I'll be damned, it really is better with Kinect?

[SPyDaHWeBB]

Spoken like someone who has never used a Kinect in their life and hating on it because they think it is the cool thing to do. There is absolutely no reason to shout for it to recognize commands unless you never calibrated the system to your room. Mine recognizes voice commands in a normal to low voice from across the room with volume up on the game.

And FYI, I am not single and my live-in girlfriend has no issues with my gaming, Kinect or otherwise. Heck, she is even the one who bought me my first Xbox during the launch those many years ago. Kinect commands are of no different volume than my standard chat with people. Maybe you should actually educate yourself on the functionality of the Kinect before you spout nonsense that makes you look like a fool.

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[dlCHIEF58]

Ok i dont use the kinect much but is there a way to have it on without being a " using kinect as a mic douschebag"

If you have the Kinect muted as a chat microphone, then is should only work for the in-game commands and your standard microphone would work for voice chat. I have not made use of it yet in this game, but plan on doing so soon as the loadout command would come in very handy. I use it all the time in Skyrim, just need to browse over the Defiance commands to see how it would benefit me the most in using it.

[lil frier]

Not a multi-loadout person myself, nor do I own a Kinect. I can't say one would interest me here, as I don't like talking to my TV/Xbox while I play, especially if I have my mic on to talk to friends in-game.

[Keltic Rage]

There are few things worse than listening to a Kinect user. The reverberations it gives off and the background noise it picks up are extremely annoying.

Love hearing someone shoot off a gun then having to hear it again a second later.

Just because you are using the kinect doesn't mean you need to use it for chat.

[Zeldron]

If you have the Kinect muted as a chat microphone, then is should only work for the in-game commands and your standard microphone would work for voice chat. I have not made use of it yet in this game, but plan on doing so soon as the loadout command would come in very handy. I use it all the time in Skyrim, just need to browse over the Defiance commands to see how it would benefit me the most in using it.

Thank you for this it was very helpful.

[Talon Swiftshot]

LOL wut!? With the Kinect you have you use your hands!? That's like a babies toy!

[Disturbd_ZX6R]

Then your single. I dare one of you to say that you significant other is ok with you putting a headset on so they dont have to hear your shooting in the game, only to have you screaming at the TV-ACCEPT INVITE!!!.... uhhh, ACCEPT! dammit, ACCEPT THE DAMN INVITE!!!!-
(your spouse) SHUT THE **** UP YOU MORON AND JUST CHOOSE THE OPTION WITH THE CONTROLLER , DUMMY!
End of kinect argument. lol

OMG you must have heard my wife ... lol

[mikepaul]

I don't understand how somebody got Kinect to reliably respond to voice commands in Defiance.

I ran the Kinect setup program again, to see if that'd help.

I turned the TV volume off, so there'd be no other sounds to confuse it.

Push Down on the D-Pad, see that EGO has the arrow next to it, Say "EGO Loadout 2" while on Loadout 1 and absolutely nothing happens, over and over again.

Defiance does nothing locally, and requires the server to be ready to respond to voice just like how the menus sit there doing nothing while I'm trying to change loadouts in an arkfall, but at least pushing Start eventually does something.

So I'd like to know how often this works for anyone it works for. Run through "EGO Loadout 1", "EGO Loadout 2", etc., repeatedly, and tell me without fibbing that it works each and every time.

Meanwhile, when I put Skyrim in about a week ago to see what the DLC I bought did, Kinect had a decent success rate. Not PERFECT, but not the colossal failure that I see in Defiance. The joy of a program that isn't server-based...

[Keltic Rage]

I'll set it up this afternoon and give it a shot. Though your kinect may be broken? I've had very little issues in the past with Skyrim aty least.

[Buruko]

I don't understand how somebody got Kinect to reliably respond to voice commands in Defiance.

I ran the Kinect setup program again, to see if that'd help.

I turned the TV volume off, so there'd be no other sounds to confuse it.

Push Down on the D-Pad, see that EGO has the arrow next to it, Say "EGO Loadout 2" while on Loadout 1 and absolutely nothing happens, over and over again.

Defiance does nothing locally, and requires the server to be ready to respond to voice just like how the menus sit there doing nothing while I'm trying to change loadouts in an arkfall, but at least pushing Start eventually does something.

So I'd like to know how often this works for anyone it works for. Run through "EGO Loadout 1", "EGO Loadout 2", etc., repeatedly, and tell me without fibbing that it works each and every time.

Meanwhile, when I put Skyrim in about a week ago to see what the DLC I bought did, Kinect had a decent success rate. Not PERFECT, but not the colossal failure that I see in Defiance. The joy of a program that isn't server-based...

Sorry to disappoint folks, but the load out change only works from the load out screen, so to change load out using Kinect would be:

EGO Load out (bring up load out screen)

EGO Load out 3 (selects load out 3 in the load out screen)

No short cuts :-(