Just wanted to say I finally got Wii Speak shipped from Amazon.ca (only took 3 weeks...)

Is there a game on Sunday? PM me details if possible. Thanks

Anybody in here any good? online is getting a little boring because the skill level is low.

I'm down for sunday.

1- Ive played with a couple of people on these boards useing WiiSpeak. Id say use it if you have it, but try and optimize your WiiSpeak settings proir the game. Ive played with max sensitivity, but the in-game audio options turned down to about a 4-5. Seems to work with me. Oh, and youll need the updated version of the WiiSpeak Channel to use it while playing TC. It should say version 2.0.

2-I was just gfoing to let people vote of it while in the game lobby, but a pre-match setting should be better. Keep in mind that if you dont have WiiSpeak, theres no way to voice your opinion about game type, map, weapon set, etc. for the next match.

3- You dont need to do that to play with everyone in a game, but you should become friends automatically.

4- Thats right, just add my ode (which youve already done) and you can play and chat with everyone else as 'friends of a friend'.

5- Yup. See answer 4.

6- Practice and mess around with your WiiSpeak settings. A malfunctional WiiSpeak is an annoyance and disturbance in game.

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Senortaco
Silentmac
DeltaXIII
Enthilzha
Exblackman
MrKhan
Shanobi
and myself

Thats 8/12. Game is filling up quick. To those of us that have been missing out, theres a game planned for Sunday night at 6pst/9est. Quite a few of us have WiiSpeak, so use it if youve got it. Anyone that wants to join the game needs only be friends with me. You dont need to add everyone elses codes since youll be playing with 'friends of a friend'.

1. I keep my sensitivity turned up on Wii Speak to 4 or 5 at least. Lower and people complain that they can't hear me. I also turn down my game sounds to a 2 or so to avoid the game sounds being picked up by Wii Speak. Also, I turn up my speakers pretty high so I can hear other people. I have had 2 problems with Wii Speak. Not being able to hear and feedback. The feedback can be fixed by placing your Wii Speak as far away from your speakers as possible. Not being able to hear can be fixed by using the above settings as well as trying to get as close as possible to the Wii Speak. If you start to get alot of feedback immediately pause and mute Wii Speak and it stops it.
2. We could determine in advance what stages/weaponsets/modes to use and then just have the host only vote... Otherwise I guess just what everyone votes on?
3. In the game lobby if you highlight someone's name and they are a friend of a friend, you can hit the plus button and send them a friend request. They then have to approve it to be your friend, I think?
4. Yup
5. You can hear your friends and friends of friends on deathmatch and friends and friends of friends who are on your team in Reaper.
6. Just have fun.

Thanks Voltaire and silentmac. I will play around with the placement of WiiSpeak and see what I can do to make it work as well as possible. I think I can place it about 4-5 feet in front of my TV. Sounds like that might be best.

I'm down with a Sunday game if I'm home, but I'm usually busy on the weekends, so who knows.

BTW since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, first week sales (actually half a week since it released midweek) are 95,000 units and second week sales are 60k so about 155k total so far, it's selling a lot better then either Madworld or House of the Dead.

In comparison, The Conduit (American sales) has already outsold Madworlds and House of the Deads American sales, with the promotion behind it it's almost assured to top both of those combined and hopefully will be an easy million seller.

I'm standing by 300k worldwide for 5 weeks (although Wii Sports Resort could hurt this a bit) and 750k-1.2mil ltd depending on how long it takes another dev to release an online FPS.  If it takes until The Grinder comes out I would lean more toward the high end of my range or even more.  Red Steel 2 isn't competition because it doesn't have online and the art style will hurt its sales IMO.

Remember this, The Conduit will be out during the holiday season, if they can put some more ads up around November they can get another boost in sales and it could push past World at War sales.

Good point.  I have to wonder if EA or Activision will push out some competition for Q2 or Q3 next year ahead of The Grinder.  You know they have the money/dev teams to do it if they want.  

I think it is pretty well proven now that there is a market for FPS on Wii and the more people who become aware of the good controls in Wii FPS, the more they will sell.  Bad reviews stating that the Wii just doesn't work for FPS can't stand for too much longer.  When gamers become a bit more experienced they will call out that BS in a second.