Hack 66. Silence the Zoom

Null out the sound for a weapon's scope zoom.

This hack allows you to remove the zoom sound from weapons. When playing LAN games, it's annoying when people run and jump about because they hear a sniper rifle zoom in by removing the sound you revive the Sniper Rifle's element of surprise.

Open the .MAP file in ADI [Hack #50] and navigate to the [snd!] Sound tags. It is here that you will find the sounds for the Sniper Rifle. They are sound\weapons\sniper_rifle\zoom_in and sound\weapons\sniper_rifle\zoom_out.

Choose the Meta Scanner tab and then click the small drop-down box that lets you choose the tag type. Select the snd! option in this drop-down (see Figures 7-25 and 7-26).

Figure 7-25. The drop-down selection

Change the snd! reference for each tag to Nulled Out (see Figure 7-27).

Once you have made the change, sign your map [Hack #53] and FTP it to your Xbox [Hack #54]. Enjoy your new silent zoom.

Figure 7-26. Finding the snd! reference for the tag

Figure 7-27. Nulling the zoom-in sound