You may want to never use Vent again....

Oooo... new and shiny!!

I downloaded the client and gave it a bit of a test drive. Essentially, what this system boasts, is positional in-game voice chat, and the ability to voice morph. An added benefit is an in-game overlay, to show which user is chatting and when (very, very awesome!)

The pros and cons that I can see with just my preliminary testing are as follows:

PROS:

• Spify new client
• Setup was a breeze
• Online voice chat friends lists
• Create an online voice-chat profile, complete with picture!
• Voice morphing
• In game-overlay (my personal fave!!)
• Appears to be a free service (might this change?)

CONS:

• The positional voice-chat isn't yet supported by STO, GW2, or TOR
• Each user can create a maximum of five, permanent channels
• The Stonewall website currently has an integrated list that shows online voice chat users. This wouldn't work with SONY'S service at this time
• You need to use Sony's servers (you can't run a server on your own computer. This raises potential server reliability concerns, and we'd have to abide with SONY'S terms of service
• You have to register as a SONY user

As I had nobody else to test this with, the sound quality is an unknown, though they boast that it's supposed to be quite good.

Personally, I think it's a really cool new voice chat client, and would love to be able to use some of those new features! That being said, I recognize that there's really no need for us to switch, as vent is adequate for our purposes, but it might be cool to give this some consideration!

Thanks for sharing, Shadow!

That does sound interesting. Good find Shadow, and thanks for the breakdown Voleron :)

I'd be up for testing it out. I should be online most of the weekend, especially early morning EST. Never really had a use before it now since my SG in CoH hated the idea of voice chatting.

But I do agree if you got something working why change. Just a fun new toy to play with hehe.

SB

I tried to use vent today, but quality of communication was really very bad. I would also vote for teamspeak :)

I prefer vent over teamspeak but that is because teamspeak just refuses to work well for me when ventrillo is fine.
But its seems common that people are generally better off with one than the other.

I like Mumble but mainly cause it has an ingame repositonable resizable UI so i dont have to keep alt+tabbing to see whose talking :D