Vote, Teamspeak or Ventrilo

[PukinDog]

Clan Hell's Horses wants the MWLL community's opinion on which Voice Communications Software Client is the best choice for our Clan with over 25 members...probably will be fielding a full 32 shortly...

We are trying to get a good idea from you all, who are experienced gaming individuals.

If you have no experience with either, or only exp with one of the two, then plz vote that way.

thank you.

[Ghiest]

For our guild in WoW we use Ventrillo 100 man server, we have had previously two 40 man raids (back in the day) running side by side in different chans and performed flawlessly.  I have had experiance with both and even using the better codecs for Teamspeak it still sounds horrible, ventrillo is just far superior if you have the bandwidth to use the higher codecs (and is far easier to maintain as a administrator too).

[Stormin']

I think part of this decision should also be based on what OTHER units will be using, as there will be plenty of times when you will need to be on another team's comms, or they will need to be on ours.  For that reason I would vote Ventrilo, as I think the majority of groups out there are using it.

[Ghiest]

I think part of this decision should also be based on what OTHER units will be using, as there will be plenty of times when you will need to be on another team's comms, or they will need to be on ours.  For that reason I would vote Ventrilo, as I think the majority of groups out there are using it.

There are?  I thought if you use your own comms package that's the reason you do, is because you don't want to rely on other people for comms servers.  Most other communiction is done via irc/msn/xfire for organizing matches.

[Stormin']

There are?  I thought if you use your own comms package that's the reason you do, is because you don't want to rely on other people for comms servers.  Most other communiction is done via irc/msn/xfire for organizing matches.

I'm not speaking of using another team's comms for our own personal use.

Perhaps I'm speaking as an ex-mercenary, but there were plenty of times where our unit would be on joint operations with an employer and we were required to join that employer's voice server.  I'm not sure of what the applications are for a Clan, but I would err on the side of more standardized comms for ease of access.  There are also times when you may need to be on voice comms with an admin, other team representatives, or prospective recruits.  It is those times when you do not want to say, "oh, wait, let me go download that and set it up".

I have never been asked to join a voice chat on anything other than a dedicated voice client.  Of course it is possible that times have passed me by and all of this is done through xfire, etc.  I'm just speaking to my personal experience. 

[AoP]

I personally prefer Teamspeak. Like DaedalRogue in the xfire thread, I also think that TS2 on better codecs provides more than sufficient audio quality and in general I think it's a lot more convenient to use.

[=]FC[=Striker]

I say they both have decent programs. Ventrilo seems to have better sound quality, while TS2 seems to have more functionality with personalized keybinds for talking to individuals etc. There is another up and coming program called Mumble which works really well too, especially in regards to any Linux users. Linux users seem to have trouble with keybind scripts for ptt while in game when using Vent or TS2.

My personal choice is to use Ventrilo seeing as I have a 50 man server paid for until March of next year.

[DaedalRogue]

With my experience, TS2 has the easier setup and troubleshooting. Vent uses some of the controls established by Windows or the OS in general; while it continues to administer its own settings for other things. This can make initial setup complicated. There are more features generally in Vent, but many are useless like the ability to see what someone is listening to on their audio player.

TS2 Grabs all its settings except for the voice activation levels from windows, this makes it so if someone has an issue the source is easy to find and simple to troubleshoot. the Keybindings are useless and really do allow someone a bit of flexibility while working with the app. Teamspeak 3 when it is released will add many of the features Vent has as an advantage over TS2 so keep looking to the future for that.

There is another VOIP app coming out as well called Mohawk, After a brief experience checking it out it adopts many of the features from Vent but tries to simplify them like TS2. They're intending to add some of the features included in Xfire as well. Generally the sound quality was reasonable, and the process of getting it all setup and calibrated was somewhat painless. The UI functionality was horrid, and the admin controls were miserable. After talking with the lead dev and tossing a ton of suggestions those were supposed to be worked on. That was some months ago so I haven't bothered to check up on it since.

Haven't heard of Mumble so no comments on that one, will check it out in the future.


All in all, I will stick with TS2 most likely until TS3 comes out, then I'll make the simple upgrade and get the ball rolling on getting everyone setup and functioning.

[DarkRavin]

I have to say, I voted on vent, just from personal use.  Its clear and it works faster than TS.  However, you have to pay for it, an when you get access amouts of people all talking at onces (50+).  It starts to make sounds that make your ears bleed.  Though when you split the rooms off and you only have like 20 people in a chat channel its unbeatable 

[Ghiest]

while TS2 seems to have more functionality with personalized keybinds for talking to individuals etc.

Vent has this, infact it has allot more flexibility in it, also you can have SFX individual/chan/global such as I use a compressor SFX to equalize the different volumes of people speaking in vent so one person is not mumbling and the other person sounds like he's on a runway.

[Strapped McGee]

i use teamspeak more than i do vent because its free to host... but its easier for people to hear you over vent, also ive been hearing for some time now that teamspeak 3 is supposed to come out... might look into both and see which one is easiest for you clan to use...

[PukinDog]

Unfortunately, I had to edit the poll because the results were visible without voting first.

Everyone please vote again...fixed poll.

thank you all.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Use TeamSpeak CHHš Wolfsbane. It has all you need.
btw why do you not discuss this at CHHš respectively? ppl use what their team decides anyway.

[Seraph]

I personally prefer Teamspeak. Like DaedalRogue in the xfire thread, I also think that TS2 on better codecs provides more than sufficient audio quality and in general I think it's a lot more convenient to use.

Agreed, and much easier to administrate too. Now also with TeamSpeak3 coming out some day (who knows when) it should make up for the lack of features missing that some people like about ventrillo.

So really, stick with TS. It's well established and totally serves it's purpose.

[Aurora Paradox]

while TS2 seems to have more functionality with personalized keybinds for talking to individuals etc.

use a compressor SFX to equalize the different volumes of people speaking in vent so one person is not mumbling and the other person sounds like he's on a runway.

That is one of the features I like about it as well.  I have yet to find something similar on TS.  Maybe I'm not looking in the right place though.

Aurora Paradox
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Alpha Star
Star Colonel

EDIT: Ventrilo is definitely the way to go.