Does voice chat even work?

[Monk]

So, I am curious if anyone has ever heard another person speak in game as I am yet to see anyone respond to voice chat or hear anyone else speak.

[IriaChan]

Yes! Today someone from XBOX LIVE invited me to a party while we were farming for something. He began talking and it was great quality. We farmed a bit and then he said goodbye and took his leave.

[nostrovus]

If you're farming, you'll meet a good amount of people with mics.

[Monk]

Guess I've just been unlucky, or they have it turned off, it would make life SOOOOO much easier if people used it or atleast acknowledged it.

But, atleast I know it does work now.

[SP4RROWHAWK]

Originally posted by Iria:

Yes! Today someone from XBOX LIVE invited me to a party while we were farming for something. He began talking and it was great quality. We farmed a bit and then he said goodbye and took his leave.

I think It's means an Xbox live party. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the chat was in an Xbox live party, that still isn't using the in-game voice chat

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by SP4RROWHAWK:

Originally posted by Iria:

Yes! Today someone from XBOX LIVE invited me to a party while we were farming for something. He began talking and it was great quality. We farmed a bit and then he said goodbye and took his leave.

I think It's means an Xbox live party. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the chat was in an Xbox live party, that still isn't using the in-game voice chat

I would imagine so since I think that is a personal chat for the people in that, and not communicating with others.

[jandraelune]

There are players that turn off voice chat, this is due to the high amount of trolls that can be found in voice, or people with bad audio settings/hardware.

[Sabinox]

Honestly I've only had 2 guys speaking in voice chat since release. They kept screaming in allah in arabic for 7 min, it pissed me off so much that i muted them at first, but since I was not satisfied I threw the executioner(hard) run when the boss had less than 10%hp remaining. It was scummy, but it did make me feel better. I've disable voice chat permanently now, it might be useful in the states, but in europe there's way to many languages to really make use of it.

[alan0n]

I've had a few people that used coms. Most of them were fine, one guy just played really really really loud metal through it and never actually said anything. But as a fellow metal shanty enjoyer I was down.

Not really had any negative experiences with it to date, but it seems mostly under used.

[Setian]

First thing I did is disabling it
Gamers these days are way too toxic

[[STG] Dante]

make sure you don't have voice activity always on = hot mic.

[Ewoke]

Sadly, yes... it does.

[Celdinumbra]

It probably works but the guns are too loud so you cant really hear anything..i do hear whispers sometimes but i generally ignore them since i cant understand what they are saying.

[Geardo]

These days too many creators and others encourage turning VC off in any game at start
Thus dies the social aspect of gaming

[Ewoke]

Originally posted by Geardo:

These days too many creators and others encourage turning VC off in any game at start
Thus dies the social aspect of gaming

I am just tired of hearing russian screeching all the time

[Donoghu]

First, let's point out that a majority of the console players aren't fan of voice chat in many games. It's not rare that those players only accept voice chat within their friends/community list through their console' own party system (and that party system is ignored by the game voice chat). In fact, when I play on Xbox, I'm often asked to join a Xbox party with players that aren't even playing the same game, but just want to talk with people for fun (like if we were on a conference call or something).

Also, the in-game voice chat has 2 options: Party Channel or Squad channels.
By default, the game is set for the voice chat to be on the "Party Channel" (it can be changed in the Audio setting or at the bottom of the long-press-start or Esc menu).

The "Party Channel" is only active if you are in a "Party".
When you join random mission or an event, you're not joining the party, but the Squad, meaning that anyone who doesn't change the channel to "Squad" from the default value will never hear any random players who join them.
Also, when you roam the open space (before joining a mission), you're not in either any party or squad, hence the voice chat is off anyway.