Please Shut Up (Companion Mute Mod)

Description

Tired of your companions telling you what you already know? Tired that the game treats you like a child if you don't instantly solve all puzzles? This mod removes more than 1500+ pointless/annoying voice clips from the game.

Background

As part of Sony/SMS's efforts to make the game available to as wide an audience as possible, they decided to record thousands of voice clips in which NPC companions effectively talk about the game, so that (in theory) the player would always know what to do and less often get stuck. This can range from helpful clues like Mimir warning you of enemies attacking from behind the camera to the most useless observations on the planet, like Mimir telling you you are burning/frozen, or companions constantly reminding you to strike with a shield. Worse still, companions often give out puzzle answers before you have even solved them, and patronically congratulate you on completing them.

In a recent patch, SMS added an option that supposedly reduces the likelihood of such dialogs, but, according to my observations, this has not changed much. Unfortunately, a lot of these hand-held conversations are incredibly annoying, so I created this mod to completely remove most of these conversations and give players the opportunity to think for themselves. Please note that this mod is under development and it takes a long time to identify these voice replicas, so future patches will filter out more dialogs. So far, I have removed 1500+ voice clips from the game, but more is yet to come. In the current version, I've mainly focused on combat dialog because it's very visible in the game and it's easy to identify. Unfortunately, puzzle-related dialogs are often intertwined with story/scripted dialogs, so their identification is much more difficult, and in future versions, if this mod proves popular enough, I will pay more attention to them.

Dialogs deleted:

These are not all dialogs, but here are some of my favorite (or perhaps least favorite) examples of dialogs that I have deleted

• Companions tell you to strike with a shield (a large blue ring says it well enough).
• Companions remind you to block if you are hit.
• Mimir reacts when you are hit by fire, frost or beefrost (thank God I will never hear the words "You burn, Kratos, this will pass").
• Atreus gives the solution to the puzzles of the geyser Svartalfheim during the boat sections.
• Atreus/Mimir issue a solution to the Nornir and Svartalfheim puzzles at the entrance to the mine.
• Tyr/Atreus solve the twilight stone puzzles at the temple of Alfheim.
• Freya bullies you during a fight with boss Nidhogg.
• Freya/Atreus/Mimir provide a solution to the water puzzles of Svartalfheim's side quest.
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Installation:

To install, simply download the files and put them in the God Of War Ragnarok directory.