Heh, that'll happen...it's a combination of your relative inexperience and the way the game is. I've gotten better with practice, but I still die a lot sometimes. The real trick to overall success is actual teamwork, something we were lacking in. That too is something that must be developed over time within a group, and/or created using headsets (preferably and). Speaking of which, what happened with yours, Roopa? You didn't talk pretty much the entire time I was there.

That was because I could barely understand turtlelink and you. Before you came online I heard turtlelink in a really bad quality and then we opened a voice chat to test whether it was the game's fault which turned out it was because I heard turtlelink pretty clear in there.
We have a theory that since there's quite a distance between the USA and Germany, the quality is reduced so there won't be lag in the voice transmitting (because when there's even just half a second lag a warning like "look out: grenade" could become useless).
So while I did sometimes understand some of what you guys said, most of the time the buzzing and crackling was too loud...

And that's why I didn't talk, because I couldn't hear what you said so obviously I couldn't answer and also because I though you'd probably hear me in such bad quality, too.

I've played with Sean007's without that problem, so I don't think it's necessarily just a distance thing. I was having trouble hearing turtlelink as well...no idea what the cause of the problem was. I hope we can get things working at some point though, 'cause it's a lot more fun with functioning headsets.

Really? Well then maybe turtlelink just has to turn the HQ mode on.
I always use HQ mode because the quality is way better. I just mute the mic when I'm not talking.