Why is nobody using voice chat?

[-Armageddon-]

I mean i know its not needed that much, but its much better and more fun if more people would talk :( In 10 games ive joined i am the only one talking..

[Fine Catastrophe]

because everyone else is a mute little ♥♥♥♥♥ that doesn't understand that one of the basis that this game relies on is communication.

[YOPG]

It's not that needed, though. Helldivers PC version has normal chat, also 4 commands that replace the need to talk and giving commands like "please move/wait" via voice chat.

Besides joking and talking about nonsense in the voice chat, Helldivers commands and normal chat replace it all. Also, many people mute the voice chat, I do as well.

[Panther]

Originally posted by YOPG:

It's not that needed, though. Helldivers PC version has normal chat, also 4 commands that replace the need to talk and giving commands like "please move/wait" via voice chat.

Besides joking and talking about nonsense in the voice chat, Helldivers commands and normal chat replace it all. Also, many people mute the voice chat, I do as well.

and here another that silences it, mainly because many "many" players forget to put voice chat on the keyboard and listen to anything in the background.

[Lein]

I don't have a mic, but even if I did, I still wouldn't use it much, if at all (if I did, it likely would only be in friend rooms). In fact, I usually just turn voice chat off, so I can't even hear other people anyway. The vast majority of the time it's just someone who doesn't know mics are always on by default (as opposed to push-to-talk). If it's not that, it's just someone being annoying or speaking in a language I can't understand anyway.

Fortunately, you don't even need voice for this game. If you just have fun that way, then that's one thing, but almost all situations in this game can be read without much difficulty if you pay attention to teammates and their gestures and what's going on around you. You can see when someone needs ammo and theirs is on cooldown. You can see when someone needs an assist-reload (or know that they're about to need one since you see there's a tank they'll need to kill in a second, etc.). You can see when someone is pinched between an enemy and the edge of the screen. You can see if someone uses the "Wait!" command at the edge of the screen to let you know they still have business in that direction.

Not everyone of course, but a lot of people are so caught up in themselves and blasting everything to bits for sport that they just don't pay attention to the world around them. Not every situation can be helped, but there are way too many times where someone could have saved a teammate but they weren't paying attention (nor doing anything urgent). They just pull the screen in their direction or something because they want that sample just off the edge of the screen, so screw everyone else.

[RexEviL]

Well, you literally see everything.

[-Armageddon-]

Originally posted by TR-RexEviL:

Well, you literally see everything.

I use it to tell people to wich objective to go next and also to move down up left right when they start locking the camera