30 Sword Coast Legends Monster Soundsets

Here are 30 creature soundsets from nSpace's ill-fated Sword Coast Legends and a couple extra sounds like Beholder beams for builders to use while scripting. Most of them are great. Some of them I don't love based on sound direction but that's a matter of personal taste. I labelled them according to what Sword Coast Legends used them for, but obviously use them for whichever creatures you choose--you might not have a draegloth but the sounds might be great for something else.

There are three archives to download: #1 is meant for builders, #2 is meant for hearing and testing the sounds, #3 is for client side override:

1. :sclcreaturesounds.zip contains the raw .WAV and .SSF files to add to your own module's haks. Also included is a Soundset.2DA that only contains the lines for the creatures in this set. You will want to append these to your own Soundset.2DA as well as potentially add STRREFs to custom TLK lines to make them easier to identify in the toolset.
2. sclvotestmod.zip contains a hak and a test module for quick testing of the soundsets. In the module's one area there is a commoner faction creature for each sound painted down. Clicking on them will cycle through the relevant soundset and bark out which sound is being played. Some creatures don't have models in vanilla NWN (ex: Otyugh) so a replacement creature was used with their name changed to "Fake" whatever they are meant to represent (ex: Fake Otyugh, Fake Dretch)
3. sclvooverride.zip contains override versions of Bear, Beholder, Bugbear, Ghoul, Hook Horror, Jelly, Kobold, Mephit, Mindflayer, DevilBig, Ogre, Orc, Skeleton, Spider, Troll, Umber Hulk, Vrock, Wolf, Worg, and Zombie. Also included is a partial override of Intellect Devourer (replaces 11 sounds, leaves the rest as is). To use these, unzip into your Override folder.

The 30 included creatures are: Bear, Beholder, Belaphoss (a Balor), Brain Golem, Bugbear, Draegloth, Dretch, Ghoul, Hezrou, Hook Horror, Intellect Devourer, Illithid, Imp, Kobold, Mimic, Ogre, Ooze/Jelly, Orc, Otyugh, Quasit, Skeleton, Spider, Troll, Umber Hulk, Undead Mind Flayer, Vrock, Wolf, Worg, Zombie Ogre, Zombie.

Each creature soundset contains 11 sounds that are used in-game by the engine:

• Attack 1-3
• Battlecry 1-3
• Pain 1-3
• Selected
• Death

SCL has additional NPC voicesets that are more extensive (like drow, duergar, and goblins) as well as ~15 PC voicesets that I will be doing in the near future.

Feedback: Please let me know if any of the sounds aren't balanced (too loud or too low) as the files went from BNK archives to WEM to OGG to WAV and it's possible the balance got lost on some of them. I'll happily fix that where necessary.

P.S. Obviously all credit for these sounds go to nSpace. While SCL wasn't everyone's cup of tea, to me it was a great game that got killed in the cradle. Special thanks to Tony, the audio director for Sword Coast Legends, who was always one of the most interactive members of the nSpace team as well as an all around cool dude. Overall SCL was a fantastic game from an audio perspective with nicely implemented WWise tech, a great score, and great sound design. I hope he's got his dream job now.