Chat

The chat is an area in the bottom left of the HUD where you can send and receive text messages in game. Text chat is used in Multiplayer to talk to other players without using voice chat.

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To open the chat window, first exit any other open windows, then press ENTER key. Here you can read what others have recently shared with you personally, or what they have broadcast globally.

Related topics:

• See Emotes for special chat commands that play character animations.
• See GPS to learn how to create and send GPS waypoints quickly in chat.
• In the Options, you can additionally enable voice chat.

How to chat

To switch to a text chat channel:

1. Press ENTER key to open the chat.
2. Enter one of the following commands:
   • /g
     Switches chat to the public global chat channel.
   • /f
     Switches chat to your private faction chat channel.
   • /w "Player Name"
     Switches chat to the Whisper channel with the player named Player Name. Names are case sensitive. Surround names in quotes if they contain spaces.
     Tip: Type the first unique letters and then press TAB key to auto-complete names of online players.

1. Type your message.
2. Either press ENTER key again to send the message or press ESCAPE key to cancel sending your message.

Press ESCAPE key to close the chat box.

Channels - Who is talking to whom?

After pressing the ENTER key key, look at the bottom left side of the chat input box to check in which of the three text channels you are:

• Global in white -- You are in the public channel.
• Your faction name in green -- You are in your private faction channel.
• A Player Name in pink -- You are in a whisper channel for a private 1:1 conversation.

Who is talking?

• Your Name appears in blue
• A faction member appears in green
• A neutral player appears in gold
• An enemy player appears in red
• Admin appears in purple

Navigation Shortcuts

• Press ARROWUP key/ARROWDOWN key to repeat your previous/next chat line or command.
• Press ARROWLEFT key/ARROWRIGHT key to move the caret if you want to edit the message before sending.
• Press PAGEUP key/PAGEDOWN key to scroll the chat window.

Mute Players

• To mute messages from one player, enter:
  /m "Red Engineer"
• To unmute the player, enter:
  /u "Red Engineer"

Chat Options

• /timestamp on
  Turns the chat timestamp on.
• /timestamp off
  Turns the chat timestamp off.

Help

• /help /commandname
  Shows help for the command /commandname.

For example, to get help about the whisper channel, type

/help /w

Chat History

The Comms tab in the Terminal contains your chat history.

Proximity Voice Chat

The built-in Proximity Chat follows the same rules as the suit antenna: You can hear each other within 200m, and beyond that, you need to build antennas to be audible in active antenna broadcasting range.

• You enable the built-in proximity chat in the Options under Audio Options.
• To broadcast, hold the key that you configured in the Options under the Controls.

Most people use TeamSpeak, Mumble, or Discord for secure faction voice chat.