[COOP] How do you talk to people?

[Flanker90]

I've read that VOIP should be enabled by default but how can we type to other players? I looked through the keybinds and didn't see anything.

[God Queen 158]

I don't believe there is any voice or text chat currently. You and your friends will have to have discord to communicate.

You can join the Larian discord from their website. They have voice rooms for playing BG3 multiplayer there.

[Mosey]

The game has zero communication.

No Text.

No VOIP.

No ping.

Nothing.

So, join the Larian official Discord and use their voice lobbies or some other 3rd party program because it's your only choice right now.

And besides that, no one wants random joins in their game anyway so it's best to find a group on the Discord that actually wants players.

[Flanker90]

Cheers guys. I'll take a look at the Disc.

[Ronin Gamer]

I just use discord with my buddy if I'm playing with him. Would likely do the same with anyone else. It's easy enough to do.

[Random]

its pretty bad u cant com u cant even post a disc link only in the multi menu

[Dreaming Prince]

u alt tab and write in steam chat or somethin. getting the pronouns right in every single interaction was more important. progress

[ULTRA]

WTF is this, guys?

They made a D&D game where:
1. There is no communication whatsoever between players (unlike Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and the Bioware NWN)
2. Your character is tied to the campaign (unlike Baldur's Gate 1 & 2)
3. Every NPC/PC dialogue is a 1-on-1 affair with no intervention from other players (unlike SWTOR)
4. There are literally as many genital options as face options for some races

The multiplayer is incredibly banal. It's actually insane how much of an afterthought multiplayer feels like in this allegedly 92%/95% game with a bajillion players. What the hell?

Oh thank god there's no cosmetic DLC, except there is.
Oh thank god there's no DRM, but there's no version not locked away behind two launchers.
Oh thank god it's not $70, but it's missing features of the original game.

I'm basically having fun with the game, but is this what we're applauding in 2023? It kinda just seems like the media are having babby's first DOS right now.

[redreaper]

Truth be told my brother and I use the steam chat when we play it seems to do okay :)

[r3volution]

Originally posted by Mosey:

The game has zero communication.
No ping.

There is map ping. Other than that, you are right. I use steam chat.

[Flanker90]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

WTF

Stop whining. In the sea of turds that is modern gaming, yes, we applaud good games. Especially when there's good post-release support, which is almost unheard of elsewhere. It's good to have constructive criticism, and it's even better that Larian has shown they listen. I would be surprised if the multiplayer communication problem, about which this thread was originally, is not addressed in the future. But to whine petulantly because the game's not perfect is immature and unhelpful.

[hannibal_pjv]

We use steam voice chat and it is working really well…

[Hyena]

I usually start off by asking how they are doing, then ask if this is their first session.
Then depending on that I ask what class they want to go for and if they want good/evil playthrough.

Then my further phrases will depend on the answers.

[Ichthyic]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

WTF is this, guys?

They made a D&D game where:
1. There is no communication whatsoever between players (unlike Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and the Bioware NWN)
2. Your character is tied to the campaign (unlike Baldur's Gate 1 & 2)
3. Every NPC/PC dialogue is a 1-on-1 affair with no intervention from other players (unlike SWTOR)
4. There are literally as many genital options as face options for some races

The multiplayer is incredibly banal. It's actually insane how much of an afterthought multiplayer feels like in this allegedly 92%/95% game with a bajillion players. What the hell?

Oh thank god there's no cosmetic DLC, except there is.
Oh thank god there's no DRM, but there's no version not locked away behind two launchers.
Oh thank god it's not $70, but it's missing features of the original game.

I'm basically having fun with the game, but is this what we're applauding in 2023? It kinda just seems like the media are having babby's first DOS right now.

not a damn thing you said is actually accurate. but OK, you do you.

[DaGr]

Originally posted by redreaper:

Truth be told my brother and I use the steam chat when we play it seems to do okay :)

How? How do I set this up? I can't find anything anywhere.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by DaGr:

Originally posted by redreaper:

Truth be told my brother and I use the steam chat when we play it seems to do okay :)

How? How do I set this up? I can't find anything anywhere.

When using Steam Overlay ingame press L-SHIFT+TAB to access it and the chat integrated or ALT+TAB to switch to its separate chat window instance.