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HOW TO: Korean sound (announcer/hero voices etc)

I wasn’t able to find a functioning tutorial that explain how to do this successfully. Using multiple resources and some guess work, I managed to do it. I figured I’d share for anyone else interested.

For this tutorial you will need:
1. Steam and dota2 (obviously)
2. GCFScape
3.

2.2 GB of additional drive space
4. Marginal amount of patience.

Step 1: Get the Korean audio files.
The easiest way is to change your language settings. Steam will then download them into your dota 2 folder. To do this, from the steam client:
1. From the “Steam” menu at the top click “Settings”.
2. Select the “Interface” tab
3. Change the value of the language drop down box to “Korean”
4. Click “OK” at the bottom and restart Steam.

When steam restarts it will get all the required files (

1.1 GB). Once updated, you can start playing dota 2 with all the korean sounds. However, I don’t want everything to be in Korean, just the sounds.
DO NOT SWITCH YOUR LANGUAGE BACK YET. Doing so will delete all the Korean files you just downloaded and they will have to downloaded again.

Step 2: Extract Korean audio files and scripts.
I don’t claim to know much about moding Valve games. I just know from trial and error you need BOTH the audio files and scripts. If you don’t have the scripts, your Korean audio might get clipped short (plays for length of the english clip in my case)

1. Get and install GCFScape
2. Create folder for the data you will extract ( in my case “C:\myuser\Desktop\korean” )
3. Use GCFScape to open the “sound_vo_koreana_dir. vpk” in the dota 2 beta\dota directory. Usually, “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\sound_vo_koreana_dir. vpk”
4. Right click on the “sound” folder and select “Extract”. Extract it to the data folder you created previously.
5. Use to GCFScape to open the “pak01_dir. vpk” in the “dota 2 beta\dota” directory. Usually, “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\pak01_dir. vpk”.
6. Right click on the “scripts” folder and select “Extract”. Extract it to the data folder you created previously.

At this point you should have two folders, “scripts” and “sound”, that contain roughly 1.1 GB of audio and txt files. You have all you need for keeping the Korean audio, so you can switch your Steam language settings back to what they were and restart Steam.

Step 3: Overriding the defaults

Now we need to copy the files we just extracted into the dota 2 directory.

1. Copy the contents of the “scripts” folder, NOT the folder itself, into your “dota 2 beta\dota\scripts\” folder. Usually, “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\scripts\”
2. Copy the contents of the “sound” folder, NOT the folder itself, into your “dota 2 beta\dota\sound\” folder. Usually, “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\dota 2 beta\dota\sound\”

Now we need to tell dota 2 that we want to use these, instead of what it loads be default. We do so by adding the “-override_vpk” launch option.

From the Steam games list

1. Right click on “Dota 2”
2. Select “Properites”
3. Select the “General” tab
4. Click “Set Launch Options”
5. Add “-override_vpk”, without quotes, to the list of options. If you have more options specified, remember to separate them with a space. My example, full launch options are: +exec autoexec. cfg – console – novid – override_vpk – international – noforcemaccel – noforcemspd – useforcedmparms
6. Select “OK”

Step 4: Play Dota 2

At this point you should be able to start Dota 2 and test if everything has gone according to plan. If you decided at any point you don’t want Korean anymore, just remove the – override_vpk option and restart dota 2.