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Voice comms rant

Desiato
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What's your opinion of voice comms in ESO?

I've played ESO since launch but took a break for a few years, returning around a year ago.

In the time I was away, voice comms have changed a lot in my experience. This post is from the pov of large groups, not small groups of 4 or fewer players.

During my first tenure, they were more structured. Almost all comms had rules against hot mics with push to talk being expected. We understood we were in voice chat for the purpose of coordination, so there wasn't much chit chat and raid leads would usually enforce battle comms.

Now the norm seems to be hot mics. I constantly hear people eating and gulping during raids, background TVs, outside conversations and even belching(!) during raids. Like seriously, don't you think you should mute before burping?

Then there's occasional humming, talking to oneself in a low voice, and vocal tics/stims...

Beyond the more obtuse stuff, there's constant yapping about irrelevant topics or incidental things. The other 11 people don't need to know every time you get an ink drop!

Sometimes we wipe because of comm chaos because someone thinks it's open mic at a comedy club or needs to describe their food order in intricate detail while we fight.

There's usually 4-5 people chatting constantly with everyone else as their captive audience.

I don't know if the zoom revolution that happened while I was away from eso has anything to do with it, but it seems etiquette has almost completely disappeared.

I find it exhausting. I've come to prefer kwtd gf pugs without voice comms over more structured groups now for this reason.

How does everyone else feel about the state of voice comms in eso?
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  • fizl101
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    Depends on the situation. Casual fun trial anything goes, prog group keep comms clear.
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  • Nharimlur_Finor
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    just another brick in the wall.
  • DenverRalphy
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    The in-game comms are horrible.

    1st) You need to be able to adjust the volume of individual players, because depending on how they setup the mic, their whispers may blow your eardrums out. The in-game comms don't support that.

    2nd) There's no way to completely block/mute individual players, and that alone all too often results in a really poor experience. I get it, often players have real life stuff going on around them, and that's fine. But learn to mute your mic. But then there's something just gawd-awful worse... that payer that just won't shut the frig up, droning on and on and on about every little thing while the rest of us want to be able to concentrate on the task at hand (or heaven forbid communicate somethinig important in the Trial).

    There's a player in particular that if I see them join a pug group I'm in, before a Trial gets underway I'll just whisper the group leader why I'm leaving, and then drop group. Because there's no way to mute them. So I just save myself the misery.

    Guild groups that form up, we typically use PSN party chat. The only downside to that is that until you know everybody's voices reallyl well, you don't always know who it is that's talking.
    Edited by DenverRalphy on 23 August 2024 19:16
  • Soarora
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    It depends on the group and the lead. Having multiple people have callouts to do for a trial now seems popular, and as someone getting into leading trials, I understand why. If the content doesn’t require much calling out, then talking to make things less boring is helpful. If people need to focus, then calls to keep comms clear are made. Some individuals just don’t understand when to talk and when not to though, or may not have push to talk on for whatever reason. Sometimes people don’t know that they have background sound.
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  • huskandhunger
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    Thankfully on PC we just use discord and can mute players or adjust their volumes as needed 😊
  • katanagirl1
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    In game voice chat is very noisy and muffled on PS. Some players are loud and some are not, so the softer ones get drowned out in order to set a volume that is not painful.

    PSN group party chat is much better quality, plus the ability to adjust each player’s volume separately makes it usable for someone like me who is hearing impaired. Still there are some players who are not able for whatever reason to properly adjust their microphone level and even if I turn their volume all the way up, I still cannot hear them.

    I only use voice chat for guild groups and never use it for zone chat. Funny you mention too much talking in trials. We were all told to keep quiet but the supports would get too chatty during pulls and we would end up wiping repeatedly, then everyone would get yelled at for not being quiet. It got old fast.
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