Show names of people talking over voice com

Plasma

Like Half-Life etc does, it would be great if on the side of the screen the player's name is shown when they are talking over microphone.

Perhaps especially for commander, show their name in a different colour so that its obvious when someone says to do something via voice com that its the commander's intention for you to do it (and not just another player).

twiliteblue

That's a much needed feature. There should even be a voicecomm-log, that lists the players who have talked recently (similar to a chat log, but audio transcripts isn't quite feasible :P).

Shilorius

and pleas a testing option to tweak the volume of the microfone.

I can't use my mic for instance because nobody can understand what I'm saying.
If there would be a testing option I could change my microphone to the right settings...

HoAx

I agree

McGlaspie

I agree with the general sentiment of the OP. I would like to see one addition though. When a player talks it should show their name AND their current location on the map. Just like how chat does right now. Otherwise you'll still get what we have now, which is people saying "drop an extractor here". Problem is, they don't explain where "here" is.

Another nifty feature could be color coding their names or the background color based on the squad they are in.

spellman23

+1

Typhon

In summary, nice bits of info to have about speakers:

Name, location, race (if alien), squad (if marine), commander status (ie marine speakers might be blue, marine comm would be green, alien speakers orange, alien comm yellow)

derWalter

and a possibility to instant mute those ###########################

spellman23

I seem to recall NS1 allowed location if you were in certain parts of the map that were labeled properly. Would be nice to bring back. As for species/squad, I don't think that's as big of a deal.

We don't need extreme color coding. This should suffice:
White : spectator
Blue : Marine
Light (sky) Blue : Marine Comm
Orange : Alien
Yellow-orange: Alien Comm

Shilorius

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Name, location, race (if alien), squad (if marine), commander status (ie marine speakers might be blue, marine comm would be green, alien speakers orange, alien comm yellow)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

This is a little bit to much, don't you think?
If this is all shown if someone speaks it would plaster your HUD.
Let's see how the new scoreboard works out, maybe some of the informations are in there.

I prefer this:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->White : spectator
Blue : Marine
Light (sky) Blue : Marine Comm
Orange : Alien
Yellow-orange: Alien Comm<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

RobB

If you need an on screen display,

Blue, White Border: Marine
Blue, Red Border: Comm
Yellow, White Border: Alien
Yellow, Red Border: Comm

And hide any voice indication from the enemy (especially if alltalk).

I'd prefer it to have a microphone icon on the scorelist, though.
The more you can see of the world, the better.