Proximity voice
Voice
Hear the players around you and lose them as they wander off. It carries about sixty metres, straight from your browser, and one button sets how far you are heard: whisper, normal or shout. There is nothing to install.
Voice is being set up
Proximity voice is part of this server and is not switched on yet. The rest of the site works normally; this page becomes the voice room the moment it is installed.
Your browser will ask to use the microphone.
Voice uses your Steam sign-in, the same one as the rest of the site.
Signal readouts
Keep the game at full volume
Windows ducks the game by about 80% the moment any app uses your microphone. One setting stops it — for this voice, for Discord and for everything else. Thirty seconds, once.
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Right-click the speaker icon in the taskbar, open Sound settings, scroll to the bottom and open More sound settings.
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Communications tab → pick “Do nothing” → OK. This is the one that matters.
- 3
Playback tab: right-click your headphones, Properties, Advanced, and untick Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device.
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Still under Playback: set your headphones as the Default Device and the Default Communication Device.
Nobody within earshot.
Get within about sixty metres of another player to hear them. The list fills in on its own.