Why does everyone use Teamspeak?

[Grimaldiii]

Planetside has an excellent voice comms system built right in. So why does no one use it? Why does EVERY outfit require Teamspeak or Ventrilo? The built in one is perfectly integrated, has all the keys built in, and requires no extra third-party software. What's the issue with it? Why is no one using it? It's frustrating.

[Figment]

1. We can see who of our outfit (alliance) are online, even if they aren't in the game or in another game.
2. You can skip to different channels more easily and go to afk rooms.
3. The quality is just a little bit better for some people.
4. If the game crashes, you don't lose voice chat.
5. Routine.

[Sawboss]

I'd like to use the ingame comms to talk to players around me, but everytime i've used it i've just been told that I sounded like a crackly garbled mess, yet TS works fine. Has it been improved recently?

[SpottyGekko]

I used the ingame voice for squad comms until last week, and it was extremely frustrating. Half the time time we couldn't hear what the other person was saying.

We switched to Mumble and it's better by several orders of magnitude. Everyone is crystal clear and I've never had to repeat anything I say.

[EVILPIG]

In game voip is simply not adequate. We communicate with our divisions via command channels. Our SL's communicate with each other via another channel. You cannot coordinate 350 on at one time with what SOE has in place.

[Zhane]

Largely because the quality of the ingame voice chat is abysmal. I'll use it to yell at people around me sometimes, but for outfit ops it's gotta be ventrilo just so we can understand each other.

[MrBloodworth]

TBH, after beta ended, the quality and reliability of the in game VOIP took a noise dive in most cases.

3ed party apps are simply more dedicated, thus work better. Myself, I use 3ed party, and use the in game to supplement.

[Dragonskin]

I normally have all ingame comms turned down because I am tired of Gangnam Style or other things being blasted over comms... yesterday my RL friend finally hopped into the game and was thrown into a random squad so I used ingame comms and people were complaining about my mic.. in TS no one has issues with my mic. Some people sounded terrible to me too.

So the ingame voice comms need optimizations just like all the other parts of the game :lol:

[Lieken]

Because Teamspeak is better, and takes about a minute to download, install and connect to the server you want, for a superior VoIP experience. Not sure where your issue is considering 3rd party VoIP has been used in every MMO and FPS I've ever played.

[PredatorFour]

So you dont get constantly bombarded with people blasting out gangam style or other flavour of the month music religiously in the middle of epic battles. As other people have said the quality beas it hands down too.

[MrBloodworth]

You people that hate prox chat hate fun.

Why do you hate fun?

[Stormhall]

Do YOU want the Planetside 2 VoIP experience but DON'T have Planetside 2, then go ahead and buy the Planetside 2 VoIP mod from ME, Stormius Hall! Compatible with most well known VoIP programmes like Teamspeak or Ventrilo. INCLUDED is the great experience of random Gangnam Style and really bad comms audio for only $19.99 NOW!

[ShadoViper]

You people that hate prox chat hate fun.

Why do you hate fun?

We don't hate "fun". We hate generic attempts at attention. It's funny when you get the occasional guy doing it, but not when everyone thinks they are "funny" "orignal" or better yet, "trolling".

It's just boring and generic.

[MrBloodworth]

Its on the internets.

Planetside 2 Beta - Deckard Cain Squad - YouTube

[ReachCast]

1. Organization
2. Filter out prox chat
3. Voice quality

[Sturmhardt]

For most people the teamspeakserver is more like an HQ where everyone meets and hangs out, I think it's a good thing, you don't necessarily have to be in the game to chat with your friends.

[Mox]

My outfit is part of a multigaming association. Our members play around 20 different games. We use TS as HQ for all our 400 members. We have different channels for each game.

[maradine]

Momentum.

[Hamma]

In game voip is simply not adequate. We communicate with our divisions via command channels. Our SL's communicate with each other via another channel. You cannot coordinate 350 on at one time with what SOE has in place.

This is definitely a part of it we use command channels and organized groups in TS3 as well.

For our Outfit? We want to talk to each other outside of the game. If you crash out of PS2, you can at least say something rather than just dropping out of voice. Established organized groups will always use out of game voice because their groups extend outside PlanetSide 2.

The first thing I ever do? Disable in game voice in any game I play.

[Jaybonaut]

We use Mumble.

[IndiQa]

Mumble, TeamSpeak, Ventrillo all surpass the in game chat in all aspects.

AND you don't have to listen to some moron who locks the mic down and
plays (C)RAP or some other noxious thing trying to claim it is music.

[derito]

Teamspeak has whisper lists. They allow you to speak to different groups of people depending on which button you press. For example a lib pilot and his gunner can talk without the rest of the squadron hearing them. For leaders who need to give different orders to many subordinates without flooding their comm channel, this is even more important.
This also helps creating a community as outfit members can play other games while still on teamspeak.
And there's many little -but very useful- functionalities like the ability to tune someone else's sound level.

[Frotang]

Ya ive never had problems with in game but too many of our members did to make it not worth it. We switched from ventrillo to mumble with the in game overlay to show whos talking (only thing vent was missing) so now no reason for in game at all.

[EisenKreutzer]

My outfit uses Teamspeak out of convenience, and because the in-game voice system sounds like it's being recorded with an assortment of potatoes, tomatoes and oranges.

[IndiQa]

My outfit uses Teamspeak out of convenience, and because the in-game voice system sounds like it's being recorded with an assortment of potatoes, tomatoes and oranges.

Although Kumquats have a very high fidelity.:lol:

[EisenKreutzer]

Although Kumquats have a very high fidelity.:lol:

I'm partial to pineapples myself. Although for that true stone-age audio capture feeling, you can't go wrong with plain old rocks.

[MonthOLDpickle]

Ingame I am told I sound like a frog and majority of the time people crackle...yet in TS none of it. Even mumble too!

[Alareth]

I use Teamspeak because Ventrilo murdered my entire family at Thanksgiving one year

[TermiGR]

First - because we can talk outside the game.
Second - they must have changed the quality - its really bad - did they change it since the beta?

[SGOniell]

We're switching because the in-game voice tends to cause some folks wifi to die. And when I say die, I mean it literally kills any signal, I believe it kills it for anyone on the same router too. Since they've turned off the in-game voice there's been no issue whatsoever