Why don't solos have voice comms?

You can do this already if you decide to invite the people in your party to discord or party chat.

I mean, if Killers received some kind of buff to counter it, then I'd be fine with it. But, there would still be mass arguments about what the buff should be, and how comms would still be OP. It's a lose-lose situation regarding comms overall imo.

Most likely because of language barriers, and toxicness.

Also, remember every time you've been abused in end game chat? Now imagine that during game. Sounds like a terrible idea now right?

Lastly, I would personally disable in game comms, but with the inevitable killer buffs, I would get destroyed every game. Remember that solo survivor is the weakest role in the game, followed by killer, and the strongest is SWF.

This might be working for the US, but certainly not for Europe. There are so many languages involved.

Like, I live in Germany, we have English in School, so every German should speak somewhat decent English. I work at international Events, therefore I have a lot of contact with people from all around Europe, and I know that not everybody can speak English to the same degree. And some simply refuse to speak it (looking at you, France).

Furthermore, as written above, why should a group of foreign Speakers include me in their conversation? If I am solo with a 3 man SWF from Italy, they will most likely not speak English, let alone use the ingame Voice Chat.

And knowing this community and in general communities of cheap games, I also dont want to get insulted by a 14yr old in his language, because I did something he did not like.

So while it should be the longtime goal to buff Solos to SWF-Level to balance the game around that, this will not be achieved with Ingame Voice Communication.

Oh, dont worry, I know that. I was at an international Event in Japan a little bit over a year ago, and meet one of my US "Colleagues" (basically someone who is doing the same thing like me, but on the other side of the world), and one thing he was worried about were the Translations.

So I know that it is somewhat unfamiliar for US people to come in contact with other languages (maybe Spanish, depending where they live).

Apart from sucking for killer, adding voice comms would really break immersion for new players imo and rob them of those precious few early scares we all had. Remember when you used to fear the killer and s**t yourself while in it's Terror Radius?

And above all, let's face it, it would open up the floodgates of toxicity. Part of the reason why I never got into F13. That and you couldn't just main Jason.

It would be a good buff to solos but i’d rather not hear “f**cking save me” “duuude I dead harded #########” music blasting, kids screaming etc. Yeah that’s basically every cod but the good thing about solo is no one talks and it’s calm. If I feel like talking and messing around i’ll play swf, I wouldn’t mind it of course as long as there’s a mute option for that one guy. I’d prefer more emotes though like stop, get down, heal me, and stuff like that. I think there was leaks or information about adding coms but I’m not sure.

Plus if this does happen killers are going to need some kind of buff as now solos are swf level.

As an EU player there would be some... challenges involved with that for sure. Not everyone can speak English (or any other majority language in the lobby for that matter) understandably or at all, some refuse to speak it and that's on top of more generalized issues like people being dickheads in chat.

If they were to do this a contextual button + some preset phrases would be better in my opinion. Press the button to report on your "status" like "I'm in a chase", "I'm on a gen" and so on. And have some presets for harder to detect scenarios like "I'm going for the save". Unlike voice chat it can be localized.

Of course people could still troll. They could spam it, intentionally give inaccurate information and so on, but the same goes for voice chat anyway.

Nailed it right here.

The argument of “you could just mute it”...isn’t valid at all. With killers being buffed around everyone communicating, if you mute it you are now at even more of a disadvantage than solo survivors are currently. Also with regards to the toxicity, if you have the others muted there’s a very good chance your “teammates” will be annoyed with you....you know how that will turn out. Plus people who play SWF currently would probably mute the in-game voice chat, and just use discord or whatever. Why would they want to talk to randoms? They’ll just carry on talking to their friends only like normal. Now the solo player who actually DID want to talk, has nobody to talk to because his SWF teammates have it on mute lol. It’s a terrible idea that would be disastrous. Luckily, they’ll never do it.

It could be location-based comms. But to ensure killers aren't harassed they cant literally hear whats being said but could hear voices kinda like the perk Whispers. Itd give survivors an edge, yes, but it'd also give killers an extra tracking tool.

Yes, I’m on board with that type of thing. Just against voice chat.

Did you not read what I said?

I said I would personally mute it, but as killers would obviously be buffed accordingly, it would make the "solo survivor" even weaker than they already are. By solo survivor I mean people that play with no comms.

Don't know what you're talking about on console you can invite those in your lobby in a party for comms, happens to me a couple of time, i'm playing solo and got a lobby invite with swf, was disgusted and left immediately, not sure why people take offense to that

Bring on their wanted AI bots already. This is getting silly now.

Nothing but further calls for nerfs since ruin went. Those who scream loudest and buy the most cosmetics get heard. While the dying souls on the ground who dont make sounds take months to fix.