To be fair, seeing as you can't turn your head anyway the info you can give would be pretty minimal.

lets say you are in a firefight and you notice a sniper...but he sees you too

he pops you before you can kill him

now you are dead and shouldnt be able to say SNIPER IN THE TREES!!!

Ok. or we can pretend this is a video game, and I am having a conversation with my friends while I'm playing.

TBQH, if they did something like this, my friends and I, and I'm sure many others, would just use Teamspeak. Ohhh, maybe they should link DUST to Teamspeak so you can't talk there either, eh?

I get that you want "teh realism" but man... this is a video game, made for fun. Why would you even ask for such a thing, unless you never use comms to begin with? (or.. have no friends to talk to? )

it just adds to the realism

Greetings,

Ummm, your consciousness is transferred instantly to a new body the instant you die... So why should you lose comms?

Additionally were this to be changed, people would simple cease using the comms provided in game and switch to using external comms (Mumble, Teamspeak, etc)... Actually I know a couple of people who have already switched. If it is too hard to use the tools in the game, people will meta-game which becomes far more difficult to control.

pretty sure you cant talk while your essence is being transfered

but this is the first game universe thats bringing in a real "war" the closest thing to a war that you are gonna get unless you enlist in your respective countries military

so wait is there really in game voice comms? This is a serious question???

What part of instant transfer are you not understanding? Additionally, you are not talking verbally, instead you are using implants in your prime clone to communicate, so there is no communication disruption. Finally, your clone doesn't generally die until you press the "suicide" button, so it makes perfect sense that he continues to communicate until he chooses to clone jump back.


Not even close. Many games will get you much closer to realism. Dust is set around 25,000 - 50,000 years into the future in a completely different galaxy. There are alien races and mankind has evolved and diverged in New Eden to the point where they have almost become separate species in their own right.

Finally, as I stated previously though, the real kicker is that this change would cause most people to use different comms system at which point, they will still be able to communicate even when the server is down... In fact there are a number of people who already do this. What you are proposing will just make that worse.