Public chat gaming lobbies officially dead? DICE say SWB won't have chat

[dBoyFresh*212]

Star Wars Battlefront won't have voice chat on consoles or PC.

Team communication on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will rely on each consoles "built-in party system for in-game chat," according to EA. EA also confirmed the lack of voice-chat on PC, answering a question on Twitter telling gamers if they want to chatter with teammates, they'll need their "favorite third party software to communicate with friends on PC."

It's not an unusual move for PC games to rely on third-party chat applications for voice chat. Almost as long as voice over internet protocol, or VOIP, has existed, gamers have been using it to communicate with one another.

With Star Wars Battlefront on PS4 and Xbox One, if you want to chat with people you'll have to join a party with them and use the party-chat system, rather than communicate through the game itself.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

thats pretty much what I've always done anyway. Not sure I see any cons with this decision .

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

thats pretty much what I've always done anyway. Not sure I see any cons with this decision .

It's fukking retarded and ruins communication in there games. I love Battlefield but fukk EA for not letting us have chat channels you can't have a massive online shooter without this. 64 players running around not talking is fucced up

 

[dBoyFresh*212]

thats pretty much what I've always done anyway. Not sure I see any cons with this decision .

I miss talking shyt in public lobby cod is the only game that still has active lobbys them s&d lobbys

 

[GoldenGlove]

It's fukking retarded and ruins communication in there games. I love Battlefield but fukk EA for not letting us have chat channels you can't have a massive online shooter without this. 64 players running around not talking is fucced up

Breh, 32 players all talking on the same team would be a disaster.

That's why they always have squads tho

 

[ShoGun Of Harlem]

This is what made Xbox Live so great

 

[Bathing Ape]

Dumb

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Breh, 32 players all talking on the same team would be a disaster.

That's why they always have squads tho

I know, but that's not what I meant. In BF squads don't communicate and when they do the squad leader has no coms with leaders of other squads on the team or the commander. Dust 514 may be a pos ftp game on PS3 but it's a fukkton more fun then BF4 just because the communication was designed like it should be. shyt even on PS2 Socom we had these options. Basically there is absolutely no strategy in BF because theirs no way for squad leaders to effectively communicate with each other and there no direct line of communication to the commander for these guys either.

 

[Mowgli]

How do you make new friends in game if you can't chat. Stupid lazy Devs

 

[Family Lives Matter]

I only have a mic to talk shyt to ppl I Dnt know

 

[Tha Gawd Amen]

Like how people bytch about this but stay in party chat. The only function in game chat has become is a back up just in case the party fukks up now a days.

 

[#StarkSet]

no more talking shyt to 12 year olds

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

team chat with 32 people would be crazy.
i'm used to team chat in games like Left 4 Dead with me and 3 other people.

 

[Nomad1]

It's a dumb move but a lot of people (including myself) use the cross gaming chat feature. Why chat with brainless morons who can't even play, when you can just talk with your friends?

I swear when I play online there isn't a lot of people using mics anyways.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

socom had the best chat for games. then again that was 8 v 8. but one person talks at a time,. gotta hold the button. easily my fav chat in games. you should be able to talk shyt to ya opponents if they close too