Headphones And Microphones
Pascal
Join Date: 2004-02-23 Member: 26828Members
Join Date: 2004-02-23 Member: 26828Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Collect the set, [U][I]or die![/I][/U]</div> These are things the marines simply cannot do without, headphones and microphones. They don't make you a better player, they make you a better team. Have you had a commander without a mic? Annoying isnt it. Its hard to get people to work in a coherent mass when you are fingertyping a list of orders that only half of them will read. Yeah I know, waypoints are good too, but its nice to be filled in on the whole plan. And headphones are necessary when in dark corners and the like. Trying to locate a skulk in a dark room without sound just plain sucks at the start of any game.
My suggestion would be for everybody to go down to radio shack or future shop and shell out 25$ for a pair of these baby's <img src='http://www.futureshop.ca/multimedia/products/large/10004211.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Your team will thank you.
My suggestion would be for everybody to go down to radio shack or future shop and shell out 25$ for a pair of these baby's <img src='http://www.futureshop.ca/multimedia/products/large/10004211.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Your team will thank you.
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but a mic is not a guarantee for a co-operating team as comm, just a stimulator.
P.S. In some instances, it does make you a better player. You can expect things better and know what's comming at you. Wouldn't believe how many times players with good ears and a pair of headphones are called hackers because they hear that skulk running along the wall instead of walking.
<b><i><u><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>YES!</span></span></u></i></b>
It helps, a lot. It gives you a poor man's surround system. With a headset, you can hear the sutle sounds of a skulk wall walking, and the direction it's comming from. Try them out for a bit and you'll see what I mean. You'll be comming through a door, looking up instantly and wasting that skulk and being called ")MG HAX)RZ!!! ADMI(N B AN HIM!!!!1"
That's still the greatest thing I hear, especially from the newer players. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I hate to play with by 2.1 Speakers <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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that are really peanuts. so go and buy a cheap one if you don´t allready have a mic
That's still the greatest thing I hear, especially from the newer players. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you have an A3D sound card and A3D enabled that's even more hax-o-rific. Damn creative killed A3D which was clearly supperior to that EAX environment crap, A3D gives you much better spacial awareness and not just a rather cool/(at times annoying) echo. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I personally can't stand headsets. Mostly because they come with crap microphones and crap head phones. I would MUCH rather have good headphones and a "discrete" microphone even if it means reaching over and grabbing it when I need to talk(on the plus side, people <i>allways</i> hear what I'm saying because the noise level is low and the clarity is very nice with a decent microphone even with the quite heavy compression, but they also get to hear my annoying swedish accent(it gets even worse when I try to speak spanish <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->)).
edit: 'sw-english' misstakes <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Headsets are uneccessary, actually. When I play NS I actually have two "headsets" on; the headphones, and another headset with a mic. The mic headset is actually only single-ear, and if you put them over your regular headphones (using the headphones for audio, of course), you've got yourself a mic + good headphones. The mic headset I'm using right now I actually picked up at Fry's a while ago; they were having a 100% rebate on some voice-dictation software so I picked up a box and got a mic for free!
TS2 Problems...i can´t speak in TS2 and at the Server the same time...Either I start TS2 first...this will make it possible to talk in TS2...or i join the server first...this will make it impossible for me to talk in TS2...it gives me an error: Invalid Headset...darn! My friends are able to use both at the same time...why is it impossible for me? is there any solution?
cost of MY microphone..... about 15 cents... for glue... and plywood..
OBSERVE:
(took the old mic out of my boom box... used an old extension cord wire and snagged a jack from a bin downstairs and soldered in a switch..... the result:
and ive never been one to shout at a game
ive heard people shoutng like "GOOD GOD MOVE MOVE MOVE "etc... i just dont get that hyped up about a computer game enough to shout down the mic <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ther for typing away is nice <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Its even worse when they start slagging you off on mic becuase you did something wrong its like
"YOU BOSTORD YOU WERE MEANT TO COVER ME"
usually i type back.. "look, a window , look outside, LOOK GO OUTSIDE!"
:/