Steel_God Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I might get introuble for this. Oh well. Here is le' buble's PEOPLE NEED OUR CHAT BUBBLES Heads up all it requres is to modify a few lines of text. Woah, woah, woah, hold on a sec. You're saying they already have chat bubbles in the game they just having made the user interface tweak to put them up as an option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasmith Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Chat bubbles are so cartoonish....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surberus Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) Does anyone ever bother reading my posts now I'll try out the advice on that website next time I'm on and post the results here Edit: From testing it myself, it doesn't look like this "Tweak" is functional any more, though I can confirm it was during release build in the beta. Others should feel free to try themselves in case its simply me being rubbish. Edited December 15, 2011 by Surberus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsause Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 You can edit your .ini files to make chat bubbles appear.. just change to true. Social_UseOverheadChat = boolean - false Social_ChatOverSelf = boolean - false Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetbob Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Chat bubbles are a must. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvhen Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 if they aren't going to make chat bubbles, at least make the chatframe more noticable, or a warning sound when you get a whisper or whatever, currently I miss like half of whispers and party chat because its barely noticable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaine Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I remember them saying chat bubbles was high priority toward the end of the beta. I'm sad to hear that it's not in the game yet. Good thing the chat window is movable though, think I will move it to the upper middle of the screen when I RP for the time being, the default place for the chat window is horrible for RP as far as I'm conserned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlloRain Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 it is not 20Dec11. I am holding out on that date there will be a patch. My fear of putting in code to make chat bubbles of my own is, Bio will see that is a hands off area and ban me from the game. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godsaveme Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Chat bubbles is needed plz.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTrottermb Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 DCUO launched without chat bubbles and people were pretty irritated. There were forum post upon forum posts asking for chat bubbles....my last day playing was about 5 months after launch and they still hadn't been implemented. I hope that SWTOR doesn't do the same thing..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel_God Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 if they aren't going to make chat bubbles, at least make the chatframe more noticable, or a warning sound when you get a whisper or whatever, currently I miss like half of whispers and party chat because its barely noticable If you guys haven't been listening multiple posters have pointed out that in the .ini file(aka the file that keeps track of your settings) There is an option for chat bubbles. This means that they've already coded in chat bubbles they just haven't finished making the UI buttons to turn it on. Relax, they will put it in, probably soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frigidman Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) If you guys haven't been listening multiple posters have pointed out that in the .ini file(aka the file that keeps track of your settings) There is an option for chat bubbles. This means that they've already coded in chat bubbles they just haven't finished making the UI buttons to turn it on. Relax, they will put it in, probably soon. Yup. I just hope they are on by default. Theres a few reasons why I suggest that: New players will more then likely use and accept them, and thus be more talkative to other players (SWG is prime example of this working). Other players will not have to constantly wonder "did this guy figure out how to turn on chat bubbles? or am I talking to thin air?" From beta threads, and this thread, and other threads... the ratio of "i dun care/i hate" troll poster to "Yes please!" posters is heavily weighted towards having them on. Options allow to turn off, so defaulted on is good for the social community. And those 1 or 2 people who hate them can go turn them off on their machine. Edited December 15, 2011 by Frigidman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoninoX Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) I found a link on reddit with some information on how to force on chat bubbles. From what I have heard it does not seem to work on this build. But as you could force it on (in the beta) I guess we will get a actual setting in the game really soon where we can toggle it on and off. ^^ Edited December 15, 2011 by BoninoX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dezzi Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 We begged for this all through beta. Very sad indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vunak Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 /approves this message. Chat Bubbles would be great to have. Me and a couple of guildies were RPing yesterday and it just was an annoyance watching the chat box in the top left hand corner. Would be nice to be able to enable floating chat text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCyanide Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I agree completely, I barely paid attention to that damn box! I want to feel like my character is actually having a conversation with someone, not reading the script for a play. /signed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrike Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I voted for it before and I'll gladly do so again Come on BW we really need those chat bubbles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noliel Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 this is a feature that is 100% needed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yutrio Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I really hate to sound like a broken record, but it's been stated multiple times that chat bubbles are already in the game. Seems like they just need to put in the option to turn it on and off. Just wait a bit folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonkar Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) I agree we definetly need chat bubbles! Edited December 16, 2011 by Jonkar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yospeck Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Throw us all in an RP event and watch how quickly that chatbox scrolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senkaxx Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 My vote goes for this too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teloss Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) I think chat bubbles would be pretty cool if done right. I like the atmosphere of having them. Both WoW and SWG, two of my favorite mmorpg's which happen to be polar opposites in both community and gameplay, shared this feature. Would love the Devs to clarify about whether it's even been up for consideration. Edited December 16, 2011 by Teloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teloss Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) i vote for this too chat bubbles are needed, but for those who do not want them, allow it to be turned off... I give you 9000 internets. A simple solution to any controversy... Personal choice. I already love how many UI/interface/misc options there are, and how user friendly they are in game. Adding a toggle chat bubble option couldn't hurt, and I think a lot in the community like the idea. Remember guys, threads like this are one of the best ways of getting it in game. If it has support in a majority of the posts, it has more of a chance to be considered and even possibly favored by the devs. if it wasnt in the last beta it wont be out on launch, as other people have said they are working on UI improvements. So be patient and off the top of my head i can think of one mmo that doesnt have speach bubbles. its DDO (dungeons and dragons online) they have voice chat and a chat box Are you kidding? It would be easy to add a small feature like this. That's only if hasn't already been developed already. They could be waiting to implement it as we speak. The only reason I could see them not adding this right away is because it's not high priority, for whichever reason mentioned above. I wouldn't use the previous Beta as an excuse for something so small. It's just a simple matter of priority at this point. They are incredibly busy working on server stability, small performance tweaks, and fine tuning/working on bug fixes and preparing for the next build. If we get chat bubbles it will probably be added during the soonest hotfix. Which luckily for BW and their Hero engine, they can implement while servers are still live. I just hope that if they add chat bubbles, they tie a list of keywords to certain emotes to give conversation more character. Edited December 16, 2011 by Teloss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devlonir Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 On the same note as chat bubbles.. how about the /talk emote being used automatically when you /say something? I mean, either that or make /talk a repeating animation emote like /bow so you are also not staring at a completely unmoving puppet when RPing. I spent an hour last night RPing on the highrise of the Alliance Fleet Cantina on The Progenitor (EU) and this bothered me at least as much as the lack of speech bubbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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