Reducing sound on a mod

[RACLARY1960]

I have been using Icestorms Combat Drone mod, and while I like it, I find it to be too noisy. I have heard that the esp file can be edited to reduce the nose, but I can't really find any good tutorial on how to this. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how I could edit the file and turn down the noise a bit? Thanks in advance.

[Drivinghard]

Hi .. I totally LOVED those drones, and i did SO open up that esp and adjust the volume on another gamebox by using FO4Edit.. i forget doing all that though because all in all .. I could not accept those drones running in the WILD at Random Encounter points :sad:

As far as Settlement Defence i thought those drones were the best thing in the world (after i had turned down their volumes) .. however that author although politely asked for it, had absolutely zero intentions of making a 'Settlement Defence ONLY" version so i uninstalled his mod..

 

I'll try to find the directories where i kep all of my notes when i adjusted the volume for you.. and get back to you with the value you need to change

 

MEANWHILE .. I recommend an alternative Drone system for settlement defences.. 'Settlement Radar Station" gives you deployable drones in 5 power levels each, both Defenders, and also Strikers which will travel outside of the settlements and eliminate approaching enemies too

but do not bother with this mod's 'Minutemen Reinforcements" detectors because it is based on Turret Sensors.. and long after the enemies have been vanquished by the drones and turrets... THEN the radar tries to teleport reinforcements in but it is always tooo late :smile:

 

At The Slog.. when i visit there, one of the Settlement Radar Drones will fly over to that Guard Post at the forge and knock that guy out all the time so it is always fund to watch.. the poor guys never know what they are being attacked by :wink:

Edited November 1, 2023 by Drivinghard

[fraquar]

Probably would be best to extract the Sound files from the MAIN.BA2 file and edit/save them with Audacity.

The sound files are just .WAV files (there are 4 of them), you can edit them and resave (use Export to WAV in Audacity) them once you have them to the level you are happy with.

Don't need to repack the .BA2. just put the edited Sound directory in the Mod folder. Loose files always win.

 

Added: I don't use that mod but downloaded it to get an idea of the default volume. I immediately set it to -20Db Gain.

If I'd have played that original .WAV file with my headphones I'd have probably blown my one good eardrum out.... :D

Edited November 2, 2023 by fraquar

[RACLARY1960]

Hi .. I totally LOVED those drones, and i did SO open up that esp and adjust the volume on another gamebox by using FO4Edit.. i forget doing all that though because all in all .. I could not accept those drones running in the WILD at Random Encounter points :sad:

 

As far as Settlement Defence i thought those drones were the best thing in the world (after i had turned down their volumes) .. however that author although politely asked for it, had absolutely zero intentions of making a 'Settlement Defence ONLY" version so i uninstalled his mod..

 

I'll try to find the directories where i kep all of my notes when i adjusted the volume for you.. and get back to you with the value you need to change

 

MEANWHILE .. I recommend an alternative Drone system for settlement defences.. 'Settlement Radar Station" gives you deployable drones in 5 power levels each, both Defenders, and also Strikers which will travel outside of the settlements and eliminate approaching enemies too

 

but do not bother with this mod's 'Minutemen Reinforcements" detectors because it is based on Turret Sensors.. and long after the enemies have been vanquished by the drones and turrets... THEN the radar tries to teleport reinforcements in but it is always tooo late :smile:

 

At The Slog.. when i visit there, one of the Settlement Radar Drones will fly over to that Guard Post at the forge and knock that guy out all the time so it is always fund to watch.. the poor guys never know what they are being attacked by :wink:

 

 

Thanks for the reply, I have been using a drone mod that uses small vertibirds and they fly a lot higher over settlements and are less noisy. I think I'll give your suggestion a try of the drone that uses radar.

 

[RACLARY1960]

Hi .. I totally LOVED those drones, and i did SO open up that esp and adjust the volume on another gamebox by using FO4Edit.. i forget doing all that though because all in all .. I could not accept those drones running in the WILD at Random Encounter points :sad:

 

As far as Settlement Defence i thought those drones were the best thing in the world (after i had turned down their volumes) .. however that author although politely asked for it, had absolutely zero intentions of making a 'Settlement Defence ONLY" version so i uninstalled his mod..

 

I'll try to find the directories where i kep all of my notes when i adjusted the volume for you.. and get back to you with the value you need to change

 

MEANWHILE .. I recommend an alternative Drone system for settlement defences.. 'Settlement Radar Station" gives you deployable drones in 5 power levels each, both Defenders, and also Strikers which will travel outside of the settlements and eliminate approaching enemies too

 

but do not bother with this mod's 'Minutemen Reinforcements" detectors because it is based on Turret Sensors.. and long after the enemies have been vanquished by the drones and turrets... THEN the radar tries to teleport reinforcements in but it is always tooo late :smile:

 

At The Slog.. when i visit there, one of the Settlement Radar Drones will fly over to that Guard Post at the forge and knock that guy out all the time so it is always fund to watch.. the poor guys never know what they are being attacked by :wink:

Thank you, i'll give that a try.