What if the Nacht Der Untoten Marines could talk?

After sifting through over a thousand Campaign WAV files, I've come up with four new Marine characters on Nacht Der Untoten for my World at War zombies mod.
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Compared to other maps, I tried to keep these Marines gritty and serious to fit the atmosphere. They aren't cracking jokes with each other all the time. Instead, they're going to yell a lot more, they're going to breathe heavy in scary situations, cough from explosions, give orders, interact with their teammates, etc.
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For those curious, the workflow went like this:
- First, I extracted all the Marine voiceover I could from WaW, there were about 6 different sets of full background voiceover. I didn't want any of the scripted dialogue, as hardly any of it could fit into zombies and it would remind players too much of campaign.
- Then, I chose which 4 voices (or, "characters") I would use (I used a mix of different voices: old, young, rough to give the cast some diversity)
- I manually went through 100s of individual audio files to choose if I could find a way to work them into zombies, or if they wouldn't fit at all. A lot of them were easily to delete (such as them yelling "Japanese infantry!") to narrow down the list, but I ended up getting very creative with some decisions. For example, characters yelling "MG!" or "Sniper!" could be repurposed to sound like they're happy about getting the weapon from the Box instead of the original context referring to shouting out Japanese MGs or Snipers. There's lots of little tricks I used like this.
- After choosing the desired audio files, I converted these into standard 24bit PCM WAVs for editing. Here, I could then salvage a few extra lines by trimming out key words that didn't fit (for example, any mentions of Japanese infantry had to go, as long as the rest of the line could be applied to zombies)
- I remastered the audio to make it louder because the sources files were originally created for non-playable characters in the background.
- I then wrote out a full CSV soundalias file, which was about 500 lines. This is what the game uses to organize sounds. Also, each audio file got a unique name to fit with its category whether it be for powerups, weapons, downing, etc.
- I finally converted the new audio back into the WaW format using mod tools. I used some compression because having hundreds of lossless audio lines takes up too much space and can be intensive on such an old game.
- To actually play the voiceover in-game, I had to script in new code that would play specific audio in specific situations. Most of the code I could base off of future maps like Der Riese, but I did make some unique functions for Nacht-specific style voiceover that I came up with, such as the reviving interactions.

[@hindercanrun379]

We need to turn the power on

[@ittoasthere]

Shit no power-!

[@evanquinn6092]

It’s the little things man. You add so much polish to these classic maps

[@Amarok-7]

Facts, too bad they don't say each other names, but it will allow to have a better bond between the player and them.

[@JBShady]

@@Amarok-7 Theres actually a rare easter egg where sometimes they will yell a name, theres 2 , they can yell Sarge if player 4 dies or player 1's name

[@Amarok-7]

@@JBShady ahhh nice

[@Kryzzzzikaa]

Bo3: “drop the chips and get me some ammo!” Nacht: “AHHH! Help me!”

[@zombies4evadude24]

It’s amazing how much personality the marines have just by having voice lines like these, and somehow they feel more lively than the operators in Cold War. Especially the supportive character conversations. I love that.

[@ConmiesterYT]

Possibly one of the things I adore about this mod. The god damn marine voice lines.

[@mrjayden585]

I love what you did with the voices. Excited to see what you work on next!

[@JBShady]

💯Thx mate. Verruckt next and then i can rest easy

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

This is such a great mod, so subtle but so effective

[@SiegwardofCatarina_]

“EEEEEEEEEGGHHHH, HELP ME, EGGGGGHHHH.”

[@HalFromTartary]

Oh that would’ve taken forever! outstanding work!

[@barmybean7906]

Need more beans for the chowder here

[@Lakeland_IV]

this goes so hard

[@sackcrusher6974]

Beautiful… just beautiful

[@doomjoltfromflordia4069]

When he was downed I felt that

[@HBRO_04]

That’s awesome finally

[@kirillslavitonov9486]

Hey, hope you see this, loving the new updates and releases, do you think you could add a percentage chance on Der Riese to spawn a zombie thats wearing a visor cap? Feel like that would fit the map so well

[@JBShady]

I added helms and caps to der riese but they’re a little less common than on nacht

[@kirillslavitonov9486]

@@JBShady As a location of high prestige and secrecy, youd most likely see men with the visor caps mostly, occasional helmets due to the nature of the research. Im a bit of a historian and if you need advice on making it more accurate, thats one way to do it

[@kirillslavitonov9486]

