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Offline Mugzeee

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Vox across arenas?
« on: September 27, 2006, 09:10:43 PM »
Is it possible?
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« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2006, 09:13:47 PM »
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Is it possible?


Signed.. would be a great help.
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2006, 03:08:36 AM »
In wishlist is a thread about 300-399 number channels becoming "cross arena". Those would be voice operable too. I really really like that idea.
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2006, 03:36:50 AM »
Except when you're in the early war and one of your squadies in the late war screams "BREAK, BREAK!!!" and you start zooming around like a lunatic with no cons in sight...

Come to think of it, that might be funny as hell to watch... :D
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2006, 05:05:07 AM »
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Except when you're in the early war and one of your squadies in the late war screams "BREAK, BREAK!!!" and you start zooming around like a lunatic with no cons in sight...

Come to think of it, that might be funny as hell to watch... :D



Hold on a second... are you flying with the same 80th FG *I* know?

They never tell me to break... they just keep stealing my kills!!!!! :D
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2006, 09:05:20 AM »
I Have been trying to come up with a design to make that work.

Note. Voice traffic unlike text traffic loads must be considered at high volumn time.

I have also been wondering what the real gain is in doing so.

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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2006, 10:57:01 AM »
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I have also been wondering what the real gain is in doing so.

HiTech
for squads, I think talking about what is goign on in the arena would be easier...

also, sometimes talking just for fun is part of the "squad experience" IMHO. if they can't all get in the same arena it could allow them to still shoot the breeze ;)
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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2006, 11:16:30 AM »
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I have also been wondering what the real gain is in doing so.

HiTech



Im a girl. No need for that question.... :D
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Offline Mugzeee

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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2006, 12:46:15 PM »
I think Mustaine and Schatzi has said it well.

I might add that at the beginning of Mafia's last squad night we were in different arenas. At about 10 minutes before start time we called out to everyone on the "Squad text" for all to meet in LW1. Which had like 230+ players (Mafia usually only has about 8 to 10 members on week night squad)

So we figured it wouldn't be a problem to get our 8 or so members in the LW1. But we didn’t figure that 15 or better players would max out the LW1 in the 5 or 10 mins it was going to take us to get everyone landed, logged and re-logged into the LW1.

All but 2 or 3 made it before it was locked out. So they had to re-log into one of the other arenas and start typing again to inform us that they couldn't get in.

We all decided to go MW and meet there. We finally did all get together but after about 20+ minutes elapsed and we were now well into our 2 hrs of squad night.

I guess it would go a long ways to keeping players in touch with the players they have grown close to over the last 4 or 5 years of playing AH.

Even if you were in different arenas due to a lockout you could have that "Live" connection.

Im sure we could work around it like we have. It's really a matter of a "nice" verses "really awesome" game feature.

(Wonder is there would be a way to view all arena counts from the clipboard, from any arena in the game?)
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« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2006, 01:14:14 PM »
I dont think it would help much. If you had 10 guys in a squad, and 8 were in LW, and it was full, and the other 2 had to goto the other LW, I dont see how it would be of much good. Maybe if you had a squad that BS'd ALL the time it would be ok, but as far as tactics it would be more of a hindrence.
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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2006, 01:15:24 PM »
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Hold on a second... are you flying with the same 80th FG *I* know?

They never tell me to break... they just keep stealing my kills!!!!! :D


We only tell you to break so we can steal the kill you were about to get. ;)
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2006, 01:44:49 PM »
Nah, keep voice comms specific to the arena...dont need the crosstalk.  Text is perfectly adequate for cross arena comms.
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2006, 02:17:33 PM »
Solutions already exist that don't have a negative impact on the server bandwith. They work across all arenas at all times.

:)

Get Vent

Used it for years now. Warcraft 3, Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft, Company of Heroes, Aces High 2, etc, etc...

Just get a server hosted somewhere. Voice severs are pretty cheap. The total bill for my guild's WoW server comes out to about $0.25 per member per month.
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Offline Mugzeee

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« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2006, 02:36:43 PM »
Observing the last 3 or so replies i have to agree...The current setup is
ample to coordinate things even though it is a little more time consuming.

I certainly am against anything that would start significantly hogging up bandwidth.

It would most certainly be a luxury rather than a necessity.

In light of that i would propose making AH2 VOX completely squelchable or a toggle off and on thing (at least range channel) so we can opt to run Stand Alone VoIP programs without interference from AH2 Voice communications.

PS. For anyone that suggest that we dont need the "Crosstalk" we always have the option to de-tune any channel we wish, no?

Indy007. I have a teamspeak server already. It is an option...but how would it not be just as confusing as AH VOX inter-arena enabled if AH vox is not optionally toggled off and
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« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2006, 05:35:57 PM »
You can't turn AHVox off, but you can turn Vox playback volume to 0. Voila, no vox. Doesn't solve any bandwidth issues, but it would eliminate any confusion between your vox chatter (vent, RW, TS, etc), and the game, without having to squelch anyone (thereby losing text as well).
« Last Edit: September 28, 2006, 05:38:19 PM by hubsonfire »
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