"Insufficient Fire Support" driving me insane--how

(mattsaccount) #1

Hello–

I’m not sure if this is possible, but is there any way to replace the default “Insufficient Fire Support” sound with something else, like a blank sound file? Or would this prevent me from playing the game with others over the internet? I imagine it’s stored as a WAV file within pak0.pk3 somewhere, but I’m not sure how I go about replacing it even if I should find it.

On some servers, the maximum number of artillery barrages is reduced, and this causes the “insufficient fire support” message to be played many, many times (since I play field ops) and it drives me nuts.

Thanks for any suggestions, or thanks for telling me it’s not possible. :slight_smile:

(Ifurita) #2

AFAIK, not possible unless you are playing on an unpure server. It would require a new .wav file, that:

  1. If you replaced the one in your pak0.pk3 file, you wouldn’t be booted from any pure server
  • or -
  1. If you just made a new pk3 file with the new sound, it wouldn’t be recognized by any pure server unless they also had your pk3 file loaded
(mattsaccount) #3

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I figured. Ah well, guess I’ll have to live with it. Thanks for your reply :slight_smile:

(DG) #4

might settle for turning sound off quickly when it drives you nuts:

bind x “cycle s_volume 0 0.8”

might be a better cvar to mute only the game voice or something though, but cg_novoicechats doesnt affect it; cg_announcer is just old “fight”/“allies win” warwitch from OSP rtcw - and do anything either i think; s_mute 0/1 seems to do same thing effectively.

(mattsaccount) #5

Hey that’s a good idea. I tried it today and I find that to be better than nothing. Thanks for your help!