NBR Mumble Chat Server (alt to TeamSpeak & Ventrillo)

[ViciousXUSMC]

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Greetings my fellow NBR members and fellow gamers.

I want to personally invite you join, and enjoy a new Mumble server that I have created exclusively for the NBR community.

What is Mumble?
Mumble is a alternative VoIP service just like TeamSpeak and Ventrillo. However when directly comparing these three it is vastly superior in latency and quality, and has many great features to make it more useful.

Here is a youtube video demonstrating the latency difference between these 3 applications. I think the newest version of Mumble maybe even faster than demonstrated here!

This allows real time talking between us and makes things more natural and fluid.





Intended Use
I would like toallow everybody to use the server for both gaming and socializing. I just ask that things be kept respectful I feel the NBR community is good at this do don't make me eat my words!

Use the proper channel for the proper thing.


Getting Mumble
Download the newest 1.2.3 client and install it from here: Mumble

Joining Mumble
Once you have installed the client you can easily join the server by placing this link below in your internet browser or clicking this link.

mumble://nbrchat.servebeer.com/?version=1.2.3

Once you have joined be sure to go into your server tab and add to your favorites.

The server is publicly listed and to prevent random people from joining it is password protected. To get the password simply PM me here on the forums and ask me for the password.

This is my way of keeping track of interest in the server and keeping it clean.

Yes - You may share the server with friends however please police yourselves and let them know they are your guest and not to use the server freely on there own or invite any of there own friends so do not invite people you do not trust 100% to follow these rules.



Important Things to Know (setup steps)
1.) Use the Audio Wizard to setup your speakers & microphone when you first use the client. You can always run it again if needed by looking under the settings tab.

2.) Try to use headphones when possible to prevent speakers from sending reverb into your microphone.

3.) If you are not using headphones, use of Push to Talk key is strongly encouraged. If I hear reverb from your speakers I will mute you until you use push to talk!

4.) Push to talk is good in all situations even when using headphones so you can prevent people from hearing you when you don't want them too (people yelling in background, coughing, etc)

5.) The preset for Medium audio quality is fine and still way better than TS3 or Ventrillo


Cool Things to Know (Awesome Mumble Features)
1.) It has an in-game overlay that shows you who is in your channel and highlights them when they speak so you always know who is talking.

2.) You can configure the overlay in many many ways, from size to position, and even turn it off, or a favorite of mine have it only show people when they talk instead of everybody in the channel.

3.) It supports positional audio for many games. When somebody talks you hear it in your headphones/speakers in direct correlation to there in game position. So if in game they are to your left you would hear it in your left speaker.

4.) It has build in noise filtering, this is one of the main reasons it sounds way better than Ventrillo and TeamSpeak.

5.) It has voice detection so when not using push to talk it knows what is voice and what is noise much better than other programs.

6.) It has Text to Speech for the chat, so what ever is typed in chat is read to speech for you.

7.) You can record conversations with others if you wish on the new 1.2.3PR client version.

8.) It can attenuate the game sounds/music when people speak so you can hear them more clearly (lower the volume of the game)

9.) It is a skin-able interface if you wish.

10.) It supports Avatars and Comments. Avatars show up on the in-game overlay (Id use your NBR Avatar)

11.) +More


So as you can see I am very excited about this. I hope it works out smoothly and we use it properly.

I am very much encouraging those of you who play with me for SC2 Game night and other people in the NBR Steam Gaming Community to make use of it.


Join the NBR Steam Gaming Community Below and be in instant touch with all your other NBR friends. Steam makes a great pre-interface for Mumble.

See a few people online, ask if they want to join, and then go join the Mumble server together and go game!

Steam Community :: Group :: Notebook Review

If you have questions, comments, concerns, suggestions. Feel free to PM me.

The server is in testing phase right now and I am using the 1.2.3PR version so if you find bugs/problems be sure to let me know.

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The NBR Mumble Server is Hosted and Maintained by ViciousXUSMC

[Baka]

Come over or I'll eat you guys >:[

Tested it with Vicious and yes, it's a really good alternative to teamspeak and ventrilo. Just be sure to throw all your rubbish at Vicious's admin cave and we're all good

[HTWingNut]

I've used TeamSpeak 2 and 3 for quite some time, and quite a bit of vent as well, and have to say that mumble is worlds better than those.

Quick and easy to setup and bam, I was talking to vicious even though I didn't intend to, but it managed my laptop speakers and headphones from the getgo without any feedback.

Granted he got to hear my two little guys rumbling in the background, but with a little tuning I'm sure I can get it to work without picking up all that.

[Forge]

I want to get in on this. Tossed you a PM, Vicious.

[Baka]

I see a forge in mumble! O_O

[ViciousXUSMC]

Originally Posted by Reizo

I see a forge in mumble! O_O

Careful maybe its a cannon rush

[Mastershroom]

Glad to see you took my advice ^__^

I'm in class right now, but I'll swing by the server when I get home later.

[Ruckus]

Thanks for offering the VOIP

[ViciousXUSMC]

Added a few more game channels, and also added more directories.

Now instead of just a single generic chat channel for a game say Team Fortress 2. Every game now has at least one sub channel called "Freelance Team" this is the channel you would join to talk to your team in game.

So keep in mind when you double click on a main channel you join the main channel not the sub channel within it.

The main channel can be used incase more than one group is playing the same game or like a planning room before you go off onto a team.

Other games like Starcraft 2 have more sub channels. I have NBR SC2 Game Night and inside there is "Team A" and "Team B" this way when we do our 3v3 or 4v4 all NBR member games on Friday nights we can talk to our own team and not be talking to the opposing team.

This may be a bit more competitive than it needs to be, but I wanted the option to be there.

[Random1337]

oh wow this is awesome.

Thanks vicious