not able to hear everyone with coms in halo 2

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:13 am

If any of you are using routers but not portforwarding, do a portforward on 30000 UDP to the PC's IP and put 30000 into Kai Port. See if this makes a difference.

Also, if you didn't know with Halo 2, you can only hear people near you in the map when you talk. If you are playing a team match, pressing the white button lets you talk to everyone in your team.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:25 am

Got to love the problems with the time on the server moving from the UK to the US Very Happy

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:39 am

when i and some friends are in the game the prok is not working for all of us.
also when were on the same team we still can't talk to each other.

one guy can talk to the whole team and we can talk to him but not each other?
any ideas??

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 3354

Moving to general help

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:35 pm

I was wondering if this was something that happens to all xlink kai users or just to some, since I have thesame problem and all the people I know who play on xlink (I asked 5 till now) also experience this problem.

Is it a xlink bug or just some network setting that's wrong?

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:52 pm

Was it Halo 2? Do you know how Halo 2's headset rubbish works? You need to be close to the people in the map, otherwise press the white button for everyone on your team to hear you..

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

as you said in the post that started this thread Wink

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:27 am

dfunked wrote:

Was it Halo 2? Do you know how Halo 2's headset rubbish works? You need to be close to the people in the map, otherwise press the white button for everyone on your team to hear you..

Erm, that's the problem. I do know how it works, but the odd thing is that it doesn't work like it's supposed to.

Proximity voice and chat-to-all (white button) only work with the person who is hosting the game when playing on kai.

so: if I and the host are close to eachother we can hear eachother, but if I and another non-hosting player are near eachother, we can't hear eachother.

And if I press the white button, only the host can hear me, the other players can't (and if another non-hosting player presses the white button, also only the host can hear him, not the other players like it's supposed to). If the host presses the white button, all players can hear him.

This happens every time by the way.

Seems there is something wrong with relaying the voice streams in Halo2 on kai (other games work fine btw).

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:12 am

Can anyone confirm or deny this please?

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:15 am

I'd be willing to test it out thoroughly over a few games if you want. Message me on MSN sometime..

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:45 am

I will thanks, I will try to test it with some others too.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4061

From what i can tell, from playing many games of halo2 online. it seems to be either a host/bandwith problem.

On some hosts it works perfect, others it dont.

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:37 pm

Tried it with 3 different hosts, 2 on a 512kbit upstream, one on a 1024 kbit upstream, and it didn't work in neither of them.....

Haven't come across one where it did work so I'm guessing it must be a bug or something (since all people can talk to eachother in the lobby of Halo 2)

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1215

weird, I haven't played H2 in a while, but I when I did, I never got any problems with voice..

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:44 am

Maybe some other people can test too and report here in this thread if it did or did not work (and post the upstream details about the host when it worked)? I am eager to find out if it is something that is KAI related or related to the host of the game.

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4061

Any XBL players having the same problem?
Might be interesting to find out!

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:52 pm

I was just reading up on some other forums discussing Live, and it does seem to work okay there. The fact that it is also mentioned in the Halo 2 manual means that it is supposed to work in Live and System Link.

The fact that it doesnt't work on Kai has me thinking it might be a Kai bug. Maybe some people who also use XBconnect can check if it does or doesn't work for them?

Mods: can this be moved to the help request forum so we can work towards a solution?

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:18 pm

It's not exactly a Help Request so it'll stay here. Trust me, the minute you put it in Help Requests, nobody else but the mods / admins and yourself will check it.

But if you're going to test it on Kai and XBC, get the exact same people to play on both places..

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:24 am

I get this same problem...Me and bunch of friends would each take turns hosting and no matter who hosted only the host could hear all parties...

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:48 pm

dfunked wrote:

But if you're going to test it on Kai and XBC, get the exact same people to play on both places..

Seems only to happen on xlink: http://forum.xbconnect.com/viewtopic.php?p=173640