Voice chat no longer works correctly after 32 players and is broken for some players

[Andrew Theel]

Here are the issues:

• Public and Local channels will break after 32 players are on the server (break for everyone).
• It is perceived that players that join a server when it already had 64 players do not have the ability to talk or hear voice. And must reconnect once player count is below 64 to regain voice.

Goals:

• Stop local channel from breaking after 32 players. Public is of little concern.
• Prevent any issue with a 64 player cap on voice chat
• Stop any unnecessary network/server memory usage by creating private channels, unless we find a way to support them so players in a tank crew or squad can form their own channels. However it might be best to create a new entity that manages the "group" channel.

[Matt Hands]

Kudos to anyone who can crack this; reliable local channel would be a great benefit to the game. You'd think it was something really obvious, but I've never seen it. I'm sure there's a static array of size 32 in there somewhere for local, but damned if I can see it.

From memory, I think that once a server goes over 32 players, local channel never still doesn't work, even after it drops below 32.

A vehicle voice channel would be a HUGE improvement !

ps - this should presumably me marked as on hold, i.e. for future release?

[Matt Hands]

Noticed that in the DarkestHour.ini file there is this:

[ALAudio.ALAudioSubsystem]
Channels=32

Would like to try changing that on a server's .ini file. Problem is we'd need more than 32 players. Perhaps ask a server admin to try changing the setting on a public server, then check in 5.1 gameplay? If it is this, we don't need any code or file changes in 6.0 & it should be possible to test in 5.1. I guess we could amend the standard 6.0 .ini file settings with the release.

[Andrew Theel]

That does not work. That is nothing to do with voice channels or voiceID. That is how many simultaneous sounds are allowed to play at once and is for clients. I don't think the server actually uses that at all.

Yea we will put on hold after attempting a few simple fixes.