Malueion - Malu

Weird story about how I spent like 2 hours looking into how to get a Team Fortress 2 mod to work only for it to work all on its own with no help at all:

So yesterday, on August 24, I spent some time creating some additional audio files for TF2 to play more music on the main menu. The main audio files work just fine, the game only looks for files named "gamestartup," the numbers only exist so multiple files can exist with that name...

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However, I also wanted to add music that would play on special occasions. I included one more song to play on Halloween / full moons (which I have still yet to see if that actually works or not) and I also wanted a song to play on Team Fortress' birthday, August 24, which was yesterday.

The song is Orff: Carmina Burana / I. Primo vere: "Ecce gratum," which was used for the intro in the QuakeWorld Team Fortress mod for Quake.

I did not think getting a brand new file with a name not used anywhere else by the game would be a simple task, so I went looking through the game files and searched online for anything relating to how Team Fortress 2 knows when to trigger the Halloween music, or any information on making song files play on a specific date, so I could take that script or whatever it is and change it to "play this song when the date is August 24."

I could not find any information on how Team Fortress 2 plays those files, and quickly got tired of searching, so I decided to put that project on hold and just play the game for a bit.

Since I also added some additional mods before I added my new music files, I just went and threw all of my new mods into my custom folder, including gamestartup_birthday.mp3, and then I opened up Team Fortress 2.

Then I heard it...

I could not fucking believe it.

I thought the game had to have been playing it by accident, for some reason playing it just because it appears first when sorted by file name alphabetically, ignoring the fact gamestartup_birthday was in the "holiday" subfolder and not the main folder used for the menu music.

It was not until I launched the game today, August 25, that it stopped playing gamestartup_birthday and is now playing the regular gamestartup files.

So, I guess Team Fortress 2 does look for a file named "gamestartup_birthday.mp3" within the "holiday" folder, within the "ui" folder, within the "sound" folder, and since Team Fortress 2 doesn't have any music set to play on August 24, I am apparently the first ever person to ever discover this, or at least to write about it online, since again, I had found no documentation for anything that would help me get this to work.

so uh yeah thanks for coming to my ted talk

and if anyone's interested, i recently uploaded all the tf2 mods i use to google drive, which mainly includes visual fixes for textures, models and audio, and also includes a handful of extra stuff like the new menu music mention in this post.

it exists so people who are inexperienced with modding can simply toss this package into their game and get a slightly better experience playing.

>listening to the botw ost

>"god, i should really replay breath of the wild some time."

>...

>"aw fuck, but tears of the kingdom is still sitting in my library unplayed."

spent about an hour on this masterpiece

did it work