??? about online multiplayer voice chat

[MGood777]

I've never played an on-line multiplayer game in my life (so I don't have any way to chat yet), but I just finished Call of Duty single player and want to play online now. Are you a multiplayer dweeb if you don't have voice chat?

I was thinking about signing up as a GameSpy/FilePlanet subscriber, which means I could get their Roger Wilco for chat. Is that one any good? Is there a better one or a standard one out there???

Thanks...

[-FalconFan-]

This is what I came up with back when I was looking for voice over ip software (this was like 4 years ago though)

Roger Wilco:

PRO's: free, well received, very popluar, easy operation, can connect huge groups of people together.

CON's: very buggy, unstable operation, poor sound quality.


MS Game Voice: ("Share" version is free)

PRO's: free, well received, easy operation, uses minimal resources, configurable, excellent sound quality.

CON's: Microsoft product, enables "Messenger" service by default (very dangerous).


I only game online with about 4-5 people at a time so GV is perfect for me since the free version only lets you connect a limited number of people. (If even one person has the retail version, you can connect hundreds of free versions to them)

I recommend anyone who installs it IMMEDIATELY go into the "preferences" section and disable "Messenger" however, but that's quite simple to do.

All in all, for me, I found RW to be very unstable and the sound was poor quality.

IMO, GV seems more polished and easier to use, plus it runs through my router with no additional port forwarding or triggering (NAT and SPI enabled)

[MGood777]

Thanks for the input, FF. Here's another question for anybody/somebody...

Is it safe to assume that all of these packages are compatible with various types of broadband connections? That's what they're designed to work with, right???

I have a fiber optic connection direct into my home. I get about 10 mbps so there's plenty of bandwidth, but there's no modem like with a DSL or cable connection. I have a Cat5 run from an outside pole directly to a NIC card. The type of connection doesn't matter though, does it??? I've got a Soundblaster PCI512 soundcard.

[{THE} {LEGEND}]

Well if you want the best voice chat get ventrilo. any smart people who know what there talking about will say to use it. also all the big clans use this program as do i and i love it

[sheeepy the noob]

TEAMSPEAK

yes it does cost but its the best i have to say

rw is really... wierd at times...

join a clan with a ts server... you might have to pay alittle fee or something yearly but its nothing for good gaming...

[Hi Ho]

CON's: Microsoft product

How is that a con? If it works better than the other one which do you think I would choose regardless of the manufacturer. Why don't they build voice chat into games like they do on Xbox Live? It would be so much better.

[Xayd]

The vast majority of people use Teamspeak and Ventrilo. Ventrilo is actually gaining a bit in popularity over Teamspeak, since its Linux/Unix server support has been better and its sound quality is noticably better.

Roger Wilco is dead. It was one of the first game voice-chat programs but its sound quality is very bad.