Why do you hate mumble?

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Why don't you use Mumble?

Poll ended at 2010-10-29 23:57

Hard to use
50
10%
No one else uses it
74
15%
Can't alt-tab
10
2%
It's extra work
48
10%
Other (explain)
38
8%
I do use it!
242
49%
I don't like it
33
7%
 
Total votes: 495

Lzryde
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

Post by Lzryde »

[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude wrote:Team channels, Brah. Team channels.


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Even then, you could just use VOIP and a TS3 server with your friends. If the whole argument is about positional audio, that isn't anything amazing to me. Go play ARMA 2 with ACRE (which uses TS3) and you'll see just how much the PR + Mumble combo lacks.

Some servers tried to enforce Mumble, where are they now? They either gave up, or are so far at the bottom of the server list, I haven't seen them for a good year.
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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Lzryde wrote:Even then, you could just use VOIP and a TS3 server with your friends. If the whole argument is about positional audio, that isn't anything amazing to me. Go play ARMA 2 with ACRE (which uses TS3) and you'll see just how much the PR + Mumble combo lacks.

Some servers tried to enforce Mumble, where are they now? They either gave up, or are so far at the bottom of the server list, I haven't seen them for a good year.
I dont think anyone should be forced to use mumble, unless somehow it can be incorporated into PR files itself, ready to use as if it were part of the same software. Yes, like ARMA.

I'll admit, I didnt really get where your going with this post. From summarising, I decucted this from your sentences:

-VoIP and TS3 are just as good as using VoIP+mumble.
-Positional audio isn't worth while.
-In ArmA they have positional audio.
-Positional Audio is worth while and brings something new to gameplay.
-Positional audio isn't worth while.

Maybe you can clarify?



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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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I love PRmumble and have been using it with my community since it came out.
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sector7g wrote:It is not an invasion of privacy unless I use it. I do not use it because other people can hear my conversation THAT IS INVASION OF PRIVACY. So I choose not to use it so as not to have to hear some twat breathing or going on about every shot they remember taking. Also that way I don't have to deal with spammers - and muting your self is no answer at all ! I might as well switch the dam thing of or better yet not install it at all.

It is not trolling ! I have been asked for my opinion right or wrong and I have given it. (it was not intended for your big mouth it was intended for Devs to analize and understand why I do not like it ! - seeing as they asked !

@Herbie maybe you should stop trying to bully people into using it ? Like i said I already talk to those that I wish to communicate to. If I am not talking to you in the game may be it's because I don't want to talk to you much less hear you in the game !

For spamming of mumble how about you look through the posts people bothered to write up on people singing, breathing and going on about how great they are at this game.

I don't see why I should be forced to use mumble if I do not want to or do not like the basic premise of the programme.

The whole thing stinks of facist attitude and I maintain is still AN INVASION OF MY PRIVACY - If you can not see how this is an invasion of privacy then you are eligable to work for government who also can't understand how listening in on someones conversation is an invasion of privacy.

I do not look forward to the day where mumble[speakupboy] is mandatory and PR will have lost the likes of me and any one else that is a little protective of their privacy...

In short - you want to use mumble ? That is fine by me just don't force me to use your crappy, inferior to TS3 product because I will NOT.

Nope, your trolling all right.
If that is genuinely how you feel about it (which I highly doubt), I think you would benefit from:

A) Stopping discussing your bank details/passwords/security information or anything that you can actually consider private, while online-gaming. If you consider the actual tone and pitch of your voice something valuably secretive, I think online gaming isn't quite for you.
B) Cancelling your weekly subscription to Tin-foil-hats-anonymous
C) Realising that teamwork is an essential part of PR
D) Realising that communication is an essential part of teamwork
E) Knowing that not everyone with a computer is out to get you, get into your base and kill your doods
F) Discovering E) is true by trying other servers where players are perhaps a little more mature
G) Insulting other users on this forum, as its against the rules.



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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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[quote=""'[R-MOD"]Mongolian_dude;1462877']I dont think anyone should be forced to use mumble, unless somehow it can be incorporated into PR files itself, ready to use as if it were part of the same software. Yes, like ARMA.

