New chat

Suggestion type:
Forum/FGunZ/Other


Suggestion description:

It'll be good if the chat is changed. It's annoy that sometimes you miss a whisper or a msg u couldn't read, so there should be an option to switch between a general chat (chat that will have all msg (whispers, normal, clan, team, etc.), one for only whispers, and one for only clan (i don't see team chat so necessary to be on a separate option). Also, it would be great an option to switch between these chats for send a msg. (Apart of something that save msg that were sent and a black transparent background when you click "Enter")

Here's an example of what i mean:
https://i.imgur.com/1CcoxJp.png

Tbh the way you show and explain it makes it feel annoying to the sight when you're playing besides that it would need of a key to switch between tabs and no one would focus on that outside training rooms, in any case it can be programmed that received and sent whispers appear in the general chat list in lobby when you leave a room or in the mailbox window with a mark that shows that you received a whisper.

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Although in options > misc you can block the chat that you wanna ignore, whisper, team, general, all 3... I dislike this idea.

Pretty sure this is "in the works" for years now so this isnt a new concept...

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Originally Posted by Castiel

Tbh the way you show and explain it makes it feel annoying to the sight when you're playing besides that it would need of a key to switch between tabs and no one would focus on that outside training rooms, in any case it can be programmed that received and sent whispers appear in the general chat list in lobby when you leave a room or in the mailbox window with a mark that shows that you received a whisper.

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Although in options > misc you can block the chat that you wanna ignore, whisper, team, general, all 3... I dislike this idea.

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In gamemodes like turbo you can easily miss any msg because the amount of kills and things like this. Many games have this option in chat ofc in Gunz the chat is pretty big compared with other games, but reducing the size can make this less annoy.

And the options you said BLOCK these chats (whispers, clan, team chat, etc.), And not everyone will use these options just for a moment (Without mention that at least for me hiding general chat or clan chat doesn't work). Let's put an example, with this suggestion I'm giving, while you are in turbo, and you're whispering someone, you can open the chat switch to "Whisper" and see what did the other sent. You whisper back, change to "General" and you can see all msg. All in just some seconds. While with BLOCK option, you need to esc > options > misc > block the chat you don't like, whisper or talk in the clan chat, and wish if no one is telling you something in normal chat.

With this I mean you can miss a lot of msg (maybe important, maybe not) just because you were blocking general/whisper/clan/ team chat. If they add a chat like I suggest (not exactly the same, but with the same idea), you cannot be scared or worried to miss any msg.

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Originally Posted by Bunny

Pretty sure this is "in the works" for years now so this isnt a new concept...

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Can't remember if there was one as this accepted recently tho.

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Originally Posted by Bunny

Pretty sure this is "in the works" for years now so this isnt a new concept...

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I seperated the chat (moved kills/deaths out of main chat) but it caused FPS issues on some systems, but this suggestion is a little different.

looks like combat arms or maple story

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Originally Posted by McSic

I seperated the chat (moved kills/deaths out of main chat) but it caused FPS issues on some systems, but this suggestion is a little different.

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Can we put the kills/death at the top right corner?

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Originally Posted by reformed

looks like combat arms or maple story

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Well, mainly MMO's like Maple story have these format, but I saw some shooters have it too.

I believe this would require large amount of code to get working (e.g. it requires mouse input while in game, scrollbars, different tabs etc). It's probably not that hard to add but I can't really tell

I'd like to propose a way of doing this that would be a lot easier, but also be good enough for what your asking:
Keep a history of messages hidden in the client (e.g. up to 500 messages), and then allow the player to scroll the history up/down with hotkeys (should be defaulted to PGUP and PGDN). If new messages are received while you're viewing older ones, perhaps an alert should appear advising you to scroll down for new msgs, or if you haven't scrolled up/down for a while, it will eventually scroll down itself, if the user is already fully scrolled down when a new message is received, the client should scroll down automatically too. The coding behind this is extremely simple & doesn't require changes to the visuals of the chat (which I guess is good?).

I'm not sure how you could go about resetting the history, I guess you'd have to reset it if player joins a new room/leaves a room etc. Though it'd be cool if you could leave a room, join a new room, and still look at the old messages

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Originally Posted by McSic

I seperated the chat (moved kills/deaths out of main chat) but it caused FPS issues on some systems, but this suggestion is a little different.

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What about extending the chat, making it 2 or 3x longer and display the chatbox text a bit longer, pretty sure the stuff that get's written in the chatbox disappears after 20 seconds or something.

add built in voice chat and gg

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Originally Posted by StephanM

What about extending the chat, making it 2 or 3x longer and display the chatbox text a bit longer, pretty sure the stuff that get's written in the chatbox disappears after 20 seconds or something.

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Feels like 5-6 sec tbh

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Originally Posted by Skilly

I believe this would require large amount of code to get working (e.g. it requires mouse input while in game, scrollbars, different tabs etc). It's probably not that hard to add but I can't really tell

I'd like to propose a way of doing this that would be a lot easier, but also be good enough for what your asking:
Keep a history of messages hidden in the client (e.g. up to 500 messages), and then allow the player to scroll the history up/down with hotkeys (should be defaulted to PGUP and PGDN). If new messages are received while you're viewing older ones, perhaps an alert should appear advising you to scroll down for new msgs, or if you haven't scrolled up/down for a while, it will eventually scroll down itself, if the user is already fully scrolled down when a new message is received, the client should scroll down automatically too. The coding behind this is extremely simple & doesn't require changes to the visuals of the chat (which I guess is good?).

I'm not sure how you could go about resetting the history, I guess you'd have to reset it if player joins a new room/leaves a room etc. Though it'd be cool if you could leave a room, join a new room, and still look at the old messages

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It's good but, the problem with this (again) is modes like turbo and moments when you're in a room and many players start to talk, you can easily lose the msg you missed because kills/msgs don't stop sending. This is why I've suggested differents tabs for ppl can't miss these msgs.

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Originally Posted by StephanM

What about extending the chat, making it 2 or 3x longer and display the chatbox text a bit longer, pretty sure the stuff that get's written in the chatbox disappears after 20 seconds or something.

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I don't think it'll be so helpful, as I said when you are in turbo or when many ppl send many msgs you'll lose the msg. Yeah, maybe can help sometimes, but not all the time.