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Originally Posted by mxmadman
The point is not about how the folks communicate once they've already formed a group, the problem is that its not possible to form that group by joining a TS. I can't ask the TS fairy what IP address will bring me to the right group of sim pilots.
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Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles
Objectively speaking, what is good about HL? Other than the chat, what does HL have that an ingame lobby doesn't?
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When I heard that CloD was going to be on steam I was actually kind of happy... I figured the servers and squads would all form steam-groups and players would join the appropriate group(s)... This would have allowed squads to have an instant blog style place to meet up and communicate (via steam) with chat or voice (yes, I honestly thought people would just use steam for voice chat since it's built in).
I also thought the individual servers would have their own steam groups for communication, announcements, posting events, map rotations, etc...
A chat lobby in game and better integration with steam servers (like l4d2) could have turned out completely differently... then folks who are not into the forums would find the CloD related groups (squads) and servers on steam and we'd all be more of a community....
Instead we are pining for HL (which is great!!!) but it seems like we really just need better mp lobbies in-game that accomodate coop style gameplay and pre-mission chat (and maybe better integration with between the servers and steam itself).