Mumble - Communication tool to better teamwork and gameplay

[MATUSALEM]

Hi all!
So, first of all, imagine that sad situation, when you are under fire and you see an enemy tank just flanking a friendly tank that is close, but you have no time to type on the team chat and he is not in your squad. Then your friendly tanker just blews up and then types in the team chat "blah blah blah no teamwork". This situation happens in every single round, no matters what team you are, there is always someone being killed because there was no way to yell at him "HEEY LOOK BACK!! ENEMY FLANKING!!", and even a situation where a quite simple conversation can change the entire result of the battle, like: A squad is going to cap a point, and a tank from another squad is going to somewhere close, then a simple quote would garantee success on the move: "HEY TANKER!! PLEASE HELP US CAP THAT FLAG!" or even "HEY MATE!! PLEASE PUT SOME SMOKE THERE SO WE CAN MOVE!" So, this kind of local communication, just like in real situations, helps the team to be closer and makes the plans actually work.
Mumble is a tool of communication between players of the same team, it offers local chat, that you can use to talk to anyone that is close to you. The installation and configuration is very very simple, and after installed you just have to run it and then run FH2, that it will automatically link with the game.
Tell your gaming friends to download it and have a gameplay in FH2 that was only possible in gaming tournaments!

Here is the download link: http://www.762-ranking.de/fh2mumble/

[Flippy Warbear]

Mumble was so much fun when we tested it with few team members during a testing session. I lured a bunch of guys into a Lafette by whistling softly...

[0utlaw]

yeah i really like mumble and would hope for it to be integrated into fh2 someday, as pr has. There is just not enough players using it now unfortunately.

[jan_kurator]

Exactly, it should be a part of the mod, otherwise nobody will ever download it.

[MATUSALEM]

So, that's why I ask you if this post can be fixed on this thread, so maybe it can be viewed more, and reach more people. FH2 has grown up since I stopped playing couple years ago, now I see a lot of new players, that maybe never heard about a Mumble version for FH2. And I also see that some of them are part of clans and gaming teams, and like Flippy Warbear said, gather up some gaming friends and have a highly improved combat atmosphere, with players being more closer to really alive on the battlefield.  I'm not asking to force people to download it, but showing them what this tool can do, that in my opinion adds A LOT more gameplay and immersion to the game. 

[LuckyOne]

God I hope the devs implement Mumble just when I finish developing that soundboard I have been planning since a long while just so I can troll the people around with famous WWII movie quotes 

Anyway, in all seriousness it should be a part of the mod. 762 tried to make it popular as a separate download but it didn't work. Maybe they should consider putting it in the CMP installer?

[MATUSALEM]

In my opinion there is no need for it to be implemented. The only thing necessary is a place where people can easily know what Mumble is and how it works, and where they can download and use it. In game most times there is more people out of squads than in squads. With Mumble praticaly there would be no need of squads because everyone would be able to talk to everyone. And this would make people get together in squads, as a consequence, because now they can talk to each other, and now they can have a real teamwork.

[jan_kurator]

What's the current status of FH2 Mumble? it is [762] child, right? Can somebody from the [762] team tell me is it 100% working, there is a server to run it and it will connect you automatically without any problem? If it's bugs free and the only problem is lack of players using it, I will make a news about it on FH2 facebook fanpage, with all download links and instruction provided, and we will see how big impact on the mumble usage it will have.

I'm asking because I had it installed once, I stopped using it because there was literally nobody who was online, and there was a time when it didn't even connect because of some [762] mumble server problems.

[Ivancic1941]

I think it should atleast get in Community updater. With this it will a bit easier get to players and you could test it.

[MATUSALEM]

And coincidentally it got shut down just after I did this post. So as Odium said, we need a coder to put it back running. So I ask if there is any of the FH devs that can help us with information about this. I am not an expert computer, I'm like a dirty PC mechanic  but I can try to do something, or even ask a friend of mine if he knows how to do it.