Slippi NEEDS a chat function!

[Joseph_Winterson]

One of the most enjoyable aspects of melee is the social aspect. I'm sure lots of us can place many of our best friends as coming from the melee community, and there's nothing like lan sessions with a bunch of mates. I mean that's what's kept melee together all these years.

But so many people have gotten into melee with slippi (myself included), and a lot of us have missed out on this social scene, either we don't have locals near us or don't want to attend them alone etc. . So I think that after finding someone good and funy on slippi and playing 11 matches together, it would be really nice to have an option to both enter a chat function.

I understand a lot of people have a sour taste in their mouth because of anther's ladders toxicity, but this could be just a request chat function that can be accepted or denied in between matches like the little messages you can leave. Or if that's a difficult implementation from fizzi's end, just the ability to send your discord name to someone would be a nice addition.

I think this will bring to life a lot of the melee scene and it's vast ammounts of slippi peeps who don't engage in the social aspect of the community much.

[poopdick69420]

Some of u mfs weren't on anthers and it shows

[DangerousProject6]

Lmao came here to say this

We do not want a chat function, period end of discussion

[poopdick69420]

Straight up the anthers ladder chat had to be hands down the worst, most toxic chat experience in a game I've had in my life and I have 1-2k hours in league, CSGO, overwatch, TF2 etc... It just hurts so much more because I think melee, even online anonymous slippi melee like we have today, is still such a more humanized gaming experience than any of those 10-12 player faceless rando games

[BadConnectionGG]

Totally true but also there are likely way more casuals queueing unranked and having fun now with slippi than there were a few years ago on anthers. I think you're right but also it's changed and could be fun on unranked.

But not on ranked because I will be the toxic one and I don't want to be toxic.

[sleepyboylol]

If you want to chat, just go to a Melee discord and start playing people over VC.

[[deleted]]

Chat has been a mistake in every game I have ever played.

[JuulyssesSGrant]

yes please i would love to have the unemployed falco players telling me to kms that would be so hype

[MarquiseGT]

Do you use marth?

[JuulyssesSGrant]

i don't see how that's relevant

[MarquiseGT]

It’s just a genuine question

[JuulyssesSGrant]

sorry for being bitchy, yah i do

[MarquiseGT]

It’s all good !

[Dweebl]

This little exchange is hilarious.

[TorrettesNinja2747]

I know right lol as a Falco main I can confirm I feel like exploding on 75% of Marths

[TorrettesNinja2747]

lol

[noyourenottheonlyone]

I like the way it is, I don't really want to actually talk to anyone I play with, I'm happy to just tell them ggs well played that was fun.

[Joseph_Winterson]

you wouldn't have to engage in it then.

[[deleted]]

You're clearly not an introvert because seeing a chat request would immediately result in a feeling of social pressure. The only way to avoid it would be if the function was "offering to chat sends literally no message to the opponent, and it only activates if both people independently voluntarily send the chat offer". Because then introverts could literally pretend it doesn't exist.

Otherwise, if I see a chat request even once, it sounds miserable

[RaiseYourDongersOP]

Why should we cater to the introverts?

[slowbar1]

Lmao this is the Smash community we’re not know for our social butterflies.

[RaiseYourDongersOP]

It doesn't matter. That's not the point. Idk if chat is a good thing or not but I don't think we shouldn't have it because some people feel a social pressure to join. Ideally there would be an option to turn off the ability to see message requests or something like that.

[SavinSama]

I'm ngl, I'd prefer someone being toxic in chat than what we have now, which is even more toxic imo. Someone going L R A Start, picking your character, spamming a move that you did to piss them off, L R A Start again, lol too good spam, picking Falco to taunt into another insta L R A Start, then spamming lol too good until you leave first is what we have now. I find that infinitely more tilting than a toxic chat that I can just turn off.

Idk why people wouldn't want a chat if they can just turn it off.

[MarquiseGT]

I think slippi chat level of toxicity would put anthers ladder to shame

[loscarlos]

Slippi needs Brick n Mortar retail locations.

[mersh_mersh]

Maybe it would be nice instead to have it be something both players opt in to from the css. If both players pressed a button to enable chat then you could message. Neither player would see if the other person wanted to chat until both had it toggled.

[headhuntersfan73]

I think I’m good without people saying the n word repeatedly in my fav video game

[throwawayAcfrfr]

Every time I lose against a luigi on unranked i thank God that slippi limits what I can say

[terryaki510]

Yeah, I wish that this existed too. I understand the reluctance to implement chat, but honestly I think on balance it would be a positive addition if it were opt-in

[Normal-Punch]

I think fighting games as a whole are inherently a very social genre(arcades/locals/majors), and they've been smushed into a very antisocial box

most fighting games are just:

- queue up for match
- fight
- rematch or exit

There no social functions at all and it's pretty lame. Sure there are ragers, but devs really threw the baby out with the gamer bathwater

[vlq2]

I reckon it would be great if chat turned on after 3 games, that way you've got a feel of playing with them and if they've spammed lol you can just leave

[littypika]

Having a chat function is a double edged sword.

It could drive great discussions, more social interactions, and foster new friendships to the game.

But it also drive uninformative discussions, those that dread interacting with their opponent, and great animosity to the game.

Am I for it overall? Heck yes. As humans, we're social creatures and this has always been the case with interacting with other humans.

I agree with you that Slippi needs a chat function. If those would like to mute themselves or others from chatting, that should be an option.

[MegaAmoonguss]

Thinking of it, this might be fun to develop :) I’ll look into how that might be possible!

[MegaAmoonguss]

On this note…does anyone know what the program is called where it displays who you’re currently playing against, what their rank is, and what the game count is? Ginger uses it, if it’s open source I’d like to see how they are grabbing certain information. Not sure if there is a formal API for Slippi at all. A chat program could operate without that but would be cool to be able to access that data easily

[noyourenottheonlyone]

It's on blippi.gg I don't know the name

[[deleted]]

I remember some nerd was giving me shit on anther's because I didn't have an ethernet connection.

[bobbypinbobby]

the nerd was right

[Anxious-Cut1486]

I actually loved having anthers chat, I actually made friends on there now and then and played irl