Screaming Goats in City of Heroes? Yes you can!

[Jordan Yen]

There's a built in "override" folder for City of Heroes and as long as you know the name of the file to replace and the folder structure used in the backend system, you can place any sound you want in the "override" (called "data" in CoH) and the game will use YOUR version automatically!

I made a video showing the process, explaining how to find the sounds, how to extract the originals (for making louder and quieter), and how to replace them in-game. Ever wanted the "glowie" to scream at you like a weird goat? NOW YOU CAN!

 

 

 

[Oubliette_Red]

Visual guides for things are always handy. Thanks!

[Jordan Yen]

1 hour ago, Oubliette_Red said:

Visual guides for things are always handy. Thanks!

Happy to help 🙂

[Jordan Yen]

8 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:

Visual guides for things are always handy. Thanks!

I just noticed you have a post about sounds in your signature. Any idea which sound is Howling Twilight? I'm sure I found it once, but I can't find it again.

[Oubliette_Red]

3 hours ago, Jordan Yen said:

I just noticed you have a post about sounds in your signature. Any idea which sound is Howling Twilight? I'm sure I found it once, but I can't find it again.

 

There appears to be 3 different parts to Howling Twilight's sfx:

SOUND\OGG\POWERS\SOOT2_LOOP

SOUND\OGG\POWERS\MIASMA_LOOP

SOUND\OGG\POWERS\MIASMABURST

[Jordan Yen]

8 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:

 

There appears to be 3 different parts to Howling Twilight's sfx:

SOUND\OGG\POWERS\SOOT2_LOOP

SOUND\OGG\POWERS\MIASMA_LOOP

SOUND\OGG\POWERS\MIASMABURST

Crazy and thanks! Any tips for how you found it? Just experience?

[Oubliette_Red]

3 hours ago, Jordan Yen said:

Crazy and thanks! Any tips for how you found it? Just experience?

 

My first go-to is formerly knows as The Philotic Knight's Rosetta Stone spreadsheet though it's several years old now it still works for 95% of the sfx in the game, if that fails I go to the archive data dump from OuroDev which has decompiled versions of CoH, lastly I go pigg diving which can be quite tedious and sometimes not fruitful at all.

 

Since there are so many sfx associated with the game (PK's spreadsheet is almost 20k rows long*), I only put the ones requested in my thread.  *There are considerable duplicate entries for sfxs because so many things in the game can point to one file. For instance, Howling Twilight has 5 components, but 4 of them point to the same 2 sfx files so only 3 of the 5 are unique and would need to be modified, since the game points to the specific file. Demon Summoning is the worst offender with 50+ sfx files associated with it, the closes 2nd contender is Portal Corp's portals with I think 8 sfx. Noise-wise those two are the biggest offenders which is why I tried to lest ever sfx associated with them. Most everything else may have only 1 or 2 sfx that the majority take issue with.

 

Originally I just recreated the thread from the archived Legacy forums (and not the neat, easily searched version @Michiyo created 🙂 ) and then scoured the thread to build the more easily perused  tables on my first page. It's a labour of love. 🙂