when you press p to talk nothing shows up indicating you are talking (like the little microphone thing) also people are unable to hear each other. I don't know if this has already been reported or not but it has been going on since monday i believe

What do you mean "again"? It has never worked. At least it now prints an error message instead of crashing when I try enabling it.

actually antz voice chat was working for a few weeks as we used it a lot in nation war and in group pirating

Please try again. I tested it this morning and it was working.

thanks bestest buddy dev ever.. although I am a little distraught you did not test it with me i guess i will let it slide this one time

Never worked for me. I have PulseAudio still enabled on a 64bit Fedora 10.

Error I get is:
Voice Chat loaded.
Error opening playback device: 0x00000907Voice Chat failed to initialize: no scHandlerID
Initializing Voice Chat with default settings.
Error opening playback device: 0x00000907Voice Chat failed to initialize.

Antz, Hmm. for some reason the voice chat failed to open the playback device. What audio driver in VO are you using? OSS or ALSA?

AudioDriver=ALSA driver

Furthermore, I tried running VO from a shell, it prints the following to stderr when I try to tick the enabled checkbox:
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
warning: The VAD has been replaced by a hack pending a complete rewrite
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
warning: The VAD has been replaced by a hack pending a complete rewrite
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

Bump. Could this be PulseAudio related? Do other Linux users of modern popular distributions have voice chat working?

Modern and popular = *Ubuntu? Do other distros use PulseAudio? I'm planning on installing Kubuntu for a friend in a couple days; I'll familiarize myself with the state of things then.

Suse uses pulse audio as a fall back But it does seem to work

The PulseAudio in 8.10 of Ubuntu was pretty much fail for the most part. The new 9.04 beta fixes a lot of these issues, but we'll see when it's released on the 23rd. I've read somewhere that Alsa support will be dropped entirely from Ubuntu after 2011 in favor of PulseAudio. Anyways, just a FYI.

Distribution itself does not really matter, if it works with your *buntu or Suse it should work with my Fedora. I would just like to know if it is indeed PulseAudio that is causing the problem or something else. Over the last year PulseAudio has been the single largest cause of sound-related problems I've had, so am just pointing my finger at it first now.

IMO PulseAudio is really not production ready yet and should not be forced upon the general populace. It has bugs of its own that make it crash occasionally, exposes bugs in ALSA which IME have nearly nuked installations, and most distributions did not do a perfect job of integrating it, causing much more breakage. However recent versions of GNOME now depend on it, and it is quickly becoming the standard way of getting sound working on Linux.