Source Communications Update Coming

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The latest Steam news update is now available, noting a few things including a communications update that's coming for the Source Engine.

We'll be releasing an update soon to both text chat and voice communication in the Source Engine that will improve communication for people in multiplayer games. We've completely rebuilt the text chat system, adding the ability to browse your chat history right in the chat window and a filter to remove messages that clutter your game screen. Voice communication will be getting a huge boost in quality, so if you have a microphone sitting on the corner of your desk collecting dust, now would be a good time to plug it back in.

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    March 3, 2007 12:40 PM

    I always thought the voice comm. in Valve games sucked recently. I guess it was fine back in the day when everyone had dialup connections, but now?

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      March 3, 2007 12:46 PM

      Yeah, it was horrible fuzzy robotic useless crap last time I tried it, unimproved from the HL1 version. Good they gave it a major fix.

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      March 3, 2007 1:10 PM

      The first game I thought did this right was UT2004. What a great enhancement to gameplay.

      These days I wouldn't dare play most online games without voice comm...

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      March 3, 2007 2:12 PM

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