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Join the COH2.ORG ingame chat lobby

23 Feb 2014, 12:33 PM
#21
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Agree with everything there, except maybe dicussions. 90% of the time it was filled with bible thumpers copy pasting random quotes from the bible, general obscenity and racism spam or just straight out ridiculous discussions worthy to be in the darkest parts of 4chan or reddit. This however can be resolved by allowing contributing, respected volunteers of the community to moderate these chat rooms when it gets too inappropriate.

But it was good for finding other players, whispering them, asking them to join a game and later befriending them. The current chat room interface as it is is clunky and just annoying. I'm sure they had the best of intentions but the guys at relic just made some terrible terrible decisions in regards to how the social/multi-player features were going to play out. Removal of lobbies, removal of chat rooms, removal of a skill/rank/league system. What were they thinking?


Yup, agree. I could only have discussion with small group in otherwise empty chat room.

GR chatroom is something I avoided and don't miss at all.
23 Feb 2014, 12:56 PM
#22
avatar of AmiPolizeiFunk
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Let's get the pro discussions (or pro trolling, primarily of BartonPL) going in the COH2.ORG channel. I'll join it every time I'm in game. You too? :)
24 Feb 2014, 11:01 AM
#23
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25 Feb 2014, 21:47 PM
#24
avatar of KyleAkira

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Ingame chat rooms are empty for the following reasons:

-No ingame Friend list ( In Vcoh I had a lot of contacts, most of them from chat rooms. That kind of people you want to have it in a "ingame friend list" but not on your personal Steam account).

-No rank/stats (easy) preview from people in chat rooms. I can check their stats but it is too labour-intensive to do it.

-Tab system with a full chat window. Atm people shape the chat window in a small size, not being confortable to participate in chats. (game should always join the last chat room when you run it)

-Not possible to whisper Non friended players.
25 Feb 2014, 22:49 PM
#25
avatar of WiFiDi
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in my humble opinion the major reason is because people don't want to adapt to doing something different. that and people have never historically used steam groups in mass probably for much the same reason they have to do something different than they already are doing. TS3, mumble, Vent, irc, etc...

if they made it so steam chat was integrated into the game like coh1 people would probably use it and not even relize that they were actually using steam groups. :( heck everyone who uses any kind of chat twitch, steam, probably coh1, etc... all it is a fancy irc interface its nothing special.

the main problem is that i never used chats in the first place. i used the steam chat system or anything other than vcoh mass clusterfuck that was the chatrooms
25 Feb 2014, 23:23 PM
#26
avatar of morten1

Posts: 368



Agree with everything there, except maybe dicussions. 90% of the time it was filled with bible thumpers copy pasting random quotes from the bible, general obscenity and racism spam or just straight out ridiculous discussions worthy to be in the darkest parts of 4chan or reddit. This however can be resolved by allowing contributing, respected volunteers of the community to moderate these chat rooms when it gets too inappropriate.

I don't think your ready for the internet or the world

Maybe you should live in a bubble?
26 Feb 2014, 08:36 AM
#27
avatar of BeltFedWombat
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jump backJump back to quoted post25 Feb 2014, 22:49 PMWiFiDi
in my humble opinion the major reason is because people don't want to adapt to doing something different.


Sorry, no. It's because the CoH2 system in unintuitive and antisocial.

The evidence is clear - empty chat rooms with tumbleweed drifting around them. Compare them to busy CoH lobbies (lobbies more important than chat).

It's insulting for Relic to say "we're not using them properly."

Oh, and Steam? Why do I need to Shift Tab to have individual chats outside of the in-game overlay? WTF?

It's clunky. It's not user-friendly. It's shit.
26 Feb 2014, 08:44 AM
#28
avatar of buckers

Posts: 230

and talk to actual fans of coh2? blegh, i'd rather use a 4 pioneer start.
26 Feb 2014, 10:07 AM
#29
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jump backJump back to quoted post25 Feb 2014, 23:23 PMmorten1

I don't think your ready for the internet or the world

Maybe you should live in a bubble?


I grew up on the internet, I think I'm good. Do you actually endorse pro-nazi, incessant bible quoting, beastiality, [insert fetish here] discussions? I don't see your point other than just trying to throw out some quip at me. If you actually came accross the vCoH GR chatroom you would know what I'm talking about, no sane person wants to be a part of that shit.
26 Feb 2014, 10:14 AM
#30
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I'll probably start using it more if they add a /ignore option.
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