Sound mods broken since last patch

Age of Empires II: DE II - Modding
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Since update 141935 a few days ago, a few sound mods have stopped working. I have narrowed it down to mods that refer to any of the .wem files that I’ve listed below. If any of these files is called, it will override the original sound with silence.

Looking at the game files, the folder /resources/_common/drs/sounds has gone missing completely, so it makes sense some audio mods are not working. However, any mod that still refers to the original sound files that are not in the list below still works.. somehow.

So my questions are:

  1. where have the sound files been moved to? Are they now part of /wwise/Base.pck ?
  2. how can I mod the audio files that I have listed below?
  • Age_Up.wem
  • Animal_Attack.wem
  • Animal_Discovered.wem
  • Button_GFX.wem
  • Button_Select.wem
  • Button_UI.wem
  • Capture_Broken.wem
  • Capture_Everything.wem
  • Chat_Received.wem
  • Chat_Received_2.wem
  • Error.wem
  • Farm_Depleted.wem
  • Flare.wem
  • Gate_Close.wem
  • Gate_Open.wem
  • Gatherpoint_Set.wem
  • Market_Buy.wem
  • Market_Sell.wem
  • Monk_Attacking.wem
  • Monk_Convert_Complete.wem
  • Notification.wem
  • Objective_Changed.wem
  • Opponent_Found.wem
  • Player_Eliminated.wem
  • Population_Capped
  • Relic_Pickup.wem
  • Spy_infiltration.wem
  • Technology_Researched.wem
  • Town_Under_Attack.wem
  • Townbell_Start.wem
  • Townbell_Stop.wem
  • Tribute.wem
  • Under_Attack.wem
  • Wonder_Completed.wem
  • Wonder_Destroyed.wem
  • Wonder_Started.wem
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Seems as though the patch broke things, as someone here corroborates:

 

I really hope not. It looked like a nightmare to try and manage modding in that area, and/or impossible, last time I tried. And I feel PCK and BNK files are probably responsible for why some of my modded audio files weren’t successfully overriding game sounds, as noted in that other thread, which I was never able to fix.

I’m really not a fan of AoE2:DE audio modding compared to HD and before (not a secret). And the incessant battle alarm/horn sound is incredibly annoying still, both in terms of its sound profile and it’s frequency of occurrence. How it has remained intact for 25 years is beyond me. And how it is not 100% moddable is beyond me, too

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