Lobby/Channel | Chat System

General Discussion
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Overall, I am really enjoying the game but the lobby and chat system needs some adjustments. There are a number of changes that should be made which will help these systems function well and feel much better to use. Some of these features come from legacy D2 and D2R would benefit from them as well.

Features such as:

  • Ability to create your own custom lobby/channels as is available in legacy D2.

  • The option to specifically choose which combination of chats you can see via a filter. This applies to both the lobby/channel along with in-game chat. No more getting yanked out of another chat when someone whispers you.

  • Get rid of the thing where it automatically swaps you to another lobby/channel upon being whispered. Once you join a lobby/channel, your character should remain in there until you decide to leave it. Again, make note of how legacy D2 channels work.

  • Consider adding purpose specific lobby/channels as seen in legacy D2 (Ex. trading, ladder, PvP, class).

  • When hovering your cursor over characters in the lobby/channels it should display the character level and account name. This is another legacy D2 feature that would be beneficial to have. Some additional info such as ladder or non-ladder could be useful as well.

  • Allow players to have account profiles as they do in legacy D2. This is the feature where you right click a character that you see in a channel/lobby and there is a place where the player can include a description and location.

  • When you single click a game on the join list, the game name should automatically be filled into the “Game Name” text bar.

  • Make the lobby/channel and in-game font style closer to what is in legacy D2. The font is very generic and unfitting for the overall look of the UI in the game.

  • This is not related to the lobby/channel or chat system but please add the option to display in-game party members across the top of the screen.

Please and thank you!

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wow you read my mind lol.

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100% agreed.
The chat system is practically non-existent. Trade or joining games in an orderly manner is not possible. Most of the time when selecting a game, the list gets updated and the game is gone before you have the possibility to read the game details. That’s extremely frustrating.
The game might be playable, the chat system (which is no less important) is a beta version at best.

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+1
Agree totally with ur full posting.

Push it.

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Agree, the chat lobby definitely needs more work. I hope they improve it.

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Adding in a quick way to highlight seller spammers which auto-ignores them would be awesome. The chat is extremely plagued by them it is beyond annoying

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+1 to the op for his whole post

+1 to the op for pointing this in particular

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+1
All very useful …necessary .

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Blizzard seem to be ignoring this MAJOR MAJOR issue with the game. There is no community anymore the game will slowly die again.

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Agree, also make the lobby Show me all games and let me filter it by my own needs.

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this needs to be seen.

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it does!

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Diablo “Resurrected”, more like “Dead” again. Such a simple feature yet it adds a sense of community. Never got to experience it in OG D2, but it works so well in D3/SC2.

Then again we are talking Blizz/Activision here, so no wonder they neglect to support their products once again. Unless ofc they can heavily monetize them.

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Plus 1 this are points where legacy is better than D2R

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private channels are still not working like they used to.

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+1

And please get rid of the useless “Lobby” channel and give us back the old country specific channels like DEU-1, FRA-3 etc. There used to be a great community just around this channel in Germany and I guess it was the same in other countries - at least in Europe.