- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think the voice communication in this game is nearly perfect... I personally have no problem with the PTT (Push To Talk) Feature...
The one thing that bothers me is that the Proximity Voice feature is not quite working right... You can only hear the enemies on Proximity, it doesn't work for your teammates... I know it worked for both in HALO 2...
It worked well because if you were say, playing BTB and you and 2 other guys were advancing together you wouldn't have to press a button to talk because you were together, or if you were driving the HOG and you wanted to tell the gunner where an enemy was you could just say it and he would know (this is extremely important for me as im nearly always the driver on my team and having to press the button to talk with my gunner and/or passenger is extremely frustrating when I didn't in H2)...
This also helped keep the Chatline unclogged because if people were just wanting to chat casually they could with proximity without interfering with tactical chatter on the chatline... (not to say proximity voice can't be used for "tactical purposes")
I think it was supposed to stay the same as it was in H2 where it worked for both Enemies and Friendlies (except of course on RANKED where it doesn't happen with enemies which i do think was a good decision on Bungie's part ) because in the Voice Communication Settings menu it reads, "Proximity voice is when you can hear players close to you in the game world, even when they are enemies"...
So I think this feature is simply malfunctioning and can probably be fixed with a simple Auto-Update (hopefully this will be fixed in the first one! which hopefully comes sooner than later)... Please Bungie FIX this malfunction ASAP!
Other than this i think this game is nearly PERFECT!
Great Job Bungie!