Let's talk about VOIP in 1.09

[Dslyecxi]

Agreed, well kinda, I dont think to hell with VOIP, but I wouldn't want it to hold back the 1.09 patch 1 more day. Arma online public is gasping for air but getting sucked under, I know that VOIP won't change that but the other features might.

Ok, perhaps there's a misconception at work here.

VOIP is not the only thing being worked on. Other things are developed in parallel with it. For those that think the delay has been exclusively about VOIP, that's not the case.

[Dwarden]

this is just one of features of 1.09 so please stop degrading the subject ...

anyone not following this warning gets WL ...

btw. i think these videos demostrating all You needed to know about this theme ...

edit: i myself welcome these ingame VOIP changes as it would rox small team COOP missions

[dmitri]

I look forward to "shouting" at other players online. The positional nature of the coms really does add to gameplay. My small community rely heavily on TS. It's effective but cannot approach the integration of proper in game coms.

For people who have been waiting on other fixes it is very disappointing to have the VOIP features rolled out first.

Nothing has been "rolled out first". Dslyecxi created this thread. I don't see any official statement from BIS.
It's disappointing that even good news is being interpreted as bad. If they put this much effort into fixing VOIP (the community did request this in the past), then it makes sense that they've looked into the hardware issues too.

[Noraf]

loved those vids

and, i must say, i realy do look forward to seing voip work better than it does today, it's a superb tool, and, i know ts is used by many ( myself included ), there are still many that do not use ts, and for them this will be even better, and for those of us that plays with them

You also have to think about the simplicity of the way you use this, aftherall, you eliminates atleast 2 other prosseses running by using ingame voip, instaed of 3rd party software ( ts and tso ), witch, for those having trouble with the cpu usage, will help a bit too.

@ Dslyecxi :
Thank you very mutch for this interesting update.

@ bis, does santa come to us this year?
(though, not sure if the comunity should get coal instead of )

[volkov956]

i dunno interesting but whats the bandwidth up/down on voip i myself am in a closed Lan Network so we just usually yell at each other instead of using mics

why do i ask incase i wanna play Online

[MADcows]

If I throw a cake through my microphone will in game VOIP pick up on this cake and proceed to broadcast as if my in game dude was eating delicious delicious cake? This is a one hundred percent real question and it is imperative that it be discussed as there is a great market for cake dLIEvery that I feel isn't being capitalized on.




Really though I can not wait for this to come out as it will make for more shenanigans not only against my own team but yelling at the other team as well.

[Maddmatt]

Can't wait to try this online. No more nagging everyone to get on TS and having to switch channels on TS whenever players get changed around in PvP.
And small scale PvP is gonna be more fun with people yelling at each other using direct speak

Muting individual players is a good idea and pretty important for public games. Don't care about the "vote mute" or "admin mute" idea that some people brought up, why not kick the idiot instead?

Judging from the videos, the new grass looks good.

Not so sure about the new recoil though. It seems to return to the exact spot after you fire, kinda like OFP did. Makes having recoil almost pointless since it hardly effects you.
I liked what was done with the Q11 recoil mod, where the gun would still end up in a slightly different spot.
Hard to tell if it's not already like that though, maybe you're just readjusting your aim well.

I know this is mainly meant to discuss VOIP, but there isn't much else to discuss. I just want to use it

Damn some people here just love to complain

[MehMan]

Quote[/b] ]One question though, you say objects block the direct speaking too. I've noticed that ArmA bushes like to work as great big sound absorbers, so lets say somebody is on the other side of a bush from you and uses direct speak, will this be blocked out by the bush?

I don't think it will be outright "blocked", but it may be muffled a bit. Probably not enough to be an inconvenience, though. (which is good, of course)

Ok, but imagine this situation:

You and your friend are at an ambush side, each one is on one side of the bush and you want to say something via direct speak(lets say something about your SL, or just some secret coup planning) and you see the enemy coming up and you start talking, but the sound gets muffled. You'd have to move, but that would mean revealing your position and getting killed. So that could be a problem. The problem being mainly in the fact that bushes, no matter how small, absorb sounds as good as houses or hills. Or has this issue been addressed?

[Placebo]

Voip is nice yes, forcing community members who are extremely, eagerly anticipating 1.09 to discuss only 1 aspect of 1.09 is to my mind somewhat unfair when in a privileged position of having access to 1.09

The community has been suffering for a long time with 1.08, if they can't have it yet because it's not ready then we don't need to be extra cruel by hinting at the pot of gold and saying "hey but let's only talk about the handle of this pot"

[Placebo]

Just to clarify Dslyexci had permission from Marek to post this thread so I apologise if I implied otherwise