Teamspeak not so much

[Warhead]

I get that the lair wants to replace the failed in game voip with a more "tactical" teamspeak variant, but the new settings that segregate by squad seems extreme. Few people use it to begin with, so odds are most of your squad won't be hearing or talking to you. I'm not much of a talker to begin with, but listening to my friends here brag and sometimes rage has added a lot to the game. Even segregating by team takes a lot away from the fun, and adds very little in my personal opinion.

Just sharing my thoughts, laterz

[K PhaNTOM]

It was fine the way it is. We aren't playing a military sim. This is a game for fun. Half the people end up alone in teamspeak after this absolutely pointless and lousy plug-in.

If someone wants to talk "Flank right, attacking, base of fire" and so on, leave empty channels to those people. I don't see a point in being in TS if all I have are people (Won't mention names) that say 3 lines of chat every 2 hours.

You are taking the fun out of TS. Simple as that.

What are Zanthus, Legion, and warhead doing all alone in TS? The S in TS stands for SPEAK.

[Caddys83]

There should be TS for the team 1, team 2, and Lobby. But what do I know, I hardly use TS

[Cain]

Thx for the feedback Warhead.

1) Squad up. Not enough folks are squadding up anyway. Most are just running around randomly.

2) It only breaks you into squads when the total TS player count exceeds a certain number. I can look into increasing that threshold.

3) Squad up, then when it breaks you into squads you will be fine.

You are correct TS is meant to replace the VOIP we had in BF2. If you just want to cut up and mess around, the game has that feature built into it, you can connect with lots of players on the other team or even in other servers.

[Warhead]

Not sure what you mean by squad up? I thought the game put you in a squad automagically? Regardless, this is my problem, my squad wasn't on TS, so the current settup simply threw me in a channel alone. Why bother running TS to waste resources sitting in an empty channel.

Hope I'm not sounding rude, my original post wasn't worded well.

Edit: I think you're assuming that since some of us are in empty channels we are not in squads, that is not the case. We are in squads with folks not running TS.

[Cain]

No, I understood your meaning and appreciate the feedback.

In BF2 you could only talk to your squad mates. Ever.

What we have now:

All lumped together until we hit 10 players total in-game on TS.

Lumped into two team channels until we hit 14 players total.

You do realize you can join any squad you want, that is not full, correct??

As soon as you connect to the game server, you and everyone else should start joining squads together - not only does this provide for a better game experience, bnut if/when your team channel splits off into a squad channel, you will be talking to your squad mates.

When there are 10 or less players it is not too bad the chatter, but if you think it is fun to have 30 guys, all on the same channel blabbering, then you have not experienced that too many times.

[Duke{CLR}]

One option could be to set up a whisper button and you could take to anyone on the server. This way you would have a button that talks to your squad and another to chat it up.

[Zantheus]

Yea it does get lonely when Im only one in squad on TS...

[Cain]

Yea it does get lonely when Im only one in squad on TS...

Squad up !!

Do that when you first connect....

I do hope they will let us make custom squads soon, like we had before.

[Schultzy]

Squad up !!

Do that when you first connect....

I do hope they will let us make custom squads soon, like we had before.

I see so many complaining about being lonely, and yet I advertise time and time again in Team chat there is room for people in X squad who are on comms... and I get nothing. I agree with you guys that it gets lonely, but it is just as bad when you have 8 people talking ontop of each other. Cobalt and I just played a few rounds that, while we lost, we were in comms the whole time together. It was fun. Alittle intimate (ok, gayyy)... But it was fun, even losing. Because we were still trying to work together.

Simple solution: Look who's IN the squads, and join your friends. Or ask for room if there are 2-3 people in a squad and then someone who's not in comms... IMHO people who are in TS should have first pick of being in a squad with those that are in TS... That said, I am unsure if the channels should be set with passwords. For example: if 2-3 people are in a squad together and I want to get in that squad because the other's are full or whathaveyou.. I'd like to be able to pop in and ask whoever is lead to remove the guy who is not in TS.

[Schultzy]

What alot of people don't know, is you can kick people if you are squad lead. This way, if you get someone who is not on comms, all you have to do (as a squad lead) is select them and click "kick"... Voila, room for a new player.

[K PhaNTOM]

So what you're saying is that all CLRs should chat on Battlelog and leave the TeamSpeak empty for the 4 people who actually want this function. Loud and clear.

[Cain]

What alot of people don't know, is you can kick people if you are squad lead. This way, if you get someone who is not on comms, all you have to do (as a squad lead) is select them and click "kick"... Voila, room for a new player.

OK, cool, I did not know that. So you can kick a nonTS Guy from your squad, to make room for a TS guy??

That is cool. Squad up guys, Squad up !!

[Warhead]

I would just be spending half the round trying to squad for the sake of TS, and likely have to do it again next round.

Sounds good on paper, and who knows maybe its working like you guys want, but useless for me.

A lot of new folks might not be thrilled with getting shuffled around just because they aren't on our TS server. I wouldn't be to happy with being snubbed on a new server.

[Cain]

So what you're saying is that all CLRs should chat on Battlelog and leave the TeamSpeak empty for the 4 people who actually want this function. Loud and clear.

Somehow this post seems to presume that I give a rats ass if anyone uses our TS channel. I don't.

What I'm trying to do is provide an alternative to the in-game coms that is similar to what we had in BF2, Battlecom is always there for folks who don't want to use the Coms channel for the game.

So to answer your question, YES, please use Battlecoms if you have no desire to use the TS for game chatter. I might just make this simple and pull TS down completely, it is a PITA for me to deal with anyway, and I'm sick of the constant bitching about it.