Ns And Voice Communication
Keyser
Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13591Members
Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13591Members
<div class="IPBDescription">How necessary it is</div> I've been playing NS for a solid 4 months now right before 1.04 was released and since then I have been using my headset to talk to other players until a few days ago. Thats when I was unable to use voice communication and playing NS suddenly became so much more difficult.
Commanding became so hard it came to a point where I refuse to command if I can't talk to my marines. I have had a decent career comming, probably win a few more then I lose, but that has changed. Now I lose 80% of the games because I can't communicate with my marines efficiently enough to win games. Its like I have no control over what my marines do, and when I had voice, at least I had partial control, so now I have to type all the orders and commands to everyone while 3 other marines are sitting at base waiting for health or a structure or who knows what.
Not only commanding has become more difficult, but general gameplay as a marine or an alien is harder too. When you notice the marines setting up a phase gate next to your hive you have to pause and type it out leaving you vulnerable for that split second. Not only that but its time wasted you could be attacking. Or requesting health from the comm or giving suggestions is much much harder. Thus I have become a less efficient teamplayer.
My point is, if you are playing without voice, get it, it makes you a much better and more efficient teamplayer, not to mention it is almost a necessity to command with. Headsets are cheap, I think mine cost about $15, and it will improve your game so much.
Commanding became so hard it came to a point where I refuse to command if I can't talk to my marines. I have had a decent career comming, probably win a few more then I lose, but that has changed. Now I lose 80% of the games because I can't communicate with my marines efficiently enough to win games. Its like I have no control over what my marines do, and when I had voice, at least I had partial control, so now I have to type all the orders and commands to everyone while 3 other marines are sitting at base waiting for health or a structure or who knows what.
Not only commanding has become more difficult, but general gameplay as a marine or an alien is harder too. When you notice the marines setting up a phase gate next to your hive you have to pause and type it out leaving you vulnerable for that split second. Not only that but its time wasted you could be attacking. Or requesting health from the comm or giving suggestions is much much harder. Thus I have become a less efficient teamplayer.
My point is, if you are playing without voice, get it, it makes you a much better and more efficient teamplayer, not to mention it is almost a necessity to command with. Headsets are cheap, I think mine cost about $15, and it will improve your game so much.
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dunno what u exacly mean!
dunno what u exacly mean! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Do you command alot? And if you do how easy is it?
Well, you can play NS for 2 years and never go commander, but your missing out on a huge aspect of the game. Also I was just noticing that voice just benefits the team, I'm not saying its impossible, just saying you'd be a better teamplayer with voice.
EDIT: Sorry a little late, but that that report sounds interesting. Looking forward to seeing it.
I certainly wouldn't be playing now if I didn't use my mic.
Sadly, my sound card is not the best and apparently I'm sending distorted voice to my teammates sometimes. I'm trying to find a way to improve the quality through software means, but I may just need to wait for the hardware.
Typing also doesn't get noticed very often..
You don't know how many times I've typed "marines are putting a turret factory in keyhole with a phase gate!! get there now!!" and then repeat it after I suicide against 4 marines expecting alien resistance.. yet no one notices till that guy with voice com goes "holy ****!! they're going to seige our hive!! get to maint now!!"
me= I said that already <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
In Science and Industry, a lot of people don't bother with a mic, but just use a customized commandmenu system with a client hook to insert locations. They might hit a few keys and a message would be sent to the team asking for help at whatever place they were. If you don't have access to a mic, I reccomend getting some basic communication binds going.
Commanders pretty much NEED a mic, but other than that only about 2-3 ( assuming 16 person game) need mics also. People ( myself included) stay on the channel to long, trying to explian exactly how they need that tf planted, instead of just saying TF here at no name.
Personally i dont see how you play without a mic, especially on marines, it just makes the gameplay more fluid.
I hate it when people spam voicecomm... can't understand **** and missing important things. You don't realize how hard it is to understand american english spoken through microphone.
Hence I don't comm often because I'm too slow at it. I prefer giving waypoints then.
and its alot of fun chatting with your friends and other NS players
Then playing without mike is a breeze <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
It's best when you are playing on a server with a lot of other players that are also using voice comm, and everyone is communicating with one another.
