VOIP no longer transmits, mic, microphone, voice over IP, in-game chat

[xmodius]

I've got a rather unique bug. One day my VOIP transmit stopped working in KF2. If I try to talk, my name appears as though I'm speaking but will disappear after a couple seconds. No one can hear me, though I can hear them. I've changed mics, default recording devices, etc. Everything works perfectly fine in Steam, other games, skype, Windows, etc. I'm 100% positive something got corrupted in KF2. I've tried validating files and a complete reinstall, but still nothing. I typically use push to talk but even tried turning that off. Doesn't work.

The only place I'm not sure of is if there are any files stored in the AppData profile (not sure but I would like to think a reinstall would wipe them, though not all programs do that).

Does anyone have any idea what this is or how to fix it? I can't find anything on the steam support forums.

Cheers.

 

[®omano]

Try to delete Documents\My Games\KillingFloor2\KFGame\Config then start the game to generate fresh config files.

 

[SpawnTDK]

do you have multiple soundcards? if yes, disable the one not used for sound recording.
had the same issue. kf2 is unable to do proper default sound devices dedection, so disabling the unused device was the way to go.

i know this kind of issues from back in the 90's. guess stuff looks nicer now, but gets technical worser, not even votekick on command line is present >_>

 

[NED79]

We have 10+ people in our KF2 gaming group. Every single one of us is experiencing this problem. In game chat does not work for any of us.

 

[®omano]

Did you check server config (if you play all on same server, as a community group)?

KFGame:

bEnableDeadToVOIP=true
bDisableVOIP=False
bDisablePublicVOIPChannel=False

 

[NED79]

Did you check server config (if you play all on same server, as a community group)?

KFGame:

bEnableDeadToVOIP=true
bDisableVOIP=False
bDisablePublicVOIPChannel=False

Those are our settings in our servers. We played on both of our servers ( 1 rented and 1 home run) and both do it. This problem just started within the last week.

 

[xmodius]

I do have 2 sound devices (on board and a soundblaster). I disabled the onboard, but sadly same problem. Re-enabled it and disabled soundblaster, but again same issue. Also checked my servers and the 3 lines mentioned from NED79 are correct. The most peculiar thing is when you start talking your name appears as though you're speaking but then it disappears after a few seconds. Other players I've talked with have that same issue.

 

[®omano]

Did you try to bind different keys to talk? (and tried also my first suggestion?)

 

[xmodius]

omano

Yup I did, and I've tried different keys as well as changing it from PTT to constant listen. Sadly none of this works. As for the server files, again my servers have those settings you listed before. This happens no matter what server I'm on.

 

[®omano]

I rarely use the mic, and it seems to work when I use it. Sorry can't help more. there maybe really a bug in KF2 afterall and whatever you'll try will not fix this? :\

Now I think about it, do you use the in game voice while also using your mic in another application like teamspeak?

 

[Kittenmittens]

We are looking into this. It may be an issue as a result of a Steam API update. We'll update here when we have more information.

 

[Arkadeivitch]

Same problem here. A few days ago, I was playing normally, talking with friends on Discord and with players we didn't knew using the in-game voip, then I went afk for a few hours.
When I came back, I changed nothing, but all of a sudden no one could hear me on Discord AND Killing Floor 2, and I couldn't hear anyone on Discord AND Killing Floor 2.

I searched for a long time and I had to tick the "Use Legacy Audio Subsystem" option in Discord in order to hear/talk anew, but I still cannot hear/talk in Killing Floor 2.
I have no idea what happened.

 

[Arcames]

Name-bars pop up in the top left corner but I rarely hear anything. Devs should know this phenomena is way more common than hearing actual people talk in the game. KF2 friends of mine report the same problem, they see name-bars but the majority are silent.

 

[fwfdf1reman]

I noticed the other day that my Steam VOIP settings had been changed, probably from a STEAM update just recently. I had to re-bind a key in order to get VOIP to work again.

 

[NED79]

we are looking into this. It may be an issue as a result of a steam api update. We'll update here when we have more information.

Thanks. Good to hear.

 

[Fok]

I have the same issue. I think wass after the last steam update, when i cannot hear other players anymore

 

[®omano]

Yeah definitely broken, we had tests a few days ago, and none of us could be eared, the talking icon appears and suddenly breaks. No sound able to be eared at all.

 

[oldschool]

Hopefully fix for this will be ASAP! All of my vanilla and custom server's having same issue. Reported by players. All config settings are enabled.

 

[NED79]

Ingame VOIP works fine after latest update.

 

[jameshall]

Hey! Why don't you try customer support services either for your device or your VoIP service provider? They are professionals and can definitely help you. When I got some problem I talk to the customer support of VoIP service provider or from the guys GetVoIP as I have taken their services initially to select my VoIP service provider.