Audio files.

[Sertith]

Where are the audio files? I've got really crappy internet, and am hoping they're on my computer. However, given how often they glitch out, I'm thinking they might be on the Beth servers. Does anyone know? If they are on my pc, where would I find them?

[KimChiBenny0]

Audio files are local. Should be packed in a .ba2 file and placed with all the other assets like meshes and stuff. So in the Fallout 76 Data folder you'll see all the ba2 archives, and SeventySix-sounds01/02.ba2 are at least two of the files of interest. Good luck!

[zanity]

If Beth allows the audio files of FO:76 to be 'hacked' and replaced with other music under copyright, Beth becomes potentially liable for copyright infringement of material protected by the most vicious lawyers on the planet working for music publishers even more sue happy than Zenimax.

 

And the user who hacked his/her game to place new copyright music into the game also becomes liable EVEN if that person owns the music legally. This is down to PERFORMANCE RIGHTS.

 

Please people, the always ONLINE nature of FO:76 changes all the rules. Even if you are playing music in the background, and the always on microphone of FO:76 broadcasts that music to other players, you are potentially liable UNLESS you have a broadcast licence.

 

Now I'm not saying that anyone is coming after you on this technicality if you do play the game while you music system plays in the background- BUT hacking your game to put other copyright music in the files is a really BAD idea. And old music performed RECENTLY is usually under copyright as well.

 

Look here's a TRUE story to prove things are more dangerous than you imagine. Years ago DISH (a premium direct broadcast satellite service in the USA) faced 'piracy' by people using PCs and card readers. The card readers themselves were NOT any form of pirate device- just standard equipment designed to interface to any standard 'smart card'. But DISH raided a supplier of these perfectly LEGAL smart card interfaces, got the customer list, cross checked it against a list of DISH customers who had recently ended their DISH contract, and extorted money from these ex-customers with ZERO actual proof of 'wrong doing'.

 

And NO, the smart card reader supplier was NOT providing any form of 'pirate' PC software with the readers they sold- just plain vanilla industry standard readers. DISH just knew, by following forums like THIS one, what suppliers hackers recommended.

 

So please, don't be fooled into thinking this place is 'safe' just cos the other 'paths' on the Nexus are 'tiger free'.

[Mikado2116]

Hacked?
As far as I know, there isn't any "hack" involved when you can just "open" BA2 archives and using Bethesda own tools (archive2) to pack audio files into new archives.

The fact that the game is online doesn't change the fact that any modifcation (texture, models, materials, sounds, music and interface) are only on the user end, so that doesn't differs that much from offline modding "rules" on this point. If we had to follow all "stupid" copyright laws, even simple modding wouldn't even be possible anymore...

Btw, even if for some reason you end up earing a copyrighted music via an user microphone, how are you gonna prove that it's a replaced file and not just his music player playing in the background?

Edited November 30, 2018 by Mkdo40

[Sertith]

Audio files are local. Should be packed in a .ba2 file and placed with all the other assets like meshes and stuff. So in the Fallout 76 Data folder you'll see all the ba2 archives, and SeventySix-sounds01/02.ba2 are at least two of the files of interest. Good luck!

Ah ha, thank you very much.

 

 

If Beth allows the audio files of FO:76 to be 'hacked' and replaced with other music under copyright, Beth becomes potentially liable for copyright infringement of material protected by the most vicious lawyers on the planet working for music publishers even more sue happy than Zenimax.

 

And the user who hacked his/her game to place new copyright music into the game also becomes liable EVEN if that person owns the music legally. This is down to PERFORMANCE RIGHTS.

 

Please people, the always ONLINE nature of FO:76 changes all the rules. Even if you are playing music in the background, and the always on microphone of FO:76 broadcasts that music to other players, you are potentially liable UNLESS you have a broadcast licence.

 

Now I'm not saying that anyone is coming after you on this technicality if you do play the game while you music system plays in the background- BUT hacking your game to put other copyright music in the files is a really BAD idea. And old music performed RECENTLY is usually under copyright as well.

 

Look here's a TRUE story to prove things are more dangerous than you imagine. Years ago DISH (a premium direct broadcast satellite service in the USA) faced 'piracy' by people using PCs and card readers. The card readers themselves were NOT any form of pirate device- just standard equipment designed to interface to any standard 'smart card'. But DISH raided a supplier of these perfectly LEGAL smart card interfaces, got the customer list, cross checked it against a list of DISH customers who had recently ended their DISH contract, and extorted money from these ex-customers with ZERO actual proof of 'wrong doing'.

 

And NO, the smart card reader supplier was NOT providing any form of 'pirate' PC software with the readers they sold- just plain vanilla industry standard readers. DISH just knew, by following forums like THIS one, what suppliers hackers recommended.

 

So please, don't be fooled into thinking this place is 'safe' just cos the other 'paths' on the Nexus are 'tiger free'.

Honestly this looks like a copy/pasta, and if so, rethink your life. Tossing unnecessary posts just to prove how "knowledgeable" you are doesn't help if the stuff you're posting has nothing to do with the OP.

 

On the off chance this isn't a copy/pasta, what are you talking about? I'm asking if the files are hosted locally due to concern about my satellite internet bandwidth. No where do I say I'm going to upload any files, or download any files, or hack anything. I don't know if you know what satellite internet is like, but let me tell you, it's not great. I have 50GB per month, and if I exceed that my bandwidth goes to poop. If I have to download an entire album every single time I play the game, my internet is going to go to crap in like, hours. If they're on my pc, then I don't have to worry about it.