Disable Chat Wheel Sounds v. 2.5

Are you tired of these wacky soundeffects everyone spam with chatwheel or taunts 24\7? Do you also feel they are redundant and annoying? If so, you can now get rid of most of them. There is also a version with removed sprays.

Main information

This guide will allow you to remove most annoying sounds from the game, specifically - chat wheel sounds, hero wheel sounds, taunt sounds. Doing so is completely legit and won't result in a ban because such unintrusive modding is allowed.
There are two versions: with removed chat wheel sounds and taunt music and with additionally removed sprays.
If you want to do such things yourself - here is an archive with all the modding assets i have collected and used. LINK[drive.google.com]

Necessary steps

1) First of all, you need the main mod file, which at the moment comes in two editions:

• without chat wheel sounds and taunt music - LINK[drive.google.com]
  
• without sprays, chat wheel sounds and taunt music - LINK[drive.google.com].
  
• and unstable version without cosmetics, sprays, chat wheel sounds and taunt music - LINK[drive.google.com]. - Cosmetics released after 04.2021 aren't included because original mod with cosmetics wasn't updated since. I haven't tested this version, just combined my mod with the cosmetics mod of other author.

The file contains almost nothing, and that nothing will be loaded into the game instead of the annoying content. Save the file and proceed to the next step.

2) Now you need to open your dota2 file folder. To do it, select dota2 in library and press Browse local files. Then proceed to\dota 2 beta\game\ folder. You will see there such folders as "dota", "dota_russian", "dota_koreana", etc. Now we need to create our own folder - its name shall be "dota_MOD".

3) After the folder is created, move the downloaded vpk file into it and rename it into pak01_dir, so it became pak01_dir.vpk

4) Final part - switching to the mod. To do it, open dota2 launch options in library and paste there the following: -language MOD

It is over now, you can finally enjoy the silence. You will most likely encounter a message in your dota2 settings demanding you to restart your client, but you can safely ignore it, as i do. To test the mod, go into the chat wheel settings, press the sounds in them and try listening to these sounds. If they aren't playing - everything is good.

If you will encounter any problems - please let me know. If you will encounter annoying sounds i have yet to remove, please let me know of them, as i really want to purify my dota client from this filth once and for all. After the new sounds will be added into the game i will need to update the mod, replacing them. I may release a version with, for example, hero lines wheel sounds still remaining, if some will need it.

Cosmetics version updates are based on free release from NoHatsPreacher[nohatspreacher.wordpress.com]. I had to restore arcana models as they were bugged and had no animations at all. There are probably other items that have incorrect or missing animations, so feel free to nofity me of them.
Cosmetics mod that i used is no longer freely distributed, so everything added in Dota2 since 04/2021 is ignored by it.

How to use the mod with languages other than english:

If you want your Dota2's language to be something other that english you need to do the following:

1) Locate the folder in dota 2 beta that contains your language files (for me its \dota 2 beta\game\dota_russian)

2) Rename the mod file into pak02_dir.vpk (because pak01_dir.vpk already exists in our language folder, they are loaded in the order pak01-pak02-pak03-pakXX)

3) Place renamed pak02_dir.vpk into the language folder.

4) Make sure your language in dota2 is set to the language whose folder you used (you can do it in dota2 settings, or probably use -language chinese or -language russian, i guess. NO NEED TO USE -LANGUAGE MOD)

If you did it correctly, it should work.

