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Ouze wrote:Patch notes look good, b-b-but:

Mic Always On PC Issue:
We are implementing a "Mute All" button in the upcoming patch. This will also disable the audio data traffic to allow better ping rates while playing. Currently muting players in the lobby will also allow you to obtain better ping rates as it disables the signal of those audio feeds.

Unacceptable. The better option, the only intelligent option, would be to add PTT and set that to default. This is slapping a band-aid over it instead of fixing it. It shouldn't be a choice between one option that breaks the game, or an option that breaks the game in a different way.

Unfortunately, the reason they can't is because it's a Steam Cloud setting.

Go into Steam -> Settings -> Voice to see what I mean, it's near the bottom right IIRC.

Melissia wrote:Go into Steam -> Settings -> Voice to see what I mean, it's near the bottom right IIRC.

Problem is that that option doesn't work (it never has for me anyway). I have my PTT set to / which I never touch in games but people can still hear me. I'd just set my send volume to 0 but in one of my few criticism of Steam, the design team in their moment of stupidty, had steam take over your sound settings. I use TS, and setting my send volume to 0 in Steam prevents me from using TS as well.

Yeah, Steam really needs some work in that area. I doesn't seem to work well outside of Source Engine games.

Anyone else having problems staying in games/finding them?

It's gotten really bad today......

Slarg232 wrote:Anyone else having problems staying in games/finding them?

It's gotten really bad today......

The last 2 days have been terrible for me, it'll take 5 minutes to find a game and then the host will be from Mars so we'll all lag like gak. Plus it's only finding a few games now, so unless the community is already dead there's something wrong. It worked 100% better the first few days.

You know that there's an actual town in Pennsylvania, America, that's named Mars, right? There's a Moon right next to that.

I will buy and eat a cookie in your honour.

Hmm, didn't have any problems yesterday, but I haven't played yet today.

Mute all I can live with until they fix PTT. I have yet to see in the in game VOIP be used properly, it's mostly people breathing into their mics creating some weird distortion effect or just swearing and crying when they get killed. But mute is just a bandaid PTT would be awesome.

I was actually surprised there was no Apothecaries in the game, maybe it's something we can hope will come in a future DLC.

Sckitzo wrote:I was actually surprised there was no Apothecaries in the game, maybe it's something we can hope will come in a future DLC.

I would much prefer to be a librarian

Hah, I normally play a medic type class in games that allow it (not MMO's though for some reason) so I'm a bit biased.

I'd be happy if the apot/libr/ect were just skins we could unlock further down the road. I imagine trying to implement abilities for them would require alot of reworking of the code.

I want juggernaut mode from halo... the juggernaut is a Terminator :3

Edit: Changed topic title.

Never played Halo really so not familiar with it, judging from the name may be fun with termies though, assuming it's 1 or 2 juggernauts vs the other team, you kill the 'naught and you become him type deal?

Sadly, those of us that voted in your previous poll cannot vote in this one.

What Mel said. Lack of content is my biggest beef by the way. The rest of those things I can pseudo-live with

Peer to Peer hosting is my biggest beef.

I'm fine with the content, honestly, especially once the Co-Op campaign comes out and they begin adding in new maps and skins via DLC (which they are planning on doing). The balance is mostly good aside from final vengeance.

Cant say I was impressed really with the game, Sp was gakk same goes for the ending. And MP reminds me of CoD but only in power armour and with power weapons

Just had a go with Final Vengeance equipped.

Man, easy mode for exp is cool!

The biggest problem for me is the P2P system, closely followed by the lack of content.

lol 3 way tie for the poll

I don't see how anyone could think VF is a bigger problem than lag and no content, I guess they really hate rolling.

Oh, FV is a problem. Even if you roll/jump away it oftentakes most of your health, making you killed yb someone else with ease.

I really don't think FV is that bad, I may get one or two kills a game with it, and normally it's idiot tac marines that run over my corpse after they shoot me to collect the ammo or whatever.

Devs/Havocs I die every once in a while, but normally I can get away, you just need to pay attention to the noise.

I have to admit. I've seen many an idiot tac marine run into FV.

I don't often get killed BY the guy with FV anymore, but I do get fething maimed by it despite jumping away. It's too wide an area, is my problem.

Maybe I'm just twitchy, but I'm tapping space bar and back direction as soon as I see the enemy assault guy begin to drop, that 1-3 seconds for FV to blow is plenty of time to get away or take a bit of shield damage if he was standing on top of me (or I on him) might have something to do with lag also, I do notice more FV kills during high lag games.

That "bit of shield damage" is usually almost the entire armor bar...

I normally lose half at most 0_o, full if I'm not careful or just unlucky and got to close.

Sometimes I've jumped well above and out of the way and yet I still lose both all my armor AND some health, especially if I'd already taken damage-- and I'm at the apex of a jump at that point..

It's AoE is just too damn big, especially since the P2P system almost invariably creates laggy games.

True, it could do with a 25-35% reduction in size. Man, playing right now, and ping is terrible again, hopefully it evens out before some other people join up with me.

Really does make the game better having actual team work going on