sound mod Team Yankee voice mod for AW

[BaJIbkupu9I 8]

 Hi guys. I am glad to present you the release version of Team Yankee voice sound mod for Armored Warfare.
 I became interested in the idea of making a tank crew voice mod after acquaintance with sound mod of the well-known here comrade TobiichiOrigami from chinese AW forum and his Girls und Panzer voice pack for AW.

 The name of this sound mod is a thematic reference to the novel by Harold Coyle, which is dedicated to the actions of a company-sized armor unit of the US Army in the World War III between the Soviet Union and the United States. Where, by the way, historical events begin with the outbreak of a crisis in the Middle East after an Iranian air strike on oil tankers in neutral waters.

 This mod is based on phrases from the english voiceover of such games as Battlefield 3-4, Company of Heroes 2, Gunner, HEAT, PC!, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, the film Fury (2014) and Tank School USMC, etc. I also note that the third party voice mods Crew Sound Mod and Thunder Crew helped me a lot during search of sound sources.
 The sound modpack Voice of War made by eXeStyle was also used in the video below: game sounds of tank shots, environment on the map, etc. - check it out here.

Installation: just throw dialog folder into the correct path of game folders, if needed create them. Example: Armored Warfare\Armored Warfare MyCom\localization\english\dialog\. If you don't play in english just replace english with whatever language you use. Steam users follow the same instructions, but also have a folder comprised of numbers between Armored Warfare and Armored Warfare MyCom (my example: G:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Armored Warfare\13_2000009\localization\English\dialog).
 

10.06.24 UPD:
Today I received a strike on a file with a mod on Google Drive, and Google itself threatened to sue me in the US and block my account, which I have been using for a long time and its loss would be painful, so the file with the mod is currently being moved to the Israeli Yandex Disk.
The strike was not sent to me by a random person, but on behalf of the head of the game development studio Radian Simulations LLC, Joshua Busuito, with the following description of the complaint:
The work is a ZIP file containing a large set of ripped voice line audio assets, many of which are from my company's game "Gunner, HEAT, PC!" a.k.a. GHPC. For an authorized example, I have linked the Steam page, where the trailers provide some examples of the voice lines.

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For understanding, on average, in one file for one crew member (and the game engine has a multi-crew voiceover feature) there are on average 300-500 sound files, which are mostly repeated in all 26 folders in this mod, depending on the tanker's role and gender. And of all these sounds from this game, two sample files were used, each 2 seconds long - "Load AP" and "Load HEAT!", which were used as the sound when the player changed the type of shell. The rest of the sounds were taken from a dozen other well-known games from different studios, both small and giants of the gaming industry. And in two years of my mod's existence, which was based on several other sound mods for neighboring tank MMO games, only one studio filed a complaint about these two sample files directly to Google. They didn't write a letter asking to remove something that they don't allow to be used outside the game client, and they didn't even contact via YouTube under the video demonstrating the mod to resolve the issue directly without meanness. Even giants like WarGaming and Gaijin Entertainment don't resort to this, although their game files and voiceovers from games have been used in mods for a long time and they don't abuse copyright strikes for modders. Despite the fact that the mod itself is COMPLETELY FREE, its creation took several months of free time outside of work and was done solely on enthusiasm and the desire to improve the game, which already suffers from the stinginess of updates and literally functions on an artificial life support apparatus.
But I think that it is useless to dispute and try to negotiate with people who consider the non-commercial use of any components from the game client for user mods to be "piracy":

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Do you know what's the funniest thing? I bought this game a couple of months ago and even bought the add-on with music to support the development of the project.

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And the sound files were taken not from the game, but from another user mod for War Thunder, where the sounds from the original game are used much more, and at the same time, no one has struck the mod itself for many years of its existence on the WT live forum.

I think that for those who read this text, the nature of the people who did this on behalf of the entire studio is now clear. Perhaps there are many good people among them, but I did not expect such meanness from them and for the first time I see it among games of this genre. Modders, if you use their content in the future, keep in mind that they can also throw you complaints and strikes for copyright for any content related to their game and used for non-commercial purposes due to "piracy".

