I think that adding Mumble to FH2 can help to avoid the death of the game in the long run. For the ones that doesn't know Mumble is a software that allows for a better VOIP communication between team members (not only squadmembers) and also allow the 2 different teams to speak to each other. I have a very powerful pc and I play quite a lot of recent games focused on multiplayer and the VOIP is essential NOT to the game itself, but to the community. My point is that the newcomers will be used to have such VOIP settings available, and enjoy using it. On the other hand, having the potato VOIP we are using now, might make newcomers not like the game, or at the very least not like the VOIP.

Also some of you might have noticed that the player Ekiso, who also have a youtube channel recently made a few videos called "WTF moments" showing some funny moments in game, the first one got thousands of views in few weeks, therefore this is a good way to advertise FH2. Now add to that a VOIP worth of its name, that allows many new form of funny interactions between idiotic players (and lets be honest, FH2 is not running low on idiots) could make a lot of difference and maybe even attract so many players to see both 100 players servers full.

@Nighthawk I also think that mumble in the way you described it would be a lot of fun in the public servers.

"which is less of a problem these days as it starts with the launcher already" are you saying that is easy to install / add?

Just think of what a man can do when he can speak with the other team. Trying to get people to surrender, fake/bait the tankers out of their tank or simply charging while screaming in the mic.  Think of the roleplay! People could help planes taxing in the airfields, more effectively sharing things like ammo (thinking of omaha beach) and many other things... oh, I am dreaming already.

Anyway I will start to bring up this idea in the server while we play, and maybe write a couple of mail to the big bosses and see what are their opinions.

This is a copy/paste of a post of mine from the 762 forum, I don't know which is the more active so I double posted this. I hope I am not breaking any rule and if that is the case do not hesitate to take this down.

Hello everyone!

It is been a while now in this FH2 world, and I must say I enjoyed every bit of it. Gameplay is awesome, community is supportive when it needs to be supportive and autistic when it needs to be autistic.

Recently I played various games that have VOIP between opposite teams / players and I realized it enriches the gameplay by a lot. I will mention Rust but Holdfast: Nations at War is the one that made me realize how cool it could be to be able to speak to the enemy team. In Holdfast I have seen people surrendering, officers screaming orders / encouragements to their fellow soldiers and the fact that the enemy team (if close enough) could hear them created many funny moments that still to this day brings tears to my eyes (because of laughter)

My question is: Is it possible to make VOIP hearable to everybody in game, with proper distance settings etc?
I have seen there are 2 different VOIP channels now, one for the squad and one for the squadleaders and commander. How hard would it be to make a VOIP channel the way I described?

Anyone else here thinks this might be a cool idea?

Have a nice day!

Ok. I think i have the bf2reg file, that allows me to change CD key, and i've done it. So this means that someone is already using the CD key i made up? Don't think so. Maybe the reg file should be inside the game folder? Cause i've got it outside. Maybe that's the problem.