OFFICIAL: RaidCall Chat Channel

Organic · Aug 29th 2015, 10:02pm

Hello, all!

As we had some discussion yesterday about voice chat and how we could best connect as a community both on and off these forums, we have created a RaidCall chat channel specifically for Bless-Source.com.

For those of you unaware, RaidCall is free chat software and works similarly to Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, Discord, and the rest. This also allows us to have up to 10,000 folks join and is very easy to administer so the admins and mods here can easily make changes without needing "account access" or the like.

RaidCall also allows you to send files, share YouTube videos, use emoji, chat with various text colors/sizes, and can sync with Facebook if you choose.

RaidCall Info
Group: Bless-Source.com
ID: 11613723

Download and install RaidCall, then just put that ID into the search bar and it should automatically take you to our channel. Please change your nickname to your forum name when in our channel so everyone knows who you are.

Thanks!

Tauriel · Aug 29th 2015, 10:09pm

Organic wrote:

Hello, all!

As we had some discussion yesterday about voice chat and how we could best connect as a community both on and off these forums, we have created a RaidCall chat channel specifically for Bless-Source.com.

For those of you unaware, RaidCall is free chat software and works similarly to Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, Discord, and the rest. This also allows us to have up to 10,000 folks join and is very easy to administer so the admins and mods here can easily make changes without needing "account access" or the like.

RaidCall also allows you to send files, share YouTube videos, use emoji, chat with various text colors/sizes, and can sync with Facebook if you choose.

RaidCall Info
Group: Bless-Source.com
ID: 11613723

Download and install RaidCall, then just put that ID into the search bar and it should automatically take you to our channel. Please change your nickname to your forum name when in our channel so everyone knows who you are.

Thanks!

Thanks Organic

This is a very good idea
I might try in the future

vVe · Aug 29th 2015, 10:46pm

Yay!

Aedgyth · Aug 30th 2015, 1:52am

I will join at some point - not really playing any games atm and other than browsing on the Laptop not online to much. If you create/get a guild, or meet in a MMO for a bit of fun whilst waiting for Bless let me know, and I will join you all.

Organic · Aug 30th 2015, 4:21am

Aedgyth wrote:

I will join at some point - not really playing any games atm and other than browsing on the Laptop not online to much. If you create/get a guild, or meet in a MMO for a bit of fun whilst waiting for Bless let me know, and I will join you all.

vVe and I have been in a for a few hours chatting. We're playing different games, but sometimes it's just nice to shoot the breeze.

The channel is always open and I'm sure we'll get more folks involved once CBT3 starts up.

vVe · Aug 30th 2015, 4:56am

Organic wrote:

Aedgyth wrote:

I will join at some point - not really playing any games atm and other than browsing on the Laptop not online to much. If you create/get a guild, or meet in a MMO for a bit of fun whilst waiting for Bless let me know, and I will join you all.

vVe and I have been in a for a few hours chatting. We're playing different games, but sometimes it's just nice to shoot the breeze. The channel is always open and I'm sure we'll get more folks involved once CBT3 starts up.

Yuppers, cant wait!

Werfollow · Sep 1st 2015, 6:46pm

I was wondering how people felt about using Discord instead of RaidCall.
It's free.
Takes up far less CPU.
Generally very useful with gaming. RaidCall isn't bad at all--but how well would Discord work instead?

Organic · Sep 1st 2015, 7:24pm

Everyone has their own preference, I'm sure! I miss the days when everyone just used Vent; far too many options now (TS3, Mumble, Curse Voice, RaidCall, C3, Razer Comms, Skype, Discord, among others.).

RaidCall is an excellent choice for expanding forum functionality. We wanted more text capabilities, link sharing, font options, etc., mainly because the text chat was flying by the other day faster than folks could participate. It also has a small CPU footprint, though not as small as Discord since that can be run via the Web (though that does require having a browser open if you're not using the software).

I personally do not like Discord, despite its cross-platform functionality. I've tried to use it with guild members on a few occasions and no one could ever hear each other, even over the Android app. That said, if we actually get a good number of folks participating on group chat, then we can figure out what may be more preferred in the community. For now, the most we've had is 2 people.

Amunra · Sep 8th 2015, 4:54pm

I'll be down to join the chat soon just won't be able to right now as it stands but can't wait to be involved :?

Ari.

Organic · Sep 9th 2015, 7:26pm

NP at all. I've been in another RaidCall channel chatting with folks testing another game, so it's probably been pretty quiet in there.

Squishy · Sep 16th 2015, 2:55am

Just FYI. Raidcall is shutting down its English Version soon. The only available option would be RU Raidcall or Gamevox is another free VOIP Program.

gamevox.com/en/

Furia · Sep 16th 2015, 6:33am

I also have a 80 Slot TS Server we can use btw.
It's empty anyway

Aedgyth · Sep 16th 2015, 7:31am

I don't mind where we all go - just make a call as what to use, and hopefully we can help each other out ingame

djkinetic · Sep 16th 2015, 8:15am

TS3 im pretty sure is the most commonly used VOIP, I have a TS3 we can use as well.

Aedgyth · Sep 16th 2015, 8:55am

Noooo not more options - we want less options, to the point where it's just 1

djkinetic · Sep 16th 2015, 9:31am

we can use RC but they are shutting down english servers on the 1st of october, so everyone will be connecting to the RU server after the 1st, i gues sits not a big deal for those in the EU, NA mite have some latency issues crop up though.

sunegawa · Sep 16th 2015, 9:37am

so quite on RC , just 2 member online

Aedgyth · Sep 16th 2015, 9:44am

people at work-school in the EU I imagine the US peeps are asleep

Organic · Sep 16th 2015, 6:07pm

djkinetic wrote:

@Organic not sure if you are aware, RC has decided to shut down its English based servers on the 1st of October. So it might be wise to choose another Voice Com.

The recent announcement doesn't impact us at all for this test, but yes, I'm aware of what's going on. Here's the reasoning behind things currently.

English is supported in the Russian client, so English is not "going away" necessarily.
This CBT doesn't go into October anyway.
RC was going to be used for this test as it was free and would accommodate everyone with few installation issues. We were looking into something available long-term for the website IF there was real interest in any voice client.
That said, given how only 3-4 total people have even joined RaidCall, I highly doubt we'll get a ton of folks in any voice chat client.
Finally, given how dead this site is between beta announcements, it could be months before Open Beta is announced, which means we'll all get bored and vanish for a while anyway.

IF folks are actually going to put some serious interest into chatting live as a community, I'm sure we can figure out a great option for everyone. There are over a dozen VOIP clients now, so one is bound to work.

My intention for CBT3 was to provide a SINGLE place where everyone possible could congregate and get to know each other. That hasn't really panned out as it's basically been Ve and I and that's about it. Plus, we have TS3 and Skype mentioned, which also dilutes where we'd hang out anyway. So, my plans didn't really pan out.

Maybe once the game gets closer to launch, we can use a community poll and pick something the community will get behind instead of our best intentioned, though random efforts thus far.

Organic · Sep 16th 2015, 6:09pm

So, folks are welcome to check out the TS3 that was mentioned, Furia's Skype channel that was mentioned, or hang out in the RC channel here that was mentioned. Whatever works.

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