Voice communications at the moment are bugged as we all know, often players have cross communication with the opposing team.

That aside, I often hear people that have 'hot' microphones that continually broadcast noise from that individual players local environment (I have been an unintentional offender). Things like screaming kids, family members waffling on about their day, slightly delayed gameplay noises echoing back. This is normally from players forgetting that a mic was left on and other times it is intentionally used to grief. It is highly frustrating not being able to communicate with your own team, as one anti-social individual can cripple the co-ordination of more than a dozen team mates.

An individual mute option would be of great benefit please CCP. Combine that with somehow mapping a push-to-talk option, if not for controller users - then as an added benefit to Keyboard and mouse users.

Coming from EVE on PC and using quality voice comms solutions like Ventrilo, Teamspeak and other similar solutions. As it stands now, we are having to listen to someone chewing their dinner and heavy breathing into a mic on the PS3. I have left matches due to a poor experience with voice comms being abused.

How has everyone elses experiences been with voice comms in Dust 514 so far?

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We are working on improving voice chat and there will be Push To Talk option, don't worry :) Glad to see constructive feedback on this though!

Nice to know voice is being looked at , had to take my headset of a few times due to antisocial users . Though one thing i would like to see someplace is some sort of guide / review to mikes , first time i have needed to use one realy and the one i have works but the mike is very faint so i dont tend to get involved in much chat at this time.

We are working on improving voice chat and there will be Push To Talk option, don't worry :) Glad to see constructive feedback on this though!

I encourage different channels. Friends and squads can then chat without bothering any others. Not to beat a dead horse...MAG had it right with squad leaders being able to channel chat with each other and their superiors.

A mute option is a must.
There needs to be icons over the heads of whoever is talking, and indicators with names in the side of the HUD to show who is talking.
There should be more chat options, like a squad only option which would be default in 48+ player games where there could be like 23 other people talking at once, and a leaders only voice chat option for discussing strategy with the commander and other squad leaders.

This sounds like what we need, plus individual mute, optional PTT, and visual 'who's talking' indicators over character's heads(just make the chevron change colour) AND on the mini-map.

At which point we can start genuinely testing this game.

Voice communications at the moment are bugged as we all know, often players have cross communication with the opposing team.

That aside, I often hear people that have 'hot' microphones that continually broadcast noise from that individual players local environment (I have been an unintentional offender). Things like screaming kids, family members waffling on about their day, slightly delayed gameplay noises echoing back. This is normally from players forgetting that a mic was left on and other times it is intentionally used to grief. It is highly frustrating not being able to communicate with your own team, as one anti-social individual can cripple the co-ordination of more than a dozen team mates.

An individual mute option would be of great benefit please CCP. Combine that with somehow mapping a push-to-talk option, if not for controller users - then as an added benefit to Keyboard and mouse users.

Coming from EVE on PC and using quality voice comms solutions like Ventrilo, Teamspeak and other similar solutions. As it stands now, we are having to listen to someone chewing their dinner and heavy breathing into a mic on the PS3. I have left matches due to a poor experience with voice comms being abused.

How has everyone elses experiences been with voice comms in Dust 514 so far?

Discuss

I encourage different channels. Friends and squads can then chat without bothering any others. Not to beat a dead horse...MAG had it right with squad leaders being able to channel chat with each other and their superiors.

^^ This. If MAG did anyting right, it was VC. And when they added proximity chat, it made it just that much more better. And for those domination games (128 vs 128), it was just brilliant. For anyone who doesn't know here's how it worked:

There were various chat channels and depending on you position, depended on who you could chat with (Imagine trying to distinguish 128 voices all at once)

1. Lobby chat: Chat channel for everyone waiting for game to start / queue up.

2. Squad-Chat: Standard channel during a match, everyone gets this. They can talk and hear the 8-man team they are on.

3. Platoon-Chat: Squad Leaders and the Platoon Leader have access to this. Only Squad leaders and Platoon Leaders can be heard on and use this channel (in the same platoon). Thing is, you can still hear your own Squad-Chat (they can't hear you though).

4. Company Chat: Platoon Leaders and OIC have access to this. Here they can speak with other Platoon Leaders or the OIC. You still hear everything in 1 and 2, they just can't hear you.

5. Platoon Broadcast: Platoon Leaders only. EVERYONE in your platoon will hear you (one-way communication). Used when PL want's to address everyone in their Platoon (4 Squads).

6. Company Broadcast: OIC (Officer-in-charge - 1 per 128 team) only. Used to address EVERYONE on your side of the battle (128 people broadcast).

7. Proximity: If you were within xx-meters of other person (ally or foe), you could here them. It was funny hearing your enemy calling out strategies, not knowing you were right there listning to them, only to take-em-out and then hear them throw a rage-fit trying to figure out how you knew were they were and what they were doing.

There were also chat indicators to tell you who was talking, there were mute options, PTT, etc... just made VC great. In the larger battles (i.e. Domination 128 vs 128) it made communication so much easier and siimpler. As well, you didn't have all the chatter to try and sort through. Made strategy making that much better as well. It also kept most of the "useless" chatter out of the convo.

I know this isn't MAG, but take a page from their book for sure.

i had to listen to someone crunching on chips for an entire match. I agree, someway of muting other players would be great.

And a mute function for individual players is a must-have. Also, giving us a notification of who's talking when mics are active would be nice - and I mean an in-game pop-up over their heads.

squad leaders being able to channel chat with each other and their superiors.

Something that works like MAG would be good, however i would want to add one thing for ultimate control. As the MCC (or platoon leader) to link 2 squads together in VC. Or to link just 2-4 squad leaders together, Also as the ultimate to allow a com link to just one other person.

Proxy chat was always fun and amusing and sometimes even useful, however it is slightly unnecessary, that being said i would LOVE to have it in game.

Now there was a good idea said, i cant quote it now but the idea to have the enemy MCC to be able to put out a broadcast to the enemy to be awesome. Whether it be intimidation or any of the sort i think that should be there, as that is something that could be realistically (in the EVE Dust world) done. Of course this should also be able to be mutable to the enemy team to prevent just annoying spamming.