This is getting very weird... some of you say that Santatron is being silenced, some say he isn't.
I could use some more information from you guys. Please reply to this post with the following information:
- What language your run the game in. - Whether you're using the loose files or the BA2 archive. - Whether or not Santatron is being muted correctly in your game.
This will really help me narrow down what the problem is!
Edit: Removing the file and disabling the mod entirely then launching the game, exiting and reinstalling the mod then booting up the game again caused the mod to function properly with Santa. Thank you canisoftlykissu for pointing this out, I feel like a dumbass for not having done so earlier, expecting it to work like the majority of the other mods I've been using. And thank you UlithiumDragon for the mod, loving it and it's working phenomenally!
First off, thanks for doing the mod! The Santatron is not silent for me either. It seems to have all of its normal speech lines. I play in English, use BA2. Keeping the Santatron b/c of the gifts, but it is tough putting up with all of the lines and noise from this thing. Be great if you could help us get rid of all of that. Thanks!
So far I'm not seeing any correlation that could explain why the mod is working for some people and not others... I'm really stumped guys. This makes no sense. :/
Just out of curiosity, for those of you that are having problems, were you running a previous version? If so, did you try to uninstall the mod, reboot the game without the mod installed then install the new version of the mod? I don't know how to mod but have used quite a few and sometimes little tricks like that can make a difference.
Since I installed Better Inventory first, I already have a line "sResourceArchive2List = BetterPatch.ba2". This mod doesn't silence the Santatron. How do I edit Fallout76Custom.ini file to achieve this mod to work? Sorry, I'm new in modding. This is how it looks now: [Archive] sResourceArchive2List = BetterPatch.ba2, SilentScavengerBot.ba2
The process on how to install mods by editing the ini files changed multiple times during the early days of F76 modding. I don't play anymore so I can't be certain which is right, so I recommend checking what more recently posted mods or guides say on how to do it.
I haven't played Wastelander much at all since it came out, but it does seem that it broke this mod. I can't garment that I'll ever get around to fixing it, either. My interest in F76 is pretty dead right now.
i'm guessing the mod doesn't work with wastelanders anymore? i haven't tried it but seeing other users posts kinda tells me it doesn't is your mod easily recreatable? if you don't mind could you tell me how you did it and maybe i can recreate it? thanks :) i also want to remove other annoying sounds in the game too.
1) Use Archive2 (from Fallout 4) to open and extract the audio files from the archive "SeventySix - Voices.ba2".
2) Locate the sound files (you will have to guess). They will most likely be in one of the subfolder in "sound/voice/seventysix.esm/" that starts with "robotprotectron" (but I cannot guarantee this).
3) Use a FUZ converter on the audio files you suspect (I recommend converting the entire subfolder). There are several options, such as this one and this one.
4) Play the converted audio files to determine the lines to replace. Once you find one of them, copy+paste one of the blank audio files from this mod and replace the ID with the ID of the line you found. Note that you do not have to convert them back into a FUZ file, as the XWM files I used are compatible (and it doesn't matter anyways).
----- NOTE: Alternatively, you can try to use XEdit to trace back the ID of the voice lines. Personally I found this even more confusing and time consuming than just using guess-and-check (audio management is not one of XEdit's strengths), but its still an option.
Hmm, it's possible that they regenerated or reorganized all the voice files since they added so many new ones.
I'll take a look later when I get around to trying Wastelanders for real. I tried the PTR and wasn't super impressed. I also haven't a clue how I'd get the budget for those quest stations at my CAMP since I overcapped my budget by more than 3x.
I am also having the same problem, was working fine before wastelanders. I also use the mod that mutes all vendors and that also stopped working, don't know if that helps you troubleshoot at all. Good luck, I hope you can fix it, I removed my scrapbots because they never shut up and without your mod working I cannot stand to have them in my camp.
Yep, Wastelanders definitely broke it. On the plus side, now that he talks again, I'm spending less time wasting time in my Camp and more time enjoying the new content. Hope it's a quick & easy fix!