@@JBShady Im talking like the Richtofen cap

[@JBShady]

@@kirillslavitonov9486 Oh i see what u mean. Yeah that might be possible ill have to check what assets i could use that will fit with their uniforms id want the colors to fit well

[@alekseidedikalo6623]

Are you going to add Hellhounds in Verruckt

[@JBShady]

I do like adding in cut content but they cut dogs from verruckt for a good reason i don’t think they fit well

[@alekseidedikalo6623]

Ok are you gonna add Mounted Weapons in Verruckt

[@matthewmcdaniel1915]

Hell Hounds would make Verrückt even scarier

[@jbroz_tv0138]

​@@JBShady Yeah no kidding. It doesn't make since for them to appear in the map chronologically.

[@scpnoobers]

They can talk in verruckt

[@Conrad2002]

Does anyone know how to manually add a profile to the files for World at War? I remember someone doing it for me once, but I forgot who, and it seemed to fix the error that I got. Every time I launch the game and click an online profile, I get an error saying "unhandled exception caught". I've tried to do research on this error, but nothing seems to work.

[@JBShady]

Have you ever had a working waw profile? Or are you talking about the recent bug where new steam accounts can’t get account keys and it won’t ever let you make a profile

[@Conrad2002]

​@@JBShady Yea, I should have a working profile; I used it since day one of getting the game. It just crashes when I click the "Online Profile" button in the game menu. My Steam account isn't new as well; I had years before buying the game. I'm just disappointed that I can't figure what's causing the problem. :(

[@JBShady]

@@Conrad2002 Ok so that’s good that means you can get it to work. You can google it but find your profile directory it’s in AppData same pathway as where your custom maps are, like in the Activison folder etc. Once you find your players folder you can delete profiles or make a new folder and set the active.txt profile as the same name as the new empty folder

[@Conrad2002]

@@JBShady I found my profile, but when I click it, it's empty. Do I have to do anything with it? I'm confused with the "set as active.txt profile as the same name as the new empty folder". By the way, thank you so much for the help so far.

[@JBShady]

@@Conrad2002 Are u sure the folders of all your profiles should have a default txt file in the root. If u need more help just join my discord

[@walkrslayer1305]

I hope you can respond to this quickly because I’m computer illiterate and don’t know how to fix this, but on the Der reise and nacht remasters both say that I exceeded the sound limit on normal world at war. But when I playing on plutonium none of the text appears correctly it’ll say stuff like Nazi_zombie_perk or Remasterd_weapon_tokarev And I don’t know how to fix it

[@JBShady]

Check out my most recent video it's an installation tutorial. On steam, you did everything right but you forgot to install the T4M d3d9.dll. Which btw, if you ever play pluto their devs made it so this file is auto deleted when you run Plutonium.exe which is pretty annoying, so its best to pick either steam or plutonium

[@walkrslayer1305]

@@JBShady cool thanks

[@JamesStoll]

HELL YEA

[@pavlodedikalo2007]

Hey JB you didn't add the Amm O Matic back to Shi No Numa or Der Riese

[@JBShady]

Theres no model for it only a texture but also i didnt want to add it because PaP takes its place imo

[@AdrX003]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

[@pavlodedikalo2007]

Are you gonna add mount weapon feature in Verrückt

[@JBShady]

Yeah

[@pavlodedikalo2007]

When are you gonna finish the Verrückt mod

[@JBShady]

Soon polonsky, soon

[@aberhamlaguna415]

Hey can you help me I tried downloading your mods but I cant seem to find the Activision file anywhere or the mod folder to drag and drop, I've already did ThisPC/86x/Steamapps/Common/callofdutyWAW. And nothing came out do I have to create a folder and name it mods or where do I find it? Is it possible you can do a guide video to help me out i litteraly spend 40 min last night trying to find it, The funny part is i have 32 custom zombie maps but i cant find the Activision folder or mod folder "HELP!"

[@JBShady]

You have to go into AppData to find the Activision folder, it's the same location as custom maps just look up a tutorial on how to install custom zombie maps waw

[@aberhamlaguna415]

@@JBShady thank you I found a video and I'm enjoying the mod especially shinonuma I'm tired of playing as Dempsey all the time also love how you added special charect hurt dialog, Takeo has the funniest when he gets hit it sounds like he is getting penetrated LOL.

[@rumanian]

I heard some of these on a modded Nacht server, was pretty cool.

[@JBShady]

Yes there should be a plutonium server for all 4 of my mods