In-game chat?
- Thread starter Celeste
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I believe there is no way of quick reply, it thats what your asking for. You need to target the player and enter text chat so communicate.
The comms system in ED sure needs alot of work if they want it to fill a purpose at all, in its current form it would have been better to leave it out altogether.
And ill keep on proposing a more general chatsystem like most online/mmo games use nowadays, completely optional, but that lets us who do wish to have some social interaction ingame have it.
Its a dead end trying to make contact in ED as is right now, and even tho its just beta so far, from what ive read the devs doesnt seem too keen on giving us a very social experience in ED.
One of the few big concerns i have with the game tbh.
The comms system in ED sure needs alot of work if they want it to fill a purpose at all, in its current form it would have been better to leave it out altogether.
And ill keep on proposing a more general chatsystem like most online/mmo games use nowadays, completely optional, but that lets us who do wish to have some social interaction ingame have it.
Its a dead end trying to make contact in ED as is right now, and even tho its just beta so far, from what ive read the devs doesnt seem too keen on giving us a very social experience in ED.
One of the few big concerns i have with the game tbh.
I believe there is no way of quick reply, it thats what your asking for. You need to target the player and enter text chat so communicate.
The comms system in ED sure needs alot of work if they want it to fill a purpose at all, in its current form it would have been better to leave it out altogether.
And ill keep on proposing a more general chatsystem like most online/mmo games use nowadays, completely optional, but that lets us who do wish to have some social interaction ingame have it.
Its a dead end trying to make contact in ED as is right now, and even tho its just beta so far, from what ive read the devs doesnt seem too keen on giving us a very social experience in ED.
One of the few big concerns i have with the game tbh.
It would be nice if there were an open channel within each system. At least there would be some radio chatter going on.
I don't know about full in-system chat. That could get a bit overly busy, and would be weird if it were real-time and you were several thousand Ls out and still getting it. But certainly it'd be nice if there was say 'station' chat, that hit everyone within say 100km of the given station the chat was for. Something far enough it'd be likely to hit most people who were in the area and in 'normal' flight not supercruise.
A sort of bulletin board would be nice where you can put a text or screen grab or audio message for all or a specific person or group to listen to. If you put an audio message for all, then it will be played on the system wide radio on a loop but obviously not the same message right after itself (option to turn radio off)
A "stationwide" chat that reaches everyone within, as u said, 100km would be nice and would make the game more social.
But realism aside, if i have a bunch of friends on my list i would really like to be able to keep coms with them no matter where we are.
Of course, teamspeak and such can be used for this and will be, but an ingame option really should be available also.
Ive managed to put a good amount of hours into the game the last few days and am really enjoying it (my first serious run since joining alpha/beta last spring) and even in beta it has so much going for it, but a few main issues worries me and the lack of the social aspect is one of them.