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Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: crack on April 10, 2004, 07:20:54 PM
anyone know if they improved the voice quality(someone in MP talking over voice com).

I havn't heard anything about this, if it sounds like HL1 then GG.

Kinda sad games like BF or Halo dont have voice...
Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: Grillkohle on April 11, 2004, 12:48:53 AM
Actually, the Half Life 1 voice comm sounds quite nice. The bad ones are people with crappy mics, soundcards and lots of background noises.
Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: Venmoch on April 11, 2004, 02:40:11 AM
They have increased the Kb/s apparently.
Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: crack on April 11, 2004, 07:45:52 AM
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They have increased the Kb/s apparently.
Thats very good news.

I have a santa cruz sound card(and audio 90 plantronics headset) but not willing to use it because of the bad quality.

Hopefully HL2 will be released April 30...yeah...
Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: Clashen on April 11, 2004, 08:30:51 AM
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They have increased the Kb/s apparently.
Thats very good news.

I have a santa cruz sound card(and audio 90 plantronics headset) but not willing to use it because of the bad quality.

Hopefully HL2 will be released April 30...yeah...
Don't think so, Computer & Video Games have actually played it and they'll release info at 29'th April :)

Read more here. (http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=67979)
Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: Diablus on April 11, 2004, 10:20:53 AM
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Don't think so, Computer & Video Games have actually played it and they'll release info at 29'th April :)

Read more here. (http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=67979)
wait.... HL2 wasn't one big joke?  Its really going to be released?

hmm and all this time I thought HL2 was 1 giant early april fools joke.

now to go eat my candy from Easter
Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: Satiagraha on April 11, 2004, 11:35:59 AM
Meh, I'm not too excited about its release, although I do get a free copy of it because I bought a Radeon 9600XT.  Guess I should go check out the terms of the coupon <_<


After I eat my easter candy ^_^
Title: Hl2: Anyone Know?
Post by: ANeM on April 11, 2004, 02:49:20 PM
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anyone know if they improved the voice quality(someone in MP talking over voice com).

I havn't heard anything about this, if it sounds like HL1 then GG.
Actually, they have already taken the time to increase voice quality via a codec change for HL1 when it switched to steam. As such, anyone using the Speex voice codec on their server will have increased voice quality with less bandwidth used by voice comm(!)

Unfortunatly Speex isn't standard for HL1.. =(
Hopefully it will be for HL2  :D