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Krattack Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:02am
For the love of god let us disable steam voice chat.
At least one game forces me to use it and the quality is horrible. Add an option to disable it, please!
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VISION2020 Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:02am 
Why not use Teamspeak, Mumble or Skype instead?
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Krattack Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:05am 
We are using, but as long as we cannot disable steam voice we get an "echo" because the game we are playing forces steam voice on. Se we have two voice chats running at the same time.
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eram Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:07am 
Set the push to talk key to something you wont ever use.
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Krattack Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:08am 
Tried that, did not work. Looks like the game (Lord of the Rings: War in the North) does not honor it.
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eram Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:10am 
Contact the devs of the game and ask them to update or fix.
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Krattack Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:11am 
BTW, I found a workaround for it. Plugged spare set of headphones into another mic input and set windows default recording device to it, no more echo. But the point is that I do not want to use a workaround for something that really should have an option to disable.
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eram Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:12am 
VAVe/Steam wont be able to fix someone else's broken game. You have settings for Steam voice chat and you can turn it off. Your issue is inside a game.
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Krattack Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:15am 
How can I turn steam voice chat off?
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eram Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:21am 
Steam/Settings/Voice. If you need to disable it set a push to talk key.It absolutely does not open.

Your issue is inside a game.
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Krattack Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:29am 
Well, I have push to talk enabled and set to F4 and still the echo is there even when I am not touching the key.

As I said earlier Steam really should allow us the option to disable the voice, not use some kind of workaround.

As for getting the game devs to fix the issue: The dev studio got bought a couple of years ago and the games homepage is defunct. So I don't think that's going to happen.
Yes, it's bad coding. But it's bad coding from both the game devs and steam.
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eram Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:31am 
Does it happen in every game on steam that you own? It doesnt happen in any game i own and i dont have the one game you say its broken in.

You can already disable it in steam. Your issue is in 1 game. If you want to really disable it in steam go to the options and set another sound device.
Last edited by eram; Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:32am
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Krattack Oct 8, 2015 @ 9:37am 
This is the only game it happens, but only because this one game forces it on. I tried to find a way to tell the game not to use voice but there is no option for that. I even tried to find a startup option to disable it, no luck there either. So yes, in that sense the game is broken.

But even then why does steam not give us an option to disable the voice?
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Zefar Oct 8, 2015 @ 11:50am 
Originally posted by Krattack:
But even then why does steam not give us an option to disable the voice?

Because Steam is a program and Steam didn't develop the game you're playing. That would be the Developer of the game to fix it but I have played it as well and I doubt they will do anything about it.

So you'll just have to live with a poorly ported game with bad features. I should know as I played it for several hours but stopped because it kept crashing as I had an AMD card. Something they never got around to fix.

Oh and Valve ain't the Developers of the title either.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/32800/discussions/

Ask there if people know of a way to shut it off.
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RacerGSR Jan 13, 2017 @ 5:18pm 
Enabled push to talk. The game I am playing has no native in-game voice. Everything i say is still going into voice chat. You cannot currently truly disable it until steam fixes it or someone discovers a way to do in a file.
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Start_Running Jan 13, 2017 @ 6:20pm 
Originally posted by Krattack:
At least one game forces me to use it and the quality is horrible. Add an option to disable it, please!
This would be better requested on the game's forum. Valve can't really control that.
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