After game chat

One feature I'd love to see in PA is some way to keep chatting with the players in the game once the game is over.

Sometimes the game ends and all of a sudden you're on your own, without much chance to ask "what happened to you there then?" and compare notes etc.

e.g I just played a 1v1v1, one player got killed off, then a few minutes later the other just exclaimed "wtf?" and it was game over. Looking at the chronocam his commander just seemed to explode, with no help from my troops. I'd guess he committed suicide (suggestion: some message to all when that happens), but his exclamation seemed to indicate otherwise, and I never got the chance to ask him about it because the game had ended, so I'll never know for sure.

This feature is coming "soon"

+1 to this idea. A chat box on the after-action/score screen would be nice.

Also some commander death notifications would be awesome, like: "Player's commander succumbed to the vanguard's flame." or "Player's commander decided his fate was sealed and self detonated." or "Player's commander was crushed by an incoming planet."

Actually, that's not something we've talked about, but given how our chat channels work, it should be not too difficult. I'll throw it in the backlog. So long as people are still reviewing the game or on the score screen, no reason to not allow chat.

Good idea, folks. Can't promise "when" but should be an easy polish item to add in.

I'm pretty sure this is a confirmed feature.

Ninjad. I was wrong.

I believe if you go into review, it is still possible to chat, although I'm not sure how long the server stays around to connect you. I know it's possible to send messages, but I haven't had the other players come back to test it.

This might save you a step: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-linger-1-0-1.56944/

It definitely used to be possible, so unless they broke it, it's still possible. But, yeah, it's rare for two players to both review the game.

When I was mucking around with developing a (unrelated) mod, I noticed that chat messages were still sent when in the game over screen. There is just nothing to display them. One could mod something to do just that, but I didn't really see the point. Mind you, this is info from early beta. In any case, it shouldn't be too hard for the devs to put a chat box there since the infrastructure seems to already be in place, but that's probably item number #9845723898267235 on their todo list.

A similar improvement related to this would be to store chat messages in session storage for a short time so that you don't miss anything when loading a new system in the lobby, switching scenes into the review, or changing your settings during the game.

there's a mod that does just that....

#modsareawesome

Yees, yeees. I so want this, both for some after game chatter with people I fought, but also as an opportunity to chat with players when I was spectating

ah that wouldn't be fair.

a setting (for teams) must be placed in the host to determine if dead players linger with only their team's vision (and can chat) or if they can see everyone's view (but can't chat).

We're talking after the game here mate .

But during the game, yes I agree team vision is an issue.

If you're still connected to the server and go back in and review the game, I believe chat is still available. However, there's no way to do that from the score/review screen. That whole flow just needs a bit of iteration (the focus has been on the front part til recently), so I want to make sure we get that covered.

In the meantime, for anyone interested : https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-linger-1-0-1.56944/
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You're not alone - I was fairly sure it was confirmed too.

It's been suggested a bunch of times as well.

I'm thinking this may be a case of Garat being out of the loop.

As the keeper of the backlog, I'm never "out of the loop". But there are many things that haven't been confirmed as work on our backlog that are still things we want to do. We're trying to capture as many of those as possible so we don't forget things going forward.

Hm... Interesting. Because this has been suggested no less than... a dozen times.

And we all collectively read as many posts as we can, but sometimes we don't see things. And it being discussed does not translate into being on our backlog, necessarily.

Looks like someone should collect these good ideas into a forum recap!