Bind Your Chat, Folks

[Jake Hawke]

Hey,

Now that there's a text/voice-chat in-game, go ahead and bind the key-command to bring up the menu, everybody!

I've been sending a text-greeting to almost every player I come across, and haven't gotten a single response. I'm kind of assuming that people are seeing the message and being like "Whoa, someone's talking to me! What do I do? What do I press? Where do I type?". Either that, or they're assuming I'm a pirate & skittering off.

For me, the key wasn't bound by default. I can't remember what it was called in the options, but it was pretty obvious. I bound it to 'K' for Tal(k), personally. It brings up a little menu next to the Comms-panel, and it's pretty intuitive: at least for the basic couple of functions that I've tried.

Come on, folks, let's hear some chatter out there. :smilie:


Jake

 

[Pit Berensky]

Yes! let's go chatting!

 

[Sessine]

It is standard bound I think, but the new version kept your old config where there were no bindings.

 

[Elessarus]

I also contacted pretty much everyone i saw around just to test it out but havent gotten a single response back. I dont even know if its working correct :S

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

The default key is Enter I think. Press it and a blue box appears top left and you can send text to your target. If people don't have you targeted that could be why you're not getting any replies.

Also - keybind 2 (default) opens the comms panel at the top of the screen where you can see ships in your area and friends. Anyone know how to send a message to a friend ?

 

[Tiggo]

i chatted already and it works.

the biggest problem: when playing my keyboard is behind my hotas making it difficult to type.

i would love to have some predefined taunts which i could select via my hotas.

 

[Xeelix]

Is there no area chat yet? Do you always have to select a specific person to talk to?

 

[Vander Mey jr.]

I've been sending a text-greeting to almost every player I come across, and haven't gotten a single response.

I flew up quite close to a player and texted him "Boo!".

He opened the hardpoints and swung around to point his pulse lasers at me.

I guess chat is working. :-D

 

[PhanttoM]

I've been contacted by at least 6 players yesterday - Funny thing is that I KNOW how to respond, but they keep contacting me just as I'm charging up Frame Shift Drive or a second before disengaging it.

Basically I disappear from being able to respond.

 

[Johnst1970]

Yeah Jake I don't think your being ignored. It's just a case of players are not sure what to do when they see your greeting.

So many new features in place now and getting to grips with it all is a little overwhelming. I must admit I have not looked into the chat function myself but will make the effort on my next log in.

 

[Xeelix]

Anyone know how to send a message to a friend ?

I've only seen it work when in the same system as the friend in question. Then it works in the same way as chatting to any other contacts in the list.

 

[Ervig]

Anyone found out how to do voice hailing?

;edit; found it

 

[peteuplink]

Hey,

Now that there's a text/voice-chat in-game, go ahead and bind the key-command to bring up the menu, everybody!

I've been sending a text-greeting to almost every player I come across, and haven't gotten a single response. I'm kind of assuming that people are seeing the message and being like "Whoa, someone's talking to me! What do I do? What do I press? Where do I type?". Either that, or they're assuming I'm a pirate & skittering off.

For me, the key wasn't bound by default. I can't remember what it was called in the options, but it was pretty obvious. I bound it to 'K' for Tal(k), personally. It brings up a little menu next to the Comms-panel, and it's pretty intuitive: at least for the basic couple of functions that I've tried.

Come on, folks, let's hear some chatter out there. :smilie:


Jake

Hi Jake. I've had a few messages from people but sometimes I'm so busy flying my ship that I only notice the message when I've hyperspaced out of the system... It would be nice if there was a little "incoming message" pop-up, or a beep, to grab peoples attention.

Maybe I'm just too slow to notice

 

[katheb]

It needs to be more noticable, Sometimes The NPC police say "you can go now" and I don't see it until I OPEN the chat window.

 

[farangkao]

i chatted already and it works.

the biggest problem: when playing my keyboard is behind my hotas making it difficult to type.

i would love to have some predefined taunts which i could select via my hotas.

One solution would be to setup Voice attack to send the necessary keys to send a text message.

 

[Tiggo]

Anyone found out how to do voice hailing?

select it and click on it?

 

[ianw]

Had a quick chat last night, it's a bit fiddly to use especially when flying.

But better than nothing..

 

[Toumal]

Voicechat doesn't always work. I couldn't get it to work with Cmdr. Kidra, but I had another commander tell me that he could hear me.

Definitely still some work to be done by FD there.

 

[Stressfest]

Talking's great.. just not so easy when you rely on the keyboard for thrust controls and negotiating the Jump.

Can't wait for my Thrustmaster to arrive

 

[Kemo]

yep, would love to get some chat going - does seem rather quiet out there at present.