AFAIK, it seems not likely, as folks don’t normally chat either. FWIW, typing to chat does take away from APM. Unlike other online games, you don’t need the tighter coordination offered with voice with just 2 players going at it (as opposed to other games where teams can range from 3 to 12 players). Also, the game’s ping system has been sufficient for most things.
Voice coordination helps alot as in any coop game. It’s not controverting that some people may understand each other without words and map pings, but this happens rarely in my experience.
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I do not, no. I prefer the alt pings or text chat. Even then, 9 times out of 10, I’m ignored.
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outside of brutations i think the game is not quite so complex to require more than “move truck here” or “intercept attack wave”
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When VC first came out for SC2 it was such a greatly needed tool. Too bad it was absolutely garbage, so everyone used other programs. And thus it became one of those “hey let’s see who can be the most annoying guy while waiting” thing. Finally, everyone getting too annoyed and turning it off entirely.
~ A story of Voice Chat in Starcraft 2 ~
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i do not use it for several reasons. 1: i am very shy and 2: people tend to make fun of my voice.
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No need for comms unless it is brutation or brutal+4 and above. Everything is so scripted that it can be memorized and that’s what everyone runs off of.
If I had any friends with whom to play, I would 
But on random queue I could not imagine it. Also I play on EU where most players probably don’t even speak English (with maybe 50 % of players I meet being Russian)
this game has voice chat?!
Dude if I ever see that speaker come out I instantly mute it, I don’t want to hear anyone’s voice unless I’m premade with them…
“What are you doing?”
“Are you going to do anything?”
“You know there’s an attack wave coming, right?”
“Move a unit to the objective… please?”
“Oh, the mission is over. I didn’t even know you were there…”
On the flip side, you could be like CtG:
“Good job to my ally!”
Haven’t used the in game VC forever since my above mention from years ago. Anyone know if the quality was any better? Did they ever fix the filtering problem? Is it still echoing like crazy? Lol.
Ive had voice disabled since Wings, because the quality was really, really bad, and i tended to play large 8+ player arcade games where having everybody speaking at once just meant that nobody could be understood. These days i use voice in Heroes of the Storm, if people happen to join the channel, and when i play Starcraft in premade groups with friends, but in Starcraft i do it through battle.net chat, not the in game voice.
I’m curious. Do most of us have Microphones to communicate?
It’s nice to have but I doubt voice chatting is widely used by everyone/anyone
I use microphone and external apps for voice comm, sure battle.net one is good enough only when there aren’t alternatives.
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I have it, but I’ve never bothered to use it.
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I use voice chat with my friends that I know personally, I’ve tried to use battle.net’s voice chat, however, I find Discord’s VC to be superior, easier to use, so we just use that, however it’s essentially personal preference.
That’s exactly it, there are a ton of programs out there with far superior voice chat. Discord being one of them. And they work fine, so people stuck to them (and several are multi functional), so the in game VC just became instantly obsolete lol.
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