[Shameless plug]
Almost all the regulars on Roob's No Time For Muppets NS 1.04, IP 163.1.180.217:27016 use voice-com, and sometimes you can really see the difference between the two teams when one is communicating well and the other isn't.
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Skulk rushes can be very effective with the entire team rushing at once, and it's very hard to do without people organising where to meet up, etc. over voice com. Not to mention how much easier it is to weld someone when there's a big microphone over their head <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
"WELD ME FOR THE LUV OF GOD!!!!!1!" To get some results. I noticed how hard it is to get somebody to weld you without voice.
no seriously be glad that valve was so nice as to add the voice com to half life, without it I would probably not be able to play properly <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
nor would any decent clan or any intelligent person( like most of the people on these forums)
btw. if you dont use voice com it doesnt mean that youre stupid or untalented, it just means that youre crippled in a way
and its alot of fun chatting with your friends and other NS players <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Die. I hate it when people get all chatty during the entire fricking game. Say hello, talk a little when the action lulls, sure. But if I get killed as a gorge by some marine I should have heard (and even if I couldn't run away, I'd still be annoyed) because you <b>edit</b> were chatting away: it's sensory time, <b>yo</b>. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Die. I hate it when people get all chatty during the entire fricking game. Say hello, talk a little when the action lulls, sure. But if I get killed as a gorge by some marine I should have heard (and even if I couldn't run away, I'd still be annoyed) because you jerkoffs were chatting away: it's sensory time, biotch. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yah, that shows the darker side of voice. The thing I really hate is the chatters who feel the need to blurt out every.single.detail. They don't realise that it's affecting other peoples games because they can't hear shite over the incessant droning.
By all means call for backup, report empty nodes and enemy presence, but we really don't care how many shots it took to kill that Skulk.
- If one or two people are talking, and something important happens that I need to tell everyone about (HOLY **** 5 HAs COMING TO THE HIVE, etc), there's no way to get them to shut up so I can talk. I realize that there is no real solution to this, but when you're in a game with really chatty people it can drive you nuts.
- Chatty people also start getting on my nerves when I'm trying to listen for footsteps while I build, or so I can time my daring fall from the ceiling onto a strategically placed marine's noggin.
- I have yet to find any useful documentation on all the various voice settings so I can adjust my speaking volume and stuff.
And yeah, it's really quite pathetic how typing can get ignored even if it's in all caps and repeated twice. Same with jumping up and down with the flashlight going on and off - you'd think that if someone welds ONE marine who's doing that, they would weld them all...
Commanding became so hard it came to a point where I refuse to command if I can't talk to my marines. I have had a decent career comming, probably win a few more then I lose, but that has changed. Now I lose 80% of the games because I can't communicate with my marines efficiently enough to win games. Its like I have no control over what my marines do, and when I had voice, at least I had partial control, so now I have to type all the orders and commands to everyone while 3 other marines are sitting at base waiting for health or a structure or who knows what.
Not only commanding has become more difficult, but general gameplay as a marine or an alien is harder too. When you notice the marines setting up a phase gate next to your hive you have to pause and type it out leaving you vulnerable for that split second. Not only that but its time wasted you could be attacking. Or requesting health from the comm or giving suggestions is much much harder. Thus I have become a less efficient teamplayer.
My point is, if you are playing without voice, get it, it makes you a much better and more efficient teamplayer, not to mention it is almost a necessity to command with. Headsets are cheap, I think mine cost about $15, and it will improve your game so much. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just my word!
I wont comm without a mic anymore <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
voice_loopback 1 - great for testing how others hear you
voice_maxgain 1 - this sets amplification of mic input, default is 5, if your voice is distorted try to lower it to 1
voice_overdrive 1 - this sets how much sounds of game decrease loudnes if someone speaks (default 2), set to 1 if you don't want this feature.
voice_scale 2 - this sets amplification of voice communication received from others, default is 1, i set this usually to 1.5 or 2 for louder voice comm.
Hope this will help some people having troubles with voice quality.