Locational Voice

[Lv. 100 Garchomp 362]

We just had a server vote to do locational voice. It was actually cool and made it extremely more fun. There was a couple of bugs like traitor chat still being local, but here's my suggestion to that: I vote instead of all talk we use locational voice on the server. The T chat should still be heard by all Ts. Added to that, the Detective should be able to talk to everyone, including Ts with shift. I think this works a lot better than what we currently have. We would have to increase the range slightly, but it would work. This would also serve as a reason to get rid of mic drain, because now the whole server isn't cluttered with chat. Slight tweaks can be made, but I think this would be much better.

[The Real Xlite 270]

It's a nice thought, but I think being able to communicate with everyone is better then a selective area, It also makes admins jobs a whole lot easier. It'd be nice, but I don't think It will work, I think locational voice will only work for role play and other game modes similar to that. I'm not sure though, It might happen . Interested to see what other have to say.

[Deadpool 161]

We tried that for awhile last year, and it got old really fast. Sometimes people just like having conversations in game. It also leads to massive rdm when someone is too far away to explain why they killed someone.

[Lv. 100 Garchomp 362]

Well I wouldn't mind all talk, but we have 42 fucking people on the server. You can't hear crap. A different idea would be 2 servers both at around 20 each...

[The Real Xlite 270]

We tried, It needs to be done.

EDIT: 'it' being the player limit reduction

Edited March 10, 2013 by Xlite

[Lv. 100 Garchomp 362]

Hmm, maybe it could be locational over a certain amount of people? Just throwing more ideas out there.

[Oreo 2073]

Locational would be a step backwards, i'd rather it not be done.

[Gamer4125 40]

Locational when we did it was fucking great. I would rather only be able to hear the few people around me, than hear everyone talking over each other, 6 at a time.

I say when the server is over 28, have the locational kick in. When there aren't many people on, people can actually understand each other.

[Deadpool 161]

Honestly the 40 player limit is ridiculous. This game was designed for like 18 people, and I even think 30 is too much. If the limit was dropped to 25 I think that everyone would have a better time. In an ideal server, there would be no voice drain.

In any case, voice localization wouldn't fix the problem.

[Deadpool 161]

Locational when we did it was fucking great. I would rather only be able to hear the few people around me, than hear everyone talking over each other, 6 at a time.

I say when the server is over 28, have the locational kick in. When there aren't many people on, people can actually understand each other.

Honestly if there was localization I probably wouldn't play on the server. I play TTT for the people not for the game, and if I wasn't able to talk to everyone I would probably leave the server.

[Oreo 2073]

I'm being honest here, voice drain was such a bad thing to impliment because it feels like it ruined a part of the social aspect of TTT. Not to mention you have to pay to not be subjected to it.

[Wintergreen 1603]

I'm being honest here, voice drain was such a bad thing to impliment because it feels like it ruined a part of the social aspect of TTT. Not to mention you have to pay to not be subjected to it.

[Corbek 37]

How about we just leave the chat how it is. Not sure how the localized voice chat works, but if an SO is on we could always just have them start a vote if someone wants to switch it on for a few rounds. Not sure if SO's can change that, or if it's more complicated than that though, however it sounds like it was something simple. I like the idea, but I do mostly go onto TTT for the people.

[Deadpool 161]

How about we just leave the chat how it is. Not sure how the localized voice chat works, but if an SO is on we could always just have them start a vote if someone wants to switch it on for a few rounds. Not sure if SO's can change that, or if it's more complicated than that though, however it sounds like it was something simple. I like the idea, but I do mostly go onto TTT for the people.

Localized voice chat is you can only hear people close to you.

[Corbek 37]

How about we just leave the chat how it is. Not sure how the localized voice chat works, but if an SO is on we could always just have them start a vote if someone wants to switch it on for a few rounds. Not sure if SO's can change that, or if it's more complicated than that though, however it sounds like it was something simple. I like the idea, but I do mostly go onto TTT for the people.

Localized voice chat is you can only hear people close to you.

I know what it is, I meant I don't know if it's hard to turn it on or off. Does it have to do with coding, or is there something in ULX or the SO shit that they can just flip it on and off.

[UltimateOreo 145]

it's just a server side setting, super easy to turn on and off. problem is it would ruin the balance of the game, making it extremely easy for the traitors. if the innocents can't communicate they just lost their only edge on the traitors

[Siesan 1802]

it's just a server side setting, super easy to turn on and off. problem is it would ruin the balance of the game, making it extremely easy for the traitors. if the innocents can't communicate they just lost their only edge on the traitors

This:

Imagine your on crumycradle and you see some guy shoot another guy down on the ground from up high. you begin to ask why he killed the other guy even though he can't hear you. instead you would just shoot him, and someone from the other side of the map would see you sniping, and that guy would shoot you.

[Jimmy Rustling 28]

to add on to it, you wouldn't be able to hear KOSs across the map either, i agree the mic drain is rather annoying, and the cluster of people, I don't think messing with mics rather then the server size which is the main issue.

[Noodle 133]

When we did the localization we were on Resident Evil, which is a fairly small map and I could hear people about halfway across the map. Just goes to show how shit the range is for localization.