You play Insurgency, or at least I think and hope you do, and so that is why you got into "guide hunting", not because you just play Insurgency but you also really want to learn it, to become the best teammate, to know how to play it well...So many reasons to put.

In this guide, you will learn how to make "say" binds, this is so you can improve your communication. You are about to throw a grenade but got no time to say? Just press a key.
How about saying what you're going to do, such as about to destroy the cache, but then others do it because you didn't actually say it? Just press a key. (Oh and best part, you're about to destroy cache but people are near it)

In Insurgency, communication is, or at least should be, one of the most important traits for nearly everything. It is a Tactical Shooter after all.

So, in this guide, I will teach you how to make "say binds" and hopefully they will be useful for you.

NOTE: This guide was made with co-op in mind, but it may help for other gamemodes.

There are two ways to make binds, both are easy.

The first one is through Console.

What you have to do first is to enable your console, if it is not that is. To enable it, open Insurgency, go to Options, Game Options and find "Console", enable it. Your console should be enabled.
If not, try going to Options, Controls, Edit Keys. Change the "Console" key to another, like F10, then press F10 and see if console shows up.

if not, seems that you're one of the guys with many issues with it (not even sure why), just try restarting Insurgency. If it still doesn't appear, keep on trying. It WILL appear eventually, it MUST.

Now the next part is very simple. You start the console, and then type "bind".
With this command, you need to know two things; The first one is the key, most of them are simple, like "k", "a", "b", "c" and so on, but others not so.
For example, Numpad1 is actually "kp_end", while Numpad3 is "kp_pgdn". To know more about it, just go to Options, Controls, Edit Key binds, find an empty key and bind it on a numpad or so, it will come out as "KP_*", that is what you want to use.

Why numpads? Well, I find the useful, but you can use any key, you just gotta know which by using that "trick" I told you; Options, Controls, Edit Key binds.

Now, the second thing to know is the command itself. It's simple, you just gotta type "say_team *texthere*", for example; "say_team Enemies are behind us!"

All in all, let's just get to the damn point; bind "*keyhere*" "say_team *texthere*", for example;
bind "kp_end" "say_team Watch out, enemy grenade!"

With this, every time you press Numpad1, you will say "Watch out, enemy grenade!", which will help your teammates spread out.

So yeah, as you can see, it's that simple. bind a key and type "say_team *texthere*".

The second one is through .CFGs.

Go to where your Insurgency is installed at, which should be at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2, in it go to the "Insurgency" folder then "cfg".

You will see a file called "config.cfg", open that up. You will see there are some binds by themselves, well, adding your own custom ones is simple, just make a space and type it out. Simple!

For example, you got something like this;
...
bind "t" "impulse 201"
bind "u" "messagemode2"
bind "w" "+forward"
...

Well then, just make a space somewhere and you get this;
...
bind "t" "impulse 201"
bind "u" "messagemode2"
bind "KP_END" "say_team WATCH IT GRENADE!"
bind "KP_DOWNARROW" "say_team Throwing SMOKE grenade"
bind "w" "+forward"
...

And save it. That's it, you got it.

There's also another .cfg way, it is through the use of the autoexec.cfg.
This one may not appear in your "cfg" folder, so just make it.

In it, it will be empty, so what you do? You just put/make all the say binds you can think about.

That's it!

These are the two ways to make them, don't make a silly war about which way is better, that's like saying that the right breast is better than the left breast (and yes, I had people argue about that, it didn't even had to be sexual either).

Having a little trouble knowing which binds would be good? Well, why don't you try the Numpad?

Wait, what's that, you don't know the binds, feel too lazy or really don't know how? Have no worry, here are the Numpad's keys;

0 = KP_INS
1 = KP_END
2 = KP_DOWNARROW
3 = KP_PGDN
4 = KP_LEFTARROW
5 = KP_5
6 = KP_RIGHTARROW
7 = KP_HOME
8 = KP_UPARROW
9 = KP_PGUP
. (del) = KP_DEL
Enter = KP_ENTER
+ = KP_PLUS
- = KP_MINUS
* = *
/ = KP_SLASH

So you know how to make "say binds", but not too sure which would be useful? Well, don't worry either, I got some just for you comrades;

bind kp_end "say_team Watch out, ENEMY GRENADE!"
bind kp_downarrow "say_team I am throwing a FRAG grenade"
bind kp_pgdn "say_team I am destroying the cache, stay away from it!"
bind kp_leftarrow "say_team Moving in, STOP SUPPRESSING!"
bind kp_5 "say_team I am throwing SMOKE grenade"
bind kp_rightarrow "say_team I am commencing suppressive fire, BE CAREFUL!"
bind kp_home "say_team I am pinned down!"
bind kp_uparrow "say_team Moving forward"
bind kp_pgup "say_team I am camping in this position"

And hey, you can copy+paste these whole binds, but make sure it's the autoexec.cfg ;)

As you can see, making a "say bind" is very easy, simple and efficient. You will keep your team informed. Hopefully this guide helped you and will also make you a better teammate.

Like I said before, this guide was made with co-op in mind, it's not really "optimized" for the other gamemodes, but surely they are "compatible".

If you got questions, just comment them on this guide.