DE_Adam 21,109 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 There are a lot of changes are coming for Chat, and we wanted to give everyone a preview on what to expect on 18.5 and beyond. Visually it’s been totally redesigned to align better with the rest of the UI, as well as added new functionality that will make chatting with players more intuitive. Major changes include a collapsible user list, with channel tabs are now appearing as icons. Private messages will still show full names, and will appear next to the channel icons. We've added emoji support to the chat, the generic ones you’d expect, plus a few Warframe-themed emojis including everyone's favorite Grineer: You can also change the theme for emojis to your liking: Emojis can be selected from a side menu or you can use the new auto complete feature of the chat. The new auto-complete can be also used to type the names of players who have recently spoken using the prefix @, and doing this will cause the player to see a special notification in chat. The auto-complete function will have full support on PC and PS4, but the Xbox One keyboard unfortunately does not have the ability to support this feature. We also added chat history for PC, so by pressing up while focused on the chat textfield you will see previous messages you sent. POST U18.5 Changes: Unfortunately, some features we're most excited about are not ready for release with 18.5, but are very close to completion. The following features are scheduled for release after 18.5, as soon as they are up to our standard of quality: Mission linking in chat: This will allow players to select a Derelict Survival Key (for example) and beside the invite button there will be recruit button which will let you send a message to either Clan, Alliance or Recruitment chat channels. The message will have a clickable link, which will allow players to join your mission. Item linking in chat: This will allow player to show Mods, weapons, and other items in chat via a link. The link will show details of the items sent, like when you preview an item in the store. Clickable player names: Currently you can click on the names of players who sent messages, but we want to have the same functionality for when you see a player name sent through the auto-complete feature. Link to post Share on other sites
Caobie 628 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) This chat is lookin sweet! Keep it up DE! Edit: Actually with the themeing of the emotes does that change the design of the chat box itself or anything else or just the scheme of the icons? also...first....i guess...cool....i'm just gonna.....yeah.... Edited February 23, 2016 by Caobie Link to post Share on other sites
TheGrimCorsair 2,509 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 I LIKE IT.gif Link to post Share on other sites
Phonxi 881 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Can we see a seek-peak of what the warframe emotes looks like? Link to post Share on other sites
xXDeadsinxX 8,254 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 this is so awesome :D Link to post Share on other sites
DrBorris 10,986 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 But... will there be separate WTB and WTS channels. Link to post Share on other sites
AnonMarc 189 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) "collapsible user list" TY i almost never use it! edit: one thing i would like to know is the background where is that O: Edited February 23, 2016 by AnonMarc Link to post Share on other sites
Circle_of_Psi 6,476 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 1 hour ago, DrBorris said: But... will there be separate WTB and WTS channels. This Link to post Share on other sites
Sanremyrvl 43 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Awesome , that will make the chat more fun in game :P Link to post Share on other sites
FfamranMiedBunansa 167 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Please, add an option to lock the chat window in the place, almost everytime I click to change the chat tab, the chat window freezes for a second and move... Link to post Share on other sites
Phatose 7,168 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Can we have an option to turn off line-wrapping? Specifically for trade chat, so I can set it that large advertisements don't take up multiple lines, and are instead simply hidden if the window isn't large enough? Link to post Share on other sites
SwiftPotato12 546 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 YES! This is the chat rework we need! Great work guys! Link to post Share on other sites
Douglas3d 20 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Lookin nice. Anyway for custom/selectable fonts? at least for PC Link to post Share on other sites
Ziegrif 3,087 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Please tell me I can disable Emojis. Link to post Share on other sites
God_is_a_Cat_Girl 2,805 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 3 hours ago, DE_Adam said: We also added chat history for PC, so by pressing up while focused on the chat textfield you will see previous messages you sent. Yes! Finally. Won't need to copy paste on trade chat anymore and accidentally post links or strings of text. Link to post Share on other sites
xZetsumeix 3,866 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 All of this looks amazing! Keep it up! Link to post Share on other sites
wtrmlnjuc 757 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Oh man, I never thought I'd be excited to chat so much in a game. Looks great, guys! Link to post Share on other sites
Azryte 216 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Looks good but what about the custom chat channel feature? Link to post Share on other sites
Liverslices 1,342 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 3 hours ago, DrBorris said: But... will there be separate WTB and WTS channels. This also. Or maybe item linking just like missions? Link to post Share on other sites
Wevi 2,795 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Will there be a way to disable emoticons globally in the settings? Link to post Share on other sites
Blatantfool 30,387 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Please add a :Gitgud: Emoji. I recommend you make it a tiny Clan Warbros emblem. Link to post Share on other sites
Prime 2,935 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 What about the Custom Channels? o.o Link to post Share on other sites
SirWolfen 317 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 These emojis are cancer come on DE what is this sms iphone texting. Link to post Share on other sites
Chroia 3,500 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) Don't care about the emoji. Autocomplete is cool. Like the upcoming clickable functionality. Any chance for a click-to-copy-to-clipboard for forum and wiki links? Edited February 23, 2016 by Chroia Link to post Share on other sites
Necrounger 1 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 I hope you guys are going to make hover over tool tips for those random icon tabs to say what they actually are. Why is the handle to expand the textbox in the bottom right and not in the top right, giving us the ability to expand 3px more in height down over and over again will make someone scream that just wants to expand to type in a multi line text area. Please add a separate handle that can make the chat box bigger in height and width in the top right of it's UI. Please give the ability to temporarily lock chat movement while we are hovering over a users name so we can do actions on it without it moving too much in an active chat. Please in the future consider a better recruiting system that allows us to post "help" requests and players that accept all go into a pool for us to invite. I do not enjoy closing 10 chat conversations every single time i ask for help in recruiting chat. The idea of adding a link people directly join for missions is silly, unless for the pure purpose of clan chat or friends. When the chat area is in focus please allow PC support for pressing the tab key to switch between tabs. Please add text selection support to chat. Please add copy/paste support to chat. Link to post Share on other sites
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