Best Voice Chat for pc games? • Gaming • PC • Eurogamer.net

pixelherder 17 Jan 2005 02:00:38 19 posts
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Playing counterstrike:source, it seems that voice chat would be quite handy for all sorts of mad tactical-isation. It also seems that enabling it in CS itself will burst your ears with the juvenile babble of l33t speaking degenerates.

So to avoid their tourette-ish wailing, is there anything i can run in the background? (like xfire except for chat!)

roger wilco and skype are two that cropped up in my googles...thoughts?

chee-ahs

p.s. god i wish i could sleep...

Dirtbox 17 Jan 2005 08:42:18 92,595 posts
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Ginger 17 Jan 2005 08:44:18 7,256 posts
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teamspeak is the other one I've heard of

Mike_Hunt 17 Jan 2005 10:46:49 23,524 posts
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I'd heard the Skype wasn't any good for in game comms. I can't remember why though. Either it was because you couldn't have multiple users chatting or that it wouldn't run at the same time as the game.

[MH]

Whizzo 17 Jan 2005 10:48:23 44,810 posts
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Ventrilo seems to work pretty well when I've had a server going; nice simple interface, does what it's supposed to and setting up a server is very easy.

Edited by Whizzo at 10:51:19 17-01-2005

Jetset_UK 17 Jan 2005 10:57:00 3,578 posts
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I've always found teamspeak works well.

Can you turn voice comms off on CS? I was on a server the other day, having a good time with some people as bad as me on, when 3 lads came on an wouldn't shut up. V annoying.

Mike_Hunt 17 Jan 2005 11:00:12 23,524 posts
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You can mute individually I think.

I think you press TAB and then right click on their name and select mute.

Alternatively I could be talking ball-cocks.

[MH]

buzz 17 Jan 2005 11:05:55 459 posts
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I use Teamspeak for my ut2004 clan

[pimp]Now 5th in europe![/pimp]

There's also a Teamspeak Overlay which will inform you who's speaking.

It works with all d3d games.

-buzz

Salaman 17 Jan 2005 12:13:50 24,162 posts
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The clan I'm in has tried background communicator (pain to set up), Ventrillo (OK but some sound quality issues) and Teamspeak2.

Teamspeak 2 came out on top for us. I'd highly recommend it.

Wretched-Chin 17 Jan 2005 12:56:55 745 posts
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I use TS2 also - the choice of codecs and quality settings can really keep the band-width hogging down. Quality on a low settings is roughly equivilant to a mobile-phone.

pixelherder 17 Jan 2005 18:34:07 19 posts
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eurogamer has spoken - teamspeak it is then! thanks for enabling me to swear in realtime across t'intarhighwayweb!

Whizzo 17 Jan 2005 18:36:34 44,810 posts
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buzz wrote:There's also a Teamspeak Overlay which will inform you who's speaking.

That's rather useful, just a pity you can't use FRAPS at the same time with it.

pixelherder 17 Jan 2005 21:11:17 19 posts
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*update*

having the best part of an hour scouring its forums trying to JUST LOG IN to teamspeak admin panel, its failed the "it just frikkin works" test quite spectacularly

so back to the drawing board. bah!

(no, its not my cookie settings, pop-up blocker or zonealarm...seems to be the stock answer the kajillions of users on their forums get when it doesnt work. Quite a regular occurance it seems!)

Dirtbox 17 Jan 2005 21:14:41 92,595 posts
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