Left 4 Dead 2 music mod - Homestuck

What started as an offhand comment between a friend and I about wanting to hear Black when the Tank came crashing down on us turned into a furious whirlwind of purchasing, searching, cutting, pasting, matching, amplifying, and occasionally drubbing Audacity over the head a couple of times until fruition: replacing damn near all of the songs in Left 4 Dead 2 with entries from the collected Homestuck musical captch- er, catalog. This particular video showcases the replacement songs for the specials' attacks, and the first chapter safe zone of every non-DLC campaign. So far it seems the only things I can't really replace are the Wandering Witch's proximity alerts and the mob music, but those are... complicated.

Now, it's not 100% complete just yet, I'm waiting for the aforementioned to get back so I can test out some more of the songs, but I'm more or less satisfied with the selections. What's getting me at the moment is that some of the songs aren't playing at the proper volume, even after amplifying the file. If you have any suggestions for that, or just about the tracks in general, questions, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nausem, go ahead and let me know.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Left
• Dead
• sound
• mod
• Homestuck
• MSPA
• MSPaint
• Adventures
• Andrew
• Hussie
• L4D2
• music

[Bonzi77]

I'm actually wanting to work on a mod very similar to this, with some different selections for the music. I've actually got themes planned out for each campaign.

Also, a lesson I've learned with Source sound mods: generous heapings of compression are your friend.

[Maverick8187]

@Bonzi77 Hmm. If you've done sound mods before, I may have a question concerning getting this to work properly as a .vpk file. So far, I'm having to do a file overwrite to make it work.

[Bonzi77]

@Maverick8187 I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm honestly kinda winging it. Maybe you could find an easier way to do it that doesn't involve sending every file individually into GoldWave and adding cues?

[Maverick8187]

@Bonzi77 I can't say if it's easier, but I just trimmed them down using Audacity. Not sure if that requires more patience or not, but it did take a while.

[Marlowethehedgehog]

I was rather thinking of hearing harleboss at the tank but Black also suits well

But i would say

IIIIII NEEEEEEEED IIIIIIIIIT

Even if changes are to happen i want this already >.<

[Maverick8187]

@Marlowethehedgehog Odds are I'll be doing the (more or less) v1.0 video soon. And if the game is properly supporting sound pack VPKs again, it'll be much easier to find somewhere to host it, too!

[Okashui]

Oh my god i wish someone could mod the tank as Jack noir. That'd be amazing.

[Trogdorbad]

Also, why not use The Dark Carnival for the start of Dark Carnival?

[Trogdorbad]

But of course Black fits and is awesome.

[Trogdorbad]

Dude, Tank totally should've been Carefree Victory. That would be hilarious.

[uberCharlie7552]

i must have this