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Mumble is great when you don't want a persistent chat. I've been invited to like a million different discord groups from friend groups that overlap in various

Mumble is great when you don't want a persistent chat. I've been invited to like a million different discord groups from friend groups that overlap in various ways, and they always seem to be full of a bunch of people I don't know reposting memes off of reddit in the chat channels. All I wanted was a voice chat with the 5 people who I know and am hopping into Overwatch with. Mumble does that job better, and guzzles less of my RAM to do it.

wlesieutre 8y ago
Of course there’s room for UX improvements, and there’s more work involved in using it since the server is self hosted, but once you have it going it does a thing and does it well. The feature that got us on the mumble train years ago was how well it auto-balances the sound volume coming from different users. Other software we tried at the time you’d have some people much louder than others. This is probably pretty standard by now though. EDIT: missed edit window on my parent comment, but a funny note related to Electron system resource usage. In addition to the RAM thing, it's based on Chromium which means it's using the GPU for rendering. There's an option in the config to disable this, otherwise it makes you exit the Discord client when you install GPU driver updates. Not a huge deal, but it feels real silly when you get that popup. Like "I get that I need to close games to update GPU drivers, but my voice chat? Really?"
- hobs 8y ago
  They actually update this in the newer builds so you can finally set per-user volume controls, after years of hating on that :)
Pxtl 8y ago
> I don't know reposting memes off of reddit in the chat channels. I'd love if that was it. It's when you see horrifying 4chan greentext that I start to cringe.
orliesaurus 8y ago
Overwatch has voice in-built that is very good both for public games, parties and teams - why need Mumble at this point?
- wlesieutre 8y ago
  Mostly the consistency, we play other games too with varying quality (or nonexistent) in game voice, so it’s convenient to just have a server that we connect to and use regardless of what game we’re playing. For an Overwatch specific if more unusual use case, if you want to have a group of 12 people organizing private 6v6 matches, this is much easier to coordinate when you can all hop into a single shared voice channel between matches to chat, talk trash, reshuffle teams, etc.
- agret 8y ago
  I haven't used the Overwatch/Blizzard voice chat but can people outside of the game talk to people playing?

wlesieutre 8y ago

Of course there’s room for UX improvements, and there’s more work involved in using it since the server is self hosted, but once you have it going it does a thing and does it well. The feature that got us on the mumble train years ago was how well it auto-balances the sound volume coming from different users. Other software we tried at the time you’d have some people much louder than others. This is probably pretty standard by now though. EDIT: missed edit window on my parent comment, but a funny note related to Electron system resource usage. In addition to the RAM thing, it's based on Chromium which means it's using the GPU for rendering. There's an option in the config to disable this, otherwise it makes you exit the Discord client when you install GPU driver updates. Not a huge deal, but it feels real silly when you get that popup. Like "I get that I need to close games to update GPU drivers, but my voice chat? Really?"

hobs 8y ago
They actually update this in the newer builds so you can finally set per-user volume controls, after years of hating on that :)

Pxtl 8y ago

> I don't know reposting memes off of reddit in the chat channels. I'd love if that was it. It's when you see horrifying 4chan greentext that I start to cringe.

orliesaurus 8y ago

Overwatch has voice in-built that is very good both for public games, parties and teams - why need Mumble at this point?

wlesieutre 8y ago
Mostly the consistency, we play other games too with varying quality (or nonexistent) in game voice, so it’s convenient to just have a server that we connect to and use regardless of what game we’re playing. For an Overwatch specific if more unusual use case, if you want to have a group of 12 people organizing private 6v6 matches, this is much easier to coordinate when you can all hop into a single shared voice channel between matches to chat, talk trash, reshuffle teams, etc.
agret 8y ago
I haven't used the Overwatch/Blizzard voice chat but can people outside of the game talk to people playing?