Updates

I usually update the mod based on your feedback, so if you think it needs an update - fell free to notify me in comments.
Here are the changelogs of the mod, so you could tell if it requires an update.
08.05.2024 - v. 2.5 - Removed crownfall queen chat wheel sounds and 3 taunts, dawnbreaker wheel sounds
29.10.2023 - v. 2.4 - Removed additional chatwheel sounds
08.10.2023 - v. 2.3 - Removed new TI23 chatwheel sounds
20.08.2023 - v. 2.2 - Removed gaben chat wheel sounds
15.06.2023 - v. 2.1 - Removed victory prediction voicelines, season 8 and 9 pro circuit chat wheel sounds and sprays.
07.03.2023 - v. 2.0 - Removed (i guess) Muerta chatwheel, new season 7 pro circuit chat wheel sounds and sprays.
04.10.2022 - v. 1.9 - Removed 7 new truesight chatwheel sounds.
30.09.2022 - v. 1.8 - Removed new season 6 pro circuit chat wheel sounds. Also removed forgotten undying voiceline.
12.09.2022 - v. 1.7 - Removed several new taunts, battlepass tip sounds.
05.09.2022 - v. 1.6 - Removed new battlepass sounds and sprays, void spirit lines, pango voiceline.
18.06.2022 - v. 1.5 - Readded semioutdated cosmetics version.
15.06.2022 - v. 1.5 - Removed new season 5 pro circuit chat wheel sounds.
05.04.2022 - v. 1.4 - Removed hoodwink global chatwheel sounds.
04.04.2022 - v. 1.3 - Removed new season 4 pro circuit chat wheel sounds. Also removed no-cosmetics version as i am too lazy to work on it.
09.01.2022 - v. 1.2 - Added version with most cosmetics removed. Thanks to NoHatsPreacher[www.patreon.com].
08.01.2022 - v. 1.2 - Added version with removed sprays. Changed installation process.
02.01.2022 - v. 1.1 - Initial release, removes chat wheel sounds and taunt music.

Credits

Earlier version of this mod was created by AveYo[github.com], however it wasn't updated for long enough, so i've done it myself. Link to the original mod - HERE[github.com]
Cosmetics version is based on free release from the NoHatsPreacher[nohatspreacher.wordpress.com], as i have no clue how to do such thing in reasonable time span.

[Nihil]

@No incoming chat, oh, i figured out, dawnbreaker is a new hero... i have removed several sounds i have managed to find, please check whether or not all annoying stuff is muted (as i cant check her chat wheel myself)

[Nihil]

@No incoming chat, thanks for the feedback. These taunts are now muted, you can redownload the mod. Are there any other sounds we need to remove? I am not playing dota anymore so i don't know myself

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Qop's, Meepo's, and Drow's taunts aren't muted still.

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All of Dawnbreaker's cha wheels aren't muted still

[Nihil]

@No incoming chat, i have updated the mod, 6 new queen chat wheel sounds are gone. Is there anything else that needs to be removed?

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Crownfall added new chat wheel sounds.

[Nihil]

@Miless, try placing mod .vpk inside dota 2 beta\game\dota folder and rename it into pak02.vpk. It will make the mod work without -language MOD parameter. Also your issue is really strange, i see it for the first time

[Miless]

I'm hoping you can help me with a chat spectating issue. Basically, when I spectate, I can't see/communicate with the other people in the chat which for some people is a bonus but I sometimes like the option to interact with others. I assume that because I am using "-language MOD" the only other people I can communicate with are people who also are using the "MOD" language command.The solution would be to remove the -language MOD from console but if I do this, players will spam their taunts and that of course can be really annoying. I was just hoping if you could offer a suggestion that would allow me to use the -language MOD command to block taunt noises while being able to communicate with people while spectating games. Either way, thank you so much for your work, it made DOTA so much more enjoyable.

[Dragas]

@nihil github was an example, and it provides ability to perform releases when you upload a new version of "the code". there isn't any limitation in what you can share there. the point of that comment was to encourage you to automate the releases so you would need to do minimal input every time dota updates until valve breaks the file structure

[Nihil]

Also now I kinda know what I wanna do one day: a program that unpacks a vpk, represents its contents with some kind of visual list and allows replacing any sound from said list upon choosing it. I guess I get how can I possibly do it, and it sounds interesting nonetheless. Let's hope I will make that thing.