No Alphabets 7.1 — Baldur's Gate 3

[The_Mask]

Let us know if there's a way to buy you a coffee/beer.

I subscribe to this.

[GhostCow]

Created an account just to follow your work and thank you. Will be buying the game once you've made some more progress. Let us know if there's a way to buy you a coffee/beer.

Don't pay for poz. Pirate it

[orinEsque]

Created an account just to follow your work and thank you. Will be buying the game once you've made some more progress.

Aw, that made me smile. That someone is encouraged to play the game because of my mod... I'm honoured. And envious, I wish I could wipe my memory and get the experience you'll be getting!
To be honest though, you can probably play Act 1. It is practically clean. And it felt longest to me.

Let us know if there's a way to buy you a coffee/beer.

I subscribe to this.

I'll put up crypto donation links. But please don't feel obligated to donate! I do this for myself, that others like it, is just added bonus.

Don't pay for poz. Pirate it

Nah I'm the one modding it, and I can assure you, I can count number of them on my fingers. I feel Larian put a lot of effort into the game and half heartedly added the controversial bits to honour their agreement with WOTSC. Buy it, its a good AND entertaining game. In this woke world, they are one of the only game companies whose primary aim is entertaining us instead of preaching. I want more games from Larian!

Nocturne
There is one line from Shadowheart that needed changing. Listen to this:
WavFile
Will include in next update.

Dame Aylin

• There's about 145 lines most of them voiced that use the words "Dame Aylin" and other NPCs also refer to her as "her".
• I can change her looks and voice, but not gonna be able to replace voiced references. Note: Voiced references can only be changed by either.. muting their voice altogether, recording myself and using voice AI to switch to e.g. Shadowheart'ss voice as above.
• Problem is, some of these lines are not origin characters and the lesser liked NPCs do not have a voice model like Origin Characters do. So it would be impossible to dub.

Would you rather a straight man, who likes to be called a she or an insufferable lesbian?

[Rand]

Nocturne
There is one line from Shadowheart that needed changing.

She says "he" and "his" or am I missing something?

Oh. That's the fixed one. Got it. Never would have guessed it wasn't original.

[Rand]

Would you rather a straight man, who likes to be called a she or an insufferable lesbian?

Tough choice. I hate the modern pozzing more, I think.
I would expect Shar's acolytes to often be insufferable and/or lesbians, tbh.

[orinEsque]

Nocturne
There is one line from Shadowheart that needed changing.

She says "he" and "his" or am I missing something?

Oh. That's the fixed one. Got it. Never would have guessed it wasn't original.

Yep. AI magic!

Would you rather a straight man, who likes to be called a she or an insufferable lesbian?

Tough choice. I hate the modern pozzing more, I think.
I would expect Shar's acolytes to often be insufferable and/or lesbians, tbh.

I guess third choice is replacing those lines with silence and fixed subtitles.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

I think everyone knows the mod won't change the canon in the slightest
Editing 145 voicelines is just tedious work for one person, and not every single one can be changed

And even with the mod, in the back of their mind people will know her obnoxious "I'm a **** hear me roar!" attitude is the reason why the mod is installed in the first place

It's just gonna be better to see Dame Aylin's attitude expressed by Ser Aylin

As long as Ser Aylin will be as beefy as Halsin - I don't mind ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[orinEsque]

Yes the third choice is the easiest. Replace whole lines with silence. If you want to replace part of the line with silence, then I would require some volunteers to help me. 228 lines when I include "daughter of selune"

EDIT: new idea, maybe keep her as is, and make her a less obnoxious lesbian, removing kissing scenes and change other bits. She's got enough lines to train a model and make her say whatever the **** we want her to say.

[rusty_shackleford]

Nocturne
There is one line from Shadowheart that needed changing. Listen to this:
WavFile
Will include in next update.

Is this not the original file?

[rusty_shackleford]

To be honest though, you can probably play Act 1. It is practically clean of cancer. And it felt longest to me.

The early access itself was basically entirely free of it. The longer you play, the worse it gets. Really no idea what happened.

[gerey]

Really no idea what happened.

They already got your money, so they felt it was safe to pozz it up, as they had always intended (Larian strikes me as a particularly woke company). Either that, or they ran out of money and whored themselves out to BlackRock for the ESG shekels.

[orinEsque]

Nocturne
There is one line from Shadowheart that needed changing. Listen to this:
WavFile
Will include in next update.

Is this not the original file?

