Field comms · Earshot
ISLAND WIRELESS
Hear the players around you. Lose them as they wander off. It carries about sixty metres, straight from your browser, and one button sets how far you are heard — whisper, normal or shout.
Connected
Your voice session expired. Sign in with Steam
and open the channel again.
The channel needs a signed-in survivor.
Sign in with Steam to open it.
You are on the wireless, but we cannot see you on the island yet.
Proximity voice needs two things: join the server with the same Steam account you
signed in with here, and be alive in the world (not the menu or the death screen).
Until then you will not hear anyone and no one will hear you.
STATION
Channel: island proximity
Your browser will ask to use the microphone.
Station readouts
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Keep the game at full volume
Windows ducks the game about 80% the moment any app uses your microphone. One setting stops it for this wireless, Discord, and every other app. Thirty seconds, once.
- 1
Right-click the speaker icon in the taskbar → Sound settings → scroll to the bottom → More sound settings.
- 2
Communications tab → pick "Do nothing" → OK. This is the one that matters.
- 3
Playback tab → right-click your headphones → Properties → Advanced → untick Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device.
- 4
Still under Playback: set your headphones as the Default Device and the Default Communication Device.
FIELD LOG
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No one within earshot.
Get within about sixty metres of another survivor to hear them. The log fills in on its own.