VOIP'ing while dead

[imported_Rafterman]

Has anyone else noticed that sometimes you can use your VOIP after you've been killed, but then other times you can't?

I can't figure out if this is a bug in the game or if, in fact, there are specific reasons why you can or can't at certain times.

Thanks.

[CaptainBuck]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

i can still hear ppl on voip even after i alt-tab out of the game

[imported_Rafterman]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

i can still hear ppl on voip even after i alt-tab out of the game

Interesting, but I don't think it's related to what I'm asking about.

My experience has been that sometimes after you're killed, you can key your mic, the little green icon appears on screen, and you can talk normally (pretty handy if you want to tell your squad where the guy was that just wasted you).

Other times, however, you can key your mic, the green icon doesn't appear, and you can't communicate.

Like I said, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why you can talk in some cases and in others you can't.

[Talus]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

I am fairly sure that even when the mic icon does not appear while you're 'incapacitated/critically wounded, your squad mates can still hear you.

[imported_Deliverance]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

Interesting, but I don't think it's related to what I'm asking about.

My experience has been that sometimes after you're killed, you can key your mic, the little green icon appears on screen, and you can talk normally (pretty handy if you want to tell your squad where the guy was that just wasted you).

Other times, however, you can key your mic, the green icon doesn't appear, and you can't communicate.

Like I said, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why you can talk in some cases and in others you can't.

It doesnt always show up, you can always speak when your dead. THe same thing happens when your alive, sometimes the icon doesnt even come up until ive been speaking so long it gets the line through it telling me its no longer transmitting (if im having a conversation with someone say)

I too can hear VOIP when im tabbed out (to kick someone for example) cant speak back obviously, but can hear.

[venny]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

hmm. i also wonder. i nev got the green icon whe i talk when dead or critically wounded. but i sure cant hear anything ingame sounds while alt tab out. i nev really thought it mattered to talk when dead. jus wait till you respawn and talk!

[[2bit]Modmaven]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

While some consider it "cheating" it is nice to tell squad mates about a threat while you are dead.

[imported_ColonelPanic]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

I am fairly sure that even when the mic icon does not appear while you're 'incapacitated/critically wounded, your squad mates can still hear you.

That's what I thought, too.

[RocketPunch]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

While some consider it "cheating" it is nice to tell squad mates about a threat while you are dead.

I don't like that feature too, but I wouldn't call it a cheat though.

[Blades]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

While some consider it "cheating" it is nice to tell squad mates about a threat while you are dead.

What kind of simple minded moron calls it cheating? Barely anyone even uses voip so w/e.

[Revoluti0n]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

What kind of simple minded moron calls it cheating? Barely anyone even uses voip so w/e.

Good question...

[TheEn|gma]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

While some consider it "cheating" it is nice to tell squad mates about a threat while you are dead.

I wouldn't call it cheating, and as already been said, VOIP is rarely used anyway. Also squads (generally) aren't that close together for information that could be passed on to be useful.

[« R²» HKS]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

I am fairly sure that even when the mic icon does not appear while you're 'incapacitated/critically wounded, your squad mates can still hear you.

Yup that's how it works.

Plus I can also vouch for the "you can hear them when you are alt-tabbed out of the game" Alt-tabbing out into BF2CC all the time and I can always still here the people on VOIP. Don't think it works to respond to them though when your alt-tabbed out.

[Blades]

Re: VOIP'ing while dead

Oh well Teamspeak owns VOIP anyways.