No ofcourse not. Original says she and hers. Can you imagine the reddit/twitter shitfit of they misgendered "her", hahaha!

They already got your money, so they felt it was safe to pozz it up, as they had always intended (Larian strikes me as a particularly woke company). Either that, or they ran out of money and whored themselves out to BlackRock for the ESG shekels.

I think the latter. Which is why the CEO wants to make smaller games now. And wizard of the sword coast also put SJW stipulations for using their IP.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Less obnoxious and pseudo-alpha Aylin sounds great~

I still vote to leave their reunion as it is. It's touching IMO, and understandable - as explained earlier

The rest? Free game
But it's just my suggestion

► Show Spoiler

Ser Aylin be like:

[orinEsque]

Even the voice AI knows Nocturne is male. Turning his lines to male was so easy compared to the other lesser NPCs.

[Oyster Sauce]

This is making me real glad I slaughtered that place without talking to anyone.

[orinEsque]

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Truth be told for pathfinder I recorded all 80 something lines for the player character with my own voice. (Yes I like the sound of my own voice). So I'm just gonna train all the NPC models that call Aylin she, her and Dame and replace them with AI voices. It will take some time. But it sounds kinda fun because this RVC voice AI seems really cool to work with. First thoughI will tackle all the smaller, less important NPCs. I'm gonna try training my first AI model using Nafula. Replacing her saying "I wanna be happy and I'm already am with Sasha" to "-with Xander"

[The_Mask]

Yes I like the sound of my own voice

We picked that up when you said you're a woman.

► Show Spoiler

That was a joke.

[orinEsque]

That was a joke.

Imagine having to explain that. **** world we live in.

Also. New patch means "NoAlphabetLingo" could make your game crash. I say could because this happens if they actually added something. If they just fixed typos there won't be an issue.

If game does crash, disable the Lingo mod. I'll update soon. The reason is, Larian updates the english.loca file by directly sticking an obnoxious English.pak in the appdata Mods folder. And there's no clean way to update localization. You gotta include everything or break your game.

[Rand]

That was a joke.

Imagine having to explain that. **** world we live in.

Also. New patch means "NoAlphabetLingo" could make your game crash. I say could because this happens if they actually added something. If they just fixed typos there won't be an issue.

If game does crash, disable the Lingo mod. I'll update soon. The reason is, Larian updates the english.loca file by directly sticking an obnoxious English.pak in the appdata Mods folder. And there's no clean way to update localization. You gotta include everything or break your game.

Why can devs not follow a basic mod-friendly procedure?

[orinEsque]

That was a joke.

Imagine having to explain that. **** world we live in.

Also. New patch means "NoAlphabetLingo" could make your game crash. I say could because this happens if they actually added something. If they just fixed typos there won't be an issue.

If game does crash, disable the Lingo mod. I'll update soon. The reason is, Larian updates the english.loca file by directly sticking an obnoxious English.pak in the appdata Mods folder. And there's no clean way to update localization. You gotta include everything or break your game.

Why can devs not follow a basic mod-friendly procedure?

Turns out I'm the dumbass! the naming convention is meant to be
/Localization/English/modname.loca
Well at least keeping this mod updated won't be an issue. I'll also merge everything into one mod now that lingo isn't a gigantic file!
Nope only works for adding new items. Won't work for existing assets. Replace entire english.loca it is

Lot of info here: https://github.com/BG3-Community-Librar ... ty-Library

[orinEsque]

Version 1.3
Fixes for patch 4.0 compatibility
Nefula(L) in Blushing Mermaid voices her love for "Xander".
Shadowheart now speaks of Nocturne as a he after if she takes over as Matron Mother.
Kali and Hunkers Boolean's voices are correctly gender swapped now.

Another to do:
* Have Nefula's father call "Xander" the peddler's son instead of daughter

Got some help and learned how to train my own voice models. Good stuff.

[gunbino]

I don’t know what field you’re in but at this rate you’ll have picked up enough knowledge to land yourself a nice job in the machine learning industry

[orinEsque]

Version 1.3
Fixes for patch 4.0 compatibility
Nefula(L) in Blushing Mermaid voices her love for "Xander".
Shadowheart now speaks of Nocturne as a he after if she takes over as Matron Mother.
Kali and Hunkers Boolean's voices are correctly gender swapped now.

Another to do:
* Have Nefula's father call "Xander" the peddler's son instead of daughter

Learned how to train my own voice models. Good stuff.

