Why does no one even so much as say hello to one another?

[Lakme]

I remember when the Space Anomaly first came out, there was such a wonderful sense of camaraderie, with people eagerly using the chat function - so much had they longed to meet other travelers in the game. Now, everyone ignores one another. I understand that people are likely fixated on their teams, but... the game feels empty again. Does it not?

[Jaggid Edje]

A lot of people are playing with a controller. It's not at all convenient to type in chat with a controller.

When the game first came out, a greater percentage of players were on PC, where the keyboard is (usually) right in front of them. It has been released on more and more other platforms since then.

That and with the game having been around for much longer, people have a lot less they want to talk about. This discussion forum, as an example, was a hell of a lot more active as well back then.

[Tryshard]

I was just in the anomaly and made a new friend and couldn't figure out how to talk to them. I saw my speech showing up as chat but no response. Plus they gave me a bunch of good stuff. I have always played with MP off but lately I have turned it back on and there is an adjustment.

[Know Won]

Where is the Hello button?

[mystikmind2005]

Originally posted by Lipstick on a Moose:

fixated on their teams

That pretty much says it all.

I used to try joining peoples missions they initiated and all that happens is i get removed from the mission, so i don't do that anymore at all. All i do is initiate my own missions and go do it myself.

The only real benefit to having multiplayer on at all is so i can see what type of ships people got.... its mildly interesting.

[mystikmind2005]

Originally posted by Know Won:

Where is the Hello button?

Buttons for chat,,, had to think where i encountered that before? Ah right, world of warships.... i think the only chat command i used was SHIFT F12.

[AmberAnvil]

Originally posted by Know Won:

Where is the Hello button?

If you mean 'How do you chat?', press [Enter], type text, press [Enter] again.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I always leave MP off. I just get tired of the goofy hi jinks I see at the Anomaly as well as the incessant updates while playing. "Joe Blow discovered a rock" "Joe Blow tasted the rock" "Joe Blow took a photo of the rock" ...Joe Blow must really like that rock.

Seriously, it does become annoying after about 2 minutes. Add on the fact that MP is pretty basic and there is no particular reason to want to do it, I just concluded it was better as a SP game.

[Jaggid Edje]

Unless I'm doing an expedition, I always keep it on. I like seeing other people's bases and checking out what other people are flying when I visit the anomaly.

I generally turn it off for expeditions though, even if I am playing a current expedition and don't need multiplayer off. All the comm balls at rendezvous points annoy the **** out of me.

[cattivision]

Sadly, the comm balls are there when MP is disabled too.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by cattivision:

Sadly, the comm balls are there when MP is disabled too.

yah, I put steam offline entirely. That keeps them from showing up.

[Galactic Starman]

Generally I noticeplayers at the Anomaly especially, wave quite a lot. Displaying pets there usually draws a small 'crowd' of players showing off their pets and chatting or larking about with emotes. Nexus missions with strangers is hit and miss, sometimes players are chatty and helpful pointing out resources and at other times (probably because of different language barriers) less so.

Weekend or busier times when players gather, there are always more players sometimes asking for help or doing nexus missions or expedition stuff and chat pops up on screen quite frequently.

The game has quite an international community base and often players at the Anomaly may not use English for example as a first language. But there are options for translation and conversation not immediately obvious.

Microphone

If you have microphone to use the game also has a voice option and there is speech to text, which can be amusing : ) (The mic needs setting up of course outside of the game but the game will recognise a microphone if working correctly).

The game will also translate text (some translations) and surprisingly works okay.

If you use a PC and controller you can assign emote hotkeys and indirectly assign them to controller buttons (using Steam UI in big picture mode). The buttons might fire one or two emotes like 'hello' or 'thank you' but any hotkey for whatever purpose could be used on controller buttons like throwing bait or weapon switching or photo mode for quick access.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Tryshard:

I was just in the anomaly and made a new friend and couldn't figure out how to talk to them. I saw my speech showing up as chat but no response. Plus they gave me a bunch of good stuff. I have always played with MP off but lately I have turned it back on and there is an adjustment.

sounds like you have speech to text enabled and they don't or they don't have a mic they can use...

for actual typing, hit the ENTER key on the keyboard to bring up the chat... then type and hit ENTER to send... i think you have to hit ENTER each time to open the input field... but yeah, talking and having it transcribed is easier if it can understand your words accurately...

[Consoomer]

The game itself has very little infrastructure to support multiplayer interactions. You have to join civs/communities on discord and conduct comms there.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

I only say hello to kitties.

[Erich]

Originally posted by Guh~hey~hey~♫:

I only say hello to kitties.

😸
Furry buddies always there for you.
Unless they have business to attend to 😃