Oct
10
New Voice Chat Tools for WotLK
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In a recent interview, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan talked about the new voice chat tools to be introduced in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion:
“We’ve just started implementing the voice chat on the test servers. It’s an important evolution for WoW. Lots of players are used to running that kind of system using software like Team Speak or Ventrilo. Now we want to implement this in WoW for many reasons.
Firstly, we want vocal chat to be available to every player, including those who don’t have the technical knowledge to install and set up that kind of software. We also wish to ease the lives of players who constantly have to alt-tab to switch between their software and WoW or play in a windowed mode.
In the system we’re testing, the interface flashes and a window containing the name of the player who’s speaking pops up. You can set this window anywhere on the screen so that it doesn’t hinder the flow of the game. As an example, when a member of your actual party asks for cure you just click on the window and the appropriate spell to help him.
We want to offer a service which is fully integrated within the game and user-friendly for newbies. The hardcore gamers will get something more out of it thanks to some more specific settings. For example, it will be possible to get the sounds of the game through loudspeakers and redirect the vocal chat only to headphones. Or you can set the balance on the loudspeakers so as to decrease the level of the ambient sounds when someone’s speaking. We’re highly excited by the development of that kind of tool.”
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