In game voice chat

[ashen dawn]

it would be nice to be able to talk to other pilots in your faction to be able to coordinate better strategies, attacks and defences

[meager sparrow]

https://youtu.be/D1b6My9GoPQ

the average escalation match could match a COD lobby if it had voice chat enabled

[dry vale]

Best to avoid this yeah

Too hard to moderate, instead lets improve chat overall
#1376899685964451921

[novel dagger]

For things like NOCS this would be great. It wouldn’t be as bad as you think, luckily people here are more respectful and COD

[bleak ermine]

Everyone in NOCS uses Discord or another third party system like Teamspeak

[novel dagger]

I am aware but an in game system could work better in some scenarios

[cerulean panther]

Could be opt-in, I would like voice chat and I think we should be aware that the NO community is a lot different than something like COD

Edit: of course actual moderation would 100% have to be implemented first, and good moderation at that (which is a long, long ways off)

[meager sparrow]

i mean i did put the COD video as a joke, but im pretty sure this community is tame enough to no be like that

[cerulean panther]

I know lol, but it is a real concern I understand

[ashen cove]

I wanna upvote but I don’t wanna disturb the ratio

[serene wing]

can confirm, people dont like it when they get shot down by a medusa thinking it cant mount MMRs

[dry vale]

fair tbh, but moderation should be encouraged and emplaced well before they even attempt

[civic garnet]

Actual Moderation will most likely never exist in an official manner. Games are community ran, let them selfmoderate

Which points to another thing: who pays for the hosting of VOIP. i am willing to bet no one who proposes this has anywhere near the network capability to support a large escalation match VOIP

Or hell even a small one. People forget that VOIP means infrastructure. And hell no to vivox, the most horrid thing ever and a rip-off for devs

[modest fossil]

I wish

[cerulean panther]

Actual moderation doesn’t necessarily mean official moderation, just anything that works

[civic garnet]

In that case I'm more in favour of just adding an SRS bepin mod, seems quite feasible. Then there is less worry about implementing it as part of the game. Because as said before basically no one has the hardware/bandwidth for this

[rose tendon]

I'm no game dev and have no idea how complex it'd be but, as an arma player the arma reforger radio system would be IMO king in this game. Just being able to choose a frequency and to be able to talk over it whilst being able to listen to a team frequency at the same time would be ideal. In my reference of Reforger specifically you can turn team chat off in the event of spam or abuse while still having your squad or "wingman" frequency. Like I said before I don't know how complex it'd be to develop and it probably is very complex to implement. However if it was implemented it would make combined arms attacks possible. Timing of jamming and saturation attacks would tighten up, and just overall cohesion in game. I mean ive seen when chat locks in and 5-10 people actually coordinate an attack it swings the whole match. I can only imagine being able to talk to random pilots on the fly no pun intended.

[ashen cove]

This reminds me of VTOL VR’s voice chat

Frequency, team, and something else

[craggy hatch]

Yeah I really don’t feel like there would be too many problems with VC although it’s still something to consider. I’ve only had one encounter that could have been considered remotely toxic and I play majority multiplayer.

[mystic loom]

just add a mute player feature tbh, i dont see why we should shut this down because some people will be jerkoffs, mute them and ignore them

also its video game voice chat, do we really expect/need moderators? just let us vote kick people if its that bad

[civic garnet]

I have purely technical concerns. I feel like this could/should be an external system like SRS

[rose tendon]

The only thing I'm trying to stay away from is the end user having to install soft or needing to buy hardware for comms. Simply join game the create squad and have squad and team chat on ptt in game. I do respect SRS tho and it was a viable solution in dcs but this is something where if you are trying out diet sim and are maybe coming from battlefield or ace combat built in comms is needed. Not to mention it would help in teaching new players on the spot as well. Ive typed essays on how to play mid game.

[mystic loom]

nah i hate using SRS, i think this would easy enough to get a working and well done inbuilt voice chat

[civic garnet]

I am convinced. SRS was a solution to not wait for ED to get it right. My vote is changed

[austere haven]

I do not want to be called the n-word 500 times

[mystic loom]

then add a report and mute option, simple.

however we shouldnt be limited by kids being dickheads

[austere haven]

good point

[broken palm]

Bumping this thread because I was about to post the same suggestion.

In game voice comm would kind of smooth out a lot of the game's problems. I think a lot of balancing issues are just due to the fact that you can't organize with your teammates unless you have them on discord.

For example, the current offensive metas are stealth nuking and reach spam. If you're just defending by yourself, these are really hard to counter. But it's a lot easier if you have someone helping you. It'd open up a lot more strategies and provide great marketing value for the game - imagine reels of pilots screaming "IM GOING DOWN AAAGG"

The counter arguments are usually just like "but people will be toxic" or " i wont use it". Well, there needs to be ways to disable it and mute people. That would just solve it. And there will be non toxic people you might make friends with as well

[mystic loom]

exactly, i think the “lack of moderation” is a mute point when you’re able to simply mute someone who’s toxic, if we really wanted we could add a report system but tbh i dont see it as that serious