Chat blackout while spawning

[Veteran]

Is it just me, or is the fact that you can't chat while you're spawning pretty lame?

Don't tell me "you're supposed to be dead, you can't talk" because anyone on Roger Wilco, TeamSpeak, etc. can keep on talking, so why should keyboard users be punished?

One good thing, at least, is that you can still use outfit chat while spawning, but it's akward.

Should they change it? Is it a bug? Should we all just use voicechat?

I don't know, but it sure would pass the time better while I respawn.

[Flammey]

I hate typing, but it's often necessary. I use spawning to setup a message so that I can hit ENTER, Up Arrow, and enter, and the message is away.

[321]

I use spawning to setup a message so that I can hit ENTER, Up Arrow, and enter, and the message is away.

I either do that or I type it in outfit chat becuase I'm usally in a outfit squad or solo.

[dscytherulez]

^ Yeah same here

[Doppler]

I'm always afraid to bring this up on the official forums cuz i can just see spork responding "well well just have to do something about this teamspeak thing" even though i suspect many people whould quit this game if they couldnt use teamspeak, i think i whould.

[flypengy]

I don't think they can limit the usage of TS. And sorry, not being able to talk while respawning is perfectly viable. If you have something to say, wait to click the respawn button. As you said, you're dead, why would you be able to speak? That doesn't make sense to me

[FraudulentBob]

Its a game.

Besides, sometimes you can send /tells and talk in outfit chat, but sometimes you can't, I think its a bit buggy.

By the way peng, your sig is going to get owned by SigBot, its at 500px.

[Queensidecastle]

My outfit doesnt even use Teamspeak since it is crap. Ventrilio is much better and Sony has no control over it. As far as the typing blackout, it is super lame but I figure its just a technical issue they dont want to spend coding resources to fix. However, if it is not, very lame indeed. Since you can lay there dead and chat, why cant you chat while spawning?

[Happy lil Elf]

Ventrilio is much better and Sony has no control over it.Sony has no control over Teamspeak either...

[ChewyLSB]

And... TeamSpeak is better than Ventrillo. I've used both, and I definately think TeamSpeak is better. But that's just my opinion.

[Hamma]

At one point they said they would remove the restriction of not doing anything while dead. No idea what happened to that

[Biohazzard56]

Even thought it is lame and annoying , who ever said that your dead and shouldnt be able to type is absolutley right.

[sutserikeru]

Even thought it is lame and annoying , who ever said that your dead and shouldnt be able to type is absolutley right.
:indeed:

[Veteran]

Then you should forget everything that happened to your previous clones when you die, including everything you'd done since that clone first spawned. Unless of course your 'central consciousness' isn't stored in the clone, but in the matrix, in which case you'd be chatting from within the spawn matrix. Either it's a realism issue or it's a concession to the reality of online gameplay.

It's a slippery slope.

[Indecisive]

TS > Vent

[TheRagingGerbil]

I love not being able to chat will dead...or should I say not being able to chat most of the time while dead....or is it some of the time...

Bah, I wish the system would just settle on which way it wants it to be instead of this "sometimes it works, sometimes it don't" crap.

[Doppler]

Even thought it is lame and annoying , who ever said that your dead and shouldnt be able to type is absolutley right.

Strictly speaking though your conciousness thought has to be active somehow and someway because its able to select where to respawn at. So theres no reason to believe that it cant communcate (after all how do we know squaddies are speaking to each other? They could be useing a form of technological telepathy.

Edited for typos and clarity.

[sutserikeru]

Strictly speaking though your conciousness thought has to be active somehow and soemway because its able to select where to respawn at. So theres no respon to believe that it cant communcatie (after all how do we know squaddies are speaking to each other they could be useing a form of technological telepathy.
lol, we went from thinking it was a simple gameplay glitch, to telepathy, lol :lol:

[Doppler]

This is the point i bring up the futility of trying to compare planetside to real life i.e. dead men tell no tales.

[Veteran]

I think your point answered the whole issue, Doppler. Hopefully the devs will be sympathetic and fix it.