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The ALIENS Sound Replacement
For NS Beta v5 Nov. 4, 2004
Public Preview (beta) ver 1.6
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DOWNLOAD HERE (54 MB zip file)

>Technical Features:

- Modified materials.txt file for new 'footstep' categories, including new footstep sounds when players walk on infestation textures.

- Cue points make doors & elevator sounds loop seamlessly, continuing until they completely open/close or arrive at next floor.

- New high-bitrate replacements for old Half-Life sounds still used in NS, like sparks, ambient sounds on many maps, busting metal & glass, elevators, and footsteps.

- Includes a few freebie alternate sounds (Search for *ALT* in the file names).

- 665 custom sound files in all. (get a life, marr!)

>Movie Features:

- Pulse rifle, smartgun, and other Marine weapon sounds from the ALIENS Special Edition DVD.
- All Alien weapon sounds replaced with sounds from the ALIEN series.
- Custom footsteps, spawn & pain sounds for both teams created using DVD footage, with Ripley's power loader for the HA.
- Ambience mixed from select scenes, with equalization and 3D reverb effects for maximum immersion.
- Completely replaced alien and marine structure sounds by mixing machine cuts from the movie.
- Explosions from the Dropship crash scene.
- Turret, siege turret, and OC sound replacements from the movies and AvP games.
- New welder sounds from the movie loop properly.
- Jetpack sound from Dropship exterior scene.
- Aliens release acid sound effect upon death.
- ALIENS-themed hud and menu sounds.
- Totally replaced sounds for Alien and Marine buildings using cuts from the movie.
- ALIENS-themed CC alert messages for an enhanced comm experience.
- Lowered hive mind voice volume to a more acceptable level.
- Edited titles.txt for ALIENS-themed in-game text.


>Send Feedback to: Marr

Marr recommends Necrosis's ALIEN player & view models.

And l0tus's ALIENS-themed sprite pack

Special Thanks To:
James Cameron
Tykjen
Necrosis
l0tus
Daphisto
Flayra & the NS Team

oh, kickass

now all we need is GAME OVER MAN for losing

"Well thats it man! GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!"

hopefully this is exactly what ive been looking for. feedback later & thnx fer sharing btw-

GREAT WORK!!! I R IN LOVE WIT UR WORK!!!


Two Questions tho...
1.Is their any sound tut's? Could u make one if their wasnt...
2. How did u get SF to host your work???

Once again great work, i love and use all your sounds...

Marr, I noticed that the Gamestartup.mp3 was a little weak (in my opinion) and so I ripped the menu music off of the Special Edition of A|iens. I think it fits it very well, and was wondering if you would like to include it in your soundpack. My email is promo.cl AT gmail.com (no symbol because of paranoid email spiders).

sounds absolutely sextacular, how much will this affect fps?

please say it wont

Keep the feedback coming.

It shouldn't affect your framerate too much. My .wavs tend to be a bit bigger but my mp3s are actually smaller. It really just depends on your machine. If it can barely run NS then you might have problems.

The readme has lots of mistakes, so I'll update that next release.

I agree about gamestartup.mp3. Thanks for the offer. I'll email when I get the chance. I'm away from home right now, so I'll post again later.

Awesome sounds.
Though after I begun to use these has ns twice suddenly freezed and crashed up my whole computer. I'm not sure if it's because of the soundpack, just thought I'd let you know just in case.

<--- had same problem as JJava...
but the soundpack itself is really good... especially the bite sounds

*raises hand*

I too am getting comp crashes after installing this Marr. The server I was on was NSArmslabs, and someone mentioned Steam spitting out of alot of people after map ends, so I dunno if it was Steam, that particular server, or your sounds...

But besides that, it sounds really really good overall. I combed and picked out a majority of it, good stuff there.

Humm, i think I've solved the problem. I figured out there was welding going on near me whenever ns crashed, so i switched back to the default welderidle.wav and haven't been crashing since that.

Wow, gj at finding that out! Yeah, welderidle.wav was one of the last ones I changed, and so was the least tested. Apologies for the crashes!

I'll update my .zip after the weekend. In the meantime, everyone plz delete welderidle.wav in the \ns\sounds\weapons directory.

yep, its the welderidle soundfile

n1 soundpack

Finally got back to my terminal after the weekend and started hacking right away.

Updated top post with changelog & new info.

omg, marr this sound pack has single handedly restored NS to my HD. Simply amazing work.

i loved the pack as well, though i went in and added a bit more "fade·out" to the end of some of the alien samples, as they seemed to end rather abruptly...in particular, the taunt.

wow. stunning soundpak

sadly i dont like it one bit, probably just not my style.

To weak alien noises.

The soundpack is very nice tho, I liked all them Alien movehs

But for this game i rather keep the default ones

has this been updated? i want to keep playing, but i keep crashing because of the damn welder! >_<

delete the welderidle.wav file and you'll be fine...

would it be possible to put the faded out sounds up for grabs? i havent heard them yet but id rather be safe then sorry...

dling now... nice hosting 500kb/s

edit: amazing work marr, added so much to the atmosphere of NS. now the aliens scare me :< adds a bit of colour to the game i guess. this stuff makes me want to use the A|IENS pack so bad...

First off, sorry for the crashes!

I've finally found the cause and fixed it. The default welderidle and welderhit sounds have 2 cue points, so I put in 2 for my own sounds as well. But for some reason, Half-Life only needs 1 cue point to make sounds loop. No idea why that caused a crash in my sound but not the defaults. Real funky stuff going on there.

I played around with the welder for a while yesterday in-game and could not get it to crash.

Also, the latest version has lots of noticeable improvements. I've updated the top post with the latest download link, so if you've got any version older than today (9/25), go grab it there, or if you're a lazy bastard, then just click here.

I went through and improved the fading-out for the aliens taunt sounds. They never bothered me in-game, but that might just be due to my sound card. If there's anything else that bugs you, let me know!

omg marr > my face

Just uploaded 1.3 now (9/28). Check the top post for details. You can download from up there or HERE.

Recently I've been trying to get all the door and elevator sounds to loop properly and not cut out halfway during the ride up (or down). There's some trickiness with cue points in the Half-Life engine I'm trying to figure out. This'll require further study...

In other news, I'm now hosting Necrosis's premier pack of Aliens models. If you're an ALIENS fan, you need them! The link is HERE.

NS is once again marred.

Nice pack, but I didn't think it would change the menu music and titles.txt, damn, i didn't backup those

i use this and it rules !!!!

*aproved by Metalcat* (he rox)

10/22 update. see top post.

getting close to final release version.

lemme know if there are any other features you want.

easily one of my favorite WIPs. ill drop some feedback as soon as i can, but im sure it is exceptional, as usual.

Hmm Necrosis' alien pack is locked in the .rar, what's the pass? :/

Heh, just in case anyone else comes to the thread with the same question, the pass should be in the Readme file within my RAR file.

Anyone SHOULD be able to access that without needing a password (otherwise it makes the RAR pretty pointless, hehe). Please note the important text near the password.

try reading the "readme" file. posting your question in the right thread might help, too...

on·topic: the only thing i might like to see implemented would be a static break added on to the beginning and end of the voice samples that don't have them, just for the sake of consistency. however, i know how tedious doing that would be, and i definitely consider it a minor detail.

Good point, l0tus.

Actually, that difference reflects my inner conflict over what to do with the voices. But I'll probably make the natural-sounding line more radio-like by mixing in ALIENS radio static and adding clicks to the beginning and end of the clips.

I've been playtesting my new swipe and gore sounds just now and I don't like 'em one bit. For now, I recommend using the alts.

Yeah i'm using this now, and it's all frieking awesome Marr
My only crits would be similar to what l0tus mentioned, a bit of consistency in the rine voices. Also i think some of the rine voices come out really fast (and as such are barely audible in terms of understanding what they were saying). I'm not really sure what can be done about it. The other thing that bothers me just a little is the mg sound, it sounds a little...what's the word...shallow. It needs a bit more grunt behind it (same with the hmg sound i think - i haven't had a chance to use it yet though). I'll try the alts out see if i like them any better (may just be a personal thing).

Oh btw this is one of the few threads i get butterflies when i see a new post by marr

this pack is the ultimate badass, state of the badass art

No chance of using cooledit to remove the various channels?

Marr, you rock my world.

you owned me with this sound pack.

Its just that CoolEdit has an option for isolating that type of noise, I used it to clean up some Megatron quotes from Transformers (for a long abandoned UT Megatron soundpack).

Damn good soundpack, good work!

Too bad consistency blocks sounds

Hey Marr, excellant soundpack. I'm a DoD sound guy, and the only thing that seems really hard to get sounding right are the pulse rifle and smartgun sounds. I think its because the half life engine does'nt have a loop fire and only has single shots wavs. I think maybe the fire sounds need to be replaced by shorter wavs. If your taking stuff from the movies, theres a part where hicks looks in the ceiling to find many aliens, and as he falls from the ceiling, he fires a few bursts. His very first burst is really short. Sounds like 1-2 bullets. I think that one might work perfectly. Just a small suggestion. If i had a program to rip from DvDs, i'd give it a go.....but excellant pack, nonetheless.

Nice very nice! but some questions...why is "Thats it man Game over man" a taunt??? Some of the sounds should be replaced, but other then that GREAT WORK!!

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. This sound pack has gotten so big that I can't keep track of everything by myself anymore...

Ahh, now I see what you mean. Any suggestions?

maybe when hicks echoes ripley's "i say we take off, and nuke the entire site from orbit..." in the apc?