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Ultimate Ambient Sounds
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Ultimate Ambient Sounds

Description
Inspired and built upon Grimples' Ambient Sound mod and llunak's Ambience Forest mod, adding background sounds for all tilesets (including alienbase, finalmission and xenonautbase). Removed out of place/bad quality sounds, changed the soundscape to be more unique for each tileset and added even more new ambient sounds. Examples include:

- cold winds on arctic and tundra maps
- farm animals on farm maps
- crickets, owls, wolves and coyote sounds at night
- eerie noises on alienbase maps
- alarm sound and computer noises on xenonautbase maps
- crowd panic, battle noises, air raid sirens and more on terror missions (town and soviettown)

NOTE: Disable Grimples' Ambient Sound mod and llunak's Ambience Forest mod before using this mod!

DISCLAIMER: It has been discovered that the ambient sound system of X:CE bugs the save system for some people and can cause crashing when loading or finishing a Ground Combat mission. There is a work around which is to:

***ALWAYS LOAD A SAVE THAT IS ON THE GEOSCAPE FROM THE MAIN MENU AND THEN NEVER TOUCH THE LOAD SYSTEM FOR THE REST OF THE SESSION***

If you don't experience any crashing you can use the save system like normal, but if you do please be aware of this issue when using this mod.

A LITE version has now also been made available for people who experienced crashing.

- Requires X:CE 0.34.2 -
15 Comments
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Gen. Von Sassel 15 Feb, 2023 @ 5:54am 
freezes... guessing the very high sample rate and number of sounds overwhelms the game engine
VaeliusNoctu 16 Oct, 2019 @ 7:09pm 
Very good Mod that adds a lot Ambience to the Game.
Problem is the Game freezes a lot with that mod.

1.) Sometimes when you go back to Geoscape after a Mission
2.) After im done my Turn it freezes during the Alien Turn, sometimes
3.) Whyle Loading the Mission Map, sometimes

This happen often enough that it is annoing but i like the Ambience Sounds a lot.

Next Problem is, after the Game freezes i must Press Control and Alt to restart my PC, control+alt+delete let the Task Manager appear but i cant switch to the Task Manager to end the task from Xenonauts. Restart my PC every time the Mod freezes my game is the most annoing thing.
Desert Rose 10 Jun, 2018 @ 8:00pm 
Not sure what causes my game to hardlock with this mod activated. It's a shame too since I quite like the sounds added.
BigRowdy 17 Jul, 2017 @ 5:08pm 
Luv it
zawmbie  [author] 15 Mar, 2017 @ 3:03pm 
There is now a LITE version available that has vastly reduced crashing for people which experienced it.
zawmbie  [author] 29 Oct, 2016 @ 9:05am 
Apparently the freezing might actually be related to quicksaves/autosaves. Try only using manual saves.
zawmbie  [author] 28 Oct, 2016 @ 3:22pm 
There are no conflicting sounds. It seems to be a vanilla Xenonauts bug then that doesn't really have to do with system specs and occurs when loading an in-progress GC mission. The engine used for Xenonauts isn't the best really and is probably the cause (you can read about it in the development diary included in extras).
As I said before try to complete the GC missions in one go or do the other more annoying method of reloading till you're lucky and doesn't freeze anymore.
A-tf 28 Oct, 2016 @ 3:04pm 
Yes, freeze occures in GC mission after load. But I doubdt than issue is performanced (Core i5 2.4 GHz + 8 Gb memory). Key indicatuion - freeze appears in screen with GC results, just AFTER push "OK" button. May be it is a result of conflict any sounds?
zawmbie  [author] 28 Oct, 2016 @ 9:38am 
The mod itself is using the ambient sound system which X:CE introduced and it is simply utilizing the music system of Xenonauts, but with a random timer attached and custom sounds. If your system is weaker than mine (and mine is a really outdated system) it might be the extra strain of the additional sounds on a timer that causes the freezing. In that case I can't really do anything about it. I can recommend trying the compatability version of Xenonauts since it helps improve performance in ground combat for some people.
zawmbie  [author] 28 Oct, 2016 @ 9:37am 
Did you happen to load a save already in ground combat when the freeze occured? If so, I suspect there's a vanilla Xenonauts bug which occurs with lower spec systems when loading an already in-progress ground combat save, that causes freezing either during loading or afterwards when you complete it. The fix in my case is simply to finish ground combat missions in one go. Restarting and reloading the save repeatedly until it doesn't freeze anymore also works but is more annoying to do. -cont