P.S.: At the moment, I have abandoned the game due to a number of obvious reasons for which many other users abandon it. I have no desire to change the voice acting and cut two samples for other sounds just because of their complaint from someone on behalf of the studio, and I am not going to delete the voice mod either - maybe someone else will find it useful and diversify the gameplay. And remember - greed can quickly destroy a reputation that has been accumulated for a long time and with great effort.


 Link to download: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/61HZoi1GSyd-vw
 Stay tuned for updates here.

 Preview:

 

Edited June 10 by BaJIbkupu9I
The link to the resource with the mod has been changed, a description of the reason for the changes has been added. (see edit history)

[Arto 157]

A ton of different voices at different volumes and different filtering, as if there were 30 people in the same tank, using different radio equipment... Sorry man, I recognize how much work modding the voice lines is, but this is garbage to listen to.

[Vadim 79]

Most people here don't realise this, but crew voice modding is absolute hell. This took an insane amount of work and effort to do.

By the way I didn't make Voice of War, I'm responsible for some interface and weapon sound stuff, but VoW is not one of them :)

[BaJIbkupu9I 8]

7 hours ago, Arto said:

A ton of different voices at different volumes and different filtering, as if there were 30 people in the same tank, using different radio equipment... Sorry man, I recognize how much work modding the voice lines is, but this is garbage to listen to.

Just compare my sound mod with the mentioned Crew Sound Mod and Thunder Crew - they are very similar to each other and are a compilation of phrases from different games. Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to make an integral voice-over (for example, Steel Foxes voice mod for WoT recorded by a professional studio Strategic Music voice acting games for money) based on only one game and to make all the phrases fit each other in meaning, while at the same time trying to preserve the variety of sounds.
Every man to his taste. At first I did the voice mod for myself, but later I decided to share it to the public. If you don't like it, your choice.

7 hours ago, Vadim said:

Most people here don't realise this, but crew voice modding is absolute hell. This took an insane amount of work and effort to do.

By the way I didn't make Voice of War, I'm responsible for some interface and weapon sound stuff, but VoW is not one of them :)

Sorry, I've corrected the description. In russian-speaking community author of VoW is known by his real name Vadim, which is why there is some times confusion when mentioned the Voice of War sound mod pack and your's Vadim's Weapon Sounds mod on AL forum.

Edited December 22, 2022 by BaJIbkupu9I
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[Vadim 79]

On 12/21/2022 at 5:47 PM, BaJIbkupu9I said:

Just compare my sound mod with the mentioned Crew Sound Mod and Thunder Crew - they are very similar to each other and are a compilation of phrases from different games. Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to make an integral voice-over (for example, Steel Foxes voice mod for WoT recorded by a professional studio Strategic Music voice acting games for money) based on only one game and to make all the phrases fit each other in meaning, while at the same time trying to preserve the variety of sounds.
Every man to his taste. At first I did the voice mod for myself, but later I decided to share it to the public. If you don't like it, your choice.

Sorry, I've corrected the description. In russian-speaking community author of VoW is known by his real name Vadim, which is why there is some times confusion when mentioned the Voice of War sound mod pack and your's Vadim's Weapon Sounds mod on AL forum.

I see. Interesting, I didn't know that

[Edward 4]

I just wanted to say that I for one enjoyed this mod very much, thank you for making it. 

[BaJIbkupu9I 8]

On 1/5/2023 at 4:28 PM, Edward said:

I just wanted to say that I for one enjoyed this mod very much, thank you for making it. 

