Voice chat with more than eight pilots connected in multiplayer. It's possible?

[Silver_]

I wanted to ask if anyone is doing well with more than eight pilots in multiplayer. I haven't been able to get it to work, someone is always left out. With less than this amount it has been achieved, I really don't understand the reason why this happens.

[Tarres]

Same here.  Six to eight seems to be the limit to achieve stable use of the VC.

But in the Aerobatics server, we´ve achieved a stable use for 8-10 in one of our tests.

Edited December 23, 2023 by Tarres

[ACS_Dev]

The most I have successfully tested with was 4 so far. It's too unreliable to be counted on as your only solution no matter how few or many people you are working with. I really, really want it to work but it is in the extremely frustrating area between being too buggy to even try and useful enough to attempt once a mission or so.

Also, to be clear, it is happening because of ED, not (usually) you. Different users have the issues on the different days so it's not them. I have read every single bug fixing/large feedback/guide thread on this forum multiple times and nothing I have read has made VOIP work reliably. Allegedly it works for most people and ED needs more data/testing to iron out the last remaining issues. This data gathering and testing has been going on for almost 2 years now, so I don't have my hopes up.

Edited December 28, 2023 by ACS_Dev

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

we are running session with many more people, we recently tweaked voice chat and added more turn servers which helped. 

If you are still seeing issues I would suggest ensuring each client has turn servers ticked. 

DCS is allowed in the firewall / antivirus 

If you still have issues we would like to know the geographical location of the clients and the dcs log from the session. 

thanks

 

[ACS_Dev]

27 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, 

we are running session with many more people, we recently tweaked voice chat and added more turn servers which helped. 

If you are still seeing issues I would suggest ensuring each client has turn servers ticked. 

DCS is allowed in the firewall / antivirus 

If you still have issues we would like to know the geographical location of the clients and the dcs log from the session. 

thanks

 

Hi BN, thanks as always for the reply.

When did these changes occur?
Incidentally I have been running some missions more recently without issue but since I hadn't heard anything about changes and it was with a smaller player sample I put it down to luck.

[Silver_]

In my flight group we have been doing tests and the truth is that now we have done much better with more than eight people, the only thing that left me a little frustrated is that some people could be heard as if they were on Discord (without any radio effect, clean voice) and others were heard with the normal radio effect.  I have no idea what this could be due to and what parameters need to be modified to obtain correct modulation.

If anyone on the ED team has an idea why this is happening, I'll be all ears.  Otherwise the communications were quite good (fading effects, noise, etc., except for those that could be heard clearly. Of course, we all had Discord turned off.

[Xupicor]

We haven't had a session in weeks where at least one player wouldn't have difficulties either hearing or transmitting to other players, and that's with five to ten people. VC is so unreliable lately that we're probably going to switch back to SRS.

[Japo32]

I would say even with less than 8 if it is possible. Yesterday one of our members couldn't hear some of us, and we couldn't hear him. After some research he had everything right, and twice or so he could be heared. Of course all mic correct, green antenna, and visual near others with no encription enabled.

A shame because we make this tests after several months each one, and we have to return back to SRS while Voip audio is far better, but Voip is not confident at all among all our people, and will fail to substitute it, unless the 100% of all are ok with it.

Edited May 24, 2024 by Japo32

[Mistermann]

Same here @Japo32.  It's a real shame DCS' voice chat hasn't been fixed all these months later.  Thank goodness SRS exists and is still maintained.