Voice chat wouldn't improve DBD for most survivors
People largely overrate how many people use voice chat. In actual competitive games where people are sweating their asses off to win, like Dota, CSGO, and Overwatch, voice chat is still rarely used. Voice chat only starts getting some competitive usage at the top 5% of MMR/ranks. If voice chat was added to DBD, the same would occur. Only the top MMR survivors benefit from voice chat while solo queue still sucks for most survivors.
Also, you're in for a surprise if you think voice chat will suddenly result in massive improvements in team cooperation. If you've ever played any other competitive team game, you would already know that telling your team to do stuff is mostly useless. Most of the time, they will just keep doing w/e they're doing and ignore you. This would probably be even more prevalent in DBD since most survivors are casuals playing for fun. Complaints about teammates and matchmaking still occur regularly in games with chat.
I actually think voice chat would make the experience worse for most survivors. In all competitive games, toxicity is high because people frequently flame their team for losing and making mistakes. If voice chat was added to DBD, the more likely outcome is that people would use it to rage and flame their team. You can mute people in other games, but it doesn't change the fact that toxicity is high and a report system is needed.
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I don't know... if say by chance, one day decided to one day enable or add voice communication (either proximity chat or simple communicationby survivors alone). There is a great chance that I can Agreed with you and it can backfired on it intended purposes. I played alot of online games like Overwatch, fortnite, and sometimes fallout 76. It tends to be all used for more not so serious and obnoxious noises like mic spamming or playing music in the background or even the worse, the kids playing the game with microphone right up to their lips and screaming (or Squeakers, as we like to call them).
It would totally ruined the immersive of the horror game atmosphere especially if mute buttons is not available. On the other hand, I also kinda want it to happen so that survivors can learn to be upset and be more vocal about their useless survivors teammates and be less towards the killer, everytime it literally not always the Killer's fault for bad plays on the survivors end. That would mostly certainly not work, if they DC or quit as soon as they die immediately.
In all honesty, I think the game is in much healthier state if it stays clear from voice communication in general and more information provided to the player in the Hud, as well as maybe... a ping/com display system to send like quick message chat to the rear of the survivor.
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No we need:
-Perks visible to other survivors
-Healing progress shown
-pings or baseline better together
-Head on should show the locker your in to others
—-^ Changes like this… its absurd we havn't recieved QoL changes like this to bridge solo Q and SWF disparity5 -
That's an interesting perspective. I wonder if having it be an unlockable option would be useful then.
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They won't ever add voice chat because they cannot moderate it. That's it.
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this should’ve been in dbd ages ago back during the 4 white portraits. It’s so sad it’s never been implemented.
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Voice chat would only result in making the game more toxic.
Swearing, bad mics, loud music being blasted in the backround, half of the survivor playerbase won't use it, etc.
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There's a massive difference between talking with strangers and friends. Friends are like-minded individuals people enjoy being with. Strangers are randoms that can do anything. You're in for a surprise if you think voice chat will suddenly result in massive improvements in team cooperation. If you've ever played any other competitive team game, you would already know that telling your team to do stuff is mostly useless. Most of the time, they will just keep doing w/e they're doing and ignore you. This would probably be even more prevalent in DBD since most survivors are casuals playing for fun. Complaints about teammates and matchmaking still occur regularly in games with chat.
You can mute people in other games too. It doesn't change the fact that toxicity is high and a report system is needed.
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These are some very good suggestions. I agree 100%.
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