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Why is there no open mic?

Why is it just push to talk? Surely in a game like this you'd want open mic on all the time? My friends loved it before where you had to use open mic but now it's gone. Can this be implemented again?

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@MDTDN KDRP I'd go a step further and say that Windows has built-in canceling for that kind of noise. I'd like always-on to be an option for players and possibly for servers as well. But it's also not a huge deal because I used Steam's input wrapper to turn that key into a toggle. I'd just rather not have to do it outside the game, since not everyone knows how to do that.

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BH
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Yeah it was originally there and just defaulting on (with the option for push to talk). It took me ages to realize that I could switch to push-to-talk!! Games before that discovery definately had higher adrenaline..

...but you also commonly had people walking around making a low level static noise from background sounds... or their family yelling in the background, TV noises, etc, etc

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CapsLock::
    KeyWait, CapsLock, D
    KeyWait, CapsLock
    send {C down}
    KeyWait, CapsLock, D
    KeyWait, CapsLock
    send {C up}
return

here's an autohotkey script I wrote for this. Change the lines that start with send, replace "C" with whatever key you use (default is C, which is why it's C), and then run the script with autohotkey. Press caps lock to toggle open mic.

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MB
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I also loved open mic, but I think we need to better moderation tools before it comes back. There are way too many idiots spamming mic these days.

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For me, the open mic made this game. Trying to get my friends to laugh to find out where they are, or hearing people sneezing while hiding in a closet, these are the type of moments I came to this game for. Hope we can see this at least as a server-side or client-side option, because without it I feel a lot of what makes the game special is lost.

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That's only good in theory. In reality it would be so annoying, people with: noisy/mildly noisy area, shit mic, other people in the house. Will all suffer from this. And if it would be so you can choose push to talk or open mic then there will need to be servers dedicated to open mic, because if not everybody will use push to talk to have the advantage. And that's not the easiest thing to do, considering the playerbase is only around 120 people

MB

@MATAN KARP Just having the option to use it won't break the game.

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