I have searched the game menus and cannot find how to enable my headset microphone. Is this possible in Diablo 3? What are the alternatives? Are there external programs used for this?
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NO, there is no Voice-chat (yet) in Diablo3
"There is no built in voice chat, at least not for ship," Bashiok said. "If we try voice chat in another game we want to make sure its worth using."
You can talk with your friends using a third party technology such as:
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- Ventrilo for its ease in finding and buying a hosted Vent server.
- Team Speak, the most common Vent alternative.
- Skype is popular because many gamers have it already and no server is needed.
- XFire for its integrated IM and social networking platform.
- Mumble because it is free and open source.
You can also use Steam (if you have it). Most gamers have a Steam account, I've found, and it's actually pretty decent voice chat quality.
Diablo 3 does not support in game voice chat.
Popular solutions include: Mumble, Ventrillo, Skype, and Teamspeak.
All the solutions above sans Skype require a central server for you and your friends to connect to. These typically cost money(there are some free servers that allow you to create a channel for your group). These services offer more control as well as persistence(rather than needing to setup a new call in Skype each time).
Skype is a free solution, however, and for smaller groups works perfectly fine.
Note: all of the services I listed are free if you don't plan on hosting a server and just joining others.
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