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.
@ArchAngel713 Would be nice, sick of people being in parties,be great to walk up to a random and able to communicate when close to the individual
- @PacNbowls Just frustrated with people who constantly swear and are pissed off because their squad member is not as good as they are. Other then that it is a good idea. Just make it so we can choose to turn it on or off.
Talking trash is what a 13 year old does IMO. Not a priority for me at all. And most games never really got a good implementation of voip going. I rather just use Discord or whatever.
In most videogames half of the players (or more) do not have a headset or just don't want to talk at ALL. I remember for example playing BF4 where I would consistently do mic checks with my squad. I've had like one game where a guy was actually talkative and communicating. Same for CoD: Bo4. Barely anyone is using their microphone, and if they do it's ONLY to trash talk and say the most immature things imaginable. Wow, that's such a good feature we need to have in the game!- @infantrypeasant I mostly agree with you but at the same time I've played with some great squad mates that I've gone on to be friends with and play with regularly due to in game chat. I have mostly played on consoles though but I do play on PC too and it always annoyed me that BF on PC always relied on 3rd party chat apps. Especially in a game that so heavily relies on team work.
- @infantrypeasant Maybe it’s the games you’re playing, because most of the recent proximity chat experiences I’ve had (mainly Hell Let Loose) has been pretty positive.
I definitely agree with the proximity chat idea, but I think there should be an easy way of muting someone. For instance, it’d be nice if I could just aim at a teammate and there was some kind of button to mute them, instead of having to wade through menus to do so.@Boba_Brett711 Sure but I think I'm quite close to the audience that will play BF2042 with the games I've mentioned. 🙂
I've also played other games like OW, CS where voice is used a lot more. I just don't see it happen in Battlefield based on years of experience.
@infantrypeasant I agree with what you’re saying. When I said trash talking I didn’t mean that in a toxic way. More like just exchanging words with the enemy, but the potential for toxicity in those circumstances are rather high, so I get your point. Regardless though, there should be a mode and settings that allow control of this. The benefits out weigh the negative in terms of truly redefining battlefield as a communication and team centric game. Which it should be! I can recall from the old days getting on team speak in BF2 with my entire team and it was a magical thing. Granted I could only hear my team and it wasn’t proximity based, but displayed its potential.
@PacNbowls wrote:
@ArchAngel713 Would be nice, sick of people being in parties,be great to walk up to a random and able to communicate when close to the individual@PacNbowls as long as it's able to be disabled or specific players muted I think this is a solid request.
