Squad or Proximity team chat?
Just wondering will BF2042 support some sort audio chat with squad players that are close by to players should be away from on'es own squad and relies on medic assistance or ammo or make them aware o...
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It’s 2021 and by now a lot of people can relate to the level of fun and immersion that proximity chat adds to multiplayer games, specifically open/large world shooters. Why hasn’t Battlefield made it a priority to add proximity based voip? Even if it was limited to hardcore mode. The amount of potential it and engagement it would add for coordinating with your team would be huge. Especially in vehicles.
let’s not forget proximity chat against enemy’s. This is just plain fun. Being able to talk trash as the enemy has you pinned down, or maybe even faking them out could be used to a tactical advantage. There’s lots of possibilities and advantages to having a proximity based chat system.
I don't know why Dice Sweden has never bothered developing their voice chat system. It often feels like they don't care about communication and teamwork. Battlefield 3 never had any voice chat on PC and it was only after considerable pestering that Battlefield 4 onwards had squad chat but they've never bothered developing it beyond that. Would be nice if they get with the times and offer proper voice chat in 2042 but given their track record I am somewhat dubious.
It really seems like a no brainer at this point. If Battlefield really wanted to stay on the cutting edge of open world warfare style games and provide a communication/team focused game, this would be the way to do it. Really a shame this isn't on their radar. This would change the whole experience, but 100% for the better.
- @Noodlesocks Why would they though? Up to now everyone has made do with third party coms, and it's not adding anything useful to the game experience that can't be covered by some pre-recorded sound clips and a few keybinds.
One option covers a useful feature somewhat (pre-recorded clips and keybinds), the other one is more than likely going to be used for abuse and harassment as much as anything useful if normal BF text chat is anything to go by.
There's a reason quite a lot of people turn off ingame VOIP almost as a rule and stick with clan or game discords etc, because the sheer amount of stupid is mind-numbing sometimes.
I don't care in the slightest if someone curses but much like text chat, the amount of inane spam or raging or general idiocy on unmoderated voice chat isn't worth the occasional nugget of actual useful information, and though our clan chat can be "interesting" at times to say the least, not a single person there doesn't understand that how we talk to each other is not how you talk to people you don't know or those that might prefer a bit more mellow chat (to the point that it gets toned down immediately if we have guest on, especially if someone's kids drop by).
With that example above, what's to entice Dice to put in a feature that almost anyone can agree would most likely turn into the localized verbal version of 4chan inside of 5 minutes in most cases?
I'll take the branching verbal queue tree any day, i don't have much faith in humanity left to lose, but localized open chat would probably waste my time more than it would improve my gaming experience.
Personal opinion of course, and not an attack on anyone wanting it, I just don't see why Dice would give themselves that particular headache being responsible for the content, when even the bare minimum of an IRC-like chat creates drama constantly on a daily basis.
