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Omniraptor:
Agreed, a microphone and speakers should be in the game's system requirements next to the other hardware.

Dutch Vanya:
I agree that it should be made more obvious that this game is about teamwork and communication, people aren't used to that. Before guns of icarus, i had never experienced gamers using their mics for anything other than obscenely insulting eachothers mothers and telling eachother to shut up.

luchelibre:

--- Quote from: Captain Smollett on February 10, 2014, 01:05:40 am ---Wow, this is incredibly insightful and I hope the devs see this.  I'm not sure if the poster is still checking the thread but I'm curious whether this was in beginner lobbies or in regular matches.  When I joined the game a million of years ago beginner matches didn't exist and the vets were chatty as heck due to the small player base.  Most players had mics and that honestly is what made and still makes this game so incredibly fun.

I've always thought Muse should somehow mention that a mic and communication are the keys to both victory and an insanely good game experience.

To the original poster, if you ever want to give the game a second chance, I encourage you to look into some of the larger clans in the game since almost all of them play this game for its social and cooperative value and use mic's extensively and are large enough you wind up meeting tons of cool players.

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While I appreciate the kind words, I don't believe my post is either insightful or helpful to the devs.

The devs already know the absolute importance of headsets. However, they also know that mics are worthless if the playerbase won't use them or uses them but are disobedient or apathetic , which is more often the case. They have so tightly balanced their game that 3 will almost never beat 4 and the naval pace of the game allows for rich chatter. My post doesn't tell them anything they don't already know.

They will also find out from their logs that I haven't played a match in many, many months and so my experience may, in their more-informed opinion, be obsolete (which is different from 'wrong'). The only reason I'm here is because Muse sent me an email about the latest game update. I love the game itself, and Muse does already have my money, so I checked out the update. I also came to the forums and saw this thread. I checked the other forums and threads to see if silence and apathy were still a major problem and decided that it was. I especially noticed that Muse has been working on 'voice' commands. This would be particularly helpful for people of different languages on the same ship. However, my experience would suggest that it was primarily introduced as a concession to the mute and a recognition of their pervasiveness. I hope I'm wrong.

All that said, to be honest the more time I spend talking about GoI, the more I want to try it some more. The game itself truly was very good.

If I give in and you should see me in-game, then for Muse's sake, give me some freaking orders. ;-)

awkm:
The only thing people seem to manage to say into microphones are oftentimes expletives.  OR when someone says something useful or asks a question, they get expletives in response.  It's not a problem that Muse alone can solve, the unruliness of the internet, but we hope that we set good examples by enforcing a strong ethical code of conduct (use that report player feature if you need to!) and creating a game that NEEDS good teamwork.

We've tried to put some additional functions like the Crew Signals (radio-like) command system.  It's a little buried ATM but we intend to do more tutorials on it in the future.  Hopefully that helps.

snor-laxatives:
What I thought:
"Yar Har, Lets all act like Pirates"
"Yar Har, Lets all run into each other"
"Yar Har, I bet there be a ton of scalawags to cause mischief with"
"Yar Har, Perhaps I will learn more seaworthy words than 'Yar Har"

What I Found.
"Not as many pirates yet, but lots of different animals"
"Ramming is still my favorite thing to do.... to a fault"
"Good community (not perfect, but good, and hopefully we can keep plugging up the leaks)"
"Nautical terms, yay!"
Bonus:
"Im not as good of a multi-tasker as I thought"
"All though I may be "captain" I'm only as good as my first mate.  When bullets start to fly my mouth starts to shut (something I'm working on)
"Ramming is still my favorite thing to do.............................. to a fault"

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