Voice-communication

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

i vote the mute feature.

[Mirio]

i vote the mute feature.

heh - i don't have such a keyboard here

[CrazyClone]

I hope this happens. it would improve Clans a bunch, because they can communicate, or just great strategies

[divVerent]

I am all for it, but the only existing free system (Mumble) is really hard to integrate. Moving players into the right channel of their team means ACL editing at runtime, and exactly that is very hard to do at the moment (thanks to it using a weird DCOP interface for that purpose).

If there were a simple way to edit ACLs by means of a simple TCP connection with ASCII data (and no weird interface forcing to embed a huge library like Qt and writing lots of stuff in C++), it would have been already done.

[Lee_Stricklin]

I like the idea, but implementing it sounds like a pain in the ass for the developers working on this game.

[barky]

just use vent or any of the other voice communication software. as for getting a server, maybe galt can get one going and everyone can copy him

[ai]

Skype.

[divVerent]

Only problem with using these is setting up the teams in the voice software... that's all.

[OverDriven]

You can easily run Skype in the backdround and get the same effect.

[MirceaKitsune]

I really hope voice chat will be added in sooner or later. Hope the team will consider this and try to add it

As for implementing it, I think it normally shouldn't be that hard though I wouldn't know. For a start, holding the voice key pressed in the game can start recording a file from your microphone (just like sound recorder dies) then when you let go of the key that file is finished and sent to everyone else and played back. Then live streaming could be in... probably the technology can be downloaded from somewhere else and inserted into the game.