1) They changed the structure for BA2 archives that include voice files and it's failing to load them now and using the default ones instead. 2) They regenerated all voice lines and the file names changed.
I don't expect this to be a quick fix either way... Let's hope I'm wrong lol.
I'm not sure , i only just still hear him , and i can't know if he have some mute sentence or if it's only a break.
In the worst case i can write his line and send them here , but they'll be translated like raw cuz i play in french , and even if i can translate them in english they will be a bit different i think (but still near the "original").
-Cette unité dispose d'un extérieur renforcé rendant l'option "gros ventre qui gigote comme de la gelée" indisponible pour le moment. -Détection d'enfant sage en cours, analyse..analyse..aucun enfant sage détecté , ce monde est devenus un cauchemar de désolation , joyeuse fêtes. -Cette unité n'accepte pas les requêtes du type s’asseoir sur les genoux du père noël , nous nous excusons pour la gène occasionné. -Ou son passer mes elfes , non vraiment j'ai peur qu'ils soient en danger. -La tentative d’acquisition de sapins de noël a échoué , cause : tout les sapins présente un niveau de radiation trés dangereux, l’humanité est une méchante plaie sur cette gentille planète , ho ho ho. -Accès au paramètre méchant/gentil , chargement terminée , prés a faire du trie , prêt a la re-vérifié deux fois. -Échec du lancement de la sub-routine ??? effondrement probable de la société , ho ho ho. -Évaluation des niveaux de méchanceté , évaluation terminé , les niveaux de méchanceté dépasse toutes les prévisions, qu'est devenus ce monde. -Erreur , d’après la liste actuel des méchant enfants, cette unité ??? -Rapport d'erreur , cette unité a essayer de décoré la faune local a l'aide d'un nez de rudolph, cause de l'échec : la créature possède deux tètes , résolution impossible. -Ho ho ho ho , non tout le monde semble être mort , c'est affreux , erreur niveau de joie a un degré catastrophique, redémarrage terminé. -Si le cadeau reçu n'est pas satisfaisant , cette unité n'est pas autorisé a effectuer d'échange , merci de contacter le service clientèle de l'atelier d'elfes Robco le plus proche pour plus d'information. -Rassemblement des cadeaux, chargement de de la bonne humeur , décompression de la sub-routine terminé , ho ho ho. -Cette unité est programmé pour souhaiter de joyeuse fêtes a tout ceux qui croisent son chemin , initialisation , joyeuse fêtes.
I didn't manage to compete the list , 2 are incomplete , and maybe 1 or 2 are missing.
1) Does the Scavenger Bot get silenced correctly for you?
2) If possible, could you test changing the language to English and see if the lines are muted? It's possible Bethesda screwed something up in the translations. Wouldn't be the first time.
----- [TO EVERYONE ELSE]: Is anyone else having the same problems with Santatron lines not being muted correctly?
Edit : ok it's very strange , i've switch to english version and the collectron is still muted , but santatron still speak , i've also try to remove the mod and download it again , and same thing.
But since i still have the issue in english , and since it look like other english players can have the mod working , maybe it's an issue on my side , but to be honest i don''t see what cuz i've removed the mod and download it again for try with a fresh version , so yeah , it's strange.
I was using the previous version of the mod and it worked great, but I installed your update and Santa still talks... I keep playing with it but I can't seem to get him to mute unfortunately.
thank you very much for this, had it running for over an hour in my alt's camp and not a single peep out of santatron. silence is golden. merry christmas!!
I haven't played 76 for a while now. If/when I check out the christmas update, I *may* consider doing this *if* his dialog lines annoy me (and they most likely will).
Because hearing the same 20 quips repeated every 5 seconds with a horrible RNG that causes the same ones to be played more than once in a row is extremely irritating. And to be honest, I find the robot voice very irritating to begin with...
Don't download the mod if you don't wanna use it. I made this for myself and shared it because I wanted to, not because I had to. =.=
HiUlithiumDragon, [ENDORSED] ..The following from me relates to the top line of your post on18 September 2019, 2:05AM: RNG=Random Number Generator (algorithm).
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Please know this is me and my use of a ROKIPE=Reminder Of Kindness In Posting Etiquette..Using a scientific acronym without breaking it down could feel alienating to some who don't know it.Thank you,I would not have bought Scaver-Bot were it not for my confidence that a Mod Author like you would come to the rescue within a week. ...How can we rename it?I recall a reddit post that I glossed over too fast and thought they were saying we could rename our cows but I think it was "IF we could, what name...". Imaging me,asking one of my favorite teamed & friendedplayers at my base-CAMP, to think-up a name for my cow that's a funny play-on-words related to Star-Wars e.g.:"Moo-Lenny Yumfel Cone",or a comic book character, or whatever they wish. So there was trying my best to rename my cow in front of my new in-game friend (because had not"reddit" right )Again, since it would be via a Mod and not the game itself (due to the custom names being user system side, not sent to us from Beth server side) Maybe, such a mod to renameCAMP"Actors" visible to all using the exact mod (I mean updated version)could work especially if the mod functioned thru SFE and it had it's own server(s) with a folder for each CAMP owner using that mod. ...Same goes for custom CAMP"Actor" sound files. That way any CAMP owner on the Bethesda server you are on who uses that mod will have it's custom sounds audible to you.It would probably be best if post-processing was applied to all sound files prior to being accessible by the mod user, to reduce any sudden overly loud parts, like for causing jump scares etc. ...BTW,are all the Scavenger Bot's sayings in one continuous sound file? Thank you for your addition to the mod with regarding the info about the sound files. And so I hid the following, due to answered...
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Picking the line you most dislike, would you teach us how we would stop a saying from being able to chosen by the RNG, or make that audio blank? Using those instructions, we can do the same for any other lines. ...My further guess is if we can make a segment of the audio contain silence, we could replace it with our own joke, or trivia about conservation (or what-not). For those to be heard by another, that friend(s) would have to have the very same modification given to them by the creator of it.
RNG is so well known at this point that I didn't think I needed to write it out. Even people who don't know what the acronym stands for know what it means, i.e. when people say something like "...pray to the RNG gods". Think about it like this... people say "you sound like a broken record" all the time without actually knowing what a "record" is.
If I thought that the acronym wasn't in common parlance, I would have course have written the whole thing out. I also very much dislike patronization and will usually go out of my way to explain things thoroughly.
At the same time, I might have come off a bit too strong last night when I responded to this comment. I don't think anyone likes to see the first comment on something they post being a jibe or troll post.
----- You're welcome! As for individual lines: they are all in separate sound files, so it wouldn't be very hard to discard only the ones you didn't want to hear.
I've uploaded the original sound files just now to the Optional Files section. You can use a media player like VLC to listen to them and figure out which one is for which line. Then all you need to do is delete the corresponding blank sound file from this mod to re-enable those voice lines.
Also "technically" wouldn't it be a mathematical term, not a science term? :P
HiUlithiumDragon, rel to your statement: ''Also "technically" wouldn't it be a mathematical term, not a science term?'' There are many different science fields and sub-fields. Also said simply as "sciences". Also referred to as "scientific disciplines". Reflectively,BorderXer
Thank you for this mod! I don't even have that bot but listening to its lines over and over again one out of each two visits to random vendor's camp is already quite irritating. Endorsed!
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I could use some more information from you guys. Please reply to this post with the following information:
- What language your run the game in.
- Whether you're using the loose files or the BA2 archive.
- Whether or not Santatron is being muted correctly in your game.
This will really help me narrow down what the problem is!
-I use the BA2 file.
-Santatron isn't muted (but Collectron is)
Thank you canisoftlykissu for pointing this out, I feel like a dumbass for not having done so earlier, expecting it to work like the majority of the other mods I've been using.
