Hello. I hope someone at Uber actually reads this and takes it under consideration. I realize that I am probably just talking to the wind here, but who knows. I've been on your side of it since I used to work in your industry, and I know that the likelihood that anyone other than a 1st level support goon is reading this is somewhere between zero and none. I play MNC on the PC regularly and I think it's a good game. First, the positive: It's a really fun game, I see very little cheating in-game, class balance is reasonable, I've never seen a crash, map layouts are good though more maps would be great. Now, the negative: Some of the UI and chat issues really bother me. In fact, I've found myself quitting the game recently because I'm getting really frustrated at the UI stupidity and lack of chat support. Voice chat is so bad that it might as well not be there. Of all my play time, I think I've maybe once heard someone using voice chat. Most of the time when people do try to use voice chat, the volume is so low that you can't hear anything, and there is no in-game adjustment. The rest of the time, the voice sound is broken up horribly. The game has no in-game controls to mute players: not that it matters, you can't hear anyone anyway! There is no on-screen indicator of who is talking. Please add something somewhere inconspicuous, after you've fixed all the other issues. I noticed the recent addition of the icon on the scoreboard -- thank you. Please fix voice chat as it adds a lot to the game when friends are playing. Just look at TF2 and how successful voice chat is on certain servers. When I play TF2, I put my headset on, but I immediately take my headset off when I play MNC because I know it's not worth the bother. I get the impression that this is an area where your company just doesn't have expertise: Bring in some outside help and get this fixed, please. As if voice chat being butchered wasn't bad enough, text chat is almost worse, because it kinda-works sometimes but not others. The line-length limitation in text chat is horrible. Twitter gives you more characters than you do! Some people can just type, so give them the freedom to do so. Or, at least make an error sound when the end of the line is reached. I seriously doubt that any sentence that I've written in this post would fit in a single line of text chat. No text window scrollback. Please add it. Please don't hide the scrollback window while in the lobby area. This is inconsistent with other parts of the game, where the text scrollback is displayed. The command console: What a nightmare. I press Y or U to chat, but if I want to cancel, I have to press escape exactly twice, I think? And if I hit esc a third time, it tries to make me exit the game, so I have to press esc again to go back into the game. This is maddening and the person who did this deserves to be punished. I end up slamming my esc key out of anger about ten times just to make the stupid stop. Please fix voice and text chat: It makes the game more fun for those of us who want to work as a team. You can't have teamwork if you can't communicate with your team. It's that simple. One more thing: I really hate the Meet The Meatsacks announcements. I don't know. They are just not funny. Thank you for reading. I took some considerable amount of time and effort to write this. I hope someone gives a toot.
+1, I totally agree about chatting.. There's no way you can have teamplay without COMMUNICATION! About the announcer: I found it funny the first time, not the 20th time. He should say more general things.
I wish there was an option for open\detect mic. Of course half the time I don't know if my mic is not working, or my team mates are just ignoring me. :roll: I don't bother with text. Too slow to be useful. By the time you're done typing the message, it's probably not relevant anymore. Assuming anyone bothers to read it. :roll:
Agreed. In general I don't mind the announcer, but there are a few things that bother me. 1. "Upgrade your skills" reminders. I've put an embarassing number of hundreds of hours into this game. STOP NAGGING ME GOD DAMNIT. 2. "Meet the Meatsacks". They always sound very forced and too drawn-out. Never funny, just painful to listen to. 3. I wish he would do a bit more announcing on the state of the game. Sometimes he'll mention that one team is winning, but that's it. It would be great to hear things like "2 minutes left!", "10 seconds remaining!", "5! 4! 3! 2! 1! ... We're heading to OVERTIME, folks!". Things like this would both add to the intensity of the game (see TF2 for evidence) and provide valuable information so players don't feel like "oh, the game just suddenly ended.." edit: yeah, probably too much off-topic feedback here.. I originally intended to keep it short
How big are the chances that whoever voiced Mickey Cantor will provide additional... well Mickey Cantor?
I think there are more pressing issues than the communication, but both suck. I would imagine extending characters allowed in chat isn't too difficult, though. Should only take a few minutes?
You missed the issue with text chat sometimes switching to console "Say" for absolutely no good reason and deleting everything you typed. Otherwise, I agree with everything.
No chat = no teamwork = no teams. It's a very important part of the game. People can't learn because they can't be taught. People have less fun. The only upsides is voice spammers and trolls can't troll.
Yea, that too. I think it has to do with chatting while dead and then when you respawn, it screws it all up. I am fairly positive that's an issue right there.
Actually it's completely random and arbitrary and can happen at any time, alive or dead it seems. It happens a lot post-death, though, I will say. I want to say it has to do with receiving income. You receive $50 at regular intervals and perhaps after death you grab an assist or burn kill and it results in the bug. I haven't actually tested this out, though.
While dead is the only time I use chat unless I'm trolling. And even then, it's usually still trolling. I think though, that fixing airgrapples (still a problem, just not as bad as before) is more important than fixing chat.
