[M2TW] Favourite Music & SFX

[Ishan]

For the year 2012, there are 3 M2TW mods nominated as favourite mods in the music and SFX category. Mods that contain new soundtracks or new SFX or have edited the game in these specific categories. Vote for the one you like the most:

The Sundering: Rise of the Witch King

Description: The Sundering: Rise of the Witch King is a mod for Medieval 2: Kingdoms and based around the Warhammer universe during the civil war between the Elves, the mod's campaign opens with the Death of Bel Shanaar in -2751 IC.

TWMadman spent two years compiling the soundtrack with a great taste and Ngugi edited all the voices, including strategic map and battle map ones. You will hear battle cries such "For Chrace!!" when charging and so.

Sundering consists of over 100 new soundtracks and every faction has a new unique music that has been composed keeping the lore of the game and faction culture in mind. Read more here.

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SFX changes

Sundering also was worked on extensively in the SFX (sound effects) side of things. His modder was Ngugi who: For The Sundering I created: - accents [based on english] for High Elves for Dark Elves for Avelorn (female Elven faction) This meant sorting out, cutting, change place or adding strategy map voices for agents, diplomacy, captains/armies and generals (normal, chivaleric and dreadful), building of towers/forts and for navies. And battle map unit selection voices for all 13 factions units (and naturally there is a lot of them, including non-playable slave-faction units; I add not all units are unique to each faction but to a large degree), new warhorn sounds and selected voices unique to certain heroic characters. Also new fire and impact sounds to certain [artillery] attacks making it sound like the magic it is showed to be. added a few battle speeches and sorted the vanilla out from unfitting ones sorted out or cut all non-fitting english battle event speeches (used by all 3 accents) new end turn-sounds All in all I lost count when I had worked my way trough about 1000 .wave and .mp3 files/entries in my task to grant The Sundering players an enjoyable experience. Even if I to be fair did not intended such a work to begin with. When I was asked to lend a hand to this mod I had almost not heard of it, and while I agreed to at least fix some strategy map basics for them, as they was supposed to have another fellow who would take over, it went on to this, as they are nice folks working on a grand mod.

DCI: Tôl Acharn


This sub-mod can be found in bigger compilations like MoS and Withwnar's Submod Collection. Music and SFX wise this mod contains:

- Tôl Acharn [jihad] event sounds
- Loremaster [imam] strat map agent voices
- Battle map voices for DCI: TA's mercenaries

THERA, Legacy of the Great Torment v4


Version 4 has new soundtracks from Jeff Van Dyke (public release) & Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

[Confederate Jeb]

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[paradamed]

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[MIKE GOLF]

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[Ishan]

• Winner: DCI: Tôl Acharn
• 1st Runner Up: The Sundering: Rise of the Witch King
• 2nd Runner Up: THERA, Legacy of the Great Torment v4