This is a picture from the Battlefield Bad Company 2 multiplayer. Notice the bottom center has 4 green names and the rest are blue. The green names are a squad and the blue are the rest of your team mates. Now what I am worried about is the com system. In the first Bad Company you could only talk to your squad. Thats it. It was (and still is) incredibly annoying because you can't launch strategic attacks. I mean you could have an Xbox Live Party and have 8 people, but still that would be rare. I really hope that it is like push to talk to everyone, and that there is an option for a microphone only game, meaning everyone has mics. The second is less likely, but I would like to see that.
Indeed. However, in reality you can't talk to other squads because they might be in a desperate situation that requires silence, or you just can't reach them. Anyhow, you might be lucky to hear them if you get closer like in Halo 3.
Um, you can talk to your entire team in Halo 3. I'm saying that I hope you can do that in Battlefield instead of just your 4 man squad.
They should have it so that squad leaders can talk to each other through PTT. That would be both realistic and avoid too much chatter.
I'm talking about when you encounter the enemy. You can hear their voices coming through the TV if you get close enough.
Frontlines: Fuel of War style? You can form squads with teammates through an in-game squad making system. This opens a sort of radio chat between everyone in the squad. If you are standing near another player, though, you can also talk to them normally. Same thing goes for vehicles. If you are in a vehicle you can chat with the gunners or passengers, as well as communicate with other people in vehicles. It opens up for a very interesting style of play, if I might add.
i hope so this game looks good i never really played the first game though. Maybe there could be one leader who can communicate with everyone so that he could plan like a general or something.
Like in Battlefield:2/2142 I think. No one has mics in those games though. They always type in stuff.
Battlefield bad company was an amazing game. i have really high hopes for the new one and i agree with your idea for entire team chatter. remember its a 12 person team though so thats alot of voices. Although talking wasnt available in the first, i reached the General of the Army rank as well as a overall rank 7 out of 50 (rank 1 is best, 50 worst) and once you reach that level, you dont need to talk. Me and my teammates held some sort of unspoken understanding like they would cover the corners as i armed the bomb etc. and i could teabag near a medic and they would come heal me as if they knew exactly what i meant. i really like that as it provides an opportunity to use unorthodox methods of communication.
The mic problem in Battlefield: Bad Company did not really bother me, most likely because no one has a mic in the game.