Tip of the Trade: Talking to Warcraft 3 players all around the world while playing.

[tom_mai78101]

Some requirements:

1. You need to have the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger. (MSN, AOL might work. Haven't tested them out yet.)
2. You need to have some Warcraft friends in your account.
3. Warcraft 3 game. (RoC or TFT)
4. Microphone. (Headset with microphone is nice.)
5. Must have your friends know about this.


Steps:

1. Open up Yahoo! Messenger (or your favorite chat client(s)).

2. Invite your friends into the Conference. (Actions -> Invite to Conference...) A pop-up will show up.

3. Invite those you wished to play with. Up to a max of 11 players.

4. Make sure at the bottom of the pop-up, the option "Enable Voice for this Conference" is ticked/checked/enabled.

5. Once you have all your friends voice chatting, and doing some troubleshooting, tell them to start running Warcraft 3. Must agree on which game version (RoC or TFT) to play.

6. See if you can use either LAN to play, or go into Battle.Net and try to find each other. The recommended way is to go into Battle.Net, create a private room (or let someone else create one), and tell others to join it.

7. Let someone create a game, or agree on who does the creation of the game.

8. Join the game. Wait for others.

9. Play and enjoy your first experience of VoIP in-game in Warcraft 3.

 

[Tru_Power22]

Or you could use Xfire, which has in game menus and microphone hot keys, or teamspeak, or Ventrillo, or any other VoiP program. Those would be a better solution as the MSN conference function doesn't work that well.

 

[Narks]

what is the point of this thread

 

[ReVolver]

Thank you capt. obvious?

 

[tom_mai78101]

what is the point of this thread

Just giving out tips. You can talk to others while playing. Just that.

 

[Jindo]

Ventrilo and XFire were made and are used for exactly this.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Ok...Guess I didn't know that.

But, what if you're inside a college's firewall?

 

[Tru_Power22]

MSN is more likely to be blocked than Xfire is.

 

[tom_mai78101]

MSN is more likely to be blocked than Xfire is.

So, Xfire is like "some gaming server", which can avoid being blocked by firewalls?

 

[ElderKingpin]

when i clicked it, i was thinking of how to talk to other people from around the world. and no. xfire is not "some gaming server" its a game chat, its not a conventional chat and colleges wont want to block that (or whatever).

Overall, the thread is already well-known.

 

[tom_mai78101]

when i clicked it, i was thinking of how to talk to other people from around the world. and no. xfire is not "some gaming server" its a game chat, its not a conventional chat and colleges wont want to block that (or whatever).

Overall, the thread is already well-known.

Hm...Maybe not all colleges wouldn't want to block this. I can't even connect to any servers while using Xfire.

And may I ask what do you mean by "the thread is already well-known"? I didn't get it.

 

[Romek]

> Thank you capt. obvious?
This.

Closed.