3rd Party VOIP, how detrimental is it to PR teamwork?

[Wing Walker]

Originally Posted by PolishKruk

But I strongly dislike using 3rd party voip while doing so unless the entire squad is using the same voip.

But then how will Clanmates tell their guys other on the other team where the caches are?

[Cassius]

As long as 3rd party is only used for Thrashtalk or as a crew channel is fine, but if it is used instead of mumble then its not so fine.

[jcvjcvjcvjcv]

If I was in a vehicle, I would prefer TS with voice activation to communicate with the gunner. In vanilla BF2 I have probably ~100 hours flying attack chopper with one friend and needing to push a button to talk would have been annoying.

However, over-all; yes, not using the PR mumble kills teamplay a lot. It's not only PR that suffers from this. Also FAF.

[Avram]

My crew usually uses TS only to organize which server we will join, and if we're all in the same squad then we all switch to mumble.

[DesmoLocke]

Originally Posted by PolishKruk

I will say that I have been on both sides as well. I have experienced being in a clan squad when everyone else was on TS but me and I felt lost and completely uninformed of the situation. I have also been in squads where by friends and I have been on voip and the constant chatter from them and the rest of the squad and from the command net have driven me crazy.

It's only really detrimental in the situations you described.

How to fix it?
1. Make sure the clan guys use PR mumble to play the game and keep their side chatting in their VOIP.
2. Tell your friends to practice better comms discipline in your VOIP especially if you're trying to squad lead.