Mic sensitivity issues (I think)

[Thomas595]

So my brother and I play in the same room, we would very much like to be able to use the in game voice chat, but have had to resort to discord because of a few problems.

The biggest one being that mic sensitivity seems to be extremely bad if not completely non existent.

Using discord as a base example, we can have both of our microphones set to open. And this will only pick up the person speaking directly into the microphone.

However, in Lethal Company, if we have both of our microphones set to voice activated, the same as it is set up in discord, while in close proximity (you know the distance at which you can hear someone else speaking in game), I can hear my own voice coming from my brothers location clear as day, as if I was speaking straight into his microphone. And yes, this works the other way around where he can hear his voice coming from my suit. It's almost like the suit has a built in speaker.

We have had no need for walkie talkies during to the previously mentioned issue, but I imagine that a similar situation would occur if two walkies were on in the same room and someone spoke into one of them. They would hear their voice from the walkie, except I'm hearing it straight from my brother without any walkies.

It occurs to me that this could also be a really weird networking issue given that the game has only one dev. Where the game is sending my voice output to both players on the network.

Literally any ideas would be helpful, at the very least thanks for reading.

[SIGNAL]

I don't think there is any noise suppression or echo cancellation in game, so if somehow audio from your speakers/headphones reaches your microphone, the game will transmit it regardless of what it is.

You could try using push to talk, adjusting the sensitivity/volume of your microphone, or decreasing the volume of your speakers/headphones (Obviously adjusting any volume features will affect the gameplay, so I don't recommend that if you can avoid it)

[Nora]

Originally posted by SIGNAL:

if somehow audio from your speakers/headphones reaches your microphone, the game will transmit it regardless of what it is.

The weird thing for me is that it appears that regardless of the volume at which i talk, unless i straight up whisper while my roommate covers up their microphone my speech will come out their character at seemingly the same volume, how can it even work that way? No other game i've tried with ingame voice coms has had this bad of a case of our voices being picked up like this

[Watarboo]

I played all weekend with full parties and didn't have any problems except the audio breaking up rarely

[Thomas595]

Originally posted by Watarboo:

I played all weekend with full parties and didn't have any problems except the audio breaking up rarely

Yeah, and thats fine but you probably weren't playing with someone in the same room as you? Like, did you even read the post?

[Thomas595]

Originally posted by Kaura:

Originally posted by SIGNAL:

if somehow audio from your speakers/headphones reaches your microphone, the game will transmit it regardless of what it is.

The weird thing for me is that it appears that regardless of the volume at which i talk, unless i straight up whisper while my roommate covers up their microphone my speech will come out their character at seemingly the same volume, how can it even work that way? No other game i've tried with ingame voice coms has had this bad of a case of our voices being picked up like this

It sounds like you're struggling with the same thing, it really doesn't make any sense regarding the volume at which your own voice comes out of the other person.

[Hauoli Boy]

While in game other people in my group talking get picked up by my astros and I had to set to push to talk til something happens. Discord is just fine.

[Licherous]

yes, when you play the game while in discord you get an echo

usually just mute the other people in discord and use game audio

[Thomas595]

Originally posted by Licherous:

yes, when you play the game while in discord you get an echo

usually just mute the other people in discord and use game audio

haha no. you misunderstand, we had to resort to using discord because it HAS NO ECHO.

its the in game voice chat that cant be used due to echo