Voice communication

[Decksmeck]

How hard would it be to select another player ship and press the button, say something, and when you let go of the button, your message gets sent? That way I wouldn't have to use a keyboard at all for communication. I play on the PlayStation so it would be cool for me.

 

[Misty_Dark]

it is an interesting suggestion, but I am thinking about how it would be practically implemented....

You have to navigate to the contact list, and select the player to send the message too, and then choose to send voice message, hold the button while recording, all of this sounds reasonably until we start thinking how would this be done with a controller, and being able to fly at the same time.

I have this issue with the chat message today, that it prevents you from flying while chatting.

 

[Para Handy]

I think that the lack of voice chat is the thing that stops me spending more time in co-op play. Having clunky text chat is not conducive to flying your ship.

There is a facility in HCS (maybe even in vanilla VA) to send preset messages on voice command - I have not tried to use these but if you have a HCS voicpack installed then you should be able to do what you want with no buttons at all, just restricted to a set of messages that you have pre-set.