Voice Chat Features
With voice chat recently being implemented into the game for everyone to converse and get strategic. Will there be any other things being added to this feature such as Voice Proximity, Team Chat and Squad Chat?
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- @Eonoyu
Is voice chat working for you AT ALL at the moment?
I am just curious, but to me, this seems completely bugged or nobody has it enabled. Or it may just be conflicting with TeamSpeak running at the same time.
At least I tried to use it and set it to Squad when playing a few nights back. We were 5 players and usually we split 3/2, but we wanted to run SOFLAM + M5 and therefore split 4/1 (me being the solo player). We were communicating in TeamSpeak as usual, but I enabled Voice Chat and set it to Squad. Over many rounds in different squads I did never hear any of my different 3 random squad mates say anything nor did they seem to be able to hear me (even though my voice chat indicator in the top right with my name+speaker was showing as expected).
To me, this seems to be completely broken. Or everyone has turned that feature off (something I also usually do to be able to focus on TeamSpeak as there is enough going on in there anyway -- but after the experience that voice chat will stay mute, even if enabled, I can as well leave it turned on).
@DuaneDibbley wrote:
@Eonoyu
Is voice chat working for you AT ALL at the moment?
I am just curious, but to me, this seems completely bugged or nobody has it enabled. Or it may just be conflicting with TeamSpeak running at the same time.
At least I tried to use it and set it to Squad when playing a few nights back. We were 5 players and usually we split 3/2, but we wanted to run SOFLAM + M5 and therefore split 4/1 (me being the solo player). We were communicating in TeamSpeak as usual, but I enabled Voice Chat and set it to Squad. Over many rounds in different squads I did never hear any of my different 3 random squad mates say anything nor did they seem to be able to hear me (even though my voice chat indicator in the top right with my name+speaker was showing as expected).
To me, this seems to be completely broken. Or everyone has turned that feature off (something I also usually do to be able to focus on TeamSpeak as there is enough going on in there anyway -- but after the experience that voice chat will stay mute, even if enabled, I can as well leave it turned on).I have had a couple rounds of it working and chatting with someone that is on console (I'm on PC). I think one of the main problems is that it defaults to on with PC but off on console... so unless they went into settings and turned it on, then they wouldn't even know you were trying to communicate ever VOIP. I mostly only play with friends and use discord though, so unless I'm solo-queueing [very rare] I wouldn't be trying to use it in the first place.
@Eonoyu there are already settings for Squad and Party that you switch between in the options IIRC.
- @DuaneDibbley We use it all the time, but most people are either surprised to hear anything, or don't want to speak to strangers.
On PC it works in parallel to Discord, and the voice quality in game is on par with the external voip providers.
Since the people I usually play with are all on PC I can't tell in cross platform voip actually works.
@Eonoyu wrote:With voice chat recently being implemented into the game for everyone to converse and get strategic. Will there be any other things being added to this feature such as Voice Proximity, Team Chat and Squad Chat?
Hard pass on team chat, can you imagine 64 talking/breathing/toilet flushing/sniffling/music playing chuckleheads all at once?
Hell let Loose has a pretty good voice chat setup they may wanna take a look there.
- @Ironhead841 100% agreed on that. Although I do wish we had proximity chat, so if I get into a tank/chopper/etc with a random, I can tell them that I can repair for example or what I'm spotting, etc.
Yeah, proximity chat would be nice especially in those situations.
In the past we had our servers (our clan had 2 back in the day) we used to recruit new players. Having no community servers anymore voice chat might be the (only?) way to get new members for our clan/gaming community.
Portal 'servers' don't count until we can have persistent server instances -- and if the game were any good we would not mind paying for them the same we payed before.
So, I am willing to turn on voice chat if this would offer opportunities to find new people that actually fit (our clan has a minimum age requirement of 25 years -- with the average player age now being above 40). So, we might need fresh blood. 😉
I would be willing to talk to strangers if Voice Chat can be used in parallel to TeamSpeak (that is required anyway for communication across squads and during map changes) and to find some players that speak German (even though we do indeed all speak decent English the clan is a German gaming community, so this excludes >90% of all players in our region I guess), with the right age (there go another 50% of the rest) and that try to PTFO (well, this leaves us with how many?).
OK, maybe Voice Chat is really not that important for recruiting after all. 😉
But proximity chat would be really good to communicate with strangers that you want to talk to, even if they are not in your squad. Squad only communication is not necessary (for me) as most of the players in my own squad will be in TeamSpeak anyway.
Almost certainly not. For whatever reason, Dice Sweden hates voice chat and hasn't bothered developing it in over a decade.
I'm not having any issues with the Voice Chat. I think most users are either playing without headphones or using other methods of communication.
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