Sarlic, on 04 March 2015 - 07:18 AM, said:
Too funny. Community wanted the VOIP.
But no one uses it. Spot on.
I hope time will tell and people will use it. But as of now i am the only one of the few who are using it in the solo que.
(The low quality and the tons of problems isnt helping either, ha)
VOIP in pug groups so far as been a hit or miss, when used effectively has made for either a stomp or very close game, win or lose. Unfortunately, due to the lack of the current chat abilities/setup, there has not been time to build up battledrop commanders, either being the one providing direction or having learned from previous drop commanders. There is a huge difference between attempting to use situation awareness, mini/battlemap and trying to be where you think you need to be vs trying to provide that intel all of a sudden via VOIP. If the chat screen was better made, easier to use, command wheel, etc then the switch to in-game VOIP would have been an easier switch since pugs would have been more use to receiving some sort of direction some of the time.
But I should have said that the PGI expectations and roadmap has had to change over time. He mentioned those who played competitive multiplayer their reasoning to bypass the in-house VOIP for 3rd party programs. This needed to have been beat around a tad longer though cause aren't most multiplayer games have some sort of respawn/multiple lives involved? With MWO, until CW came along, there was no respawn so being able to take out the enemy asap resulted in teams (who tended to use VOIP more often) being separated from the "solo" queue.
Finally, as already mentioned, from the bygone days we would not have been privy to the number of game changes that the game has gone through since it would have all been in-house with multiple teams working on it. Considering where PGI is at, I am not too disappointed and when I drop I do have fun. I do have expectations but I am also patient, especially if things are rushed and goes south another MW/BT game may never be made unless it is modded on another gaming system.
Edited by Tarl Cabot, 04 March 2015 - 09:28 PM.