Poll: Voice comunication

[Kenton]

Question: What program do you use for voice communication?

This is mainly meant as a question for what you use "ingame"
As for me i use skype, i usually turn it on the second i get on the computer and start talking with whoever is on
Never liked Teamspeak's and Vent's push-to-talk, Skype is much better this way cause you can hear everything going on, just seems more alive
Feel free to comment my view on it

 

[Fronken]

i use Skype when playing with friends in WoW, but thats only with IRL friends, then some Vent if its raiding afoot, but thats not very often as im more of a casual player.

So when it comes to voice communications for tactical purposes and teamwork, its not very often, i mostly use it to be able to speak with my friends instead of writing all the time

 

[curlycrouton]

I use Skype, and occasionally Ventrilo.

 

[ianuam]

Teamspeak. Prefer Ventrilo, as it has much better sound quality.

 

[TheFuryan]

I agree with RAKtheUndead, the only way I would use it would be in a clan battle or something like that

 

[Alex_P]

I'm not a particular fan of voice communication when it comes to games. I've never played a game yet where people use enough strategy to require it, to be honest.

I used voice a lot in Guild Wars but we basically did it this way:
Text and built-in signaling for most tactical issues.
Voice almost entirely for random chat and joking around. (This was with people I played with habitually rather than strangers, so random chat was important.)

It nicely frees up the in-game chat for important things. We generally found that the game's built-in signaling (you can hold Ctrl while clicking on stuff to have those actions reported to chat, e.g. "I'm targeting that guy!" or "I'm blinded!" or "I'm casting Aegis!") worked best for quick coordination, while most on-the-spot planning was done by drawing football plays on the little map.

-- Alex

 

[Ace of Spades]

I never need it. My mentality in multiplayer games during team deathmatches is best summed up by one of the game over screens in COD4 "Teamwork is important; it gives them other people to shoot at".

 

[insane44]

team speak is cheap and good go teamspeak

 

[Zeldadudes]

Vent.
I just leave it on the Velocity monitor thing.
So when i start talking it sends it to my friends.
I would you Skype but its another program to install -.-

 

[Asymptote Angel]

When I played WoW, we used Vent. Granted, most of my officers were bitches who wouldn't let anyone talk, so we could have accomplished almost everything just fine without it, but hey, what can you do?

 

[black lincon]

Originally scype, then ventrillo, then teamspeak, we were having trouble getting a good voice quality from a guy in Puerto Rico. Then I got my 360 and haven't really been on after that.

 

[zen5887]

Most of the time I yell at people across the room. The LAN partys I go to arnt that hi-tech.

I've used vent when I used to play Freelances, Teamspeak with I played Black Hawk Down, Skype when I played Baulder Gate 2 and AA. I'm not sure which one I like more.. I've used Vent more so lets go with that.

Nowdays I only play online games over Live. Maybe I should change that...

 

[Solo508]

You know you don't have to use push to talk on ventrillo or teamspeak? Anyway, I use ventrillo because its the highest quality and has the smallest delay and because I use voice communication to play matches in CoD4 so delay is sort of a vital aspect.