Argh. The screams are driving me insane!

[FireWalkWithMe]

Is anyone else annoyed that everytime something is pillaged you hear screams. Its rather annoying to hear over and over and a lot. Please, an option to turn this off!

[spy14]

Replace the sound file with something more to your taste.

"Remember kids, always back up your files before modding "

[Jon Shafer]

I'm sorry, I just had to post in a thread with such a great title.

As spy said you can either remove the sound file or modify it in XML. I'm not sure where it is but it must be somewhere.

[ZanThrax]

Screams make sense though. You're decimating towns & villages. The only way I can see to change a town to a village to a hamlet to a cottage is to start stabbing & shooting the civilian populace. Where do you think the money is coming from?

[SirOsis]

Taxmen? The screams would be louder.

[GeoModder]

Re: Argh. The screams are driving me insane!

Originally posted by FireWalkWithMe
Is anyone else annoyed that everytime something is pillaged you hear screams. Its rather annoying to hear over and over and a lot. Please, an option to turn this off!

Then never play the Greek World mod, for there's alot of screaming there.

[Bal Ur]

The screams arn't all that bad. Ever play Rome Total War? The sounds that come up when you exterminate a town are much worse.
"Ahhhh! YAAAAAAHHHH!!" *slice slice thunk splat* silence

But, to stay on topic, just replace it with a file with the same name and that should remove it, though finding the file would be the problem.

[Aeson]

Start protecting (or stop pillaging) those poor people!

[LordShiva]

What would be a good sound to replace it with

[polarnomad]

Originally posted by LordShiva
What would be a good sound to replace it with

"You've got mail!"

[Chronus9]

"You've got mail!"

[PLATO]

The screams were kind of a neat thing the first time or three. Even after a few games, I still think they are good for the cities falling...but every pillage? Well...hmmm....

If someone finds that file, I sure would appreciate it if they would post the name and location here!

[Nailfoot]

Reference to it in the Audio2DScripts.XML file. Still searching for the source...

Script2DSound>
ScriptID>AS2D_PILLAGE/ScriptID>
SoundID>SND_PILLAGE/SoundID>
SoundType>GAME_INTERFACE/SoundType>
iMinVolume>80/iMinVolume>
iMaxVolume>80/iMaxVolume>

[Mylon]

It isn't so much that the scream sound is annoying that it's played so much! Especially when an army rolls in on your territory and starts tearing up the landscape. Each town with a road can yield 6 instance of the scream sounds. Multiply that by just 4 tiles and that gets really, really annoying.

[Nailfoot]

FOUND IT! Named "CityRevolt.wav"

Under Civ4\Assets\Sounds

It is .wav file, so you can edit it in any downloadable editor and shrink it to making no sound at all.

Or course, name the original something you won't forget so you can backtrack if needs be. Something like CityRevoltBAK.wav