaa]

He's the guy who tells you that your enemy's ally has abandoned them. Even though they don't have an ally

[Gorhaax]

Figured it was that guy when my battle became quite silent. I've never really like either dudes. They both get on your nerves after a while.

[Kurisu Paifuaa]

Glad it's working for you. I may post a separate pack for the Japanese advisor in S2 and RotS along with a combined pack. It might be interesting to leave in some of the more useful audio cues, or possibly substituting some of the less annoying alternate tracks that never get played.

Maybe I should change the name since some folks might not be aware of the traditional 'Aide de Camp' title for the battle advisor?

[Dynamo11]

Nice one! He started to really do my head in

[Kurisu Paifuaa]

Thanks to all for feedback. Updated mod name and status.

[GERMANICUS]

I greatly appreciate this mod offering as well KP my tolerence level was for that annoying commentary was at its end!

Thanks and +REP

[Kurisu Paifuaa]

Glad to help.

[MJWilliams]

Great stuff mate The American advisor in FotS is absolutely ridiculous, no idea what they were thinking with it.

[extremechimping]

Brilliant mod, first thing I thought when I heard that retarded american voice was "gotta find a mod shut it up" XD

[Kurisu Paifuaa]

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