Mausman Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Ok so I'd like to know if there is any already available in game voice chat?If not, what do you guys use for voice chat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedots Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 There is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacomixl Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 No ingame chat. Why bother when 3rd parties always do it better? Try Ventrilo, Teamspeak, or Mumble. The latter two can be free if you have the know-how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrrhbear Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 This may actually serve as the defining factor as to whether I remain with this game (as silly as that may seem). Yes, you can use Ventrilo or what have you, and I regularly do so when raiding in Lotro, or doing things with kinmates etc... But much of the time you are with pugs, especially in this game which randomly drops you into groups for PvP etc... Having voice chat is a big difference in a game: A) It contributes a ton to how close of friends you become with people you meet. Typing maintains are certain distance. Speaking is much more personal. This factor makes a game so much more appealing - because you end up feeling close to many of your peers in a different degree than you can just with brief typing. B) Also you can't joke around and laugh as much when you are restricted to typing. You can a little, but much of the time your fingers are occupied with your actions and skills. When you can chat with people the experience becomes a ton more fun for this reason. C) Additionally when you can speak, you can organize and plan what you're doing on the fly. So far I find that when typed people lose patience VERY fast for sitting there planning something. A little bit of organization makes an amazingly big difference in how effective your group can be, whether in PvE or PvP environments. The level of success goes up notably, and of course this makes it much more fun. Yes people *can* type to each other, but it's not as good as speaking, and in reality people just don't communicate so much when restricted to typing. Yes people *can* use Ventrilo, but much of the time people don't. I've repeatedly offered for people to hop in vent, but everyone's accustomed to no speech in SWTOR, and so they say it's too much bother (though it's quite simple). Oddly enough it's the presence of in-game speech that prompts people to use Ventrilo. At best you may have a couple people in vent with you, but 90% of the time you'll have some new people along who don't have it, and so there's no communication. This is actually worse in some ways because then the people in vent will be chatting away and planning and will type next to nothing in game - total lack of communication = lots of fails. So... I hope SWTOR adds in-game speech, and soon. I think it will make this game a heap more fun, and more friendly, and will really make it worth sticking with as opposed to checking it out, then moving on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senechal Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I'd like it too. Was hoping there were plans for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krenum Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Other games that have put in game voice communication widely goes unused. In all my years in WoW I have never heard any one in BG's or Instances use the built in voice chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuanceNW Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) I use Mumbles as my client and Murmer on Linux as my server. I host my own in house at no cost and setup took about an hour and a half which includes the time to download and install Linux on an early 1990's Pentium machine. Note: Murmer is included in most Linux distributions, you just need to enable it to start and port forward one port on your home router - both Linux and Murmur are free. Edited January 4, 2012 by NuanceNW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vistram Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I was pretty surprised this game had no built in voice chat. 3d party solutions are not viable for a PUG+PvP situation. On the plus side I don't have to listen to people yell at me in a warzone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valekdevries Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Our guild uses C3. No server rentals and no cap on number of users in channel, good voice quality too. http://downloadc3.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHirogen Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 "Sorry, all features and mechanics are at this moment only provided for all of our competitotrs, yes even games from 2003 has voice chat. But we ate BW and EA believe in giving our consumers as little aspossible for as much cash as we can get, bye!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EpicWinter Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 No ingame chat. Why bother when 3rd parties always do it better? Try Ventrilo, Teamspeak, or Mumble. The latter two can be free if you have the know-how. I agree, this guy definetly knows what he is talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caspian_Rho Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Have you seen the way people interact as a 'community'?? and you'd like to add voice chat into the mix. BW are aware there are 3rd party applications. As are anyone/guilds that run any form of PvP/PVE. And participants in any of these activities will be propmted for VC unless it's a completely PUG. Those who play the game as an MMO will have these things. Those who play as a SPG won't. Of course generally speaking. Personally I don't think the community is mature enough or ready for in-ga\me VC. And because BW are aware that 3rd party tools exist, I can't see them re-directing time or effort into this feature unless the game grows substantially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnAskham Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Just about every game that has built in voice chat functionality ends up with the majority of users using something else. And honestly, other than listening / giving raid directions in a progression environment, I have no use for voice chat features. I'm not about to start chatting with random people just to do a leveling FP or group mission or whatever. If I wanted to chat with you, I'd exchange Skype information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rankyn Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 If you just have a few friends you regularly play with, you can get a free 5-person Mumble server at http://www.mymumble.com It's certainly not a viable option for large guilds, but it's a great option if there's only a small group of you and you don't want to pay for or hassle with a larger server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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