Jadwiga Supremacy
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Renewables (Solar & Wind farms, Hydroelectric Dam) have this annoying buzzing sound (I've also seen people call it 'farting') that cuts through the music, cuts through the ambience mix, and doesn't respect locality. You can hear it even if it's at the edge of your screen.
I'm honestly surprised that not a lot of people complain about it. Maybe my version is defective somehow, maybe my headphones are way too sensitive to that sound — dunno, but for me it's incredibly annoying and distracting.
It's so bad that I avoid building those improvements altogether.
Finally, I've had enough and went on a quest to remove these sounds.
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It contains 10 variations of the buzzing sound. I've replaced them all with silence. The rest of the sounds are unchanged.
You need to replace it in several locations in the game folder. This depends on the number of DLCs you have - they have copies of that file and I dunno which one takes precedence, so I've replaced them all. For me it was about 8 locations.
The folder structure is:
Sid Meier's Civilization VI\DLC\Expansion1\Platforms\Windows\audio
And then go through the other DLCs. Or use search.
Updated file: https://files.catbox.moe/fw17ws.zip
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https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...v-6-production-notification-sound-etc.643057/
Big thanks to Hapseleg for the guide.
I'm honestly surprised that not a lot of people complain about it. Maybe my version is defective somehow, maybe my headphones are way too sensitive to that sound — dunno, but for me it's incredibly annoying and distracting.
It's so bad that I avoid building those improvements altogether.
Finally, I've had enough and went on a quest to remove these sounds.
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What to do if you're as annoyed as I am:
The file in question is XP_Common_Resources_Features_3D.bnkIt contains 10 variations of the buzzing sound. I've replaced them all with silence. The rest of the sounds are unchanged.
You need to replace it in several locations in the game folder. This depends on the number of DLCs you have - they have copies of that file and I dunno which one takes precedence, so I've replaced them all. For me it was about 8 locations.
The folder structure is:
Sid Meier's Civilization VI\DLC\Expansion1\Platforms\Windows\audio
And then go through the other DLCs. Or use search.
Updated file: https://files.catbox.moe/fw17ws.zip---
If you don't trust my file (which is not unreasonable)
You can follow this guide and replace them yourself. Identifying the file in question was half the battle - so it should be fairly easy:https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...v-6-production-notification-sound-etc.643057/
Big thanks to Hapseleg for the guide.
