Does voice/txt comms work?

[777Driver]

I used to txt my friends in game during Beta, voice never seemed to work. Now I cant even txt since release, it always says unable to connect. My internet is very good, no other network issues with the game, can stay connected for 24 hours without an issue.

Just saw Captain Kirk come alone, sent a msg and as usual it doesn't go through. Have even had people from the forum msg me ingame, they must think I'm ignoring them, it wont let me reply :/

Worked fine in Beta/early gamma

 

[MACMAN86]

Real players are yellow boxes or triangle boxes if weapons are drawn. You must target a player within range to use comms.
Pity there isn't VOIP yet they provide a mute mic key assign!
Macros work for sending taunts via say VoiceAttack and that can also make use of TTS to say those out aloud. It is not clear if swearing is aloud as they do not tell us

 

[777Driver]

Real players are yellow boxes or triangle boxes if weapons are drawn. You must target a player within range to use comms.
Pity there isn't VOIP yet they provide a mute mic key assign!
Macros work for sending taunts via say VoiceAttack and that can also make use of TTS to say those out aloud. It is not clear if swearing is aloud as they do not tell us

Thanks, I understand the difference between real and NPC players. My point is about txting, for example, I have Captain Kirk from this forum on my friends list, it shows he is online, I select him and type Hi, a MSG says unable to connect.

Are you saying I have to be right next to him to talk now? That's not how it worked before.

 

[Heater]

currently it's broken in game, 9 times out of 10 you get the error that the connection to the player could not be established... many tickets have been opened for this, but like the rest most are still unanswered / unresolved

 

[MACMAN86]

Only way to Target him is if he is in sight of you or you use cycle next target method. If it doesn't work it because there's issues with players connecting to each other. The 16 local (closest in game) players are able to connect on a server but ppl had to get on same server by constantly rejoining just to see their friends list whilst at same game position.

 

[777Driver]

Only way to Target him is if he is in sight of you or you use cycle next target method. If it doesn't work it because there's issues with players connecting to each other. The 16 local (closest in game) players are able to connect on a server but ppl had to get on same server by constantly rejoining just to see their friends list whilst at same game position.

Sorry but I don't think you are getting it. I know how to target etc, and I understand the whole instancing thing... That is not what i am talking about here.

Here's how it worked previously. A friend would come online in another system, I open the comms box and we can talk without being next to each other or having to target a ship. That's the whole point of the comms drop down box. We could talk when in 'Different systems'

So has that now changed? Or is the connection error a bug like 'Heater' says?

Thanks for your help tho MACMAN