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Skimpp's avatar
Skimpp
2 years ago

In-Game Feature: Global Chat (Also Local and Friends Chat)

Respawn should add followings in lobby: 1. Global chat (Group of some local chats, with ~0.5 or 1 incoming chat/second) 2. Local chat (With ~1 incoming chat/5 to 10 seconds) 3. Friends chat (To ch...
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WTF_Huitzo's avatar
WTF_Huitzo
2 years ago
@Skimpp bruh they can't even add a toggle voice button , don't expect too much from them.
Midnight9746's avatar
Midnight9746
Hero+
2 years ago
@WTF_Huitzo If you mean push to talk, its a setting we all have for our own mics, at least on PC. I don't know about console.

If you mean muting your teammates, there's a button on the legend select screen that you can press to mute them. There's also a gameplay setting that blocks communication from everyone, or those who aren't your friend. There's also the manual mute on the squad tab while in a match. Its next to the report, block, and mute ping buttons.

@Skimpp So, you saw the mobile chat while in AS servers? I saw the chat while in the NA servers. What happens in different regions in terms of the chat, is something I don't know much about as I'm not in other region's servers. If I did end up in one, I wouldn't know the language, so not like I would know what they're saying anyways.

This kind of chat could just very well be an optional thing. I would personally have it off at all times.
  • Skimpp's avatar
    Skimpp
    2 years ago
    @Midnight9746 but without the chat feature, how would someone find someone to play with? I find little to no friends from solely the post-match add friend feature through the teammates' banner in the lobby.

    It seems like in Apex mobile, the global chat is set to continent, so my global chat is mostly from Asia and it is mostly English and I don't see any big issue other than a few players selling cheats that are easily banned upon reported.

    I don't think not making chat feature just because of those few players makes sense. Respawn can simply unsend any sentence with a word starting with 'c' ends with 't', or starting with 'b' ends with 't' as a very simple solution to filter {cheat, boost} and any similar words. Not having friends to play Apex with is IMO a bigger issue as even pros can't even solo que.

    How do you find friends to play with btw? Bcs I know a lot of people who dont have friends to play with, especially the low skilled players bcs most of the time no one add them back post-match.
    • Midnight9746's avatar
      Midnight9746
      Hero+
      2 years ago
      @Skimpp I don't find friends to play with. I just solo que. Most of the randoms I get are toxic anyways. I'm so glad that Respawn added the option to auto mute teammates.
      • Skimpp's avatar
        Skimpp
        2 years ago
        @Midnight9746 exactly. That's why you need the chat feature so you can find someone to queue with beforehand. At least for me, everytime I premade queue with someone, even with someone much better than me, they are never toxic; if I play very bad or do stupid things, they will only leave the queue after the match ended and find someone else, talk crap behind about me, etc.

        During the first ~100h playing Apex, I also got a lot of toxic randoms, which are indeed mostly better than me at that time (bcs I was in Plat due to the broken rank system), but do not have friends to team up with, so they solo queued and ended up paired with bots like me. Added with SBMM, it is even worse bcs I need to fight 3 people with much higher skill than me. So the frustation is totally understandable.

        I never get toxic randoms in the last ~200h playing Apex bcs I don't play like bots now and my gunfight is pretty strong relative to my teammates.

        With chat feature, everyone can team up with others with similar K/D. So no one can be toxic. Even in Apex Mobile, I never get toxic randoms, bcs I mostly team up beforehand, and if those randoms are bad, just leave the queue, find someone else

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