Thread: JackFrags Interview with DICE Creative Director Lars Gustavsson

Originally Posted by Alundil

Interesting video. Some of the comments from Bach were good I think. Need more info of course, but that was a pretty good interview imo.

I think it was a pretty good interview also. I mean so far everything I've seen and read has been going in the right direction. It's exciting, though then I become skeptical reading the facts of the past.

Enf I really don't have any logical response that would be helpful, as I know less then you do most likely. For me it's hard to come up with a reason why a company like EA would have such problems with integrating VOIP. I mean it's not like hadn't successful put VOIP in a game before. They did it perfectly with BF2/2142. Did they get lazy? That's the only really assumption I can come to.

Originally Posted by enf

Im not savvy when it comes to audio codecs and whatnot, but what could prevent VoIP integration in a game? Where are the technological limitations that have made this an issue in BC2 and BF3 (Ill reserve the claim of BF4 until its actually said one way or another)?

Not much, lazy programming or programmers. No real reason not to have it... Not to mention there's existing solutions that are really cheep and easy to use, like ts3 (have sdk). Though EA has a hard on for owning all IP and rights to their products (though wasn't the server browser interface for bf3 third-party?)... Even still after coding the audio engine, voip should be chump change, though they might have to write the codecs, not sure if royalty free exist... But they did for bf2 and their server browser for bf3...?

Im just gonna speculate that it's not a priority, and some ceo said don't worry about it.

Mobile-

This might sound stupid but could there be something to them integrating it with the sounds in the game? Ergo a big explosion right next to you will make you only hear a high pitch and have the regular sounds fade back in... Possibly a limitation with making it work alongside that sort of thing?

Originally Posted by enf

This might sound stupid but could there be something to them integrating it with the sounds in the game? Ergo a big explosion right next to you will make you only hear a high pitch and have the regular sounds fade back in... Possibly a limitation with making it work alongside that sort of thing?

what, you think they ran out of channels?

Depends on the engine, but there's easy working around, like mixing, which you have to do anyways. There's no excuse really.

Well theres always one excuse...

Originally Posted by CivilWars

I like Lars, wouldn't mind drinking a beer with him.