[Vincenator]

I'm trying to silence the announcer's countdown in arena mode, the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Control Point enabled!"

Is there a way to preemptively silence the announcer?

So far, I've been able to quickly - but not instantly - stop the 5-4-3-2-1 announcements like this:
On arena round start, CreateTimer(55.0,StopCountdownSound,5), which calls StopSound(allclients, SNDCHAN_VOICE, "vo/announcer_begins_5sec.wav").

This always stops the sounds, but sometimes they start playing for a noticeable amount of time (maybe .1 of a second).

I haven't been able stop the "Control Point enabled" announcement at all though. StopSound(allclients, SNDCHAN_VOICE, "vo/announcer_am_capenabled01.wav") with 01 through 04 doesn't do anything, and I tried all the sound channels I could find. Also, teamplay_broadcast_audio doesn't fire on any of these lines.


Thanks!

Also, any ideas on hiding the 5-4-3-2-1 text over the control point HUD icon?

[Jindo]

I think something like this would work:

PHP Code:

public Action:AmbientSoundHook(String:sample[PLATFORM_MAX_PATH], &entity, &Float:volume, &level, &pitch, Float:pos[3], &flags, &Float:delay)
{
    if (StrContains(sample, "vo\announcer_", true) != -1)
    {
        return Plugin_Handled;
    }
    return Plugin_Continue;
} 


It's probably not the nicest way as there is a risk of exceptions but that should cover all and only announcer voice clips.

Not entirely sure about the HUD countdown.