Voice chat?

[Celgaming]

I love typing and role playing, but I would imagine voice chat in this game would be balls. Anyone else? I'm quite new so I'm still getting used to roles and such but I personally love doing voices and voice acting, so voice in a roleplay heavy game like this would rock.

[luckyshotpictures]

I very much doubt that the Upstream branch will be getting voicechat anytime soon. But I also think, this game would be worse with VC, since it'd be far far less accessible to all my favorite people. I personally enjoy being quiet and able to enjoy the game without talking.

For other people it is voice chat, that makes them socially awkard or anxious. It would make those stop playing the game.

Also, there'd be a lot of work needed for a voicechat function, that'd need to be maintained and fixed whenever it breaks.

Also, what about people without mics? This game basically runs on a potatoe computer, so I am not too sure how that'd work out.

[Skyguard]

No.

[Jimmerzz]

Honestly if someone made a server fork maybe even whitelisted with voice chat ability it would be super interesting. It would change the game a lot but it would be cool alternative which is the idea of people making their own forks of the game and their own servers.

If it would be too hard to implement it into the engine itself Mumble always had ways to code voice chat into games so maybe that is a possibility.

[Schleimi]

i idea sounds nice on the paper but just think of an player hub like the bar where sometimes over 6 peopel are thats already choatic without voicechat but you would not understand a singel thing with voicechat

[Jimmerzz]

Originally posted by Schleimi:

i idea sounds nice on the paper but just think of an player hub like the bar where sometimes over 6 peopel are thats already choatic without voicechat but you would not understand a singel thing with voicechat

Well it depends on how the voice chat is implemented right. If people are louder closer to you and less loud further then you could realistically hear people next to you in a bar but not everyone in the bar at the same volume. Also the bar is kind of supposed to be a bit chaotic and people could stop someone from making too much noise with in game actions.

[Schleimi]

Originally posted by Jimmerzz:

Originally posted by Schleimi:

i idea sounds nice on the paper but just think of an player hub like the bar where sometimes over 6 peopel are thats already choatic without voicechat but you would not understand a singel thing with voicechat

Well it depends on how the voice chat is implemented right. If people are louder closer to you and less loud further then you could realistically hear people next to you in a bar but not everyone in the bar at the same volume. Also the bar is kind of supposed to be a bit chaotic and people could stop someone from making too much noise with in game actions.

good point to be honest

[Jimmerzz]

Funny enough while it is not voice chat. A server called Starlight is super popular right now that has everyone's person doing speak to talk with their own voice they pick from which.

[Dremaus1911]

tbh i feel like the overlap would be too much (its easier to hear people IRL in a bar setting or work setting in the real world) VC would make this a horrible experience...

[Daedalus]

Unfortunately voice chat defeats the entire purpose of the game.
Text chat is super important, as this is a text-based game. Not to mention it opens the floodgates for bad faith actors to come into proximity chat and then start screeching all sorts of inane profanities because loud+obnoxious=funny, so you can blame the small but vocal minority of individuals who take it upon themselves to ruin any given experience for someone at any given point in time.



If you want to do voiceovers in a roleplay setting try VR Chat or something. People eat that stuff up there.

[Daedalus]

Originally posted by Dremaus1911:

tbh i feel like the overlap would be too much (its easier to hear people IRL in a bar setting or work setting in the real world) VC would make this a horrible experience...

Imagine all the noise a clown with several instruments makes already, then multiply that by everyone screaming at once.

Oh and also screaming in proximity chat, because there's literally already a dedicated scream button.

[MozarteanChaos]

sounds like hell to moderate tbqh