Many thanks, enjoy)
When will the current Battle Path end, if there are no unforeseen cases, I will start making a new sound mod - I’m still choosing the options for the voice source, but the main choice is between the russian-language hodgepodge, by analogy with this mod, or take the voice acting from Panzer Knights and adapt it to the game, since there is a source of original phrases enough for a full-fledged voice mod without borrowing from other sources. But there are difficulties with translating from Japanese to understand their meaning, so perhaps some phrases will not be exactly suitable for some situations, in any case, most do not know Japanese anyway and will just enjoy voiceover from this game like Girls und Panzer voice pack.
The russian-language version of voice acting is also quite feasible, since there are many sources for sounds and I understand russian to match phrases from the game and replaceable ones. But I expect similar earlier critics like "why was it necessary to take different phrases from different games, you have 30 people sitting in the tank", so the anime version of the crew voiceover maybe looks more interesting.
Let's see how things will be, after all, the world is not calm right now, and I am a man liable for military service - if there are no problems in the near future, I am very interested in creating new voice mods, as they add a little variety to the battles in Armored Warfare.

Edited January 7, 2023 by BaJIbkupu9I
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[LesProux 4]

What BGM mode did you use????

I think the BGM of your video is a little different.

Edited January 21, 2023 by LesProux (see edit history)

[BaJIbkupu9I 8]

8 hours ago, LesProux said:

What BGM mode did you use????

I think the BGM of your video is a little different.

Hi, music in the video is just added in the video editor for the background, the mod itself does not include any music.

[Edward 4]

Would you be willing to make a version with just the Gunner, HEAT, PC sounds? 

[BaJIbkupu9I 8]

15 hours ago, Edward said:

Would you be willing to make a version with just the Gunner, HEAT, PC sounds? 

There are some interesting voice lines and in general crew voiceover from this game could be done, but:
- there is no part of the voices for more modern tanks, such as phrases related to the active defense complex. Either leave them blank, or original phrases that will not fit into the rest of the crew voices. The same problem will arise when trying to port the voiceover from the game Call of Duty Modern Warfare;
- in many ways, it is similar to the standard male English voice acting already available in the game, which, as a result, will not be worth enough time and effort spent on adapting it to the armored warfare. I'm not saying that it's bad - it's interesting and can be ported, it's just that there are restrictions due to the pool of phrases and now it doesn't interest me. In my sound mod, I took phrases from it for choosing a loaded ammo, as you might have noticed, there is a choice only between armor-piercing and cumulative - precisely because of the limited set of phrases for some quotas, and an excess of variations for others that are not used in our game due to for its arcade.

[Edward 4]

11 hours ago, BaJIbkupu9I said:

There are some interesting voice lines and in general crew voiceover from this game could be done, but:
- there is no part of the voices for more modern tanks, such as phrases related to the active defense complex. Either leave them blank, or original phrases that will not fit into the rest of the crew voices. The same problem will arise when trying to port the voiceover from the game Call of Duty Modern Warfare;
- in many ways, it is similar to the standard male English voice acting already available in the game, which, as a result, will not be worth enough time and effort spent on adapting it to the armored warfare. I'm not saying that it's bad - it's interesting and can be ported, it's just that there are restrictions due to the pool of phrases and now it doesn't interest me. In my sound mod, I took phrases from it for choosing a loaded ammo, as you might have noticed, there is a choice only between armor-piercing and cumulative - precisely because of the limited set of phrases for some quotas, and an excess of variations for others that are not used in our game due to for its arcade.

I think I personally would be very much OK if you released a version where it's original voices with MW and another version with original voices plus Gunner, HEAT, PC voices added in. I'm OK with the native voices covering where the other game's lines can't, but to have those more professional sounding voices from GHPC and MW in the game would make me very happy. But, it's your mod, so although I'd be grateful, I totally understand if you don't wish to make one. 

[BaJIbkupu9I 8]

16 hours ago, Edward said:

I think I personally would be very much OK if you released a version where it's original voices with MW and another version with original voices plus Gunner, HEAT, PC voices added in. I'm OK with the native voices covering where the other game's lines can't, but to have those more professional sounding voices from GHPC and MW in the game would make me very happy. But, it's your mod, so although I'd be grateful, I totally understand if you don't wish to make one. 

Check first comment by Arto.   I'll think about it, since I also like the original voice lines from these games and there're some same sound mods for World of Tanks, which can be used as sound pool for AW mod.

Edited February 10, 2023 by BaJIbkupu9I
fixed translation (see edit history)