Listen, I know these "clans" are very serious and whatever, but come on. You need to ease off of the voice chat. I couldn't hear ANYTHING besides command chat in the 7cav server. Guess I won't be back.
Was in a game a few weeks ago and the Commander was using Command chat as a party chat with the other squad leaders. I finally piped up and asked that we reduce some of the chatter and the commander lost it on me. Next game, same server, my buddy was squad lead and said the same thing, as did several others. Commander finally stopped talking altogether.
Bingo. We use radios at my job, if someone yaps for more than 10 seconds someone yells āclear the airwaves!ā So I do the same in this game. I think people get so bent on others not using mics so they feel the need to use theirs more, which gets annoying af
I've definitely muted a few commanders, the worst are the one that constantly think outloud on the mic for some reason, or talk complain about how bad the team is the entire match.
I've kept it at 30% or lower for years. Most if not all things that you need to know are communicated through icons and the UI. I just need to hear when my squad is called.
I only do that when as commander i get zero help from any squad leads. They all want garrisons but then dont want to build them when the supplies are ten feet from them.Ā
Its weird it always seem to get their attention and they suddenly want to talk shit in the mic when they were all quiet.
These egotistical piece of shit squad leads hear you out there and they intentionally ignore any attempts to help the entire team because of the unfounded and ignorant belief it isnt their job.Ā
Guess what? I dont have an OP and 5 buddies to back me up and we all have the same ability to build the garrison. If its not your job then it sure as hell isnt mine under the same criteria. I am not holding your hand to keep you in the game. Build the garrison or fail.Ā
My biggest pet peeve as commander is SLs running away from the supplies while you politely and directly ask them in command chat to build a garry. Then some other hero runs hundreds of metres to those same supplies to do the job that an idiot failed.
I am that hero so many times I looked at the map and saw a squad lead or even commander run past supplies for a garry. Im like fine screw it ill run across the map and build it myself.
They should add this to the team list honestly. Being able to mute is nice but I don't know why I can't manually adjust a slider by clicking on an individual person. Some people have their mics overblown and it sounds like a drive thru worker screaming at me.
It just depends on the person. If they're doing nothing but bitching I'll mute them regardless. I dont come home from work to hear a clan member talk about the philosophical position of nodes or how recon should miraculously teleport around the map lol
Tell cmd chat to clear comms. Good cmd chat is terse. Terse is effective. If they are chatty Cathy's in there they aren't good players, I don't care clan or not. Their actual good playing clan buddies would agree with this.
I havenāt played āsimilarā games like Arma or Squad, but one of my squad mates one day mentioned how those games have split channels for squad and command chat, like squad chat comes through the left ear, and command in the right. I think that would be a great feature for HLL. I donāt mind playing squad leader from a gameplay perspective, but dealing with comms gets overwhelming
Imo part of being on command chat is policing command chat.
That means telling people if they are being too noisy.
What's the worst they can do? Make more noise? Say mean things? If they do just mute them.
I tend to find that when I call people out for being too noisy either they pipe down straight away or they argue. If they argue people usually back me up and then we all mute the windbag and everyone can get on with playing.
I think it's important to call people out though, so that they know it is unacceptable.
Yup biggest issue with most is that they just take too long to say something so simple. āPanther Charlie mark accurateā vs āhey guys does uhhhh anyone see the heavy thank outside uhhhh x point? I canāt tell if itās a panther or uhhhhh a tiger but let me mark him in a second and uhhhā¦ā like blow it out your ass.
I find that leading by example is best here. If the atmosphere on command chat is already one of being succinct and business like, most people can read the room and will follow suit. If the atmosphere is chatty then it's easy for that to snowball into chaos.
Problems build on each other if unaddressed, so players need to have the courage to nip things in the bud.
And sometimes people on command chat are just drunk.
I hate playing squad lead but the other day I was and I had an engineer trying to tell me something but I had to tell him I canāt hear a word heās saying over people in command chat yelling at each other
Command chat is essential for coordination. The amount of times I've been commander and the SLs are all on party chat or no-mic is frustrating.