I don’t know what field you’re in but at this rate you’ll have picked up enough knowledge to land yourself a nice job in the machine learning industry

I appreciate the vote of confidence!

[orinEsque]

Trained the male guardian's voice. Then we fed it some Dame Aylin lines:
Audio File 1
Audio File 2
Audio File 3
Audio File 4

The result... is amazing.

[rusty_shackleford]

Really no idea what happened.

They already got your money, so they felt it was safe to pozz it up, as they had always intended (Larian strikes me as a particularly woke company). Either that, or they ran out of money and whored themselves out to BlackRock for the ESG shekels.

Swen was open about being anti-PC(and anti-journalist) on his old blog tho
e.g.,
https://web.archive.org/web/20220524032 ... ensorship/

Something definitely changed later into development that caused a massive shift in tone.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Really no idea what happened.

They already got your money, so they felt it was safe to pozz it up, as they had always intended (Larian strikes me as a particularly woke company). Either that, or they ran out of money and whored themselves out to BlackRock for the ESG shekels.

Swen was open about being anti-PC(and anti-journalist) on his old blog tho
e.g.,
https://web.archive.org/web/20220524032 ... ensorship/

Something definitely changed later into development that caused a massive shift in tone.

I suspect it's the WoTC.
I've heard whispers Larian was working closer to them than e.g. devs of Solasta - that's why they didn't have to limit themselves to standard free license thingy
Circle of Spores, for example, is not the part of the standard free license; among other things

If my timeline is right, Baldur's Gate 3 was being developed way before all the shennenigans the WoTC/Hasbro were doing (half orc and orcs being racist etc)

Time went on, only Act 1 was playable during a very long time of Early Access since it was ready, and it was before WoTC went off the rails with wokeizm

Since Larian was working on their IP, I can imagine the legal strings being pulled to add more inclusivity than it was initially intended

[Rand]

They already got your money, so they felt it was safe to pozz it up, as they had always intended (Larian strikes me as a particularly woke company). Either that, or they ran out of money and whored themselves out to BlackRock for the ESG shekels.

Swen was open about being anti-PC(and anti-journalist) on his old blog tho
e.g.,
https://web.archive.org/web/20220524032 ... ensorship/

Something definitely changed later into development that caused a massive shift in tone.

I suspect it's the WoTC.
I've heard whispers Larian was working closer to them than e.g. devs of Solasta - that's why they didn't have to limit themselves to standard free license thingy
Circle of Spores, for example, is not the part of the standard free license; among other things

If my timeline is right, Baldur's Gate 3 was being developed way before all the shennenigans the WoTC/Hasbro were doing (half orc and orcs being racist etc)

Time went on, only Act 1 was playable during a very long time of Early Access since it was ready, and it was before WoTC went off the rails with wokeizm

Since Larian was working on their IP, I can imagine the legal strings being pulled to add more inclusivity than it was initially intended

[gunbino]

This is mind blowing. To my untrained ears it sounds no different from a real human voice actor.

[CheesusCrust]

never been so disappointed in myself after giving shadowheart the noblestalk. shar was right to take away her memories about rennald. if i discovered my best friend turned into a third wave libtard fetishist i'd go full murderhobo fr. fortunately for sharrans, the mod just prevented this scenario.

[SoLong]

EDIT: new idea, I can just keep her as is, and make her a less obnoxious lesbian, removing kissing scenes and change other bits. She's got enough lines to train a model and make her say whatever the **** I want her to say.

Late to the party but I'd be on the side of this.

Selune and Shar are the original deities and both women. So I guess her having a daughter rather than a son makes sense (since she was around since before men were a "thing").

Really, I could put up with her and Isobel being lesbians. Even her "Hear me ROAR!" attitude with Lorroakan is fine because he's such an enraging *******. The rest thought? Her sex life oversharing and power **** attitude? If you could tone that down then I'd consider her fixed. You don't even need to turn her into a simpering lipstick lesbian. If she stopped being such a stereotypical Strong Independent Woman that'd be enough for me. YMMV with everyone else on here.

Also, another thing: I wanted to thank you for making this mod. You (and SniperChris, and everyone else) have done a great job and I really appreciate all that effort you guys go through to iron out the wrinkles in what is otherwise a pretty great game.

(As for other characters: Raphael is a devil so he's fine, Alfira is a bard and, well, bards are known to screw almost everything so she's fine in my book as well. It helps that unlike **** Aylin she's not obnoxious about it.)