[MiF]

"If you were to restart your Steam account, you’d notice that it would have updated to change its voice chat technology. As anyone who’s ever used Steam Voice will know, it wasn’t exactly as good as it could have been. It’s now been replaced with SILK, an audio codec developed by the Skype peeps, with what I like to call a “dynamic bit rate protocol”, meaning it can vary its bandwidth up to 30kbps (twice as much as Steam Voice would use.) Valve adds that the voice chat connectivity and reliability has also been improved, which is mighty fine news as we were increasingly finding ourselves opting for using non-Steam chat when playing together. Isn’t that all smashing?" (Source)

Tell what you think about this change. Still going to stay in skype/mumble/Teamspeak/etc.? Going to use steam voice chat?

Personally i rarely use steam voice chat nowdays, but i would give it a try.

This post has been edited by MiF: 23 March 2011 - 09:37

[Clavus]

Me, Sneed & Peon used Skype a lot when we were playing Bad Company 2. The sound quality was a lot better than the alternatives.

[MiF]

Yea. Skype is MUCH better than anything else i have used.


EDIT: It would be cool if they would add same system to valve games . System they are using atm is 10 years old, and even more.

This post has been edited by MiF: 23 March 2011 - 13:47

[CarPileUp]

Yeah.. the steam-voice chat was even worse than TeamSpeak. But I'll stick to Skype. Best Voicechat Software so far