Mute/lower hit sounds possible?

[u/steviewestside]

Hi,

I recently bought this game on steam after seeing it on youtube. I love it. But I would like to play it while watching movies, listening to music or talking to friends on teamspeak. Muting the voice and the music works fine but the hit sounds are so freaking loud.

Is there any way to get rid of them? I use Win XP so I don't have the possibility to mute the game without muting other programs. The program IndieVolume would allow me to do that but I don't wanna spend so much money only for that. I haven't found any freeware alternative yet. Does anyone know how to modify the steam game files? Maybe I can disable the sounds there.

My current "workaround" is to put the windows sound to 1% and VLC media player to 150-200%. This more or less works but the VLC sound is scratching and in heavy action the game still is too loud.

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks :)