Small sample size, I know, but I haven't been able to find anyone (in Oceania) using VOIP.
This forum made such a big deal about it, so why don't players use it?
The discussion about the EA survey has caused me to ruminate on this. I have my own thoughts, but I would like to hear other points-of-view.
Well, EA did say that most people playing the game using VOIP are on Discord.
It's almost like they actually bothered to look at how people play their games.
I found that very few people in BFV actually bothered to use VOIP either, outside of making toxic comments or just burping into the mic. On a few occasions (that I could count on one hand) I've seen people actually respond to something I've said, although this has never been verbally; it's been along the lines of someone stopping their jeep to pick me up or an Angel dropping a crate when I ask them to.
I never understood the fuss about VOIP.
In 1000hr+ of BFV I maybe had 20 matches with squadmates coordinating over VOIP. Random -mature - VOIP users were exceptionally rare.
I've found that the social people who want to chat typically seek out platoons with like minded players. Those groups just used party chat.
One solution is for DICE to take VOIP usage into consideration when forming squads. Take those 8 players using VOIP and toss them all into the same squads instead of the current random assignment.
I use it.
They made it Squad only so you can only talk to the three people who are probably on the other side of the map but you can't speak to the people right next to you or in your vehicle where voice would actually make a difference.
We ( I ) didn't just want the platitude of a basic voice chat system. We wanted voice chat designed specifically to facilitate effective communication and co-ordination with the people you are playing with right there and then. Instead we got the same old bare minimum effort that permeates throughout 2042 itself.
Heck, the game doesn't even have the facilities to even test your mic is actually working or it's outputting at the correct levels. The only way to test your mic is to go in game and spam your squad mates, hoping they even have voice chat turned on, they speak your language and also care enough to respond with voice themselves or through text. What Dice Sweden has implemented wouldn't even pass for a game made in 1998.
@AngrySquid270 wrote:I never understood the fuss about VOIP.
In 1000hr+ of BFV I maybe had 20 matches with squadmates coordinating over VOIP. Random -mature - VOIP users were exceptionally rare.
I've found that the social people who want to chat typically seek out platoons with like minded players. Those groups just used party chat.
One solution is for DICE to take VOIP usage into consideration when forming squads. Take those 8 players using VOIP and toss them all into the same squads instead of the current random assignment.
In Battlefield 2 and 2142, you could create your own squads and rename them. Best way to find people who want to play as a squad and use VOIP was to simply rename your squad to indicate it. Over the years Dice Sweden has gradually eroded the functionality of both squads and VOIP with the situation with squads and VOIP in 2042 being the culmination of that neglect.
I use the VOIP function on PS5.
Unfortunately I had to go into the settings to activate it as the default setting is for it to be disabled.
I now send an EA friend request to anyone else I find using VOIP and have started to play more often with like-minded strategic and team/squad oriented players.
It does make a big difference to how much more fun you get out of the game.
Pretty sure that there are a lot of players taking into a microphone on console (without having changed their settings to turn it on) who are wondering why nobody reacts or responds to their speech.
Kap.
I've used it when playing with one of the volunteers here and it was quite nice - it made us a bit more effective as well.
Not so keen to use it with randoms but not totally averse to it either. After all I met a lot of my friends that way, after wading through the usual munching/screeching/shouting people.
I haven't used it for ages. The last time I heard someone it was in a language I didn't understand shouting at someone else(a kid) there end.
I was just another feature that DICE didn't need to add which made them take time away from actual giving us more content quicker. Most of the people that were crying for VOIP aren't even playing the game.
@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:Small sample size, I know, but I haven't been able to find anyone (in Oceania) using VOIP.
This forum made such a big deal about it, so why don't players use it?
The discussion about the EA survey has caused me to ruminate on this. I have my own thoughts, but I would like to hear other points-of-view.
I use it, but very restricted all due to the extremely poor BF2042 and still the horrible lack of team/squad functions in the game!
So only able to use it when some of my friends are joining up and we are lucky to end up into the same team and squad, when trying to fiddle around with that totally disabled and horrible poor BF2042 team/squad management system (its actually non-existent)...
So that is why almost nobody are using VoIP in BF2042.
We are missing everything else still in this poor game, to make it worthwhile.
