Voice chat range

[Dex]

I came up with the idea that your voice chat range depends on the currently selected chat.
e.g: World = Everyone can hear, Area = The current one, Group = Your group members can hear you across the map

What do you guys think?

[sega dreamcast]

How does one person , simply shout to the whole world ? , I accept group tho.

[Dex]

World chat would be like TF2

[Big Master Fry]

Imagine 32 people talking at the same time, not a very good idea

[Dex]

Heheh, then there should be a built mute option for everyone just like in TF2 and maybe a @mute command for admins so no one hears the person? Also out of the 32 people, 10-20 would be using area chat.

[birdwatching fan 2008]

A lot of players don't actually know how to switch between area / world / group. This means that most players will have it set to world automatically, since that is the standard for chatting. It would just be loads of kids (10-20) yelling in world chat at the same time. This would also encourage mic spamming. I don't see why you would need to broadcast something across the server if you can just do it in chat and why you can't use skype, teamspeak, mumble etc. for groups.

[Big Master Fry]

your idea makes water, so when i connect to a server i should mute people random, nah stop thinking about that

[Dex]

Originally posted by Sardines:

A lot of players don't actually know how to switch between area / world / group. This means that most players will have it set to world automatically, since that is the standard for chatting. It would just be loads of kids (10-20) yelling in world chat at the same time. This would also encourage mic spamming. I don't see why you would need to broadcast something across the server if you can just do it in chat and why you can't use skype, teamspeak, mumble etc. for groups.

There should be Area chat by default

[elo terrorist]

how do you get smileyland I have no idea

[Dex]

Originally posted by Tropicalpuppy:

how do you get smileyland I have no idea

Is that related to this topic?

[Korosan]

How about, let's say from my keyboard : J is world chat, K is area chat, L is group chat and TAB is mic. While I hold TAB, I can select J, K or L so that I can choose who can hear me, independantlly from the normal chat.

My idea would also act as a filter, since not many people know about the world/area/group thing as Sardines said. The ones who just speak while holding TAB would just talk to the air, because you'd have to select your adressee first, and people who mind to look at this in the settings are expected to be mature enough. (Sorry, I don't know how to say it properly.)

Also, the @mute command for admins would really help closing the mouth of micspammers, along with an individual mute button, like in TF2. Finally, the name of the guy talking next to the Voice chat icon would make it easier to differentiate the ones who are speaking. This way, Voice chat could be improved, shuting up micspammers, and letting place to the ones who actually do have something important to say, like a server info, or an announcement through the whole server.

But that's just my opinion...

[Dex]

Originally posted by RedGavial:

How about, let's say from my keyboard : J is world chat, K is area chat, L is group chat and TAB is mic. While I hold TAB, I can select J, K or L so that I can choose who can hear me, independantlly from the normal chat.

Also, the @mute command for admins would really help closing the mouth of micspammers, along with an individual mute button, like in TF2. Finally, the name of the guy talking next to the Voice chat icon would make it easier to differentiate the ones who are speaking. This way, Voice chat could be improved, shuting up micspammers, and letting place to the ones who actually do have something important to say, like a server info, or an announcement through the whole server.

But that's just my opinion...

agreed

[Big Master Fry]

no,no,no and... no? ideals are good, but simply will be used only to hear people just killed insult someone's mom

[Dex]

What if only ADMINS can hear everyone and see area chat ANYWHERE so they can catch anything suspicious

[Big Master Fry]

oh, you are now talking about of a different problem, for that you should wait the VAC implementation
after that admins will be useless(like are now btw)

[Korosan]

Originally posted by Pinter:

no,no,no and... no? ideals are good, but simply will be used only to hear people just killed insult someone's mom

To counter this, just let an admin ban or mute forever that kind of kid. Anyway, he can do that through the normal chat though, like any other FPS, so it cannot really be fixed. :/