Do you use a mic when you pub?

[Shurikane]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

Thanks. Also i'd like to ask how you sworn VOIPers deal with the difficulties in indicating directions over VOIP to fellow squadmembers?

Cardinal direction and/or landmarks.

Suez canal at silo 5: Sniper, top of the tower on 5.

Belgrade, squad on Ruins flag: Multiple infantry on the flag.

Shuhia Taiba, tank approaching silo 2 from the west: Enemy tank, inbound from the west.

Cardinal directions, unlike your squadmates, never move. So they are great for giving info on where things are coming from.

Although in practice, most people tend to confuse directions anyway. Happens on a routinely basis that squadmates will confuse between the corridors on a Titan, so in my attempt to split up my men to quickly destroy consoles 1 and 2 ("You guys get 2, I get 1.") I find myself with my entire squad in corridor 1 because they thought it was corridor 2.

[NoseKi||s]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

Thanks. Also i'd like to ask how you sworn VOIPers deal with the difficulties in indicating directions over VOIP to fellow squadmembers?

You can't assume everyone in your squad is facing the same direction so the most common unwanted situation i got with the VOiP was that i was trying to describe either the general direction or specific place of enemies or other items of interest and by the time i figured how to describe it, the moment had passed.

Spotting helps yeah, but only in some cases. Not many can instantly remember even flag names by heart and expressions like "north" aren't very accurate. I really miss a feature that would let me somehow graphically "point" a location to others even if there's nothing to spot there at that moment.

[imported_Field]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

no your not alone. i play worse when yabbering because it DOES take away part of your attention to what you are actually doing

[NoseKi||s]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

I had a friend with whom i played over 1000 hours of both BF2 and 2142 and only tried with mics once or twice. After a couple of hundred hours it started to feel like 99% of the time we were on the same page anyways so using the mic felt more like a distraction to me.

I don't know why it is but the other times i went pubbing with a mic i always seemed to play worse. I guess i just would've needed more practice with the mic.

[Shurikane]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

What's worse is when you are squad leader and give lots of verbal commands and information all round long and no one responds. Then at the end of the round your realize your mic was muted

Pulled that off for a whole round while FRAPSing myself, 'till I realized FRAPS disabled my mike while it recorded in-game sound.

Also had a recent happening when my CO told me he couldn't hear anything I said. I disconnected at the end of the round to go check only to find out I had plugged my mike into the orange port.

[Micster]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

Not often, unless everyone else is talking. I'm rarely listened to in pub games.

[DDoubleVVision]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

..but I feel like a doofus if I talk into a mic and nobody else responds. :p

What's worse is when you are squad leader and give lots of verbal commands and information all round long and no one responds. Then at the end of the round your realize your mic was muted

[fatmooseknuckle]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

lol ill almost always yell at teammates on the mic even if they never respond i dont mind being the center of the 1 way conversation:laugh:

i can attest that this is true :P

ya man, you gotta use a mic. i find it boring playing w/o the communication. might as well play single player mode. you can give/take such better directive. and you can verbally point out soldiers, even from a dead body. i hate it when nobodies talking.

[Killerus]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

i use the in game voice all the time. Met alot of cool people that way. Even if people don't respond, most of the time they hear you. I always tell my squad where i am heading and what to watch out for. I have also noticed that once you use voice others will follow.

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

I used it a couple times, But like field said.
They wont respond..

To bad this game is ^Like 50-50, Allot dont understand english.
Or they just Cant be arsed responding:salute:

[Quemical]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

I always have mine ready but I don't usually initiate the conversation unless it's someone I know. If other people start talking and/or mic-checking I'll join in, but I feel like a doofus if I talk into a mic and nobody else responds. :p

Same Here

[imported_Field]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

I always have mine ready but I don't usually initiate the conversation unless it's someone I know. If other people start talking and/or mic-checking I'll join in, but I feel like a doofus if I talk into a mic and nobody else responds. :p

lol ill almost always yell at teammates on the mic even if they never respond i dont mind being the center of the 1 way conversation:laugh:

[Abs0lute_Zero]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

I play while in ventrilo, so i do most of the talking there, however if i have people in my squad that know what they are doing, i will talk, otherwise i look at them as extras and let them roam free. But i always use my mic, just not in game as much..

[golfisfun]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

Always and without exception.

I create a squad called "TALK!" and kick out anyone who does not respond to my mike-check when they join.

i was thinking about making a mic squad.

I always have mine ready but I don't usually initiate the conversation unless it's someone I know. If other people start talking and/or mic-checking I'll join in, but I feel like a doofus if I talk into a mic and nobody else responds. :p

I think mic is the only way to go in this game

[WolfAlmighty]

Re: Do you use a mic when you pub?

I always have mine ready but I don't usually initiate the conversation unless it's someone I know. If other people start talking and/or mic-checking I'll join in, but I feel like a doofus if I talk into a mic and nobody else responds. :p