In one of the other threads on this forum, you responded to a member saying
"We dont use press to talk. Its an open mic but you have to be in a squad. "
I take that as you cannot speak to ANYONE unless your in a squad. Im not sure if you're trying to promote teamwork that way or such. I hope thats not what it means, I mean would it be possible to have you and 15 other guys on your team communicate openly, then when they went into a squad they could only communicate within the squad so no one could here them outside that. But when there lone wolf and say....theres no one in a squad, I think its vital to still talk to your teammates regarding gameply, stratgy and teamwork that way.
Yes you have to be in a squad to use the open mic feature. When matches are this big, it got way to cluttered with talking and most of the time useless information that didnt help teamwork and bandwidth.
We want to have more options like squad leader to squad leader and proximity chat. We are looking into that for a title update.
delisef wrote: Yes you have to be in a squad to use the open mic feature. When matches are this big, it got way to cluttered with talking and most of the time useless information that didnt help teamwork and bandwidth. We want to have more options like squad leader to squad leader and proximity chat. We are looking into that for a title update.
Frank, a few more questions for you::
1. How are players suppose to communicate with one another when not in a squad?
2. When there are more than one squad on a team, how are the squads suppose to communicate with each other?
I have a feeling this is going to be really frustrating when the game releases, and by frustrating I mean just trying to get general teamwork flowing within a team, this is gonna make me not want to use split-squads, but then that would restrict me to 4 players only.
I'll be honest, this is dissapointing.
TTU Vapor wrote: delisef wrote: Yes you have to be in a squad to use the open mic feature. When matches are this big, it got way to cluttered with talking and most of the time useless information that didnt help teamwork and bandwidth. We want to have more options like squad leader to squad leader and proximity chat. We are looking into that for a title update. Frank, a few more questions for you:: 1. How are players suppose to communicate with one another when not in a squad? 2. When there are more than one squad on a team, how are the squads suppose to communicate with each other? I have a feeling this is going to be really frustrating when the game releases, and by frustrating I mean just trying to get general teamwork flowing within a team, this is gonna make me not want to use split-squads, but then that would restrict me to 4 players only. I'll be honest, this is dissapointing.
I have to agree and while I will still probably buy the game this kinda voice communication could really turn the general public off this game all together. I mean I want to be in a squad but in games where people are not forming squads I would still like to talk to others on my team to get some back and forth going for strategy.
I see...I didn't read that right the first time. I thought I read "squad leader to squad leader proximity chat. Meaning that the 4 squad leaders could talk, but only when they were say 20 or so feet from each other.
If you patch it and add the ability for just the 4 squad leaders to talk at the same time that would be perfect! Less important would be iff you could talk to other squads teammates if they were 20 or so feet away. Only problem I would see w/ proximity chat would be knowing if you are close enough or not. If you have to choose one or the other I'd say add squad leader to squad leader chat...at any distance...but
IMO it would be best if you had to push a button to talk to the other squad leaders...it would not be good to hear them all the time!
General Keen wrote:yup. At first I was disappointed what Frank said about strictly squad chat, BUT a title update will fix that plus I thought about it heavily and now I have no problem with the squad only chat. I read in game informer and I know this a xbox 360 forum but resistance fall of man 2 since they also have a cap of players, you have to be in squads of 8 to talk. So what frank and kaos did was genius in my opinion, just my opinion.
I have a question...with a max of 4 people in a squad...will teams be limited to 4 squads? If so I can see that being a HUGE problem. If everyone gets in and invites just one or two friends to their squad. The max of 4 could be hit, leaving 8 people w/o the option to make a squad themselves.
General Keen wrote:actually it will be 5 in a squad, you and 4 others. Frank also said they're looking to maybe patch frontlines when it comes out. So it could fix chat issues with public chts and such.
eck52 wrote: General Keen wrote:actually it will be 5 in a squad, you and 4 others. Frank also said they're looking to maybe patch frontlines when it comes out. So it could fix chat issues with public chts and such.it's 4 to a squad. think about it, 5 to a squad means there will be a squad with an uneven amount.
Yes if it was 5 per squad and there were 3 squads of 5...that would leave one poor soul w/ no option but to play alone!
Hey Mind...long time no see, nice to see your still on.........this what I "think" is going to be the way it works
Squad Lead to Squad Lead chat option, also proximity chat for all players, and players that are not in a Squad (or are a they themselves their own Squad) will still be able to hear the other Squad leaders.........at least thats what makes the most sense to me..
Ractus wrote:Hey Mind...long time no see, nice to see your still on.........this what I "think" is going to be the way it works Squad Lead to Squad Lead chat option, also proximity chat for all players, and players that are not in a Squad (or are a they themselves their own Squad) will still be able to hear the other Squad leaders.........at least thats what makes the most sense to me..
...Why not just make it so you only hear your team, and only your squad if choose to join one? This sounds like a pretty backwards option. Not to mention there's a lot of people who will want to game together, but if only four people at a time can communicate... they aren't going to want to play it.
I'm not sure whether all the buttons have already been assigned but maybe instead of a press to talk feature, they could make it so that when a squad leader enters to tactical map, he/she gets a side-menu that lists the game tag of the squad leaders. Then one squad leader would be able to select an another squad leader and communicate directly with them or select an option that lets them speak to all squad leaders at the same time. When one squad leader talks to the other, the leader receiving the message should either get a beep in their earphone (headset) or an on screen indicator to make it clear that they're speaking to another leader.
This way a the squad leaders could sit in vehicles, driven by their squad members and communicate with each other within the tactical map while they discuss a plan of action. I think this would also simulate radio communications within real wars as, in the middle of combat, the leader would have to ask his members to defend him/her while he contacts another squad leader to ask for backup or to report the location of the enemy.
Also, proximity chat should work cross-team, within reasonable distance.
Whatever man, nobody is freaking out or crying about it... If I'm gaming with a bunch of friends, I want to communicate with a bunch of friends, know what I mean? If that's freaking out, then so be it.
If you don't like communicating in games you're playing in, that's your business. By the way - devs still make pretty lame decisions at times. Maybe you should just skip threads like this instead of acting like you're an authority on this topic.