Is Teamspeak an essential for Arma?

[soldier from tf2]

Installing the game now, i've heard a lot of servers use it. Should I get it?

[NZPorterDJ]

If you want to be fully immersed in the military aspects of the game and use an authentic radio enviroment then yes, IMHO it is essential. Check out the TFAR or ACRE2 mods and what they can bring to the ArmA experience.

If OFC you are only interested in the Life-alikes or DayZ-alike missions or straight PvP then no, teamspeak is not useful for the most part.

[soldier from tf2]

Originally posted by WiLD|NZPorterDJ:

If you want to be fully immersed in the military aspects of the game and use an authentic radio enviroment then yes, IMHO it is essential. Check out the TFAR or ACRE2 mods and what they can bring to the ArmA experience.

If OFC you are only interested in the Life-alikes or DayZ-alike missions or straight PvP then no, teamspeak is not useful for the most part.

Teamspeak seems kind of outdated, how come more servers don't use discord? Seems better to me

[Shouravik]

Discord is ♥♥♥♥, that's why

Teamspeak will always be the superior product

[soldier from tf2]

Originally posted by 82DK Renegade Prime:

Discord is ♥♥♥♥, that's why

Teamspeak will always be the superior product

Why do you think that?

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by RIOT ItsKittay:

Originally posted by 82DK Renegade Prime:

Discord is ♥♥♥♥, that's why

Teamspeak will always be the superior product

Why do you think that?

Discord still needs to catch up with Teamspeak for server options, quality, and client options. The only real advantage Discord has is that you can run it in a browser and the chat logging is far superior.

Otherwise, Teamspeak is much better for audio options for both server and client. More codec options, including those of higher quality than Discord, more control over client-to-client interaction, much more options for channel command structuring to allow users in multiple channels to hear users with command priviledges.

It's amazing what you can do with a platoon of players on a teamspeak, organized into squad channels, with a platoon leader able to address the platoon all at once for larger scale orders or discussing objectives, while squad leaders can also have direct channel access to the platoon leader only, allowing all figureheads to speak as needed, cutting out any chatter from squaddies.

[soldier from tf2]

Okay, and TS is safe to download and have an account right?

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by RIOT ItsKittay:

Okay, and TS is safe to download and have an account right?

Just as safe as Discord is to download and setup for.

[soldier from tf2]

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

Originally posted by RIOT ItsKittay:

Okay, and TS is safe to download and have an account right?

Just as safe as Discord is to download and setup for.

Alright, thanks

[NZPorterDJ]

Originally posted by RIOT ItsKittay:

Teamspeak seems kind of outdated, how come more servers don't use discord? Seems better to me

Discord does not allow you to create the types of addons that are required to create the radio enviroment and it is unlikely to ever include this functionality.

[soldier from tf2]

Originally posted by WiLD|NZPorterDJ:

Originally posted by RIOT ItsKittay:

Teamspeak seems kind of outdated, how come more servers don't use discord? Seems better to me

Discord does not allow you to create the types of addons that are required to create the radio enviroment and it is unlikely to ever include this functionality.

Alright, thanks everyone for their inputs

[Retinue]

Honestly after alot of changing, Discord has become more superior to Teamspeak in terms of Audio Quality and user interface, the fact you have both non connected Text and Voice channels make it easy to have annoucements and information / Modlists displayed for group members to see while having the seperate Voice channels for your games.

But sadly as stated it doesnt have Mod support there for Task Force Radio and Acre wouldnt work on, but should they ever implement support for the programes, Discord will probably become the superior Service

also another thing for Discord... its rather fun to Drop the Bitrate and wait for the Audio Junkies to catch on and start freaking out haha

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by Borviran CTG:

Honestly after alot of changing, Discord has become more superior to Teamspeak in terms of Audio Quality and user interface, the fact you have both non connected Text and Voice channels make it easy to have annoucements and information / Modlists displayed for group members to see while having the seperate Voice channels for your games.

But sadly as stated it doesnt have Mod support there for Task Force Radio and Acre wouldnt work on, but should they ever implement support for the programes, Discord will probably become the superior Service

also another thing for Discord... its rather fun to Drop the Bitrate and wait for the Audio Junkies to catch on and start freaking out haha

Until that happens, they have a looooot of catching up to do. TS3 is far superior for organizing audio communications with far more options, even without mods included, moreso when you do include mods and plugins.

[Nick H]

yes.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Honest question......why nobody uses the ingame chat system?

I think its really good with all the channels and stuff. Is it just because of that radio mod that needs teamspeak?

Like for me and my buddies (up to 12 of us) we can be in 3 groups and find the ingame brilliant. Can just be chatting to our own squad then swap it up to everyone if we need to coordinate. Sometimes we say side channel is only for the 3 leaders and the rest stay in there group channel. So we sort of have a command and 3 squad channels, i find it really good :)