More Metal Sound Mod V2.2
⚪ Last updated 2010🔍 Analysis
- 👍 5.1% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #1 of 25 Audio mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
It really annoyed me how going into battle with a party of heavily armored knights or a party of unarmored club wielders would both sound the same...a blunt slugfest.
So after a lot of hitting and scraping objects together, this is what I came up with.
This mod doesn't aim to revamp the vanilla sounds, but to add more "metal" to the audio of the battles. A battle between two parties of heavily armored soldiers should actually sound like armored soldiers hacking and slashing away at eachother instead of unarmored men hitting eachother with blunt weapons.
What is changed:
-Weapon impacts
-Shield impacts
-Projectile impacts and misses
-Ranged weapon fire
-Weapon draw and put away sounds
-Footstep/hoof sounds for human and horses
-Body falls
-Dummy sounds for the training ground
-New death and grunt voices
-Some interface sound improvements
-Included additional voices from the "Official Vocals Sound Pack" by rejenorst
-Various other improvements and volume tweaks
A "Extra" folder has been included which contains a "sounds.txt" without the new voices and a "module_sounds.py" for modders.
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Thanks to rejenorst for allowing me to use his voices
Install instructions in readme
File HistoryV1. 1
-New jump sounds for horse and foot
-New draw and put away weapon sounds
-New body falls
-New string pulls for the bow and crossbow
-Improved fire sounds for the bow and thrown weapons
-Improved wooden shield impacts
-Improved projectile flesh impacts
-Various other improvements and volume tweaks
Mon, Jan-12-2009
-Added in some voices from the "Official Vocals Sound Pack" by rejenorst
-Improved metal shield impacts
-Improved high damage metal impacts
-Re-did the sword clashes
-Various other improvements and volume tweaks
Sun, Jan-18-2009
-New horse charge sounds
-New shield break sound
-Some improvements to interface sounds
-Various other improvements and volume tweaks
Mon, Feb-02-2009
-Some improvements to weapon impacts
-Volume tweaks
Mon, Feb-23-2009
-Improved weapon impacts
-Improved shield impacts
-Improved weapon clashes
-New dummy sounds for the training ground
-Many other various changes and improvements
Fri, Mar-06-2009
-Changed high armor weapon impacts back to the more metallic feeling of earlier versions
-Fixed some unbalanced volume levels introduced in the 1. 5 update
-Other various changes and improvements
Fri, Apr-10-2009 <
More Metal Sound Mod V2.2 replaces the default blunt melee sounds in Dragon Age: Origins with metallic clangs and scrapes, so armored knights and club-wielders sound distinct in battle. A community favorite with 519 endorsements, last updated in 2010.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved (519 endorsements) — clearly fills a need for better combat audio
- Simple concept that directly addresses a common annoyance in Dragon Age: Origins
- High download-to-endorsement ratio (10,092 downloads) suggests it's widely used
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in 2010 — may not be compatible with newer game patches or DLC
- Only affects blunt weapon sounds — other combat audio remains unchanged
For Dragon Age: Origins players who want more immersive combat audio, especially those who favor melee builds. Skip if you're fine with the default sound effects or prefer a total audio overhaul.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Back up your original game files before overwriting, as the mod likely replaces core audio files.
- Check if the mod requires the Dragon Age: Origins toolset or manual file placement — read any included readme.
- Test in a low-stakes battle first to ensure the new sounds don't clash with other audio mods.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Mbwarband Mods
- Author
- Checkmaty
- Version
- 2.2
- Downloads
- 10,092
- Endorsements
- 519
- Category
- Audio
- Created
- 1/4/2009
- Updated
- 6/19/2010
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