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in game VOIP is restricted to within the squad, only when you are alive and a round is active

Burning_Monkey wrote:

in game VOIP is restricted to within the squad, only when you are alive and a round is active

You can talk even though you are dead, just doesn't show the icon.

There is a reason why you cannot speak to everybody ingame over voice. Actually, there are three.

One: NOBODY FUCKING USES VOICE ANYWAYS. half the time, when you ask if they can hear you, they dont even respond. even when you type it out in little green letters. no response. not so much as a PgUp or PgDn. when you ask somebody that joins the squad? no response. when you tell them, your hair is on fire and that martians are at your door? no response.

Two: Because on the *extremely* rare occasion that you do join a squad with voice, sometimes you step on each others broadcasts, and thats with only 6 members. Imagine an entire team trying to communicate? Itd be hard to tell if they guy saying "armor! behind you!" is your buddy, or across the map, assuming nobody else was talking at that moment in time.

Three: Chain of Command! Yes! this game actually has a theoretical chain of command! in all reality, nobody ever uses it because they are all too busy trying to get their own damn points. teamplay my ass, i want my vet armor badge! If the chain of command were to actually be used, then the commander, in his nigh infinite knowledge of the battlefield, would assign commands to his squad leaders; the squad leaders would in turn relay these commands to the troops. troops talk to troops and their squad leader, squad leaders talk to their troops and the commander. in a perfect world, it works wonderfully. if only they accounted for the average smack-tard when they coded BF2...

I don't bother using VoIP, because usually my squad is full of people that I'm on TS with, so VoIP is pointless.

when me and my mates are on we use voip in game and it works well - obbviously bc we know each other in real life helps.
but the thing that pisses me off is when you try and speak to the command and get an order from him he doesnt want to know and plus when your commander and have voip USE IT!!!! am i the only commander out their that remotely bothers to guide my squads to free capture points etc?
people always complain about following orders results in less points but half the tim eif they listen to good commanders your normally find they are directing you to a flag with no guys around!and there even plant a uav right over it but yet people will still stay away from it - fucking GAY is the word
USE VOIP