VOIP poll - Everyone please vote

acadiancrusader · Post by **acadiancrusader** » 2007-02-23 01:35

ingame, my clanmates use TS exclusively. it has far better audio quality. 90% of voip users can barely be heard on my end. just for the record, i do use it to communicate with indies who are in my squad. i just sometimes forget to use it as i've been using TS for years.

Nephrmuus · Post by **Nephrmuus** » 2007-02-23 03:15

acadiancrusader wrote:ingame, my clanmates use TS exclusively. it has far better audio quality. 90% of voip users can barely be heard on my end. just for the record, i do use it to communicate with indies who are in my squad. i just sometimes forget to use it as i've been using TS for years.

Sadly the default setting is to have mic boost off in BF2 VOIP. Without the mic boost, noone seems to be audible using the in-game VOIP.

Clypp · Post by **Clypp** » 2007-02-23 18:28

I guess the more voip using players are also the people who are more inclined to be on the forums. There is no way 70% of online players use VOIP at all.

Post by **bosco_** » 2007-02-23 18:37

Yeah, I even doubt there are 109 players who use it all the time at all...

Lugubrum · Post by **Lugubrum** » 2007-02-23 18:59

puglous wrote:I use it a lot, but sometimes it just gets irritating, like when you have 5 other people in your squad all with mics, but one is a pre-pubescent kid with 1000 speech impediments, the second speaks with some bizarre European accent you've never heard and can hardly understand English, the third is busy screaming profanities (which, for some reasons he needs to scream into his microphone for us all to hear), the fourth has his mic so quiet you're not sure if he's even speaking, and the fifth is so non-chalante it kills the feel of the battle.

But most of time its a great help.

Who cares if someone speaks with an accent, you know lot of peoples English is not the native langauge.

NavalLord · Post by **NavalLord** » 2007-02-23 19:03

I just turned it on so I could hear others. It lags my vent though. And people can't hear me because I can't enable the mic boost.

puglous · Post by **puglous** » 2007-02-23 21:18

Who cares if someone speaks with an accent, you know lot of peoples English is not the native langauge.

People who want to understand their squad mates, that's who cares

. I can deal with a subtle accent, but when its obnoxiously thick to a point where I have no idea what they're saying, it just blocks out the noises of battle.

=*CLA*=StudMuffin21 · Post by **=*CLA*=StudMuffin21** » 2007-02-23 21:34

Though VOIP can be a VERY valuable tool I rarely use it. The only time I use it is when I am actually able to hear fellow squad members (or if I'm squad leader I use it when my squad is actually paying attention and sticking with me - rarely happens

). Even though I have the mic boost gain on, I can barely make out what people say.

Most the time I use TeamSpeak and communicate that way - it tends to work very well!!!

Animalmother · Post by **Animalmother** » 2007-02-23 22:11

vanity wrote:I like when guys from Southern USA join my squad. Their drawl and twang cracks me up.

"HOWWLLLDDD UP!! I Fell aught the trughhk!"

(Hold on, I fell out of the truck)

stop making fun of DVB

Top_Cat_AxJnAt · Post by **Top_Cat_AxJnAt** » 2007-02-23 22:18

Animalmother GET A MIKE!!!!!!!! heheeeeeee, just kidden, great to play with theee tonight, you SMasheD the mould of non voip IQ users having low IQs!!!!!

P.s i love accents, espcialy Irish and Scotish.

Smitty4212 · Post by **Smitty4212** » 2007-02-23 23:21

I have a mic, but I chose the third option. I live with a roommate, so I offer him the common courtesy of me not yelling battle commands when he's trying to do work. I know I'd sure as hell be pissed if I heard him constantly yelling "Sniper!".

I do use the in-game text a lot, though. I find it frustrating when people create "VOIP Only" squads, because I still communicate more than a lot of people who DO have mics. And I always listen to everyone else, especially the squad leader, so I don't see what the issue is. I can type "sniper on the tall building above West City" nearly as quickly as I can say it.

Nephrmuus · Post by **Nephrmuus** » 2007-02-24 13:59

=*CLA*=StudMuffin21 wrote:Though VOIP can be a VERY valuable tool I rarely use it. The only time I use it is when I am actually able to hear fellow squad members (or if I'm squad leader I use it when my squad is actually paying attention and sticking with me - rarely happens ). Even though I have the mic boost gain on, I can barely make out what people say.

Mic boost amplifies your own output volume. If you can't hear other people, it is probably because they don't have their mic boost enabled.

PipoDeluxe · Post by **PipoDeluxe** » 2007-02-24 14:29

I always use VOIP in PR.
Without it there's no cohesion within the squad, and teamwork is really hard to organize.

Nephrmuus wrote:I can't see any real reasons to turn off your VOIP so you can't hear your squad, and particularly your squad-leader

I totally agree!

Nephrmuus wrote:women might feel they would get hit on in a male-dominated game

LOL

There's actually software available for this that transforms a female's voice into a male one in-game. It's made specifically for female gamers who are sick of male gamers with testosterone overdoses. (And it can of course also be used by guys who prefer to talk with a female voice....

)

Hx.Clavdivs · Post by **Hx.Clavdivs** » 2007-02-24 15:14

I have told you of that one time where one started harping away at me cause he didn't like little boys playing a mans game? Then when it was established that I was female and twice HIS age, he said: But you have such a deep manly voice?

WTF! Some players are just idiots.

[-=IDSF=-]SykloAG · Post by **[-=IDSF=-]SykloAG** » 2007-02-24 18:01

The majority of people who frequent the forums/answered the poll use VoIP. If that is the case, then why does it seem that on most public servers, most people do not have a mic or don't use one???

Post by **bosco_** » 2007-02-24 18:02

'[-=IDSF=- wrote:SykloAG']The majority of people who frequent the forums/answered the poll use VoIP. If that is the case, then why does it seem that on most public servers, most people do not have a mic or don't use one???

That's what I'm wondering about, too

TII · Post by **TII** » 2007-02-24 18:06

Because most people who play the game don't post on the forum. I don't mind if someone doesn't have a mic when I create a VOIP squad, more important is that they do what they're told and reply using text, voice over commands, and spotted stuff, and just be an all around good teamplayer.

BLUFOR-73 · Post by **BLUFOR-73** » 2007-02-26 01:12

Awesome, I'm using my headphones as a "mike" now. Quality is good too.

=*CLA*=StudMuffin21 · Post by **=*CLA*=StudMuffin21** » 2007-02-26 07:26

Nephrmuus wrote:Mic boost amplifies your own output volume. If you can't hear other people, it is probably because they don't have their mic boost enabled.

Ah ok. So it's not my fault after all

I still prefer to use TS or Vent over VOIP though.

JuniperM40 · Post by **JuniperM40** » 2007-02-26 08:33

Does the Squad Name "VOIP ARMOR" give it away whether I use VoIP or not? =)

- JM40.

JuniperM40: << NOW FOMRING ARMOURED SQUAD (3)

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