Steam News - Voice and Chat Updates Incoming

[peagle]

FLeK0 wrote..

For our high skilled game developers, it would be reaaalllly hard to replace the voice codec in 1.6 too. Unfortunately they don't have time to press control+c in the cs source work dir and control+v in the 1.6 directory.

Here we come again, Ventrilo.

1.6 already has a better quality codec than the source default.

[I2o[G]uE TacT-X]

The current voice codec isn't that bad. The bigger issue is most people have cheap, low-quality microphones.

[skankuser]

Man this is fucking awesome. Now when I'm spamming the mic and raging people, I can hear them crystal clear when they're yelling at me to shut the fuck up.



Brilliant idea Valve. It's about time you came up with one.

[milly9]

You know, as someone who only plays matches or deathmatch, I really like this change for voice quality. Cus when I used to play 1.6, sometimes during scrims, people would talk ingame a little bit on mic, even if we were on ventrilo at the same time. And then years and years later if I watched that demo, it was actually fun because you could listen to people talking!



Ok, I guess that's kinda random.. But I'm sure somewhere out there is gonna like it for that reason too!

[DevgruSeal H.E]

Only thing my team uses in-game voice for is either making our voices sound distorted (Saying our stupid phrases over the distorted codec sound even more stupid, making it more funny.), talking to each other about petty things during a scrim or match (So as to not clutter the vent channel so the persons alive can still hear fine.), or raging pubbers because its fun.



It's interesting to hear how people's voices differ in-game from a clearer codec such as the Ventrilo ones. We have several Scottish and British members and you can barely detect their accents on the in-game mic.

[DaRk-AnGeL]

kalabalana wrote..

Dark-Angel, you're a troll. You need to play some 1.6.

For playing Devils advocate to the mainstream ? If you didn't have people like me, then you would all still be playing crappy bugged out watered down versions of games.

[meowmeow]

So far CS has the best codec than any other game out there, including the latest. EA is another douche bag, can't even afford a good quality voIPc.

[snkcube]

ukHazard wrote..

In other news, Ritual seems to have cancelled SIN Episodes (apart from multiplayer).

Goddamn. That's pretty lame of them.

[DevgruSeal H.E]

meowmeow wrote..

So far CS has the best codec than any other game out there, including the latest. EA is another douche bag, can't even afford a good quality voIPc.

I thought the BF voip codecs sounded decent...

[Diamond Dust]

no one should comment vc sniper said it all

[meowmeow]

DevgruSeal H.E wrote..

I thought the BF voip codecs sounded decent...

Actually you're right, I was thinking of someone else. They're decent, but not the best.

[VuLLrath]

so when will the voice chat microphone shit be going through? and can some one tell me how to make my bot server disable the fuckin weapon pricing shit... i want the old basic money cost for weaps.. thanks.

[Splatula]

bot servers are shit