Hi,
Wouldn't it be great and fun? Ofc it would have downsides too. Anyways, optional choice. If you are interested of idea or find bad sides, should post here.
Would probably improve teamwork
Would find maybe new friends
Would surprise enemies with goofs
Biggest negativity would be toxicity.
Discuss.
-Fish
Yes, but only if there were persistent servers to possibly be on the same group from match to match, not necessarily same-squad, but same team. It could lead to making friends as well as being able to communicate when in a vehicle together.
Granted, as we currently know, VOIP released late and not many turned it on (outside of random PS people that have their controller mic unmuted so you get to hear some sweet bong rips and crap music in the background)
@Man_iLoveFishing
Proximity chat would be cool in smaller games like the weekly events or control. 8v8, 12v12, or 16v16 anymore then that it will just become problematic. More so, if everyone doesn't know everyone not saying all games will be an issue.
Same goes for VOIP. EA or Dice whoever is in charge needs to have everyone's mic defaulted to on in the next update. This game needs more teamwork like the previous titles. All chat should also be defaulted on. There have been countless times my team has asked me who am I talking to lol.
There should also be something like bigger squads or 8 players 8x8 = 64. At least a trial run, this would totally enhance strategic teamplay. Being able to switch between squads just to talk to would be cool, but then there's chat for all that too.
@D-Man3847 wrote:
EA or Dice whoever is in charge needs to have everyone's mic defaulted to on in the next update.
You are a madman.
If they wanted to add it in the next game or to this one at some point then I'd have no complaints. However, I very much doubt I'd actually use it (not a big user of chat or VOIP in general) and would just keep myself muted and/or have my headset off 99.9% of the time.
@Man_iLoveFishing Today we have a VOIP system that is barely working. You can't hear people when they speak, the only way you can improve on that is lower the game volume, which causes an annoying effect if someone plays with an open mic, and not push to talk.
@D-Man3847The defaults DICE chooses are very often the main reason their games never reach their potential. Current defaults I despise are "Crossplay - On", "All chat - Off", "VOIP - Party chat, not Squad chat", "Chat box - Don't show", "Profanity Filter - Always on", so I don't need an "Always On Mic" that impacts overall game play in another negative way.
Overall I believe it has more negative aspects that positive aspects, and for Europeans especially sociological issues attached to in.
I have a lot of friends who complain for a variety of game, "Hey, I was in squad with Germans the other day, and they don't speak in game at all. When I play on an US server, they all talk my ear off." I play my games with friends from international communities, where we have player from South Africa to Finland, so we generally speak and write in English, still squads or parties have a tendency to form in language groups.
So in Europe an open mic policy would be most likely Babylon in games.
I'm not against it as long as it can be turned off!
I think you said that when the subject last came up.
If they add it, they will need to implement a filter to automatically mute people who are eating potato chips while gaming.
