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Tannhauser wrote:I think all that «i'm hearing the enemy» blabering should be low priority. It doesn't matter to me if the guy I killed speaks english or gibberish or anything.

Scot wrote:This brings me to my suggestion, as AnrK says, it is a problem for people, they don't want to be heard by the enemy, so they use Voip, which completely defeats the purpose of Mumble. What we need is people going into seperate channels in game, because think about it, if you are an MEC Chap, even if you heard some Brits talking, you wouldn't understand a word, but as it is now, you could get 1 squad in mumble, saying move here etc etc, some sneaky opfor guy listening, but he shouldn't really be able to understand if we are going with his in game character. However, I think if a grunt(not the SL in the SL channel) uses Force Center, then if possible, everyone should hear, because it's like the radio is being listened to by the enemy, and grunts shouldn't really use it.

Airs0ft_S0ldier11 wrote:1. Make a mumble forum or subforum so we don't have to go through these long threads

TayloR016 wrote:Yeh i hate the whole 'we'll use voip so the enemy wont hear us' eliminating the purpose of mumble like you said.

I think it would be ok if you could only hear the enemy within 5 metres or something but that doesn't sound possible. At the moment im hearing people having the max distance at max and just listening out for the enemy shouldn't be like that at all.

hx.bjoffe wrote:Suggestion: Remove the "Close or minimize" option when closing the program.
I turn off computer, it starts working closing programs, and i get to bed. Wake up next morning, computer still on with that message imprintet on screen. Happened more then once.
Small but annoying

Jonny wrote:The radio thing needs to be elaborated on some more.

Let say we have a load of radio frequencies, 0-127 say. 0 - 63 are for team 1 and 64 - 127 are for team 2 (although both teams should see them as 1-64). Channels 0 and 64 (ie, CH1 for each team) are designated command frequencies, where you can talk directly to the CO no matter what channel he is actually listening to, but he cant transmit to only you via that channel, just to the whole team.

Who has a radio?
The CO
squad leaders
Tank commanders
APC/IFV commanders
Aircraft
Snipers
FOs (if possible)
and possibly 'radio operators' (AKA, iron-sight riflemen, will talk about later)

kit radios are heard by the person who has the kit (and people nearby hear static, perhaps), vehicle radios are heard by either the driver, or by anyone close by if there is no driver. So you can actually sit outside your APC waiting for orders while your gunner scans the horizon.

How do you use a radio?
Tune into a specific channel.
When on this channel you can transmit and recieve.
Simple as that.

Now, I am sure plenty of people are asking why use this instead of cloning the BF2 system. Well, say you want a large-scale assault on one side of the map, at the same time as another at the other side (I will refer to these as 'theatres'). The CO can designate channels for each theatre, now you have groups of squads and assets using the same nets and who are all trying to achieve a common goal. The CO can listen into any net here and tell whats going on. You can have as many nets as you want, so you can have all aircraft fighting with one net OR all armour on one net OR all assault elements on one net OR a group of infantry squads, 2 IFVs and a scout chopper on one net OR any other way you want it arranged.

You *could* have seperate squad-nets, but it wouldn't be useful because you cant monitor all of them.

Back to the 'radio operator'.
This has been suggested several times, but not been useful until now.
Say a squad has to attack a small objective. They have the SL, a DMR, a medic, an iron-sight rifleman and 2 scoped riflemen. Without a radio-operator, they have to stick together. With radio operator, the iron-sight rifleman becomes 2ic and capable of leading a FT independantly of the SLs FT. Now you have the ability to set up a USEFUL overwatch and to choose when you strike very precisely.

You can now cut off a squad from reinforcements. All you need to do is take down the radios and they cant get any help. Especially if you remove infantry markers from the map, and just mark the locations of radios. The radio-marker should stay for several minutes after the operators death, because it *is* technically still going to be there.

One last thing:
What happens when you get an enemy radio-equipped kit, last set at channel 12, say? You get to hear that channel from the enemy team, ofcourse! Anything that the enemy transmit in CH12, you recieve. Anything you transmit, they recieve. Only difference is it being stuck on that channel. Found an abandoned enemy vehicle? Listen to the radio! Find out as much as possible from the enemy and use it to your advantage. Hows that for secondary objectives on insurgency maps?