Add in game voice chat to Sim battles

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[Would you like to see this in-game?]
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Communication actually matters in sim as by design many of the systems that are present in RB and Arcade are not present. Currently sim players have a sort of agreed-upon system of menu voice lines that ping the map in order to communicate, which is pretty limited to say the least.

The voice chat would only be in sim battles, which is a community of players within warthunder that I think are a bit more mature and should be able to handle such a feature. Obviously, it would also be optional so if you don’t want to hear a bunch of nerds yelling at each other to stop shooting friendlies that would be a possibility.

Personally I would love to be able to speak to ground units while flying a plane that I spotted something and where its at, right now that would require me using my keyboard and its just a mess and not even worth the effort.

Edit: Might as well add an idea for how voice chat could work ideally in game since people are still bumping this topic.

I play a lot of SQUAD and really like the voice system there, and some ideas are also pulled from posters here too.

1.The voice channels should all have a radio filter on them so it adds to the immersion and doesn’t sound like you are in a discord call. SQUAD has this and it sounds really good, it really does add to the realism.

  1. Multiple channels with different keybinds should exist.
    -One main open channel that has everyone in it.
    -A squad channel for people you qued up with if not solo
    -Direct voice channels that can be accessed by aiming at another player, or hovering over their name on the scoreboard
    -An air channel for planes to communicate together and not clog up other channels, not to mention the difficulties of using direct comms via aiming at them or having to open up the scoreboard in the heat of the moment.

This gives people many different layers to interact with. The main open channel for just general stuff or lets face it just a place to BS a bit which some people find fun, general things like “Hey is there anyone on A is it safe to push?” or “Hey there’s someone spawn camping us from Grid X/#” “CAS is coming from…” etc. Direct comms could be used for “hey bud who shot you where are they?”, “Can you come help me repair?”, “who are you shooting at?” etc. stuff that doesn’t need to clog up the open channel. Air and squad chats pretty self explanatory.

Every channel could be muted in options, if you don’t want to deal with the chaos in the open channel, but still want to be able to receive direct comms you would have that option, or you could turn them all off. Also I think it would be a good idea for there to be a keybind to mute the last player who sent you a direct comm if that is being abused, would be a really simple way of dealing with stuff like that. Mic icons on the scoreboard that can be used to toggle mutes for specific players etc.

I’d love to see this in RB as well, but maybe it could be rolled out for sim to test and see how it goes first.

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Supported. I need to communicate with my teammates way more effectively

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As well, give us an option for “radio” style sound filter on the voice channels, for a little extra immersion.

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IMO, not just for sim but for all battles. Similar games like Mechwarrior Online already have this baked in quite easily.

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Support. But an effective system of voice moderation needs to be developed, else there would be many problems.

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Supported but only if its proximity chat and both sides can hear within like a .5-1km bubble. It’s simulation mode I like how hard it is, you rely on your skill and knowledge to survive and not yeet friendlies.

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Something like this is also a good way around maybe with means to switch between squads so you can work more in sync with another squad and ask directly where they are what they are doing etc.

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In tanks and aircraft proximity chat wouldn’t make sense. Remember these are radios. However, I do agree. Depending on the era, and the quality of the audio. You can still hear it but distance may lead to some crackling. But nothing too loud.

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Why I thought proximity was a good way and a fun way for enemy creeping up on you hearing some wild and wacky things xD

But yeah era series of radio is a good way, distorting messages because of obstacles, tunnels etc. Nice concept.

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It may have had an effect but unlikely.

Here is an entire playlist of what it sounds like. Ignore videos 5 and 6.
For Afghan

here’s what it sounds like which was received to an A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog”

Radio announcement of the Defeat in Stalingrad - 3 February 1943

Stalin’s radio broadcast to the Soviet people (3 July 1941) [Subtitled]

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I don’t know why this is still not a thing in the game. Gaijin just spam adding vehicles in the games with every update and there is many broken things in the game or features that would increase the quality of the game.

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This is something that takes time and likely isn’t a priority. Though unsure what even is a priority honestly…

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Priority is to sell as much as possible so they just keep adding stuff. As an example, they brought new planes like eurofighter and rafale in the last update and made sales on the premium vehicles and now you can see them everywhere. Obviously, putting man hours to the quality of the game is not going to bring any short term profits so that’s why this is not a priority.

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Sadly.

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We need this so bad. Can you imagine how us sim players would play with voice? Fuck. WT would be a whole new game.

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Yeah I am very frustrated with it. Idk if they realize how much more money they could make if they were known for having these features. People WOULD hear about how this game was incredible if they did better.

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There is over 100 votes vast majority wanting this to see in the game, i do not possibly understand why this topic has not reached to the developers!

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Yeah I am honestly disappointed with how often this happens.

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cant wait for a guy to rage so hard about having his base stolen that he screams the n-word 2*10^85 times in 10 seconds. any way a +1 for me because i would definitively be that guy but yeah i definitively could help with communication.

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Best would be adding reallive radio, manny chanells, chanell for the hole team and radio in eter that could hear every one within 4 seconds, even ennemy.
Just support us in teamwork snail.

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