is using alternate forms of communication cheating?
Before you all ask this is not a troll question, I just tend to be quite a nervous/anxious person and wanted to try to get some answers to my (admittedly probably overthought) question. So, basically lets say one uses discord as their only form of communication in game and never uses the in game voice chat (has the audio from it turned to 0% in audio settings and never uses it themselves). Lets also say that the said player uses discord often as a form of communication between him and one friend while in a game with a random player. Would this be a form of "cheating" so to speak since the two players are using discord as an alternate form of communication which the third (random player) cannot hear (even taking it a step further lets say that the players often communicate locations of loot and enemies to each other while using discord)? I personally don't use in game chat since for reasons of my own I don't want to speak to random players and often use discord so I can just speak to the people I want to and not the random teammates. Please no troll answers, regardless of how goofy this question may sound.
Well...it is unfair, because the third person is still a part of your team. However, you asked if using discord was cheating, which it isn't. I'm not judging you though. You have your reasons.
Also, don't be afraid to ask questions. The dumbest people are the ones who don't ask them at all...
