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DreizehnX's avatar
DreizehnX
11 years ago

Update urgently needed: Disable incoming voice chat in option menu

This is a major issue.

Every time I start a game anybody is screaming into his/her mic. And during the loading screen I cannot even mute that person. PvZ is a GREAT game but this takes all the fun and I just get angry because of this.

And no: I don't see a point in altering my personal computer configurations just for this one game.

I am playing a lot of other games and have no problem with them. PvZ is my only problem.

Is this rather common to Origin? Because I hardly use it. Only because of PvZ and I didn't know problems like this before.

There shouldn't be a workaround from a 3rd party site to fix a problem from a publisher as big as EA.

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  • crunchipop's avatar
    crunchipop
    Hero+
    11 years ago

    when load the party load press tab select to spammer guy and mute him or u can mute everybody too using the same method pressing TAB button

  • flipdesterke's avatar
    flipdesterke
    11 years ago

    Like OP is saying you cannot mute someone during the loading screen the first time you're entering a game. Alt-tab is useless for this phase crunchipop.

    It would be nice if the voice-chat would be disabled by standard during the loading screen and if the Alt-Tab method would also be available during character selection. During char selection you also still cannot mute a person and if someone is screaming your ears of it's not so nice to enable a new customization or taking your time to decide which character you're starting with this time. 

    So my suggestion would be:

    Enable voice-chat after your first spawn (since that's also the first time in the game you can mute someone/everyone)

    or

    Enable voice-chat after the loading screen(not during as it is now) and add the Alt-Tab mute possibility during the char selection.

  • DreizehnX's avatar
    DreizehnX
    11 years ago

    Thanks for your answers.

    @flipdesterke wrote:

    So my suggestion would be:

    Enable voice-chat after your first spawn (since that's also the first time in the game you can mute someone/everyone)

    or

    Enable voice-chat after the loading screen(not during as it is now) and add the Alt-Tab mute possibility during the char selection.

    This sounds as if I could disable the voic-chat generally. Do I get this right? Because if yes, then I'd do that - but I haven't found this one yet. ^^

  • OverclockdToast's avatar
    OverclockdToast
    11 years ago

    You are able to disable all of voice chat, for yourself included.

    It's in the Audio Options: Always off/Push-to-Talk/Always On

    With always off, you shouldnt hear any voip.

  • flipdesterke's avatar
    flipdesterke
    11 years ago

    Hmm I tried turning it off, but it really only disables your own voice towards the others. It doesn't affect the sound of others towards you.

    Actually a friend of mine also tried the off setting when I was in the same game and he immediately began talking, while it should have been disabled.

    Looks like it's all still a bit buggy.

    However there is also a slider for the volume of VOIP. If you turn this one down, you can't hear someone anymore 🙂 

    Or well... so it seems after playing 1 game :P

    Edit: Nope neither of the options does anything.... the slider only turns the sound down a bit, but you can still clearly hear the others.

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