In The Conduit, in team objective modes, can you talk to only your friends or everyone on your team? Please explain to me who you can to talk to in team modes so I can base a decision on whether to buy the Wii Speak or not.

If you are wanting to buy it for The Conduit only... from my experience I wouldn't bother, it sounds terrible (I don't have it) you seem to need to place it far away from your TV just to stop it echoing all the time.

You might want to wait till someone who has it can answer of course, but I have been muting people with it turned on because other people speaking cancels out all my in-game sounds for some stupid reason.... so if I don't mute I end up walking around the game in silence until someones says "YEAH!" or whatever on their wii speak and I then have to hear that about 4 times as it echoes around.

As for who you can actually speak to, obviously that will be specific to the game, but in The Conduit in free-for-all you can only hear/speak to those who are close to you in the game.... while in team reaper or team objective you can only speak to those on your team (no matter how far away they are)

Does this mean that in team based games, you can talk to people that are not your friends but are on your team?

Oh, not sure about randomers.... I originally thought you could only speak with people on your friends list, but I have had a couple of others show the speech bubble.

I think it may be a "Friend of a friend" thing.... so you can speak with anyone on your friends list, as well as anyone on your friends friends list (but no further)

In The Conduit, if you're playing a private game, you can talk to everyone on your team, even if they're not on your Friend's list. If you're playing a public game with friends, you can only hear your friends.

It could just be a Conduit problem of course, as it apparently works well for Animal Crossing.... Perhaps best to wait and see if Activision cock it up or not.

Yeah, the sound quality is quite good in Animal Crossing, and I haven't experienced the issue in The Conduit you're talking about.

In other words, a friend of a friend (because you can't be in a private game without being a friend of the host, and the host has to be friends with all the participants)

I believe the rule still applies in public matches as I have heard people I haven't got on my friends list (though I muted them)

Not quite.  Say A is the host, A is Friends with B and C, and C is Friends with D.  D can still hear all the other guys, even though he's not Friends with A.

You might be right about the public matches thing, though.

Except D can't join the private game until he is friends with A... it's the same in Mario Kart, to join a private game you have to be friends with the host first.