The next phase of Impulse will have built in voice comms, and I assume it'll be done in the Reactor so it'd work in Demigod without needing the client. But that part is just the assumption.

nononono NO

this is the worst idea ever

in game built in voice com totally sux

and over all they are dependant on actually having the game active

2134215151 years ago they invented teamspeak and it is still the best program ever, no crash no problem, very light why you want to change it?

download ts or vent or whatever

maybe that vent, ts or whatever other soft are a dozen times better that an in game voice chat (even if i am not so sure about that) but when you are pulled in a random team; it is very usefull to be able to chat. Look at TF2, it would be a real pain to play without it and the 2 games are cooperative multiplayer games where you need to coordinate your efforts fast with strangers = you need an in game voice chat system.

Yeah, we totally need a voice system whenever we are in a match.

Ventrilo and Teamspeak are third party apps which requires your to install, setup and log onto various servers. Then it requires all of the people you play with to also be aware of these apps and have them installed and logged on and so on...

It's utterly unrealistic to expect everyone to use competing third party applications for what should be an in-game feature, especially in a game with built in community support.

If Counter Strike: Source did not have VoIP, it would be a fragment of the game it is today.  Random people in a game need to communicate and typing is not good since you are using the keyboard the entire time.  Plus, it might actually make some people communicate during games instead of silently getting owned.

Edit: If you don't like it, don't use it.

I think built in is always the way to go. 

I first started unsing voip in BF2142.  Why the heck you would want to mess with vent or TS i dont know. 

First you need a 3rd part app.  Then you need to fin the "room" and if you want it to be public, then anyone can join it, including the other team.  yes a password would solve this but it complicated things for the casual player. 

If its built in, then you use say button 1 for push to talk to your team and button 2 to push to talk to global. OR just not have a global otion.  This way you can EASILY talk to your team, no need for 3rd part app, no finding the server you need etc...

Won't work unless it will allow the players to chat in impulse without being friends. Otherwise you join a Pantheon/Skirmish or custom have a random pug join and you can't chat to him because he is not in your friends list.

As with pretty much all MP aspects World in Conflict did this well

* showed who was chatting

* only allowed voice chat within the team

* had a mute button for each player so if a player is spamming or being unpleasant you mute him/her without effecting the team

Tals

i'm just saying it would be a lot easier for Stardock to work on a mic system in Impuse, rather than GPG write thousands and thousands of line of code just to add in a new VoiP system within Demigods.  also, since its P2P i think it wouldn't be that hard for Impuse to pick up on who you are connected to and only allow chat to them.

just thinking realisticly here

+1 for voice chat function!