• How do you get over anxiety for talking on mic
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Play Natural Selection 2 and call out small things for people. Sooner or later, you'll be doing it naturally. That's how it worked for me.
Can't really help since when I don't speak to new peeps online very often. Mostly I talk to friends I know IRL. Other then tell you that you don't need to "train" to talk to people I have not much more. Simply act as you always do. Introduce yourself, act chill and carry on.
[QUOTE=katbug;41981581]vocaroo.com Please post a sample, it can be anything you want, even this post. Also, please state your age.[/QUOTE] Why are you telling him to do this :v:
Fake a retarded voice and accent so bad that when you talk normally no one will really care.
get drunk and talk. or just go crazy so you can never go back
I used to have this problem as well. My advice would be starting to use voice chat on coop games and stuff like that. The only way you're going to get over the anxiety is just to use a mic and talk. If you're worried about what you sound like, launch a Source game if you have one, and do the voice chat test in options. It will allow you to hear what you sound like in-game.
Steps to self growth: 1. Man up.
Just hop into any game you enjoy and start working with your team. Unless you have an absolutely ear bursting voice most people won't give you a hard time. Heck, I've even run into some younger kids in Arma II who weren't all that bad. They would chat and such, but they never clogged the channel or became a nuisance.
Well, just understand these are people who do not know you, and if you are nervous or make a mistake, these are people who will not remember it and judge you. They'll quickly move on. It might be a good idea to start off small and never force yourself to do something you're uncomfortable with. I also think it may help if you join a server with friendly players who actually respond back to you. Like, it's a bit disheartening, if you're talking in-game and no one is really saying anything back, but friendly conversation can make you feel good and happy, I think. I've always had quite a bit of anxiety and speech problems, I never used to talk on mic. Then one day, I joined this TTT server and just started speaking. I'm not quite sure what gave me the sudden confidence, but I'm really glad it did. It's been almost a year, and I went from an introverted loner with no friends, to someone who really enjoys talking with people and being around them. I know it's terrible advice to simply say 'just go for it!', especially when dealing with anxiety, but maybe it can be a nice little boost.
Be yourself and have fun with it!
Make sure you know a lot about your subject matter and you won't be quiet. You'll find you'll have more to talk about than you probably have time for.
Please please please, don't be one of those kids with a high voice that never shuts the fuck up. That's really the only reason people are going to get mad at you.
if you ain't 18, don't get on the mic on a pub server
If you're 14/15 you sound like you're 18.
[QUOTE=Ott;41985691]If you're 14/15 you sound like you're 18.[/QUOTE] Wasn't the case for me :v:
[QUOTE=Ott;41985691]If you're 14/15 you sound like you're 18.[/QUOTE] Didn't happen for me. My voice didn't change til I was 16. Even then, it was pretty high. Same thing with my brother.
I don't really give a shit about other people hearing my voice, I just think talking into a computer when there are other people in the house makes me look like a right pillock.
What I did was say to myself "Look, you're talking to a microphone, no-one is here watching you." Then try and forget what I was doing and just think out loud while trying to direct it at someone. This and forcefully making my voice higher in pitch and concentrating on my pronunciation. If you focus on your pronunciation you might be able to "forget" what you are actually doing and then you've got it out the way. If you're just doing overdubs it doesn't matter if you stop and start because you can just cut it.
As someone who also experiences discomfort when socializing, I found the trick is to learn to not care. That and repeatedly injecting myself into situations that caused that more and more frequently till I feel completely normal. Though that's typically the hardest part, once you're over the first hurdle the rest of the race is easy.
It's like when I did coasteering. Got to the last jump of the day which is the highest one permitted by the service running it and well, my brain nearly beat itself out of my skull the second I stepped off . I just didn't look at it while waiting for the all clear and just laughed at the woman sitting on the edge. Like the guy above said, throw yourself in at the deep end, then you've got no choice but to carry on and it's a hell of a lot easier from there on.
I got a job as a door-to-door salesman. :/ Really the only way I feel comfortable talking to anyone I don't know. Talking in voip for games never bothered me, but I've always hated talking on the phone with people I don't know. The job quickly changed that.
If everyone else's voice sounds normal, why wouldn't yours?
I can't even muster up the courage to talk to my closest friends because of how shitty my English is. Sounding really young while actually being 22 doesn't help either
I talked online once but then this man saidsomething naughty to me and it was not nice and then i was sad
I decided to speak one time in a game of TF2, and I received quite a few positive comments about my voice :v: My point is - Go for it, people may not notice/comment about the voice, or you may be pleasantly surprised!
[QUOTE=OvB;41980919]I can talk to other people once I warm up to the conversation but as soon as I hear an echo of my own voice I think to myself [I]"Oh god that's what I sound like?"[/I][/QUOTE] You just need to get a bigger ego is all. When I hear an echo of my voice I think "Oh god listen to that sexy beast".
[QUOTE=Cureless;41987335]As someone who also experiences discomfort when socializing, I found the trick is to learn to not care. That and repeatedly injecting myself into situations that caused that more and more frequently till I feel completely normal. Though that's typically the hardest part, once you're over the first hurdle the rest of the race is easy.[/QUOTE] i have issues just talking to people over voice chat because reasons and i've generally dealt with them by playing games where communication is important. if i'm just conveying important information then talking doesn't bother me and i don't feel like i'm rambling. like, if i don't have to talk, i just won't talk at all and miss out on the chance to chat with people because i'm too shy about my voice, so communicating with my team serves as an icebreaker for me. and nobody will care about how your voice sounds, you'll be judged more for what you're actually saying.
My problem is I get really nervous and start talking quickly.
[QUOTE=Leestons;41989543]My problem is I get really nervous and start talking quickly.[/QUOTE] i'm the opposite, i stutter and i constantly forget the word i'm trying to use. i randomly pause mid-sentence because i lose track of what i'm saying it used to be incredibly embarrassing but in the context of wow at least, i know whatever i have to say is worth listening to.
For your very first city, does anyone actually plan that shit out so everything is nice and neat? I mean unless I make miles long stretches of road into the wastes I have too many resources clustered together and thus have had to make all kinds of structures next to each other. Future cities won't have the problem of acquiring resources as I go so they can be planned accordingly, but it really does bother me when I look at my city to see houses scattered about with no central housing district. [editline]27th August 2013[/editline] Fuck sake wrong thread
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