#Proximity Chat

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plucky kestrel
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Image creds @paper gazelle
Is it stupid? Yes. Am I gonna flesh it out anyway? Absolutely.

Proximity chat could work as a pre game toggle, represented by a microphone icon on the lobby menu that would take audio from someone’s mic and gave it play depending on how far they are from the player, in an actual match, the pause menu could be extended as in the image below, and display people’s microphone volumes next to a slider that could be used to turn them down or mute them if they’re just screaming into their mic. All in all, I think this would be a very good way to make the game funnier and more entertaining, all while giving players an easy way to communicate mid game.
On the options menu, players would have an option not to enable voice chat altogether, which could be represented by a crossed out mic to the right if their name in-game.
If possible, record of what’s been said could be kept to allow for reporting for things such as hate speech.

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@paper gazelle it’s alright that I used your image to help describe my vision right?

paper gazelle
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yes

plucky kestrel
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Aight sick

viral valley
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im sure this was suggested before, and was declined because that would be too much to add

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also knowing how people are here, hate speech is going to be common :p

rapid oar
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i would love a mod of this

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but for base game yeah it would get really bad

molten creek
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the map isnt that big so ireally dont see how this would change anything

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but if its for a mod with bigger maps

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100%

rapid oar
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kid named little caesars

umbral badger
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this is kinda stupid because the maps are all so small it might as well be a global vc

plucky kestrel
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The range could be really small tho like 5x5 or 10x10 around a player

rough gate
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imagine if someone got the mega mushroom and the vc effect gets changed to some sort of deeper voice and its echoey if your far away

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and if someone got the mini mushroom their voice chat would be high pitched like their actually short

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and the voice would come from a 2x2 area

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for mini mushroom

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but for mega mushroom you can hear it 15x15

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other powerups? its litterally default 5x5

nova inlet
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Discord exists

viral valley
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yeah but its not the same as proximity.
i like this idea as a mod but would require seperate servers for voice obviously

ashen spruce
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I swear this appeared right after i said 'i was gonna make a suggestion on voice chat'

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wth man stole my idea

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also i was thinking twice about it so i'm glad i didn't suggest it because ya know...people can bypass the swearing filter

plucky kestrel
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The swearing filter can be disabled in the settings

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@rough gate you absolute genius

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I think Mini could be 5 tho that way you can hear it from above the mini area in fort

sly badger
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i don't think i would like to hear some 10 year old curse at me

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but cool idea

rough gate
viral valley
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mega is 3x so 30x30

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about 3x

plucky kestrel
paper gazelle
long seal
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toggle

molten creek
vivid valve
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dem fortnite screamers would be worse here

paper gazelle
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wega scream when a kid dies

rough gate
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well if vc is a bad idea in proximity then wb normal chat

plucky kestrel
molten creek
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thats a terrible idea

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ppl can easily abuse it

plucky kestrel
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Muting players would be client side and only mute them for yourself, don’t see how that could be abused

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Players that have someone muted could even have a different symbol next to their name for that player and let them know that that person has them muted

molten creek
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ok i thought u meant that if u mute some1 he'd be mute for everyone because that would of been bad

waxen oasis
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No... just no

plucky kestrel
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It would be funny

nova badger
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It is a fun suggestion but most likely going to be in a mod anyways

oak plaza
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It'd be quite funny if we hear a muffled voice in shell mode, or if it suddenly cut when frozen

viral valley
vocal lagoon
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when mini, it's higher pitched mariohappy