I'll admit, I didnt really get where your going with this post. From summarising, I decucted this from your sentences:

-VoIP and TS3 are just as good as using VoIP+mumble.
-Positional audio isn't worth while.
-In ArmA they have positional audio.
-Positional Audio is worth while and brings something new to gameplay.
-Positional audio isn't worth while.

Maybe you can clarify?



...mongol...[/quote]

My main arguments are:

-PR + Mumble doesn't bring anything new or amazing to the table in terms of comms realism. Really all it adds is positional audio. That's it.
-Hearing a Chinese/MEC/Russian enemy speaking in perfect English kills realism for me

[quote="Herbiie""]Seriously there's no reason for not using Mumble, any "reason" people come up with is rectified straight away. Only reason people don't use mumble if because they are obviously too lazy to set up a programme that has a quick wizard to get everything set up..[/quote]

And no offense, but this is just ignorant. If that is the kind of attitude Mumble users have, I'm glad I don't have to listen to them talk.
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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sector7g wrote:It is not an invasion of privacy unless I use it. I do not use it because other people can hear my conversation THAT IS INVASION OF PRIVACY. So I choose not to use it so as not to have to hear some twat breathing or going on about every shot they remember taking. Also that way I don't have to deal with spammers - and muting your self is no answer at all ! I might as well switch the dam thing of or better yet not install it at all.

It is not trolling ! I have been asked for my opinion right or wrong and I have given it. (it was not intended for your big mouth it was intended for Devs to analize and understand why I do not like it ! - seeing as they asked !

@Herbie maybe you should stop trying to bully people into using it ? Like i said I already talk to those that I wish to communicate to. If I am not talking to you in the game may be it's because I don't want to talk to you much less hear you in the game !

For spamming of mumble how about you look through the posts people bothered to write up on people singing, breathing and going on about how great they are at this game.

I don't see why I should be forced to use mumble if I do not want to or do not like the basic premise of the programme.

The whole thing stinks of facist attitude and I maintain is still AN INVASION OF MY PRIVACY - If you can not see how this is an invasion of privacy then you are eligable to work for government who also can't understand how listening in on someones conversation is an invasion of privacy.

I do not look forward to the day where mumble[speakupboy] is mandatory and PR will have lost the likes of me and any one else that is a little protective of their privacy...

In short - you want to use mumble ? That is fine by me just don't force me to use your crappy, inferior to TS3 product because I will NOT.


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I dont get it? How is mumble LESS private than Teamspeak, which you seem to like? On teamspeak everyone hears you. On mumble those who are unlinked and those who are nearby you hear you. In Teamspeak ALL partecipants do. Mumble is meant as an application endorsed by the devs for the PR community at large. If you want to have a private talk with just friends I guess you could use a channel or program nobody else is using.

But more importanlty, are you willing to take the issue into consideration from a rational, practical point of view, or is it an emotive issue to you?
Lzryde wrote:My main arguments are:

-PR + Mumble doesn't bring anything new or amazing to the table in terms of comms realism. Really all it adds is positional audio. That's it.
-Hearing a Chinese/MEC/Russian enemy speaking in perfect English kills realism for me

Originally Posted by Herbiie
Seriously there's no reason for not using Mumble, any "reason" people come up with is rectified straight away. Only reason people don't use mumble if because they are obviously too lazy to set up a programme that has a quick wizard to get everything set up..


And no offense, but this is just ignorant. If that is the kind of attitude Mumble users have, I'm glad I don't have to listen to them talk.
What can Teamspeak 3 do that mumble cant? The main fault it has is, that at a certain altitude, jetfighter pilots become unlinked, at which point mumble becomes TS3. As far as I know you can talk to everybody in channel as well using mumble, just like in TS3.

Now TS 3 might have some amazing advantages over mumble of which you are aware of and I am not and the next guy prefers Ventrillo or Roger Wilco. The point is for people who want to have another option besides textchat to communicate with the team the ingame capabilities do not suffice and additional software is needed. Mumble is the program endorsed by the devs and included in the download, so that it is used by a server at large as a game feature. If you prefer another program to be used for that role, try to convince the devs and have them endorse some other program as the standard.