And thank you UlithiumDragon for the mod, loving it and it's working phenomenally!
The Santatron is not silent for me either. It seems to have all of its normal speech lines. I play in English, use BA2. Keeping the Santatron b/c of the gifts, but it is tough putting up with all of the lines and noise from this thing. Be great if you could help us get rid of all of that. Thanks!
This mod doesn't silence the Santatron.
How do I edit Fallout76Custom.ini file to achieve this mod to work? Sorry, I'm new in modding.
This is how it looks now:
[Archive]
sResourceArchive2List = BetterPatch.ba2, SilentScavengerBot.ba2
2) Locate the sound files (you will have to guess). They will most likely be in one of the subfolder in "sound/voice/seventysix.esm/" that starts with "robotprotectron" (but I cannot guarantee this).
3) Use a FUZ converter on the audio files you suspect (I recommend converting the entire subfolder). There are several options, such as this one and this one.
4) Play the converted audio files to determine the lines to replace. Once you find one of them, copy+paste one of the blank audio files from this mod and replace the ID with the ID of the line you found. Note that you do not have to convert them back into a FUZ file, as the XWM files I used are compatible (and it doesn't matter anyways).
-----
NOTE: Alternatively, you can try to use XEdit to trace back the ID of the voice lines. Personally I found this even more confusing and time consuming than just using guess-and-check (audio management is not one of XEdit's strengths), but its still an option.
I'll take a look later when I get around to trying Wastelanders for real. I tried the PTR and wasn't super impressed. I also haven't a clue how I'd get the budget for those quest stations at my CAMP since I overcapped my budget by more than 3x.
1) They changed the structure for BA2 archives that include voice files and it's failing to load them now and using the default ones instead.
2) They regenerated all voice lines and the file names changed.
I don't expect this to be a quick fix either way... Let's hope I'm wrong lol.
I've try replace the old mod by the lastest version but still the same.
In the worst case i can write his line and send them here , but they'll be translated like raw cuz i play in french , and even if i can translate them in english they will be a bit different i think (but still near the "original").
-Détection d'enfant sage en cours, analyse..analyse..aucun enfant sage détecté , ce monde est devenus un cauchemar de désolation , joyeuse fêtes.
-Cette unité n'accepte pas les requêtes du type s’asseoir sur les genoux du père noël , nous nous excusons pour la gène occasionné.
-Ou son passer mes elfes , non vraiment j'ai peur qu'ils soient en danger.
-La tentative d’acquisition de sapins de noël a échoué , cause : tout les sapins présente un niveau de radiation trés dangereux, l’humanité est une méchante plaie sur cette gentille planète , ho ho ho.
-Accès au paramètre méchant/gentil , chargement terminée , prés a faire du trie , prêt a la re-vérifié deux fois.
-Échec du lancement de la sub-routine ??? effondrement probable de la société , ho ho ho.
-Évaluation des niveaux de méchanceté , évaluation terminé , les niveaux de méchanceté dépasse toutes les prévisions, qu'est devenus ce monde.
-Erreur , d’après la liste actuel des méchant enfants, cette unité ???
-Rapport d'erreur , cette unité a essayer de décoré la faune local a l'aide d'un nez de rudolph, cause de l'échec : la créature possède deux tètes , résolution impossible.
-Ho ho ho ho , non tout le monde semble être mort , c'est affreux , erreur niveau de joie a un degré catastrophique, redémarrage terminé.
-Si le cadeau reçu n'est pas satisfaisant , cette unité n'est pas autorisé a effectuer d'échange , merci de contacter le service clientèle de l'atelier d'elfes Robco le plus proche pour plus d'information.
-Rassemblement des cadeaux, chargement de de la bonne humeur , décompression de la sub-routine terminé , ho ho ho.
