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Byzantines Speak Greek
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Byzantines Speak Greek

Description
Byzantine units now speak Greek, rather than (incorrect) Latin as before.
"But Latin was the official language of Byzantium even if the people spoke Greek!" - No, not after Emperor Herakelios it wasn't. Justinian's Code even had to be translated into Greek under Basil the Bulgar Slayer™ because no one understood it anymore.

*IMPORTANT: MANUAL INSTALLATION REQUIRED (blame Steam workshop not me):*
Since recent updates have disabled mods that use .WAV files, you will have to open the mod directory, go to your steamfolder and then past the files into this folderpath:

steamapps\common\Age2HD\resources\_common\drs\sounds

The unit sounds will be changed, whilst remaining Multiplayer compatible:


I checked to see if MP3 files will work for unit-sounds, they don't.

Edit: Adjusted volume so as to be same as other unit sounds.

UPDATE 13/03/2018: Added a Latin backup folder so the mod can reversed on whim.
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ΦΕΡΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΠΙΔΑ Mar 22, 2020 @ 8:02pm 
The greek was the main leanguage in the byzantine empire before Herakelios, he just replace the latin from the administration.
Antoine Jan 1, 2019 @ 11:20am 
I am sorry my friend ,,,but you use wavs from AgeOFmythology and it is not correct when you play....try this.... https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=632799589&searchtext=greek+edittion ....It is real Greek wavs and you can play with them...
Antoine Jan 1, 2019 @ 11:19am 
I am sorry my friend ,,,but you use wavs from AgeOFmythology and it is not correct when you play....try this.... https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=632799589&searchtext=greek+edittion ....It is real Greek wavs and you can play with them...
ELoyros Dec 1, 2018 @ 3:36pm 
Βασίλειος ΄Β I dont remeber any one sayng other wise in here.
Platonas Jul 9, 2018 @ 12:07pm 
Byzantines spoke Greek because they were Greeks. If you want to rewrite history, do it to another planet.
이재명  [author] Jun 17, 2018 @ 9:46pm 
No update is needed, just copy and paste the Mod files into the directory in the description.
Aristoxenus Jun 17, 2018 @ 4:47pm 
Is it updated?
ELoyros Jun 1, 2018 @ 11:59pm 
rasputin666 Yes they are. After installing the mod with out changing the volume i could barely hear their voices. I also tested this by comparing them with the britons. I think you could increase the volume up to 10% or 15% more. But either way thank you for your work I appreciate it!
이재명  [author] Jun 1, 2018 @ 1:27am 
For some reason the female-Byz-fish-sound is located totally at random away from all the other Greek files and I couldn't find it, bar spending all day listening to thousands of sound-files individually.
I used Chiron's death grunt because there weren't enough sound files otherwise to replace the originals. Yeah it seems they got native Greeks for villagers and used Americans for all the NPCs.

But otherwise it works as intended no? So many users gave this mod downvotes because they didn't read description explaining that sound-mods have to be installed manually now.

^0|KLC| ^4E^7L^8oyros - Is it that low? I manually lowered it because AoM sounds are more than 5 times louder than AoE sounds and that fitted in much worse.
ΑΝΑΞ ΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ May 30, 2018 @ 6:23am 
Well, at least someone finally attempted to tackle this issue! :steamhappy: A decent attempt, but still slightly faulty. Apart from the already pointed out issue of Italians also speaking Greek with this shared mod, villagers still use the Latin 'capto' when fishing. Also, monks use Chiron's dying grunt as one of their normal 'speech' sounds - the person who voiced Chiron in AOM was clearly an Anglophone and not a native Greek speaker.
But at least you did "something"! Even the official AOE2 Greek language patch STILL has our people speaking in Vulgar Latin, which is as much an anachronism for us as it is for mediaeval Italian states. While the Italians are portrayed as looking even more like East Romans than the so-called "Byzantines".... which is pretty ironic, eh? :steamfacepalm: