Are you tired of your game sounding like a caveman congress meeting 70% of the time? Have you thought about turning voices off but then you feel bad when you miss out on the animated sequences? Boy do I have something for you.

Introducing Reduced Grunting, because sometimes silence really is golden.

Out of the 23 632 files containing voice clips (!!!) I picked the top 5000 smallest files and removed them, assuming most of them were grunts. This results in some actual voicelines being missing.

I've been playing with it for 7~8 hours and it felt like maybe 5~10 lines got axed, which felt reasonable enough to upload the mod as-is.

I am currently working on updating the mod, I'm passing every file through a voice recognition script to automatically save the actual voice lines, but this is a slow process and I thought I'd make the guide now and update it later.


I might try to make an update and patch the Japanese voices as well if there is a lot of interest.


After playing with it for a few hours I didn't encounter any issues, but assume there is a small chance your game might crash at some point. So make sure to back things up and install this patch at your own risks. If anything happens, I am fairly confident checking your game files integrity should fix the issue.

Download the patch by clicking on this link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ImMmZBDzenzJxT_8VdChOifu94CLu6O8/view?usp=sharing

You will need the delta patcher software to patch your game, which you can download here: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/704/
Extract the zip file and keep DeltaPatcher.exe somewhere accessible.

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To see where your game is located, you can right click on it in the Steam Library > Manage > Browse local files.


The English dub is contained in the file app_1_sound.dx11.cpk. You will find it inside the gamedata folder.


MAKE A BACKUP OF THIS FILE BEFORE APPLYING THE PATCH.

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Open DeltaPatcher.exe. You will be asked to provide the path to the original file (your app_1_sound.dx11.cpk, found in Step 2), and the XDelta patch (Reduced Grunting.xdelta)



After inputing the path, apply the patch.

Done! Enjoy the game with reduced grunting.

A huge thanks to the makers of those tools without whom this mod would not be a reality.

Delta Patcher
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/704/

CPK browser
https://videogamemods.com/xenoverse/mods/cpk-browser-view-and-extract-files/

SonicAudioTools
https://github.com/blueskythlikesclouds/SonicAudioTools

VGAudio
https://github.com/Sajidur78/VGAudio.Wpf