-Cette unité est programmé pour souhaiter de joyeuse fêtes a tout ceux qui croisent son chemin , initialisation , joyeuse fêtes.
I didn't manage to compete the list , 2 are incomplete , and maybe 1 or 2 are missing.
1) Does the Scavenger Bot get silenced correctly for you?
2) If possible, could you test changing the language to English and see if the lines are muted? It's possible Bethesda screwed something up in the translations. Wouldn't be the first time.
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[TO EVERYONE ELSE]: Is anyone else having the same problems with Santatron lines not being muted correctly?
Ok i'll try change language.
Edit : ok it's very strange , i've switch to english version and the collectron is still muted , but santatron still speak , i've also try to remove the mod and download it again , and same thing.
But since i still have the issue in english , and since it look like other english players can have the mod working , maybe it's an issue on my side , but to be honest i don''t see what cuz i've removed the mod and download it again for try with a fresh version , so yeah , it's strange.
Can you please consider make the same for vendor protectron in train station ?
Don't download the mod if you don't wanna use it. I made this for myself and shared it because I wanted to, not because I had to. =.=
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. .The following from me relates to the top line of your post on 18 September 2019, 2:05AM :
RNG = Random Number Generator (algorithm).
ROKIPE = Reminder Of Kindness In Posting Etiquette.
without breaking it down could feel alienating to some who don't know it. Thank you, I would not have bought Scaver-Bot were it not for my confidence
that a Mod Author like you would come to the rescue within a week.
. . .How can we rename it ? I recall a reddit post that I glossed over too fast and thought
they were saying we could rename our cows but I think it was "IF we could, what name...".
Imaging me, asking one of my favorite teamed & friended players at my base-CAMP, to
think-up a name for my cow that's a funny play-on-words related to Star-Wars
e.g.: "Moo-Lenny Yumfel Cone"
So there was trying my best to rename my cow in front of my new in-game friend ( because
had not "reddit" right
(due to the custom names being user system side, not sent to us from Beth server side)
Maybe, such a mod to rename CAMP "Actors" visible to all using the exact mod (I mean
updated version) could work especially if the mod functioned thru SFE and it had it's own
server(s) with a folder for each CAMP owner using that mod.
. . .Same goes for custom CAMP "Actor" sound files. That way any CAMP owner on the
Bethesda server you are on who uses that mod will have it's custom sounds audible to
you. It would probably be best if post-processing was applied to all sound files prior to
being accessible by the mod user, to reduce any sudden overly loud parts, like for
causing jump scares etc.
. . .BTW, are all the Scavenger Bot's sayings in one continuous sound file ?
Thank you for your addition to the mod with regarding the info about the sound files.
And so I hid the following, due to answered...
stop a saying from being able to chosen by the RNG, or make that audio blank ?
Using those instructions, we can do the same for any other lines.
. . .My further guess is if we can make a segment of the audio contain silence, we
could replace it with our own joke, or trivia about conservation (or what-not).
For those to be heard by another, that friend (s) would have to have the very same
modification given to them by the creator of it.
If I thought that the acronym wasn't in common parlance, I would have course have written the whole thing out. I also very much dislike patronization and will usually go out of my way to explain things thoroughly.
At the same time, I might have come off a bit too strong last night when I responded to this comment. I don't think anyone likes to see the first comment on something they post being a jibe or troll post.
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You're welcome! As for individual lines: they are all in separate sound files, so it wouldn't be very hard to discard only the ones you didn't want to hear.
I've uploaded the original sound files just now to the Optional Files section. You can use a media player like VLC to listen to them and figure out which one is for which line. Then all you need to do is delete the corresponding blank sound file from this mod to re-enable those voice lines.
Also "technically" wouldn't it be a mathematical term, not a science term? :P
rel to your statement :
''Also "technically" wouldn't it be a mathematical term, not a science term?
There are many different science fields and sub-fields.
Also said simply as "sciences".
Also referred to as "scientific disciplines".
R e f l e c t i v e l y