With the voice chat, will we be able to just do a short range broadcast to everyone nearby?If so, would I be able to charge into battle blasting out Ride of the Valkyries?asked by StarShock
TL;DRChris Roberts says voice chat should let players hail others and broadcast close-range messages or possibly music to those with open comm channels, with details on listening and abuse prevention still to be worked out.
That's kind of cool. Yeah, definitely an apocalypse now moment there.I think the way the voice chat is gonna work is that you can hail people, and then people can decide whether they want to listen to you. I don't know whether it would be they listen to you by default and then they can mute you, or they have to accept listening to you in the first place, but you definitely will be able to broadcast in close range a message or potentially play music. And if people have their comm-channels open, they will hear it.We just need to be sensitive to how we set that up in such a way that people can't use it to abuse other people because you don't want people being obnoxious. Which people are quite known to do in online games.But we definitely would like to get a voice-over IP running in the game, and then we just figure out the right system for you being able to broadcast people and people being able to accept whether they want to listen to you or not.