Multiple voice channels and voice whispering/messaging

Levald Aurelius
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Basically Id like to see some of the features found in ventrillo, mumble, or teamspeak incorporated into discord to better support squad and unit based gaming.

In other applications voice users can be in multiple voice channels with separate key-binds to control which groups they speak with. This allows squads, platoons, and even company or larger sized units to operate with minimal cross-talk while leaders can be in separate channels coordinating with other units. Furthermore if a leader needs to they could address all channels for faster dissemination of orders.

 

Another feature of being able to monitor multiple rooms is that a channel can be left open for public visitors to converse while private discussion can happen in another channel without missing important information in either channel such as during some political encounters or even just while hanging out in the main voice channel while keeping an ear to the lobby for visitors.

Finally whispers fill a similar feature while only being a direct connection between players as opposed to an open channel and could potentially be left like mini voicemails. This would be especially helpful with mobile users as text can be tedious.

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  • White_King

    They will have to implement it in a very user frendly way because I know some people that use discord will get sacred very easy with this kind of feature.

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  • evil
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    I don't share your concerns at all, @White_King Make these features disabled by default for all servers, but allow server admins to enable them if they wish to make use of advanced features.

    I'm okay if you need a boosted server for this to become available, too, but - bottomline - semi-serious gaming needs a lot of coordination and right now, discord feels more like a hindrance than an advantage if you want to coordinate more than 5-10 people each with different tasks & roles in game.

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  • lenninscjay
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    I can't believe this isn't upvoted more! 

    What if I want to raid with my guild but hangout in a separate channel with my buddies who aren't playing the same game ect.

    Being able to join multiple voice channels across servers, volume mix/prioritize audio outputs, and bind separate PTT's for voice channels as well as PTT keys to whisper to select individuals/channels should be a priority!

     

    Edit: make it a nitro/boosted feature to get some ROI on the investment then. I know a lot of servers for Eve Online would probably pony up for this feature.

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