in game chat system needed imho

[Amorphos_Z]

yes we can use steam xbox or dischord but an in game quick chat would make us all talk to each other simply. even better, have car parks or other meeting places where a chat box pops up and you can plan races with random drivers. the v-link is also useless.

nobody talk in this game!

[Using Steem Deck (OLED) 90 HZ]

We prolly need to be able to drive with each other online first but yea would love me some all chat but don't see it happening why crossplay trust me they know to keep pc gamers away from the xbox guys lol .

[TyresTyco]

Won't ever happen. Because people will get offended by the chat. I mean I feel people blowing up when I use " Nice Driving" when I see someone miss a checkpoint or when a dude uses me as a wall.

Also.,. voice chat. Once you hear the first dude constantly yelling the n word you will want to find the solution to shut it down completely. Especially since we play with xbox people.

[Draylynn]

Once you unlock the link phrases, you can setup basic communication. Otherwise, this game would just be full of people being disruptive and toxic.
VOIP was already bad enough with people constantly eating their mics alone, before they had to disable it due to bugs - I don't know if they still have it disabled, since I had to disable it anyways for my own sanity.
Could just learn morse code with your horn.

[Kalil]

VOIP is disable i think because I didn't touch anything and they all came out with the microphone muted

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by Amorphos_Z:

have car parks or other meeting places where a chat box pops up and you can plan races with random drivers.

One problem, unlike 4 this isnt a single server...

So first you need a meeting place everyone on every server knows about, as you cant see other players that far you wont know who or where people are meeting.

Once at the car park, nicely park and said hi. Chat and sort a cruse or plan a race etc, then you drive off in more or less a group... Until you go past 150MPH or go more than 100 meters from one another.

Then you desync never to talk again. And back to the carpark.

This MP we have in Life is awful, a stupid way of doing MP in a creative, social and competitive car game.

At least have 64 players on a common server live in game (to do what OP wants) and then have people virtually blending in from other servers. Else non of this can happen without a session, let alone 4 stuff like car meets, cruising, drag races, drift zone meets.

[CunkFeatures]

There is text to chat in the settings. Yet to try it.

[Amorphos_Z]

this is why i suggested a parking lot or town centre location, people could just pull up and a chat box could appear.

[Eternal Wanderer]

Not very likely, but if someone from the developer team reads this and takes it seriously enough to actually add chat, please also add an easy option to completely disable it too.

I utterly despised voice chat -which I thankfully finally got rid of- and I am pretty sure I won't like people spamming chat messages during trials and playground games.

[reverb]

They wouldn't have made 100 link chat phrases if they were planning to add normal chat in the game. Considering how safe FH5 is, they would need to censor a thousand words or letters and also make a whole support team just for chat bans. We'll never have a normal text chat sadly.

[Merc249]

I'm good with just Forza Link. The one time I actually heard someone using voice, they were berating anyone who was beating them (me) as a cheater/hacker, other insults, etc. I'm good without the toxicity.

[reverb]

Originally posted by Merc249:

I'm good with just Forza Link. The one time I actually heard someone using voice, they were berating anyone who was beating them (me) as a cheater/hacker, other insults, etc. I'm good without the toxicity.

I'll never understand why people would flat off deny a feature being inserted in a game. You would obviously be able to turn it off if you didn't like it. There are other people who would like a chat in the game, me included.

[Eternal Wanderer]

Originally posted by Thief 🎴:

Originally posted by Merc249:

I'm good with just Forza Link. The one time I actually heard someone using voice, they were berating anyone who was beating them (me) as a cheater/hacker, other insults, etc. I'm good without the toxicity.

I'll never understand why people would flat off deny a feature being inserted in a game. You would obviously be able to turn it off if you didn't like it. There are other people who would like a chat in the game, me included.

How new are you? Do you know anything at all about the notorious voice spam that has been haunting this game (and FH4) and how turning it off isn't tied to a simple setting?

[Merc249]

Originally posted by Thief 🎴:

I'll never understand why people would flat off deny a feature being inserted in a game. You would obviously be able to turn it off if you didn't like it. There are other people who would like a chat in the game, me included.

It's an E-rated game, and the sheer toxicity that comes with a full chat (text or voice) is frankly not worth the effort to moderate. The community is already berating PGG for not getting the bugs fixed fast enough, do you honestly want them to spend a bunch of time/effort on chat moderation, too? They gave hundreds of options for Forza Link for a reason.

The pros/cons heavily favors the cons. It's not that hard to understand. You can disagree with their design approach, that's fine, but acting as if game developers should add every feature imaginable for every single user is silly and naive (and that's basically what you said in your comment).

[reverb]

Originally posted by Merc249:

Originally posted by Thief 🎴:

I'll never understand why people would flat off deny a feature being inserted in a game. You would obviously be able to turn it off if you didn't like it. There are other people who would like a chat in the game, me included.

It's an E-rated game, and frankly the sheer toxicity that comes with a full chat (text or voice) is frankly not worth the effort to moderate. The community is already berating PGG for not getting the bugs fixed fast enough, do you honestly want them to spend a bunch of time/effort on chat moderation, too? They gave hundreds of options for Forza Link for a reason.

The pros/cons heavily favors the cons. It's not that hard to understand. You can disagree with their design approach, that's fine, but acting as if game developers should add every feature imaginable for every single user is silly and naive (and that's basically what you said in your comment).

Now you're arguing just for the sake of arguing. I know they will never add chat and I mentioned the same points above your first post. My issue was in general with users like you that refuse stuff for everyone even though some people might like them.

[Merc249]

Originally posted by Thief 🎴:

Now you're arguing just for the sake of arguing. I know they will never add chat and I mentioned the same points above your first post. My issue was in general with users like you that refuse stuff for everyone even though some people might like them.

Bold line is exactly what I was responding to. Everyone has features that they might want. Developers can't add them all, and often there are reasons why they won't/can't. We're both aware of those reasons. I'm not refusing anyone, I'm not in charge here, lol. Just stating that I don't think it's worth the effort, for the reasons we both mentioned and my own personal experience. Not sure what your problem is here.