I have played Crysis 2 for a while now, and I have seen a total of 2 PEOPLE using voice chat. Voice chat is disabled by default, and you have to really dig through the menu to turn it on. But when you do, it is amazing.

Paralyzing your character while you try to type out a message to someone who might not notice is frustrating, and many people simply choose not to communicate. When you can hands free alert your team to your observations or tactical ideas, then teamwork actually becomes possible and your k/d ratios rise like crazy. The only problem is being able to hear every sniffle and sneeze of your nanosuited teamates, and that's not much to pay for real communication.

Now: Why do people not use VoIP? I can think of 2 explanations. It's not that hard to get a microphone headset, is it? With all of your fancy gaming rigs out there, $5.00 shouldn't seem like much to pay, and I'm pretty sure most of you already have one anyway. I am thinking that most people just don't know that Crysis has VoIP at all, and it has not occurred to them to check. OR they are just too lazy to plug in the mike and use it.

Either way, If even 3 people on a team had voice chat, that would be good enough for me, and I would have fun going around in groups cooperating with them. So therefore I am trying to raise awareness that VoIP really exists, reminding people to use it, and convincing people that is is worth it to use it. I now post, "Please use voice chat, guys," on every pre-game chat box I visit. Please do the same, use VoIP, and spread the love.

Thanks,
Genghis Khan.

Please post your reasons for not using voice chat, or if you use it, or what you think of this post. Your input is very important.

Please post your reasons for not using voice chat, or if you use it, or what you think of this post. Your input is very important.

I would love if pple would use it but i feel like i "see" pple talking in the lobby but i can never hear anything, i turned on voip in the settings and everything but i still have heard maybe one person talk in the lobby, never in game?? am I missing something...I would love to use this feature more

VOIP in-game is retarded. Teamspeak/Steam speak ftw.

VOIP in-game is retarded. Teamspeak/Steam speak ftw.

This is not constructive. His point is if you have a bunch of pugs that you can use the readily available VOIP in game and be a lot more successful. It's wholly unrealistic to have a bunch of random people get on your TS server for 1 game. That makes a lot more sense for a stack of dudes playing together.

@ OP I completely agree. However, the reason I disable VOIP is because 90% of the time I'm playing with friends and am on a mumble server. Having 2 different means of communication going at the same time is REALLY annoying.

Those like myself do not use a mic because we do not use headphones. If I were to hook up my mic everyone would be bombarded with my game sounds.

You can tell who has VoIP on by the little speakers icon next to their name on the scoreboard. Flashing or glowing means they are currently talking using it. You may use this to tell if you have VoIP on, and if it is actually recieving signal.

I do have the means to use VoIP but I turn it off because I felt the other players could do without some weird voice blocking out them listening out for other things in game like footsteps.

I would turn it on if everybody was doing it, since it would be nice if I could alert team-mates to an enemy play with a HMG or a enemy player who has Blind Spot II so I can't tag them for my team.

You know, I think I will turn on VoIP and see how it turns out, if only my team can hear me I could provide some good intel on enemy positions from my view. I'm the guy who likes to use binos whenever it's safe

Also, I have seen the little speaker symbols above teammates as we move through the map, but have never heard anyone speaking. Does it require a microphone to be connected to my PC in order to hear other people talking?

Hey dude send me a PM and download TS3 then you can play with 8 people with mics... Happy?

I have heard a few ppl in the lobby and maybe 2 ppl in-game. One of the two in-game must have had his mike button stuck on 'cos he carried on all through the round.
I don't mind using it, but pointless by myself.

My problem with VoIP is that I've run into too many ppl who set the VoIP on Automatic Activate while not using headphones but speakers, and I kept getting bombarded by the sound of THEIR speakers / b.g noises so much that I can't even hear my own in-game sound.

@wiardfingers:
No, I don't think you do, but you MUST turn VoIP on in the settings to hear OR say anything. people with the icon above their head simply means they can hear VoIP, unless it is glowing, then that means they are MAYBE trying to talk, but their mike could just be oversensitive.

In-game VoIP is of course handy in the way it automatically sets up voice connections between team members only, which is something teamspeak does not do. So it doesn't matter if some squad member drops and it doesn't exclude anyone.

But I myself use Skype nonetheless, I usually play with same buddies and I set up a nice group conversation. And speak Finnish.
Speaking other languages or very poor English in game would totally piss off other players. I once had to listen to two French guys chatting together in complete ignorance.
I also wish to hear the game sounds from speakers but comms from headphones, I'm not quite sure if Crysis does that.

It depends on the mentality of the players, I heard a screaming kid on the mic in one server earlier like you get with COD so it throws people actually using it for teamplay out of the window.

I'm sure there's lots using teamspeak as mentioned anyway for that, I tend to mute mics because of the speakers I'm using are so good crappy headset mics sound awful through them.

wow... im surprised you guys didn't hear!
the reason why people don't use mics its because of the world-shortage of microphones!
THE END OF THE WORLD IS HERE!

CBS using it -.-

**** i hate those morons who make those funny noises through the voice chat.

I once was in the lobby waiting for the game to start, and I heard "Hey, guys" lol... I didn't know there was a teamspeak :p! Can you tell me how to activate it? Btw. there are many languages in Crysis 2, so teamspeak is a bit of a problem...

Ya know, I thought about using VoIP. Maybe I'll try it, but there's something that has stopped me: Everyone can hear you, not only your teammates. I once found a cloaked enemy just because I heard him singing (pretty aweful, btw) behind me. Oh yeah, and my English isn't somethign to be proud of. And the German ppl won't understand me because of the dialect.....

@Cinerir:
You cannot hear the other team, unless they want you to. I don't know what you were doing, but that story sounds weird.
@other guy (idk what yur name is)
we already told how to use VoIP. it's a mutiplayer menu option. Now go read otherpple's comments!!
@a lot of other people:
that's what the votekick feature or the MUTE specific pple feature is for. Get rid of the noise, but you prob wanna warn them 'bout it first, just so they know!

@Cinerir:
You cannot hear the other team, unless they want you to. I don't know what you were doing, but that story sounds weird.

Then I guess, this guy had strange settings so I could hear him. Or it wasn't him and some other guy just stopped singing when I shot this guy.

I listen for cloak sounds, footsteps and reloads. Do not really want to hear some kid/guy tell someone "OMG THEY'RE BEHIND YOU XXXX". because that person is a) already dead, b) i have nfi who that person is or where he is, c) i possibly just missed someone pulling out a jaw around the corner.

Likewise i don't use it for the same reason, if i don't want to hear you, i have no reason to believe you want to hear me.

If im playing with friends, ts or vent for any banter/catching up. Even over ts3 we rarely have anything to say about whats going on (apart from lol'ing at rediculous things, like 3 people airstomping and im the only one who died to the jaw on the way down).

Its a neat feature, but the game doesn't really demand it (instead of trying to type where that sniper is, press b and let everyone know EXACTLY where he is).

@Cinerir:
that's what the votekick feature or the MUTE specific pple feature is for. Get rid of the noise, but you prob wanna warn them 'bout it first, just so they know!

you can't mute specific ppl. and the console doesn't work on my pc.