Voice Chat

[Daemonkid 493]

Hello, this is my very first post.

I have a simple suggestion, and i'm not sure if something like this has been suggested before, but hear me out. :)

Now, the current VoN kind of sucks. I find it really lacks immersion, I find.

Now, my suggestion is this. Like the current direct chat, I think we should have a radius for who can hear us.

It would add realism, and remove the damned sidechat spam.

Whisper- Lets you talk to someone within 5 meters of you. Can not be heard by anyone but those within that area.

Vicinity- General voice level, can be heard up to 20 meters away, anyone within the 20 meters can hear you, slight chance to trigger zombie search mode.

Shout- You Yell, your voice carries a greater distance, more people can hear you, but you have a chance to attract zombies, since well, you're shouting. :P

I also dislike the use of 3rd party VoN programs, such as TS or ventrillo, my proposition is this.

Radios, you have to tune the radio to a certain frequency and the other player you want to talk to has to be on the same frequency and have a radio also. But this also lets other players have a chance of dropping in on your conversation if the get they right frequency. And while speaking, it also does Vicinity chat, since your voice is not silent hehe. And the radio requires upkeep, would be nice.

Of course i'm open to tweaking and improvement, but it's just a thought, and a good one I believe anyways.

Your thoughts? BE GENTLE!

Edited February 4, 2013 by Daemonkid

[Ivanuvo (DayZ) 117]

If you played the real DayZ, you would realise that there isn't actually a side chat, and there is no side chat spam.

[Mos1ey 6301]

Constant switching between whisper/talk/shout sounds like a pain in the arse, and I find having to use push-to-talk bad enough. This would probably just stop me using in-game comms all together. xD

[OrLoK 16182]

Hello there

This is bought up quite frequently.

I too abhor the use of TS etc and would prefer folk to use ingame VON only. But, it's flawed and folk will use TS etc regardless.

Direct chat is used properly can emulate whispers/talking/shouting to a degree, but it would be nice to have more set values, but again people would mainly use whisper mode, which would make the others largely redundant.

Rgds

L

[jayman9696 14]

As cool as it would be to have radios to speak with your friends I and everyone who plays with friends will most likely stick to skype or team speak.

[Private Evans 1303]

this has been discussed and suggested before :)

radios have been confirmed more or less, also somekind of side channel for contacting the adminsand stuff...Rocket also has added the whisper channel to his list of ideas for the chat revise....

Edit : I really hope for some teamspeak free servers

Edited February 4, 2013 by Private Evans

[TheBambiAvenger 146]

As good of an idea this is, I think it will not stop people from using TS and Skype or whatnot. However, if this was implemented, I think there should be a delay between switching channels on the radio, as people would just cycle through the channels listening for people. Good idea though, I like the radio idea, however I find all the shout channels a bit too many that would be necessary.

[Elrico 2]

I quite like this idea.

Although, instead of using whisper, vicinity and shout, maybe you could manually change the chat radius by scrolling the mouse wheel.

The distance you can hear a player, i'm pretty sure anyway is up to 40m. When you hold caps lock to chat, you scroll up and down from 1m to 40m voice radius chat. I could imagine it would be annoying for those who like to double tap it on long term so it needs work.

I'm jealous you posted this before me, Daemonkid, it's a good idea; i really hate it when I'm chatting with someone in the elektro school and some guy is probably hearing us in the supermarket.

[mr_chabowski@live.co.uk 2416]

I'm sure voice level detection is sophisticated enough nowadays to allow for different audible ranges. It's just unfortunate that not everyone lives in a soundproof bubble.

The dogs or the hoover getting you killed would be a right pisser.

[CreepySalad 108]

Maybe it can track the volume of your voice, and use that to switch, instead of pressing a button.

Teamspeak does this, kinda.

The voice tracking part.

[UnarmedCiv 54]

I like this suggestion, we already use a button to change the "volume" of our walking / driving speeds.

Only thing is, i can see trolls keeping it on scream....

[FlashHawk4 44]

I like this suggestion, we already use a button to change the "volume" of our walking / driving speeds.

Only thing is, i can see trolls keeping it on scream....

Trolls gonna troll. It's not like they get to do it on side chat, so the only people who would be hearing it are the people in sending-a-rifle-bullet-to-their-annoying-freaking-heads radius.

[CreepySalad 108]

I like this suggestion, we already use a button to change the "volume" of our walking / driving speeds.

Only thing is, i can see trolls keeping it on scream....

That'd only be bad to themselves.

They'd attract zombies and players.

They'd make me happy, not mad. I get their stuff~

[Lionel Hutz 34]

I think this is a good idea, and thought I'd give the post a bump.  I have just been struggling with this in-game - at the moment it's either stick to SteamChat with your friends, or risk giving away your position to hostiles by talking to the friendlies you've just teamed up with.  I don't think you could use the real-world volume of the player's voice to move between whisper / normal / shout modes though - too tricky to calibrate different mics, and hugely annoying when you accidentally end up shouting.  It would be better to have one key binding that toggles between the three modes.