Chat notification

[Tribilious]

A little idea for the Chat. Is there any way to add a Chat notification?
I miss some messages in battlesituations, beacause of the action around me. A little "pling" or an optical "hud-effect" for the chat would be awesome
Rock and Stone!

[Professor Hugedix]

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I hope you didn't think that was a sick burn, suggesting that everyone use voice chat instead of in game chat without regard for their situation or if they even own a microphone is very stupid.

Lets be honest 5 minutes please, I never said "everyone regardless of their situation", no one heere ever said that.

Now seriously most of you just chose to be annoying of course you have the occasional real mute or deaf player, but the rest of the time it's just laziness / antisocial behavior, that's just sad, I was totally serious, I play Doom sometimes, when i want to have a solo experience.

If you go into a MP game is it really so hard to plug in your mic (don't argue that not everybody has one, you buy a cheap webcam and plug in your phone earplugs, it should be decent enough with push to talk)

And no not wanting to use a text chat in an action fps is not laziness / annoying, your hands are busy, one is moving you character while the other one is aiming / shooting, even when i played wow under BC we used teamspeak and people had microphone, the mic technology didn't magically disapear since.

The in game ping tool removes the language barrier and means a mic is not required. Obviously if you play world of warcraft and raid you need a microphone, but saying that this game needs one is ignoring a core part of the appeal to some people, which is quick and intuitive voiceless communication.

Some of the best lobbies of DRG I've ever had were completed without anyone saying a word in either voice OR text chat, because we all knew what we were doing, used the ping tool correctly and anticipated each others needs. Conversely some of the most annoying standout moments are ones where there's a single guy using the microphone and they designate themselves the team leader or just never shut up.

So yeah, saying everyone should use it is pretty stupid. Don't even be surprised if you get muted for overusing it, because some people enjoy working in peace and quiet and are capable of doing so in a multiplayer environment specifically because this game provides better tools than a microphone.

[GIRL]

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(Senile albeist Boomer ranting)

Ignoring the fact that "Not everyone can afford one" is actually a very real excuse, not just laziness, and that some people literally can't use them because of physical or mental disability, there's an even bigger reason why not everyone wants to use voice chat - They don't want to.

This isn't CS:GO or Call of Duty PvP mode where your team has to be hyper-coordinated and constantly screaming at each other in order to play the game properly. It's a PvE co-op shooter that, honestly speaking, is super easy compared to most other co-op shooters. Unless you're on Haz 5 or you just suck at the game, you can do pretty much any mission with relative ease without a single player using voice chat - Hell, without anyone even using any kind of chat.

Do you really want everyone to use voice chat? I'm actually thankful that so few people use VC in this game, it's one of it's main draws for me. Voice chat is often a plague for a lot of co-op games, especially shooters. It usually results in an auditory sea of 12 year olds screaming racial slurs and middle-aged men being creepy towards anyone who's voice sounds even remotely like a girl's. God forbid we fill this game with mic-spammers who just blare ear r*pe audio 24/7.

Yeah, I get it, you can just mute, but I'd rather not have to mute someone (or everyone) every time I join a game, or worse, feel like I have to just turn voice chat volume off entirely, which just completely defeats the purpose of even having VC to begin with.

There's lots of personal reasons that people don't use mics or voice chat besides just how much it costs. Calling them "lazy" and "sad" for not wanting to use voice chat isn't exactly a good incentive for those people to start using one either. God forbid they join a game where you're in it, and you start finding other nit-picky reasons to attack and pester them.