I'm really not interested in comms and it's a big turnoff for me at this point. I liked EVE a lot but chilling with the bros and the occasional gamer girl (who became a precious commodity) all the time while fleeting got pretty lame fast. I had a great corp full of friendly and funny guys but it was a bit much and got to be kindof 'ehhh' a lot of the time, especially fleeting with alliance. I didn't used to mind it when I was younger playing games like SOCOM on PS2 remember chilling with lots of cool e-friends, but I dropped back into CoD online recently - picked up black ops the SP was amazing but hadnt tried the MP - first thing I noticed was how annoying everyone on comms was. I much prefer comms that are easily accessable and standard within the game, ie Tribes, CS quick chat buttons, league of legends blue/yellow pings. I usually have music on if I'm playing CS or some game on the PC that allows mic broadcasts. I know using a mic allows for some degree of communication and planning but eh. I put it in an earlier post but the main comms i think this game needs is a button that will 'spot' enemy troops/vehicles for the team.

Delete my account? Please kid. I'm probably better than anyone in your corp. I don't plan on using a headset once.


Capable players dont need comms to play games like this. Ingame chat functions would be enough if they existed - a button that pointed out enemies like in TRIBES or BF as an example again (they really should add this)


This isnt EVE where youre calling out names on an overview to target, most stuff is common sense

Well uh actually I used to play CS on the PC for money and I used comms then but I've outgrown it and don't like it anymore, i just play in pubs for fun and the comms never really did anything during the play anyways - good players were aware of what was happening, we had set plays we would run, comms were mainly for calling plays and targets - you dont do that in DUST. and I used to play CoD:WaW on gamebattles ranked.. so.. (plus, black ops was an amazing single player game, i liked the series from COD1 but the MW lost me - WaW and Black ops were probably 2 of the best games for me in the last decade though, liked black ops SP a looooot and WaW had great MP)



I am probably the best DUST player ever


And I wont use comms


Get mad?



Also my EVE records are probably the best

Proxy chat is fine. As long as it's optional. I support a local channel ON/OFF like push to talk to make this happen.

You'd be very surprised how many have mics actually.

you don't hear them or come into contact because the comms set up in this game is truly one of the worst I've come across in an FPS.

If you or anyone else ever played MAG you would know what excellent comms set up can do for a game.

If you haven't, go play it and see for yourself. Then you'll be talking from experience rather than guessing.

I played MAG for over two years and you're right,the comms set up was second to none,but this ain't MAG,and while I do feel like Dust should have more structure with the team leaders like MAG does,adding proxy wouldn't do anything to improve the game.

One thing that MAG didn't do that Dust does is actually give you the opportunity to communicate with the whole team BEFORE the match even starts.If only people would switch to TEAM CHAT,then many of the complaints about the comms in Dust would be suppressed.I understand proxy for your own team,but it's not necessary with the team chat function.

Besides all that,this beta has enough problems as it is,and people want to throw another thing into that mix to do god knows what?Let them fix the hit detection and the framerate issues before they start trying to add anything new.

There are lots of reasons how it would improve the game. FUN being a major one, something sorely lacking in this game.

1. Being able to smack talk your enemy.

2. Listening to all their QQ while they're dead at your feet.

3. You have to be silent when sneaking about, a cough might cost you your life.

4. You can verbally abuse friendly redline snipers.

5. You can tell that bluedot to come join your venture instead of goofing about all the time.

6. We'll eventually get vids of people QQing on proxy.

7. Cross squad communications on the battlefield while being close.

8. It just makes the game alot more fun.

9. ???

10. Profit.

And you haven't ever played a shooter with proxy chat before?

D'ya know why we played MAG as long as we did, because comms were excellent and proxy was hilarious.

This game is just downright dull.

Ok lets see points 1,2,4,6,8 can pretty much all be rolled up into one u want to be able to verbally troll ppl in game because u think its fun. 4,5,7 are already in the game get in ur team chat channel and u can see for urself. U have no 9, and 10 doesn't really make sense. 3 defeats the purpose of having a scanner or lowering ur signature profile. Did I miss anything? So wats proxy chat gonna do to help the game?

allows u to talk with blue dots and communicate with them since many wont be on team chat. from a tactics standpoint it is very imp for that reason alone.

Proxy chat would make the game more interesting for sure. It would also be interesting if you there were modules that "encrypted your comms" so the enemy couldn't hear what you're saying.