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Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 09:29

I play halo 2 a lot and headsets come in real handy, this is not halo 2 (duh!) but if you have things like combined armies and allies and what not, wouldn't headsets be a nice thing to have? so that you don't have to stop what your doing and go type a big message to your ally then get back to what you where doing, stop again to reply to your ally and so on. I think it'd be a nice feature to have.......anybody else think so?

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Submitted by Surge on Sun, 2005-07-17 10:38.

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You mean VOIP?

It would be cool to have. Useful, but not nessecary.

Submitted by TheTyckoMan on Sun, 2005-07-17 12:00.

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"It would be cool to have. Useful, but not nessecary."

yeah it's not necessary, but it'd make coordinated attacks and defensive counter attacks a lot easier to do.

Submitted by PSCHost on Mon, 2005-07-18 10:51.

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All you need is TeamSpeak

Then you can set up channels for each faction and have allies in each channel. No need for this in-game.

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Submitted by Shinova on Mon, 2005-07-18 10:54.

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"All you need is TeamSpeak

Then you can set up channels for each faction and have allies in each channel. No need for this in-game."

Problem being that it's kinda hard to do this in pub games.

GPG could implement all those features in the game. Like team-only speak and stuff.

Submitted by Col Firefly on Sun, 2005-07-17 10:40.

Yes, but the 3rd party functionality is here already. Go grab Skype or Firefly.

If clans need it, they'll probably use Teamspeak.

Nothing ever lasts. The important thing is that it works while it lasts.

Submitted by Shinova on Sun, 2005-07-17 12:07.

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I would love voice chatting. As long as there's good mute options in case someone decides to go karaoke.

Submitted by TheTyckoMan on Sun, 2005-07-17 12:10.

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yes yes that is the only reason I can think of why not to have voip chatting and what not, also there is the swearing, racial slurs, etc.

Submitted by Jammang on Sun, 2005-07-17 19:48.

These head sets should be included with the game itself and that would stop a lot of piracy. Maybe the head set could have more features with it if my previous idea was to be taken into account.

All I can think of is a customizable voice recognition that allows players to set different commands with their voice. I'm just picture the player saying something like "alpha" then one of your radars that you had already set as alpha becomes selected, then you say "disable" and the radar stops sending out signals. Of course these words you say could be anything you set them to be.

Submitted by MercFox1 on Sun, 2005-07-17 20:58.

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Initially, the idea would be too much micro, but after you get all the commands going, it'd be really streamlined.

BTW, guys you don't need VOIP built into the game. There's this little program called GameComm that when you download the client, you can make a free 10 person server.

http://www.gamecomm.com/hosting/

It's CPL-quality stuff man, my CSS clan uses it extensively. Would be a great alternative to VOIP stuff that might take away from the game, plus the quality might even exceed what would be in the game.

"When there is no evolution, there must be revolution." -- AI Construct

Submitted by TheTyckoMan on Sun, 2005-07-17 22:36.

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thanks for the url! and you probably have a point about it taking away from the game (hardware and software wise) so I'll check this out Eye-wink

Submitted by wandering idiot on Sun, 2005-07-17 23:32.

TheTyckoMan is right! I was over at my friend's house today and we decided to play Halo 2 online and sense. I don't actually own a copy of halo 2, so I am sort of a noob to the game. And man some of those people, every other word being a swear like, "******* noob you can just wipe my ******* ***!" So ya I think you should be able to mute at free will.
-- the infamous wandering idiot Cool

Submitted by TheTyckoMan on Mon, 2005-07-18 09:33.

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and not just mute everybody (well have that option) but also be able to mute certain people (because usually it's one guy that ruins it for all the other people) while leaving your buddy on the line so you can know if he needs help.

Submitted by zwzsg on Sat, 2005-07-30 11:28.

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And most importantly, mute by just clicking the name, without having to type /mute nickname, because usually the people you'd want to mute have indecipherable names filled with extended ascii characters.

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