Want to disable character speech/continuous shouts (or unit voices/sounds)? Here's how.

[captrench]

I've been ranting about the obnoxious amounts of exclamations that characters make in TW WH(1, 2 and 3) for years and had resigned myself to never really having it solved.

I saw in the audio settings that you can only set "speech" to volume 40 via the slider and no lower, which is a weird decision by the devs, but even when I tried that I found that it still seemed just as loud and just as annoying as before. So, maybe that's a bugfix incoming at some point.

Anyway, thanks to being inspired by a posters solution of a few years ago, I have the following fix that worked for me.

• Exit game FIRST. If you don't exit the game first, the changes you make will be overwritten by the current active settings, undoing the changes you've made. You cant make the changes stick or work with the game running.
  
• Open C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer3\scripts\preferences.script.txt
  
• Look for text (Ctrl F) sound_vo_volume
  
• Change the number next to it to 0 (zero). Most likely the number next to it will be the default of 100. I haven't experimented with changing this value to anything else except 0 currently.
  
• Save file (obvious I know, but I'm a pedant).
  
• Launch game. Click on general or other unit/character to test.
  
• Enjoy the silence.
  
  Lastly, credit should be given to the poster who set me on the right track for this, at this link.
  https://steamcommunity.com/app/594570/discussions/0/1743390429219351274/
  Thank you @vertexstorm.

[captrench]

UPDATE:

If you access your Sound settings in the game, it will reverse the change. As soon as you exit the sound panel and resume game you will notice again that units/characters start exclaiming every time they are selected as usual. When you exit the game, you will see that the value you changed in the settings file is back to 100, again.

So, to maintain the change, do not access your sounds while playing. It may even be that accessing any of your settings will have the same effect, I don't know yet.

So, to summarise, I guess make all your other settings how you want them first, and do this hack last.

[captrench]

I can confirm after finishing the campaign, that as long as you avoid going to the settings menu, the annoying exclamations from characters stays off between game being closed and reopened, save games and reloads etc...

[Edwin]

your the first person Ive..... what? your crazy bro. but Im glad you were able to mute it so you can enjoy it for your self.

Cheers!

[captrench]

Originally posted by Edwin:

your the first person Ive..... what? your crazy bro. but Im glad you were able to mute it so you can enjoy it for your self.

Cheers!

Cheers!

[wabbit]

Hey thank for this!

Seems odd they did not create a separate sound slider for unit barks. Having it tied to all sound fx is a weird choice, or oversight.

Not many others chiming in on this, so I guess people like it how it is.

To me, it's waaay overkill and repetitive. Bonks up the immersion for me. It's not so much the volume level, but the proc rate. I wish there was a way to reduce that.

But thanks for this work around. It's much better :)

[captrench]

Originally posted by wabbit:

Hey thank for this!

Seems odd they did not create a separate sound slider for unit barks. Having it tied to all sound fx is a weird choice, or oversight.

Not many others chiming in on this, so I guess people like it how it is.

To me, it's waaay overkill and repetitive. Bonks up the immersion for me. It's not so much the volume level, but the proc rate. I wish there was a way to reduce that.

But thanks for this work around. It's much better :)

Very welcome. I find it weird that the relevant audio slider (Voiceovers i think) only goes down to 40%, instead of zero, like all sliders do generally? Weird right?

[Aiven ✞]

FYI this also works for Warhammer II. You are an absolute life saver bro.

I can't believe that this bug carried over from WH2 to WH3. And that it's so easy to get around it.

[captrench]

Originally posted by Aiven ✞:

FYI this also works for Warhammer II. You are an absolute life saver bro.

I can't believe that this bug carried over from WH2 to WH3. And that it's so easy to get around it.

Cheers man, very welcome!

[dulany67]

Originally posted by Edwin:

your the first person Ive..... what? your crazy bro. but Im glad you were able to mute it so you can enjoy it for your self.

Cheers!

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/misophonia-sounds-really-make-crazy-2017042111534

[StupidSexyBigChunga]

Swiftly,quickly,swiftly,quickly,swiftly,quickly.

[MrSoul]

Originally posted by captrench:

I can confirm after finishing the campaign, that as long as you avoid going to the settings menu, the annoying exclamations from characters stays off between game being closed and reopened, save games and reloads etc...

Maybe worth a try to set it to read-only once done editing it.

[captrench]

I can confirm this does still work. But patching/updates can reset the preferences file back to normal. Due to the crashes to desktop I'm currently getting in Immortal Empires, I have verified files a number of times and this fix was reset once. But you can still reapply the fix and it will stick.

[MrSoul]

Just put this together, seems to be working, if dont mind using mods this should save you all some fighting with that file:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2862360776

[oupa]

this post saved me from going insane playing chaos dwarves. thanks

[captrench]

Originally posted by oupa:

this post saved me from going insane playing chaos dwarves. thanks

Its been a while since I've played any TW, but I can well remember the annoyance of all the "ARRRGHH!!!" and "HURR!!!" and other exclamations from various characters. And can still remember the relief to realise the torture was over lol :D

I'll be cycling back to the game in a bit and will likely need to reset this for myself.