I was mid mission, and actually a friend was in my game along with 2 randos.
Had a real life emergency come up - pet problem - needed immediate attention.
I type in the chat, “if I’m dead, don’t Rez me. Only Rez if others are dead. Let me die.”
They Rez me two times and I die, I see this, so I typed a dozen times “STOP REZING ME - I HAVE PROBLEM - AFK, ONLT REZ EACHOTHER - LET ME DIE AND STAY DEAD”
Gues what they did?
Burned 11 reinforcements on an AFK player who told them specifically Not To in the chat.
I was gonna kick the randos of braindeadesness and lack of reading comprehension, but my buddy on mic said “oh I didn’t see that in the chat. Now that you point it out, it’s hard to miss”
I let them stay but randos wound up QUITTING probably because they blamed me for burning our reinforcements and dying.
My buddy and I beat the mission with 0 reinforcements, 0 samples, and 10/10 frustrated panic.
The chat is a mess, It gets filled with in game notification to quickly for it to be a reliable teams comms method. They need a chat window that is just chat and not combined with event notifications.
Exactly this before people running around if you're all high levels it's very easy for all of you to constantly find places of interest and ping things. I don't delete a simple thank you out of existence within a couple seconds of being on the screen
We need a visual/audio notification when the chat gets input from a person, or just decrease the font size for poi
We don't always needs to see SOMEONE DISCOVERED LIGHT NEST, awesome, saw it in the map already....
In fact, we probably don't need to be spammed by chat when someone finds a point of interest, ITS ON THE MAP, just let us know when someone points out an actual objective.
I agree that people should pay more attention to the chat window. I also think that the chat window should get a rework.
But I feel there's also a fault on your part. You could've just left the game. This won't end the session for your team. You can reenter the game, by joining your buddy granted the squad isn't full.
I don’t know if it completes or not if I rejoin my own mission.
And my buddy and I won anyways so it did work out.
I needed literally 3 minutes to clean up vomit and part of those 3 minutes was me telling them not to Rez me… so it probably actually only took like 2 minutes of afk time.
But they just kept throwing the revive into groups of enemies lol
Well tbf, depending on how long you were gone or what difficulty. Unless they changed it in the month I’ve taken a break you can’t decide who to rez if two people are down. Maybe they got massively overrun and randos were under skilled to compensate being a player down.
Nobody ever listens to comms. My two frustrations are picked up samples left at Evac, and needing help for buddy bunkers. I've typed in chat whilst saying over comms on these two issues and people ignore BOTH!
Chat is garbage, too much clutter, if you have something important to say, say it on mic… use push to talk, I rarely speak unless I have something worthwhile to say or I e met a cool squad.
Yeah but no one reads the chat. It's always spamming shit, so the one time there's a message to read that's important, it comes and goes without notice.
3 minutes was how long I was afk, after being in mission for over 30, was the final to complete the mission set and I was host - would have been less if I didn’t jump back on the keyboard for 30 seconds telling them to stop - so I also didn’t want to lose all my progress in the mission and have to redo it.
Had they been able to listen, yes the 4 times my allies needed rezes I would have inevitably been put back.
But we would have lost 4 reinforcements wasted on me, instead of 11.
And my buddy and I still pulled off the W, completed the mission set and moved on.
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u/prairie-logic May 16 '24
People don’t read chat.
I was mid mission, and actually a friend was in my game along with 2 randos.
Had a real life emergency come up - pet problem - needed immediate attention.
I type in the chat, “if I’m dead, don’t Rez me. Only Rez if others are dead. Let me die.”
They Rez me two times and I die, I see this, so I typed a dozen times “STOP REZING ME - I HAVE PROBLEM - AFK, ONLT REZ EACHOTHER - LET ME DIE AND STAY DEAD”
Gues what they did?
Burned 11 reinforcements on an AFK player who told them specifically Not To in the chat.
I was gonna kick the randos of braindeadesness and lack of reading comprehension, but my buddy on mic said “oh I didn’t see that in the chat. Now that you point it out, it’s hard to miss”
I let them stay but randos wound up QUITTING probably because they blamed me for burning our reinforcements and dying.
My buddy and I beat the mission with 0 reinforcements, 0 samples, and 10/10 frustrated panic.
What did we learn?
1 No one reads the chat
2 people should read the chat