Posted - 2009.09.29 18:13:00 - [2]

 

Being rather new to the game but a veteran in gaming altogether, voice chat is almost a necessity. Hitting Left Alt and speaking is way easier than typing out what you need to get across. I'm not the biggest fan of TeamSpeak, but Ventrilo is the program I have been using for years. Its almost a completely new gaming experience not having to type out everything you need to say.

In addition, the ability to hear someone else's tone of voice can be ideal. Clans, guilds, and corporations have crumbled because something that was meant to be a joke was taken literally and with the ability to sense someone's voice disallows for such things to happen.

Hope this helps.

-Westwood

Posted - 2009.09.29 18:40:00 - [4]

 

Edited by: dtyk on 29/09/2009 18:41:21
At least for pvp, being able to at least listen to voice chat is pretty much necessary. For pve, I would think it's not as much necessary as nice to have for chatting, but if you want to pvp, get at least the programs (Teamspeak and Ventrilo at least, some corps/alliances might use something else but those are the most common ones)and preferably a mic of some kind.

Posted - 2009.09.29 19:07:00 - [6]

 

Edited by: Serge Bastana on 29/09/2009 19:09:40
Edited by: Serge Bastana on 29/09/2009 19:09:19
In general it's not absolutely vital but having joined a corp that used Ventrilo a lot, I would say it's a great addition to the game and lets you have plenty of idle chat while you play the game, spin your ship, etc.

I learned a lot from just listening to various convos on our vent, plus I could ask questions of older players and discuss things that helped me get into the game a little easier.

For pvp and fleet stuff I would say that it's pretty much required by most corps and gangs, some FC's won't let you join fleet unless you are on Vent/TS, which I can understand when you get involved in that sort of thing.

I only have experience with vent, haven't used TeamSpeak, but either one is very useful, I just rented a small vent server from this site http://www.lonetrek.ws/ quite cheaply for my group of friends when we go off on a roam or do any group activity.

Posted - 2009.09.29 19:15:00 - [8]

 

The ability to at least listen is critical for most pvp corps. Generally you want to be able to talk a bit too.

Originally by: PyroTech03

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I just don't see a reason not to. Although admitidly, I have only used it twice so far, and with only a couple of people at once so....*shrug* i may be missing something.

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Because its not a separate client. If EVE crashes your voice coms crash.

Posted - 2009.09.29 19:23:00 - [10]

 

I found EVE-Voice didn't work that well for me and my friends when we tried to use it, but it's worth giving it a try.

But as was pointed out, if you lose EVE you lose your voice comms, and there were several times when someone crashed and was able to let us know over vent.

Plus you can have a chat during downtime too or if you don't feel like logging in for some reason

Posted - 2009.09.29 19:45:00 - [12]

 

Edited by: PyroTech03 on 29/09/2009 19:45:53

Originally by: Mikayla Grey

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Originally by: PyroTech03

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Because its not a separate client. If EVE crashes your voice coms crash.

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Good point I guess....i myself don't have broadband at the moment (playing over an alltel air card) so I can't run a vent server for my corp.

of the programs however, i do prefer ventrilo over teamspeak...mostly due to more experiance with vent though.

Posted - 2009.09.29 23:17:00 - [14]

 

I personally have never had anything but problems with Eve Voice, but my corp uses mainly Teamspeak so I rarly ever deal with it

Posted - 2009.09.30 18:47:00 - [16]

 

Originally by: Luc Sejanus

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Been playing the game for a few days. I absolutely love it. Getting ready to shop around for a Corp. to join and was just wondering how critical is it to have voice chat, can you get by efficiently in a squad for example without it? Thanks in advance for replies

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Voice chat is required to run a gang properly. In a gang several people MUST be able to talk through some sort of voice communication. Those being the FC (and any back-up FC) to call primaries and any scouts who are flying ahead finding targets. Many corps only require that you listen while on voice comms but some communicate totally with it and rarely even type in chat.

It's not really a hard requirement to meet either. Vent/TS are free downloads and you can get a mic for a couple bucks down at walmart. It feels more personal to talk to people over Vent than in game chat anyway, especially when you've been playing with them for a while.