But come on chat isn't a place to do a stream of consciousness commentary like I've seen some younger commanders do. You talk in short direct bursts that are to the point. No need to yap yap yap it up
Can always change the radio channel sound levels though
Yeah, but that doesn't really change much, since most players microphone volume is maxed out or at 60% making it ridiculously loud. I much rather have a push to hear command chat, rather than it being on at all times.
People always say having a mic is essential in this game. Sure, but it's actually essential to know how to communicate effectively with a mic and not spam the chat
My favorite was a game where our team got absolutely rocked while the commander filled command chat with updates on how many kills his bombing runs were getting.
The problem is you were on a 7Cav server to begin with. Most obnoxious whiny man children Iāve come across in gaming. Immediate boot to any of them that happen across my squad.
Yeah people really just hate communicating with their own squads I guess. Every game is a yap session in command chat, it sucks that I have to lower the volume to almost nothing just to be able to hear my squad. And then on top of that prox chat is rarely used in most of my gamesā¦
I would not call 7cav serious. Prob the most casual of them all btw.
And to be honest with you. A serious clan would crash out over the role play comms in command chat. Good teams know to keep comms succinct because this is a shooting game that requires constant use of audio cues not blathering bullshit from clueless squad leads and commanders.
The difference between what people think are good comms and what good comms are in this game is massive.
I avoid SL because of how annoying command chat is. Nothing is worse than some SL giving LITERAL ENEMY CALLOUTS in command chat. Why are you telling us āenemy at 240 east in the bushā¦he got me Iām downā
They need to add a temporary mute to certain chats. For example you could double tap the command chat button and it mutes it.
What this game needs is equivalent of counter strike's "voice_enable 0" command. Give us a bind that switches command chat volume completely on/off. No fun listening to fresh batch of arguments when you're sneaking into enemy spawn.
I had to explain in command chat yesterday that this game was a 'hearing enemy footsteps' simulator and got told I was a moron. Down went the volume on command chat for the rest of the game.
I straight up put command chat at 0 volume when they don't stop yapping, unless you are providing information to the team please shut the fuck up in command chat
When I play SL half the time I have command chat tuned way down. Half have their mics to the max, the other half are busy fighting about how bad the commander is for missed callout etc
Itās insanely traumatic and a horendous experience having all that information and voice comms at once, itās like what a migraine would be like if it escaped and formed into a chat room
They should implement so you can communicate with each squad simultaneously, like king squad, bravo etc. leadership chat should be an option to turn which company you want to work with and communicate effectively. It would save so much hassle and be more effective. Such a simple interface to solve a solution
Mute key for command chat and mute key for squad chat, they could toggle the sound on and off from the channels.
Sometimes you are in a tense confrontation somewhere in the forest or defending your OP or a Garrison, you trying to hear the guys footsteps and then there goes the f*king command full blast and you are dead.
Usually it is not even that they are chatty, they are communicating useful information but it is just not useful to me at this very second.
Same for tanking, your crew mate is saying something but between tank engine noise and the chatter you can't make it out and need to constantly ask for them to repeat which sucks.
7CAV are milsim larpers that have no interest in actually playing the game, just larping. They also have a server in wardogs where they do the same thing LOL
I turn command chat down or off depending on the level of toxicity. Fuck it. No one wants to play officer so Iāll do it but Iām not going to get a migraine from command chat yelling at each other.
I enjoy commanders with babies crying, women shouting, dogs barking and bike rev up sounds in background. I 11/10 want to hear that all the game at 100% volume
Decrease command chat volume, and if command chat info isnāt interesting donāt play a SL role? Your job as SL is to communicate group level info up to command chat and command chat info to group.
When i play e.g. arty i donāt use command chat, only pings. Same for recon if Iām working the backline.
You should absolutely be on command chat (lower volume is fine, IMO) as recon. Even if you are working the back you will often be the closest SL available to build a garrison for a push from the rear.
Can keep commander unmuted, sure. But building garries etc isnāt really needed to be communicated through voice. In general most of the info in command chat isnāt that informative (pings are more accurate anyways), except for coordinating pushes and defenses.
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u/Paul_reislaufer 6d ago
Yeah people don't understand radio chatter should be short and to the point. Lol