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[norokelt]

I don't know if this was already mentioned or not... honestly if not I would be greatly surprised.

Since the chat in MWO is .. HORRIBLE!
messy, untrackable,...

1st...
Dead players should not be able to chat with Alive players. that is one damn basic thing...
which I don't get how you could have missed that during programing. I mean... it is a competetive game ... you cannot CHEAT like that.
Or are there GHOSTS? maybe ... dunno.
Teammates die and I can hear their voices in my head... they keep telling me, where to go, what to do, whom to shoot, where I missed an enemy... what did I overlooked...
I mean... WTF... dead should be able to chat, but only with other dead players.

Well... this might lead to the VoIP... what solves the chat selection, when the dead players can still talk to the alive teammember via the VoIP or 3rd party app... like TeamSpeak, etc.
hump... I am not paid for thinking such things out in the end I am not an developer.

But I am sure at least the chat CAN BE FIXED.


2nd point.
even more important, well... if the previous one has been important at all..
Can we get please... PLEASE... trackable CHAT? In every game, in every application or whatever comes to my mind one can ALWAYS SCROLL UP THE CHAT TO SEE WHAT WAS WRITTEN BEFORE.
well... 21st century gaming ... MWO / PGI gives a fugg about such basic feature of a chat...
what sort of chat is that which gets unreadable, untrackable... I never get more angry as when someone is typing something meaningfull into chat but then suddenly a spam comes from KILL COUNTERS or other players and the written sentence is GONE FOREVER not being able to backtrack it and finish the reading or w/e the crap.

I really like this game, I have never played MW... but I really like the events, the fairness of rewards, etc. how you folks at PGI allow even the casual players to receive ie. MC, or w/e.
This is something seen really rarely nowadays.
But I mean ... SERIOUSLY... WTH?!
Whats wrong with that chat in this game? It is the uthermostsh*t chat I have ever come across.
No jokes, no offense, no irony, sarcasm... it just trully is so miserable.

C'mon please.


3rd point.
Main menu / FACTION Chat window position resets every time when loading to the menu.
I get into the Faction menu, resize my Chat window ... but as soon I leave the menu and I get back to it, ie. after a match, the chat is again tiny, reset to default and I can resize it again and again and again and again and... BOAH!
Is it that hard to program a lock chat window position button?

Edited by norokelt, 21 October 2016 - 09:32 AM.

[MedivalJ]

1st, "Use the force, Luke!"
The matches may be competitive but honestly chat in quick play, especially voice chat, isn't that much of an issue in-game. The reason for this is that there isn't really a chat system in general. The only way for players, at large, to communicate is in-game and while such a suggestion would be, in my opinion and probably that of others who read this, seen as a welcome addition to CW, it wouldn't be such in quick play because the match is simply that: a quick match. Quick, friendly, social match.

2nd, if you're referring to the text window, there is already a scroll feature in place which allows you to see previous messages. Open chat like you're ready to type and press the Page Up and Page Down buttons to scroll through the messages.

3rd, this one is a pretty good idea.

[Darth Futuza]

Dead people talking is fine. You can already scroll. Yes.


Far more important problem: enable chat while searching for match, programming needs to be redone so that chat is asynchronous with game. Annoying as crap not able to talk while waiting for a match to be found.

[MedivalJ]

Adding a General Chat to the mechbay would be good as well. It would allow more interactivity between players in terms of talking in general, organizing groups, and coordinating for CW.

http://mwomercs.com/...f-improvements/

[Jiyu Mononoke]

been advocating for improved chat since day 1....
note very bottom of my sig.
.... I've totally given up on it ever happening...

wishful thinking at this point

! ~ Community Access Point ~ We Need It. ~ !
* That was my chat idea...

Edited by Freebrth, 04 November 2016 - 07:32 PM.

[Dex Spero]

I like this post though I must say I'm not crazy about the way the voting options are worded (In order to vote "no" I had to chose an option that said "na I like to be a ghost cheater").

I was very tempted to say Yes to people being silenced after they are out of the game, because we've all experienced the angry or abusive players who come on and distract everyone and blame everyone etc. But when I was first starting out I also had some really good players who are excellent at teaching (giving great advice in a positive, constructive way) who taught me new things and gave great advice while they were in spectator mode. I'm grateful enough for their contribution that I put up with the negative commentators LOL

Thanks for posting a good topic