If you want to have your privacy with the 3 or 4 friends you are on the server with, make you own squad and use the ingame voip for the lolz and mumble if you need to tell the pilot where to go.
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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Just the fact that there is a thread called "Why do you hate mumble?" should speak for itself.

We did prefer Mumble before Teamspeak 3.

The days of horrible Teamspeak 2 quality, however, are over.

Now that Teamspeak 3 has fantastic quality and low latency that is no longer an issue. If anything, the issue might be that TS3 is not open source and therefore the devs don't have as much control. But Teamspeak 3 does have a flexible plugin feature which should be more than enough for the devs.

All TS3 needs is a BF2 plugin. Which would be "easy as shit" to port over from Mumble.
Once TS3 has a BF2 plugin (positional audio), Mumble won't have anything going for it.
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'[R-MOD wrote:Mongolian_dude;1462889']Nope, your trolling all right.
If that is genuinely how you feel about it (which I highly doubt), I think you would benefit from:

A) Stopping discussing your bank details/passwords/security information or anything that you can actually consider private, while online-gaming. If you consider the actual tone and pitch of your voice something valuably secretive, I think online gaming isn't quite for you.
B) Cancelling your weekly subscription to Tin-foil-hats-anonymous
C) Realising that teamwork is an essential part of PR
D) Realising that communication is an essential part of teamwork
E) Knowing that not everyone with a computer is out to get you, get into your base and kill your doods
F) Discovering E) is true by trying other servers where players are perhaps a little more mature
G) Insulting other users on this forum, as its against the rules.
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Re: Why do you hate life?

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sector7g wrote:and calling me a troll for expressing my honest views is not insulting me ??????????? Please - Do not double standard me !

It is a minor breach of privacy - NONE THE LESS a breach of privacy. This is what gets me about mumble... People insulting or attacking you because you point out a few constructive criticisms. May be we she all just pretend to like it ? May be we should change title of this thread to - "tell us why you like mumble, but criticisms just shut up" ? Would the world be a better place then ?

Mumble is supposed to be a choice. I have chosen not to use it and no end of insulting or bullying is going to change the basic fact that it's a breach of privacy.

I have no fight against people who want to mumble that is their deal. I just want to be able to play with out mumble. Is it to much to ask ?
Expect none of your arguments have been constructive. In no way did you try to point out how the mumble experience could be better, you just said dont force it on me. I am sure people would be more than inclined to read your posts if they were actually constructive or if you were actually trying to point out the flaws of mumble in a civil manner. But you are not.

Nobody is forcing you to use it. Nobody is going to. Calm down.

And it is in no way a breach of privacy.
-PR + Mumble doesn't bring anything new or amazing to the table in terms of comms realism. Really all it adds is positional audio. That's it.
-Hearing a Chinese/MEC/Russian enemy speaking in perfect English kills realism for me.
Inter SL comms are only achievable in TS3 through whispers or channel commander systems. That is already way to much effort as opposed to joining 1 channel in mumble then playing. It adds positional audio, which TS3 in its current state cannot do with as little setup time as mumble.

@ you're second point. Go to (In PR) options>Audio> Untick 'english VO only'. Then you can hear all native languages. Or were you talking about mumble?



Also, do not base your opinions of the program as a whole on the basis of somebody spamming or being aggressive. Like everywhere on the internet, it happens. Report them to server admins.
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Re: Why do you hate life?

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Tim270 wrote:Inter SL comms are only achievable in TS3 through whispers or channel commander systems. That is already way to much effort as opposed to joining 1 channel in mumble then playing. It adds positional audio, which TS3 in its current state cannot do with as little setup time as mumble.

@ you're second point. Go to (In PR) options>Audio> Untick 'english VO only'. Then you can hear all native languages. Or were you talking about mumble?



