Allow text chat to speak with everyone

I doubt thats actually gonna work. Kinda hard to prove too if you just go and encounter him straight after your previous game. Also I definitely wont play for a cheap win just to troll a suspected cheater. Thats as time wasting as playing against one.

I would just leave mid-way for the next match.

Grounds for removing chat of any kind altogether

I think they should allow unrestricted chat. It should just be turned off by default and/or for competitive/Ranked play. Once players realize chat is available, they can have the conscious choice to turn it on… The ESRB already incorporates online possibilities into the rating of a game. So when a player turns it on in the options, the game can pop-up a quick disclaimer warning players once again, that there might potentially be some harsh language, loud, and/or obnoxious noises heard (remember you can mute the culprit(s) as well). After that, nobody is allowed to complain… the devs can then let the chat robots respond to all those Karens’ complaints like they do for every other issue.

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Nah dude.

I’m talking about the fact that when playing videogames, even ones with HIGH populations like Rainbow Six, I will often come across a familiar name. I have even had it be a little funny as someone on my friends list was put onto the enemy team a few times.

With this happening often enough, you tend to notice a few things. Especially who is an obvious cheater.

Given how team chat is literally never helpful, I wouldn’t mind.

If you party up with Friends it can be. With Randoms though it’-Yoink!- or miss at best

What a weird word to censor lol

Update: I saw nothing wrong with this post at all, guess I’m being false flagged. Lol

Hmmm… Seems there’s an error in communication here.

I’ve specifically meant text chat this entire time, just like the OP.

Because honestly, what friends are you playing with that you can’t VC with?

Did have a mute person who played on our team who couldn’t talk at one point. It was a long time ago, but even if rare the option to have it for them makes it worth it IMO.

I think you’re just not being very social. Talking or even listening has always been fun in social games. Though they don’t talk as much as they used to during the beginning of Infinite.

Well, yeah, that’s one case. My bad, you are right.

Look, the last person I wanna’ be social with is a random player in a lobby.

I don’t think I’ve even seen anyone ever use text chat ever in this game. I assume this is more of a PC thing for obvious reasons. Maybe it’s just off by default like voice chat.

Either way I can’t see them investing much time in adding this feature. The only thing I think they should do is have voice chat on by default or at the very least have the game prompt you to make a decision when you first load into multiplayer. Everything else is just playing around the edges with niche features that probably won’t see much use.

Can consoles even do text chat?

Quite possibly not and if you can it couldn’t be very convenient. In theory you can have a keyboard plugged in but I have no idea if KBM is actually compatible with Infinite on Xbox.

Still in my more than 2000 matches of cross play, I’ve never noticed anyone I’ve played with using text chat. Don’t even know how it would appear. I suppose it’s possible people have used it and I just haven’t noticed it.

Voice chat included.

Text chat is a great tool for many in plenty of circumstances.
Not being able to talk as to not disturb the household, having lost ones voice due to illness, or having a sore throat, or just not feeling like talking, especially when going solo.
Text chat generally lowers the threshold for engaging in communicating as well.

All chat can be useful and fun, any players engaging in bad behaviour can be reported so that the root cause is weeded out, rather than cutting out the tool used for everyone.
Additionally, MWO has a setting where you can disable it for yourself so you can’t see it which wouldn’t be an outlandish addition to consider in Infinite.

It is, I tested out KBM on my Xbox One early on with Infinite and it worked just like on PC.

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Now with the custom game browser i join a session playing turf from halo 2 but it was slayer, and no one can speak with each other, that make the game feel off.

Please 343 lets us speak with everyone

But then you can say mean things to the enemy team :frowning:

Only thing with text chat is the game does not give you enough time to say something like Good Game as it turns off on the loding screens.

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to have a good social time playing a beloved game. give people the ability to disable it if they want. but something a lot of people love about halo was the social experience. i still play with some people i met back in the h2 and h3 days.

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100% agree. and no post game lobbies :(. i loved being able to rematch and/or party up with a good squad easily. also, bring back proximity voice chat.

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Good thing it’s not up to you, a single individual. If you want to shelter yourself from speaking to the enemy team or even your own team for that matter, that is fine. But the option to engage with them should still be there, just like the option to exclude yourself is there.

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