Zombie Escape: Should alltalk be enabled, or disabled?

Another potential change I was thinking about doing...

I think it may be a good idea to disable alltalk on ZE. This would allow the teams to strategize without letting the other team hear your plans. Zombies have also been trolling humans by telling them to "fall back" when they are trying to hold a position, and some humans do, and a lot of the time when that happens, the CT's lose as a result. Additionally, it would help clear up the mic clusterfuck that's always going on.

The ONLY downside I can think of is not being able to hear every player on the server, but that is more of a mixed bag, IMO.

Well in some cases this is appropriate, but I also like to hear the whole server talking. I'd have to say no, no one should be listening to zombies anyway.

My primary concern is that admins have the ability to listen and communicate to both sides.

maybe we could have alltalk disabled, i mean, if it were possible to have an admin command to listen to one team or the other.

Agreed with this. Admins should have it set to be kept on so that way we can hear everything going on. It's more confusing for us, but if it's just admins that hear someone yell fall back and do so, usually that's only 2 or 3 people playing in game at any one time. So yeah, take it off for normal players, leave it for admins.

I voted yes, disable it. I play too much on ze server and almost every round on every map there is always some zombie that says 'fall back' and half the team goes back to the gate/door and practically screws over the team.

Enable it, I hate when its disable so hard to communicate.. But the downside of enable is zombies tricking humans >_> , can admin like warn them or something for doing this v.v?

I am all for the server not having all-talk. However I do agree with the other admins on the issue of monitoring both sides and if we can't find a solution then just leave all talk enabled.

Euhm...
I say disable alltalk, but maybe if it's possible let admins still be able to hear something.
It's good for 2 reasons, the plans on certain maps won't be blown because a random guy didn't think about zombies hearing it when talking over the mic.
It makes it easier to hear other players on your team, instead of a spam from 20 people, you'll hear like 10 people speaking.

Trust me, it adds another element into the gameplay.

I personally like the idea. It brings a new element to ZE. I say like just trial it out on the server one night if people like it better then keep all talk off but if the people during the trial dont like have all talk off then put it back on.

This game is almost no-tactics anyway. Nothing tactical would become of it, I play for the social experience mainly.

well this game does involve tactics on some maps actually lol

but its more fun with all talk on

I see alltalk as hurting zombies 90% of the time because they can't work on how they are going to attack when humans can counter anything they hear. I would agree that having it disabled would make admin life harder but at the same time, We normally have more than one admin on the server. Disabling it would hurt and benefit the players because a lot of people come for the people who are playing and not the actual game.

I agree. If this will benefit the players more, then I'm all for it.

Dudes, I've played zombie escape for as long as its been around and while it might be more tactically beneficial to separate the players from hearing one another, that instead ruins the social experience for the players.


See, zombie mod isn't really about winning or losing, nobody really takes it all that serious. Those that do, merely get taunted (U MAD BRO?). This is a social experience, and if some players don't check to see if its a zombie talking to them, although its easy enough to notice the sound bar in red, then they will be tricked anyways because the zombies will just say it in text.


I prefer to talk and taunt the players on the other team. Besides its less about tactics and more about running and shooting.