Also, do not base your opinions of the program as a whole on the basis of somebody spamming or being aggressive. Like everywhere on the internet, it happens. Report them to server admins.
You can whisper to channels/channel commands/clients/usergroups in TS3. The entire whisper system in TS3 is very well done.

Yes I was talking about actual players speaking perfect English in Mumble, yet being on some foreign OPFOR team. That ruins the game experience for me. I'd rather not hear them at all.

I can base my opinions on anything I like, thank you very much.
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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sector7g wrote:I like TS3 because i am on there with people who I choose to be on with - My clan mates, they are the only people that I want to hear or talk to and more to the point you don't get kicked out of our server for not being on our TS3 !
I run TS and mumble at the same time, and in no way is it too much chat to handle, and i usually SL a squad while doing this so im in mumble SL channel too.

So i can talk to my clan mates about w/e or if they are doing CAS or something else i can talk through TS to them.

And when im in mumble i can talk to mostly every one (some times every one) on my team about in game stuff


No one is trying to bully you into using mumble, were just saying that your reasons for not using it dont really make sense to most people who use it.
Lzryde wrote: -Hearing a Chinese/MEC/Russian enemy speaking in perfect English kills realism for me

Well im sorry there isnt a como rose button for your guy to scream

"enemy behind a tree 300m away he has a HAT tank watch out"

in a foreign language
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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Conman51 wrote:Well im sorry there isnt a como rose button for your guy to scream

"enemy behind a tree 300m away he has a HAT tank watch out"

in a foreign language
What are you apologizing for? There is no solution to this problem. That's why I've given up on the whole "everyone can hear everyone" idea and prefer the "team can hear team" idea.

If Mumble could play some generic Russian BS sound clip every time an enemy Ruski talked, I'd be happy. But that isn't going to happen, is it?
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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Lzryde wrote:What are you apologizing for? There is no solution to this problem. That's why I've given up on the whole "everyone can hear everyone" idea and prefer the "team can hear team" idea.

If Mumble could play some generic Russian BS sound clip every time an enemy Ruski talked, I'd be happy. But that isn't going to happen, is it?
Most servers use 2 channel system, so you cant hear the enemy.
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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sector7g wrote:I like TS3 because i am on there with people who I choose to be on with - My clan mates, they are the only people that I want to hear or talk to and more to the point you don't get kicked out of our server for not being on our TS3 !
If you have that mindset, maybe you are playing the wrong game. If one side uses mumble and has therefore good coordination and an effective CAS you are not helping your team. I am the first to say that for good teamwork you should be a regular on the server and try to play with the same people, but it does not mean you have to be best friends 4 life with them.

If you are that concerned about your privacy to the point you are not willing to talk to me so everyone can have a better gaming experience maybe PR is not the right game for you.

Also I am still convinced your problem is rather emotive than rational, like you feel partonized by the devs bundling mumble with the game and being like, this is awesome try it. Would you have quit playing PR if the mods would have found a way to integrate positional audio and an inter squad radio system as a part of their mod?
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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other: I don't have a mic.
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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Wakain wrote:other: I don't have a mic.
Doesn't hurt to hear your teammates though ;) .
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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I use mumble with the guys I always play PR, but we don't use pr mumble,I cant relay say why :confused:
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Re: Why do you hate mumble?

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Hate and rationality don't go hand in hand, and the whole "I want Russians speaking Russian" is a narrow minded view especially considering how mature the vast majority of the community is. So if you join a Russian infantry squad and the SL is talking English I suppose this would have to be equally horrific of an experience.

Another issue I have with "invasion of privacy" is that we're playing a game thus 90% of mumble chat is pertaining to the game and frankly most players don't care what you do out of the game. There are plenty of chat programs to allow you to talk to your family/friends in complete privacy (Skype, Yahoo, MSN, etc), mumble is for PR and not for talking about the wife and children *although most people aren't so uptight as to feel invaded by simply hearing others talk*.

It feels like you have not grasped the concept of mumble and somehow believe it to be a public forum for discussion when it is used to communicate information concerning the battle in a video game. As mentioned before your arguments are based on an emotional response, relax it's just a game ffs.
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