Gamer with 7 years experience about voicechat

Artem Storozhenko Gamer with 7 years experience
"Steel Shield" Guild

- What problems can you face with when you try to gather a team before the game?First problem can be a time which you spend to gather people. It can take much time because most of the people have already joined other guilds, have their own team. Another problem is the human factor. A person can be good in ordinary life, but weak as a player, and vice versa. A future team leader, must estimate the potential of each teammate (as a person and as a player) and understand next - Does your team need such person? Or is it better to leave him in reserve or even not to consider him as a candidate.

- What is necessary to start organizing a team before the game?
Primarily organization begins from a discipline, a raid time should be strictly regulated and latecomer player risks being replaced by another guild members who comes in time. Also there should be a raid leader, a man who knows all about the game, tactics against the bosses and so on, and whose commands everyone should listen as they listen to their own fathers :)

- Can a voice chat solve the problems of the organization? How exactly the voice Chat helped to your team?
Voice chat have to solve them. All misunderstanding, potential conflicts, and so on should be immediately delivered to voice chat to discuss them or if it is personal issues, which, however, can affect the game progress, it should be discussed in the presence of a raid leader who in case of inability to solve problem will at least try to postpone the discussion for another time.

Voice Chat in any form helps to speed up a coordination of actions of the players. It is certainly better than the usual text chat and better than streaming video conferences as Skype. It mentally prepares the players to be more serious and has more responsibility. We notice a lot of progress, when we switched from Skype to Raid Call.

- Will you advise using voice chats? Why?Not always. It is necessary for a cohesive team work. But do not forget that not all players want to seriously play hard every night, sometimes you just want to have fun communicating with nice people. Of course Skype is more appropriate here. One of a Voice chat features is that you should often press a key to say something. Therefore people will not tell something in general, but try to express their opinions clearly when the key is pressed. Such clear communication is needed when your team is faced with serious problem.

- Are there any difference of organizing novices, avid players or even professionals?
For me the main difference between the novices and pro players is the fact that pro players spent a lot of time with the team, they have a team spirit, they feel each other, and the beginners are just starting to adapt to one another. In terms of organization, for beginners all depends not on the gaming experience but on his personality, such as discipline, responsibility, ability to recognize their mistakes and work to eliminate them, understand that only captain of the team can talk about mistakes of other players or whole team.

- What do you think about organizing big and small team?
Ideally, for several reasons, you will spend nearly the same time to create good big or small team. For comparison let's take two commands of 10 and 25. First of all - responsibility. The smaller amount of players in the team, brings to player bigger responsibility. Therefore when you try to create a small team, it will be the most difficult to select the right people, with the right role and required qualities. In the case of 25 people you may care less about people. However you need much time just to collect players in a team at least in some initial form.

The second important thing - is the replacements. Replacements is constant thing for large teams. Very rarely you can collect all 25 people in one time because we all humans. Therefore players for the replacements always must be present, ready at any moment to go out and show their skills (who knows, maybe they will get place in the main squad). In the case of a small team you seriously risk when you make replacements. The risk to waste a lot of time just because new player can make some mistakes in terms of teamwork, and there is no time for training or preparation.

Five the most wanted video games of the Fall 2014

In the next three months the world will see several premieres of cult game series such as Call of Duty, Assassins’ Creed, Halo, Far Cry, Dragon Age.

So let’s go on through this list.
Already in the beginning of November (planed on November 4th) one of the most popular action Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be released. This game was coming out in the new releases dozen times. And as always the developers promise that this version will be the best.
Briefly about the release: the action takes place in 2054, the hero again have to save the world after the disaster. By the way the head of the military organization of PMC, in which the main character takes part, is voiced by Kevin Spacey. The DLC will be released for the Xbox first. Developers promises to release the game on a new engine. In addition, in the CoD game player will have an exoskeleton that he can upgrade during the game, also drones and energy weapons and more what we expect to have in future.

Less than a week on November 13th World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor will be released. Blizzard will release a new addon to the global MMORPG. With this version you can forget about the meme about "level 80 elf " because now fans of the series will be able to level the hero up to 100 levels. The most epic of know-how will be the following: the ability to make garrisons, build buildings, collect resources, sending the group in raids.

On the same day Assassin's Creed: Unity also will be released. Action takes place in Paris in 1789. Now the protagonist Arno can take part in all the iconic events from taking the Bastille to the execution of Louis XVI. Developers also promises to run this game on a new engine Anvil, which they call a long awaited “next gen”. The gamers will get new assassins-parkour, updated combat system, more weapons, improved stealth action, and this is just a beginning of the list.

November 20th, a week after release of two previous games Far Cry 4 will be released. This is really expected release from Ubisoft. The player will play in Key Rate - completely fictional Himalayan region. There he would be sent for fulfilling a wish of his dying mother's but here he will stuck in a civil war. Far Cry 4 will be available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and of course on the PC. Players who pre-order the game can get an extended edition with DLC.

On the next day, November 21h you can expect for Dragon Age: Inquisition. This is popular series of the RPG-games in the dark fantasy style from Electronic Arts and BioWare. Developers promise that it will have more success than Dragon Age 2. About the story: the kingdom of Ferelden lives an ordinary life: intrigue, spies, war, insurrection, the negotiations, the Inquisition. Worth recalling that the choice of the player often affects the end of the game - save and reload will help you. And in Dragon Age 3 full control of your squad combat tactics will be returned, also in the plot will be favorite friend of party the harmful witch Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins.

There Is no need to say how and with whom you should play these games! We want only emphasize that multiplayer games gets greater success and popularity in the world of games, communication in them has become a large part of intrigue and success. We are also looking forward for new updates, new features and even more exciting game communication!

MyTeamVoice advised to use only special Voice chat for games, they are much better for the team communication and are less susceptible to external factors (drops of the network, unstable bandwidth, inexperienced players ;) and so on), which often break your play and communication. All of this and much more which will not disturb you and helps to enjoy the new games!

PC games can cure depression and stress

The tendency to blame computer games in all problems of children is declining. Until recently there was a hard myth that the games are useless and only ruin the children's lives and their parents. But scientists from New Zealand from the British Medical Journal have refuted this. They published data that says that games can help teens get rid of depressed mood and protect against stress.

On the example of a game Sparx, where you can create own character and get the complete freedom of action in the virtual world, it is shown that the games give a sense of freedom for the young people because their daily life is scheduled by the school and the family. In the game worlds gamers solve problems, puzzles and this according to the researchers is the same method of cognitive therapy in psychology - when with help of a character young people can express their emotions.

Scientific experiment lasted for seven weeks and during that time scientists have observed the players whose characters expressed negative facial expressions from resentment to anger. Eventually it was discovered that thanks to playing adolescents showed decreasing symptoms of depression and anxiety. At the same time there was a group of guys who were "treated" by conventional psychologists and comparative results shocked many! In the group where was playing games 44% of adolescents showed a complete recovery, and in the group with psychologists - only 26%, and of course those who were treated with help of games were delighted to be in such experiment!

By the way the Sparx game is role play game, so players are able to communicate with each other which means that in addition to getting rid of depression have a great opportunity to interact with other children, socialize and make new friends, that in our time for many children in real life is not so simple. Give more communication and freedom to people, it is so necessary for all of us!

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