Open chat is in, including both non-gangmembers and chat between gangs. I’ll get to how you use it in a second.
I hate to even go into it, because we do have a good crew here, but there’s basically one rule of chat: don’t make me sort out drama. Any drama I have to sort out comes straight out of development time, which isn’t something I’m going to get involved with lightly or punish lightly if I do have to. In other words, if you know you’re going to start drama or can’t judge, don’t go into open chat.
Sorry about that, but I wanted to get it out there up front.
Here are the shiny new commands:
- /join channel – Joins a given chat channel. Options right now include open, gang (if you’re in a gang), and gang warfare (the chat notifications you get, can’t be posted to).
- /leave channel – Leaves a chat channel. Same options as above. You can also use /leave chat to get out of chat entirely.
- /which or /where – Tells you which channels you’re listening to and posting to.
- /quit or /exit – Leaves chat.
When you’re in multiple chat channels, a dropdown will appear to select which channel you’re speaking to. Also, messages from other players will be say which channel they’re speaking in.
The Leave Chat link at the bottom has been removed to reclaim a bit of space. So remember the /quit, /exit, and /leave chat commands. You just might need them :)
Other updates:
- Avatars now appear in your profile when other players are looking at it and don’t need to be reset when you change gangs.
- Quantum Mechanics and Walk With The Blind now have alternate ways to unlock them. The old ways are still there and probably easier, but the new ways are what intuitively should work.
- Leaving a gang should now always force you out of gang chat, instead of just not letting you post. Thanks Olaf!
- Ghoultouched no longer turns off when you gain a new skill. Great catch, dudeathome!
- Sailors (well, ex-sailors) freed during the Ship of the Damned quest will now show up in your quest log. Good suggestion, RazielSonOfKain!
- Also, a big thank you to Caradal and Jetalynn for catching some typos.
Cheers!
Kinak
Tags: Caradal, Chat, dudeathome, Jetalynn, Olaf, razielsonofkain