Is playing without voice chat viable?

[Spiteforge]

Voice chat is the single most immersion-shattering feature ever conceived, so I disable it in every game it's present, both in terms of incoming and outgoing voice.

I'm definitely not interested in hearing modern slang and out-of-character remarks in what is billed as a highly immersive WWII setting either, but I also don't want to be a liability in a team-oriented game.

Is Hell Let Loose viable with voice chat disabled? Do the game systems allow you to contribute to your team and coordinate around objectives without it?

[KingKickAss]

I don't think its the game for you if you don't want to communicate with people. The core game is about teamwork.

[Spiteforge]

Originally posted by KingKickAss:

I don't think its the game for you if you don't want to communicate with people. The core game is about teamwork.

That's why I'm asking if there are non-voice-chat methods of communication and coordination, like there were in every team-based game for ages until everyone suddenly decided that immersion wasn't important, and you should be fine with hearing the voice of a 15-year-old Texan coming out of the character model of a 30-year-old German infantryman.

Minimap pings? A voice line wheel? Anything?

[josh3hunnid]

Voice is not necessary but can be helpful especially when you need to keep your forehead glued to the top bezel, a lot of people do play quiet and type their commands or calls for help, there is also a ping wheel where you can mark or signal almost anything

[KRT™Montaigne]

If you're planning on playing HLL and turning off all receiving and incoming voice chat then this is definitely not the game for you. Communication is vital. You can type but it is too slow and why would you bother typing if you can just talk?

On the other hand you don't have to talk at all so long as you listen in. If I ask you to drop supplies and you use the communication wheel to acknowledge rather than speak then that's all good. I would like you to speak in the squad but I don't need you to if I still get some form of response. However, if you take a role like support then continually ignore me, don't follow instructions, don't drop supplies etc all it will get you is a kick from my squad, which will happen more than you will like if you ignore everyone.

I'm always mindful that when people don't speak on my squads it may be a medical reason e.g. hard of hearing and that shouldn't prevent them from enjoying HLL. Maybe they're younger and can't afford a mic yet etc so I'm good with people generally not talking. it's people who take critical roles then don't stay with the squad, wander half way across the map by themselves, don't drop supplies when you need them but refuse to swap out of the role to let someone else take the role etc that are the problem.

This idea about immersion I don't get. Why are certain things immersion breaking but dying and then immediately coming back to life and teleported to your last position seen as totally normal?

[Vinlander]

It's really helpful to communicate with your squad and team but if you're not gonna talk and you play officer, for gods sake at least place an OP down, maybe a garrison.. please!

[PlazaLord]

If no mic: Can play just don't take SL or Commander and be listening. Squads should move as a unit to be effective. (Your one man push goes away when you die)
For example, If you are playing support and don't respond(you can use text chat to respond or just walk towards my marker), you will be kicked pretty quickly from my squad. Spawns gotta go up, with or without you.

No audio at all (IE if you want to play with voip disconnected): Do not buy/refund/uninstall. These guys don't spawn where we are moving as a group and do their own thing, they can go to someone else's squad

Despite what the youtube sniper videos will say, communication IS the game. Otherwise the enemy storms the last point every time.

[TheMedicineMan]

maybe your not cut out for the online gaming world lol

[GooseLetLoose]

As someone who frequently plays squad lead, I strongly prefer playing with people with microphones, and this is coming from someone who was quite shy and not used to voice comm.

The whole HLL is vastly enhanced by proper comms; calling out enemy positions, supply drops, spawn points, coordinating defense / offense etc... get a mic, calibrate it properly in the Audio options (this is important!) and use it.

[Atomo24]

can you play without mic? yes, I have played plenty of times where my squad is 100% silent.

Should you? No, these games I cited are usually the worst ones, the most boring ones.

The whole deal of this game is coordinating your squad and then your squad with your team, the more communication, the better the experience, so yeah, if you intentionally wan't to not even hear your teammates, it's not the game for you.

[Lexy]

they'll tell you that its not viable, but 80% of the player-base plays without ever using voice comms, so you do you

[Warlock]

It is viable, but it will gimp you from being able to respond to and get a critical message out quickly.

I think you'll find most of HLL a quiet bunch, only using Squad chat for necessary short messages. Very often the truck ride out to the front line is totally silent. Other times it has amusing banter. If you get a Squad that you don't like the banter of , you can just switch out or go to another Server.

[RedSeptember]

It's amazing you can't google or watch a youtube video about this. The fact that you cannot figure that out shows you would be a useless teammate, so, don't worry about communicating snowflake <3.

[◯ | Ananasaz]

It's not really viable you'll get kicked out of squad's for not communicating pretty quickly or u'll join 10 lvl lobby or create a squad urself other than that this game it's not worth playing without voice.