No in-game chat?

[Introspective Noodle]

Hmm, I just wondering why no in-game chat?

[Kosevich]

Game not intended to be played with random people (quests progress tied to server, reward can be claimed only by one player).
Strongly advised to use voice chat instead like Discord.

[CyberDown]

I really dislike the fact that for most multiplayer games, i need discord for chat. Usually just serves to hobble a community from forming in turn for zero risk someone says the N word in your game.

[Sarcasteik]

Originally posted by CyberDown:

I really dislike the fact that for most multiplayer games, i need discord for chat. Usually just serves to hobble a community from forming in turn for zero risk someone says the N word in your game.

Discord is a tool just like steam is a tool. Use them or hobble yourself /shrug

[Kosevich]

Originally posted by CyberDown:

I really dislike the fact that for most multiplayer games, i need discord for chat. Usually just serves to hobble a community from forming in turn for zero risk someone says the N word in your game.

Personally for me Discord allow to configure alot of voice and micro settings, which change sound like a crap build in game voice chat in a nice and comfortable sound.

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by CyberDown:

I really dislike the fact that for most multiplayer games, i need discord for chat.

You need no discord for chat. My friend and I use the STEAM build-in voicechat. No 3rd-party tool necessary, just use STEAM.

[WrathPhoenix]

I really think there should at least be an in game text chat. That is like, basic of any game.

[Introspective Noodle]

Originally posted by WrathPhoenix:

I really think there should at least be an in game text chat. That is like, basic of any game.

Let me start off by saying I applaud the devs and think this game is a work of art in its own right. I do not think that the neglect of a chat function makes them a bad company or anything.

I just feel if you have the option to set your game to open, random people come in and join your world. If they wanted me to just use discord than make it like Valheim where you need a passkey to enter someones world, where they steer your in the direction to outsource to find your friends. People CLEARLY like joining random peoples games. I had set my game to open public and I get all kinds of gifts from rando's with limited way of communicating to them.

I am OLD school, I like meeting people in video games in the moment and earning their friendship by the experience we have. Starting off rando's online, becoming best buds later. I like text chat in games rather than discord or voice.

[finalfantasy]

Originally posted by Introspective Noodle:

People CLEARLY like joining random peoples games. I had set my game to open public and I get all kinds of gifts from rando's with limited way of communicating to them.

Probably griefing has not yet spread in Enshrouded, but whenever i hosted public servers, it didn't take long and i didn't receive gifts but people joined, grabbed my stuff, sometimes even destroyed stuff just for fun and then left.
Since Enshrouded is purely coop, it doesn't even have any features like password protected storages or offline-protection which allow to avoid that even on public servers.

A simple small text chat would sometimes be indeed helpful anyway.

[william_es]

Originally posted by CyberDown:

I really dislike the fact that for most multiplayer games, i need discord for chat. Usually just serves to hobble a community from forming in turn for zero risk someone says the N word in your game.

The reason that so few games have in-game chat or voicechat is precisely that so many people are using voicechat outside the game. It's sort of pointless to spend effort on a system that the large majority of the playerbase are simply going to ignore. The few games that I play that still have those features, I auto-mute every open mic hear instantly. Sorry don't want to hear your horrible music being played out of junky speakers.

If you have in-game chat, sometimes it's a requirement that it be monitored and retained for a certain amount of time. That becomes a bizarre burden if the game actually becomes a megahit, as the amount of information the dev is required to keep begins to balloon massively.

Also, as someone recently pointed out to me, the european union plans to demand an accessibility requirement in the near future, where any voicechat be turned into readable text for people who cannot hear. So there goes the only advantage that voicechat ever had, in that since it's not digital text, there was no way to monitor it effectively. No dev would be expected to have every voicechat monitored live. That would be a ridiculous ask. If that rolls out, every time someone says the N-word, it's documented, and the dev has to respond to it now.

[Grumpy-Granddad]

Well, well, well, I stop counting the times anyone asked for this option. Seems everyime this hits a post there has been zero effort in checking if sucha post already exist.

To answer your question NO THERE IS NOT. Use discord or something likewhise to chat to eachother.

[finalfantasy]

Originally posted by william_es:

The reason that so few games have in-game chat or voicechat is precisely that so many people are using voicechat outside the game.

And voice chat itself may be a real complex system. I don't use ingame voice chats even if there is one, except it's part of the gameplay (like in Hell Let Loose, where you have different communication channels you need to use in parallel).

E.g. i have different audiodevices and it's already anoying that in most games you can't even select which audio device they should use for even just the game sound. So for voice chat i use different audio devices for game sound and voice chat. The game has to have a setting where i can configure this.
And then there is a lot of further settings some might want to have. Configuring mic boost, noise reduction, voice activation or ptt...

External voice chat tools like discord or teamspeak allow me to configure all that stuff.
And overally teamspeak is used by many of my friends completely independent of any game. We also meet there and just talk. Why should i use ingame voice chat, if i'm already on teamspeak anyway?

[Introspective Noodle]

Originally posted by Grumpy-Granddad:

Well, well, well, I stop counting the times anyone asked for this option. Seems everyime this hits a post there has been zero effort in checking if sucha post already exist.

To answer your question NO THERE IS NOT. Use discord or something likewhise to chat to eachother.

Oh okay

[Precurse]

Originally posted by Kosevich:

Game not intended to be played with random people (quests progress tied to server, reward can be claimed only by one player).
Strongly advised to use voice chat instead like Discord.

I have a friend who is mute and would greatly benefit from an in-game chat instead of relying on everyone to alt tab to read Discord

[Halfalfasleep]

Everything I keep hearing about the multiplayer implementation in this game makes it sound like an afterthought. I'm playing it solo, so I wouldn't know.

[Storm Reaver]

Having multiplayer with no chat/text is weird.

Not everyone likes or even uses discord.