Squads and Communication.

Seeker

At the moment when I play there does not seem to be much teamwork going on , just everyman for himself. I wonder does this have something to do with a lack of microphones and people not talking to each other. I thought I'd hear loads of people talking over microphones but all I hear is the pre-recorded chatter.

Anybody got a mic for this game? Would getting one improve my play? Could the reason im not hearing anypeople talking the fact Ive some specific option turned off or are they just not popular.

SEEKER

Dcully

You have to be in a squad to hear/use voip ingame chat.
We use it in our clan along with teamspeak.
So yeah a mic is well worth it.

Kare Bear

Its not half as bad as 1942 and vietnam.

youcancallmeal

You always tend to see one guy on a server with a mic and hes screaming orders and just in general sounding awfully needy. That being said a proper 6 man squad all with mics and well organised would probably be very enjoyable not to mention lethal.

jonski

we use teamspeak instead of the ingame voip

Shiny

doesn't the ingame VOIP increase ping times alot more
than teamspeak?

Hence its worth it to use teamspeak seperately.

d22ontour

I don't use the voip as i think the sound quality is very poor.Teamspeak does the job.

Ponster

TS is always great but it's still for the reserved few who know the address and use it.

I joined last night and not only was there no VOIP, but 9 squads (the max) with only 1 PERSON IN EACH !

Seeker

Where can I get this teamspeak?

fightin irish

ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/4players/teamspeak.org/releases/ts2_client_rc2_2032.exe

Keyzer

So say I download TS and wanna use it while on the TIG 64 man server, for example, do I need to go into a new channel or something?

I can connect to the TIG TS server but how do I know who is on my squad and more importantly, who is on my team...

Ravelleman

Do you have to use a headset? Is it worth getting one?

fightin irish

Only good if your in a clan tbh. You can have a good laugh with ur clan buddys.

Keyzer

I think people should use the voip function, especially on the TIG servers if the players are predominately Irish or UK based... It would be great fun...

Smellyirishman

I would love to, but it seems that squads are nothing more than green dots instead of blue.

I try creating squads so my members can actually spawn beside me, but by the time I get a good 4-6 people on my squad I have to log.
On other servers there is about 8 squads with one or two members in each of them. WTF? I can understand a few small squads , but that is just ridiculous.

When I get a good sqaud with me, I use VoIP because I know there will actually be a benefit, until then, I just go around doing my thing.
I bet if people realised how many more points you would get in a good squad they would be interested :rolleyes: .


(Whoops, rant )

Keyzer

From now on when I'm on a TIG server I'm going to create a squad for people who wanna use VOIP. The ingame voip cos I dont know how to use TS.

The squad will be called VOIP, funnily enough and my ingame name is Paolo264 for anyone who is interested.

LoBo

VOIP has never worked for me in the retail version. If I enable it I get disconnected right after joining a server, and will no longer be able to connect to servers until I restart BF2. Switch off voice comms and everything works fine. Anyone else get this?

It worked well + was great fun in the demo of BF2..

-Al-

I kinda prefere VOIP to TS, i like how it lowers the ingame sound fx so you can hear what there saying.

Never noticed any ping problems with it, but I was never having a conversation either just short comments.

But the squads are a little stupid sometimes, was in one in the demo aaages ago, and there were 2 guys, joined and got kicked from it, because they wanted to be by themselves I guess :rolleyes: