Why does everyone use Teamspeak?

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

Although Kumquats have a very high fidelity.

[EisenKreutzer]

Originally Posted by IndiQa

Although Kumquats have a very high fidelity.

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