1. Being able to smack talk your enemy. - Talk smack on forums - Why would I do that? Its a heat of the moment kind of thing.

2. Listening to all their QQ while they're dead at your feet. - They will whine about it on forums ie STB complaining that SI used tanks on them when all they did was use tank in random matches - I don't get this one, whats the point?

3. You have to be silent when sneaking about, a cough might cost you your life. - But my clone has a dropsuit with a helmet on, its soundproof aswell so no - No no, realism argument looses by default vs gameplay/fun argument.

4. You can verbally abuse friendly redline snipers. - Once FF is on then TK instead - Now you can do both!

5. You can tell that bluedot to come join your venture instead of goofing about all the time. - Not if hes sat 500m away on top of a hill - That was hardly my point...

6. We'll eventually get vids of people QQing on proxy. - Not important at all - off course not, still funny though.

7. Cross squad communications on the battlefield while being close. - Maybe the only use for it tbh, if anything should be able to tap into each others comms if on same team - Why over complicate it?


8. It just makes the game alot more fun. - Meh, 50/50

9. ???

10. Profit.

Overall no tbh

There is no real reason to have proxy.

Nice edit.

I guess those who are faint of heart and get offended when opposing players talk crap about them wouldn't like it. Personally, my sensibilities get hurt everytime some random guy on the internet makes fun of my mother. DOWN WITH PROXY CHAT

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.

Most blue dots don't have mics anyway,so unless the proxy comes out of your TV it has no value.

I thought that proxy would be good,but it just breeds way too much animosity in a game that probably won't need it.

Like someone else said,if you need to trash talk your enemy,invite them to a separate channel for that.

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.

proxy is a good idea for squads would save you having to press a button a close range, but i don't think you should be able to talk to the enemy not really any point, but hearing them talk could be useful. it would have to be a module (audio scanner or something along those lines) for it to work.

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.