Taming the monster they helped create (Destiny)

by Kalamari , Waiting for Ghorn, FB, and BH, Monday, December 09, 2013, 22:11 (3784 days ago) @ RC

In a multiplayer team game, where cooperation and strategy play a large part, team chat should at least be the default option. It's a benefit to your team when everyone is communicating, in my experience verbal communication is far more effective than non-verbal for most occasions.

I can see why Bungie would limit voice chat to fireteam-only while out adventuring in the world, because your fireteam is just doing it's own thing. But I don't see the point of it for competitive multiplayer. Not even for story-related technology reasons.

I wonder what affect this will have on competitive multiplayer, if new players going solo don't hear other players communicating, they may believe that voice chat is not recommended/possible since it isn't automatic.

This design move will severely hinder voice communication during competitive multiplayer solely because of the difficulty of getting randoms to accept party chat requests. Not only is entering/exiting party chat a hassle, but it's fairly unreliable as well, creating an even greater impediment to communication. It would be far more efficient to give players a variety of options for game chat muting.

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Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - Ragashingo, 2013-12-09, 13:08
- Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - Xenos, 2013-12-09, 14:53
- Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - Kalamari, 2013-12-09, 17:19
  - Agreed. Don't neuter conversations - Avateur, 2013-12-09, 17:31
    - Agreed. Don't neuter conversations - Blackt1g3r, 2013-12-10, 05:44
    - Agreed. Don't neuter conversations - petetheduck, 2013-12-11, 10:56
      - Agreed. Don't neuter conversations - Xenos, 2013-12-11, 12:07
  - Taming the monster they helped create - RC, 2013-12-09, 18:12
    - Taming the monster they helped create - Ragashingo, 2013-12-09, 18:29
      - Taming the monster they helped create - Xenos, 2013-12-09, 19:00
        
        I guess it was more of a salute than a point in the E3 Demo - Xenos, 2013-12-09, 19:40
        
        I guess it was more of a salute than a point in the E3 Demo - Veegie, 2013-12-09, 19:57
    - Taming the monster they helped create - Kermit, 2013-12-09, 20:03
      - Taming the monster they helped create - SonofMacPhisto, 2013-12-10, 14:23
        
        Taming the monster they helped create - Xenos, 2013-12-10, 14:47
      - Taming the monster they helped create - Cody Miller, 2013-12-10, 16:56
        
        Not always - ZackDark, 2013-12-10, 17:20
        
        Not always - Cody Miller, 2013-12-10, 21:02
        
        Taming the monster they helped create - Xenos, 2013-12-10, 18:30
        
        Taming the monster they helped create - electricpirate, 2013-12-10, 18:45
        
        Taming the monster they helped create - Xenos, 2013-12-10, 18:51
    - Taming the monster they helped create - Kalamari, 2013-12-09, 22:11
      - Taming the monster they helped create - kidtsunami, 2013-12-10, 00:49
        
        Co-op vs. competitive multiplayer? - SonofMacPhisto, 2013-12-10, 16:03
        
        I call for wider sample universe and adrenaline - ZackDark, 2013-12-10, 16:44
        
        Co-op vs. competitive multiplayer? - stabbim, 2013-12-10, 17:09
        
        Co-op vs. competitive multiplayer? - Malagate, 2013-12-12, 13:36
        
        Taming the monster they helped create - Kalamari, 2013-12-10, 17:08
        
        Taming the monster they helped create - Kermit, 2013-12-12, 13:55
- Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - kidtsunami, 2013-12-10, 04:29
  - Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - Malagate, 2013-12-12, 13:43
- Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - GrimBrother IV, 2013-12-10, 17:13
- I'm really not sure how i felt about that - electricpirate, 2013-12-10, 21:20
- Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - Steve, 2013-12-11, 09:13
  - Gameinformer Lars Bakken Multiplayer Video - JDQuackers, 2013-12-11, 09:21
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