WINGMAN KILLER
by Peter "PapaRomeo" Rafle
October 24, 2000

This pack enables you to eliminate the annoying "Good Kill!" and "Four O'clock Low!" radio transmissions from your AI wingmen from European Air War.

It consists of Cord Hartmann's outstanding listings of filenames for all the sounds in EAW, a blank sound file ("blank.snd") and a four batch files ("GoodKill.bat", "WingKillerUS.bat", "WingKilelrUK.bat", and "WingKillerGE.bat") that create the files necessary to eliminate the "Good Kill" messages in all languages and the "You've got one opn your tail!" and "Four O'Clock Low" warnings from your wingmen in each of the three languages.

NOTES:
-- This does not eliminate the subtitle messages that go with those transmissions.  I recommend selecting "Subtitles Off" in your "Configure Game" options.

-- If you discover that this package has eliminated a particular radio call you prefer to keep, consult the enclosed listings of speech and sound files, and delete the corresponding blank file from the EAW directory.  

-- Similarly, if you would like to eliminate some other call or sound not included in this package, simply make a copy of "blank.snd" in your EAW directory, then rename it to the name of the corresponding sound file.

INSTALLATION:

GOODKILL.BAT:
-- Unzip this package into an empty folder (I use the "Unzip to folder..."  function of Winzip.)
-- Copy "GoodKill.bat" and "blank.snd" into your EAW folder.
-- Doubleclick on "GoodKill.bat".
-- This will create 27 new sound files, each a copy of the blank file in your main EAW directory.

WINGKILLER:
-- Unzip this package into an empty folder (I use the "Unzip to folder..."  function of Winzip.)
-- Copy the three "WingKiller**.bat" files and "blank.snd" into your EAW folder.
-- Doubleclick on "WingKillerUS.bat" (for US radio calls), "WingKillerUK.bat" for British calls or "WingKillerGE.bat" for German calls.  (I recommend doing these one at a time, just to avoid confusion)
-- Each of these batch files will create 162 new sound files, each a copy of the blank file in your main EAW directory.

NOTES:  
++If you have already installed another speech pack, such as -E's scratchy radio transmissions, this will overwrite some of those files.
++ If you use STAB to switch speech packs in and out of your EAW directory, and do not wish to have those packs restore the "Good Kill" transmissions, select the new files created by this pack, rght click on the selection, select "Properties", then check the "Read Only" attribute.


UNINSTALLATION:
-- Copy the following files to your EAW folder:
  
  DELgoodkill.bat
  DELWingKillerUS.bat
  DELWingKillerUK.bat
  DELWingKillerGE.bat

--Double-click on the .bat file corresponding to the files you wish to delete.

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Peter "PapaRomeo" Rafle
prafle@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/prafle/PapaRomeo.html
