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FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-23 08:00:37
August 23 2012 07:03 GMT
#1
I searched and did not find a topic on this yet.

I'm not sure if this should be in tech support or not (nor am I sure if this should be a [H] topic even.... in retrospect... probably not), but I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. For no apparent reason that I am aware of, I can no longer read in game chat or write in game chat. For another friend, he had the same issue, but relogging in managed to alleviate the issue. For me, relogging or even restarting the game has had no effect.

I can type in chat channels. I cannot type in game. I can see other people's pings and they can see mine. When I try to chat, it is not displayed, and no one else can read it either. The message log when I click F11 is also blank.

Lastly, if I try to party chat using "/r" then tabbing, it works immediately, and other people in my party can see it. If they use party chat however, I cannot read it, UNTIL I click the chat window icon on the mid right of the screen. When I click that, all the chat messages will pop up simultaneously.

I have never had this issue in the past. Like I said, I would have posted this in tech support, but I'm wondering if something in the new patch might have triggered this issue (although like I said, it just happened to me today, and I've had the new patch for a few days now with no issue), especially since it apparently is not an issue unique to me.

The other 3 members of my party can all chat with each other and the other team. I feel really left out .
Polar_Nada
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States1548 Posts
August 23 2012 07:04 GMT
#2
I think you need to restart your sc2
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blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-23 07:05:58
August 23 2012 07:04 GMT
#3
i got this a couple times and i restarted the game and it worked, but i heard some people it will stay like that even after restarting.

good luck.

FIGHTING!
blabberrrrr
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
August 23 2012 07:05 GMT
#4
On August 23 2012 16:04 Polar_Nada wrote:
I think you need to restart your sc2


Please read the OP. I said I already tried this.
Aesdea
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada24 Posts
August 23 2012 07:07 GMT
#5
Me and my friend, who I play 2's with, have been having a somewhat similar issue since the last patch. There's random games where we can type a message but it doesn't seem to send, and neither of us can send or see what the other person and I can only assume other team could be saying. But then the next game chat is working fine again, it's been completely random when it does and doesn't work it seems.
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
August 23 2012 07:12 GMT
#6
Chat hasn't been working for any of my games.
Xapti
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2473 Posts
August 23 2012 07:48 GMT
#7
It would have been good if you made it more clear that you suspect this isn't just a personal issue, and maybe make a summary paragraph of just a sentence or two (that's all this post really needed to be in my opinion unless it was to be in tech support).
"Then he told me to tell you that he wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire" — "Well, you tell him that I said that I wouldn't piss on him if he was on Jeopardy!"
FabledIntegral
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States9232 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-23 08:01:07
August 23 2012 07:56 GMT
#8
On August 23 2012 16:48 Xapti wrote:
It would have been good if you made it more clear that you suspect this isn't just a personal issue, and maybe make a summary paragraph of just a sentence or two (that's all this post really needed to be in my opinion unless it was to be in tech support).


I made it quite clear that I am not the only one with the issue... meh. I'll under that part explicitly I guess to reinforce the point.
blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
August 24 2012 06:28 GMT
#9
hey i hear it seems to happen in team games and it can transfer amongs party members when a party member leaves and rejoins
blabberrrrr
ceaRshaf
Profile Joined August 2009
Romania4926 Posts
August 24 2012 06:32 GMT
#10
I get this from time to time. It's a pain in team games. My 2v2 partner knows that if I only ping (pinging on the map works even when the chat doesn't ) I have the chat bug so he should be aware.

It's annoying, but it never persisted more than one game at a time.
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
K3Nyy
Profile Joined February 2010
United States1961 Posts
August 24 2012 06:36 GMT
#11
This happens to me a lot in 4v4, I can confirm this.

I'd be happy if anyone has a solution for this. Restarting sc2 sometimes doesn't work.
AcesAnoka
Profile Joined April 2011
Belgium262 Posts
September 08 2012 19:43 GMT
#12
This needs to have more attention. bug still not fixed
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MrJack1337
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany38 Posts
September 08 2012 19:49 GMT
#13
Yes. It happens to me in team games sometimes. Also occured on ProTech' stream some days ago.
Cokefreak
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland8095 Posts
September 08 2012 19:53 GMT
#14
I noticed this occurring after the patch as well during team games, never in 1v1 so there seems to be some kind of a problem with party chat. Maybe you should report this to Blizzard though as there is little we can do about it on TL.
EdenPLusDucky
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
571 Posts
September 08 2012 19:55 GMT
#15
Happens to me in team games sometimes too, I can still talk in channels so I suggest that you and your friends join a chat channel so you guys can still talk in there even if your ingame chat doesn't work.
Zenbrez
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada5973 Posts
September 08 2012 19:56 GMT
#16
Forgive me if this has been mentioned, I don't want to read all the posts.

In Options --> Battle.net --> Privacy, if you have the setting to be set to busy during games, that might be removing your chat. I know I used to have it on and I couldn't see any chat (even my own) when talking. However, I don't remember if I was talking in party or whisper. Either way, this may or may not help.
Refer to my post.
Nightmarjoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States3360 Posts
September 08 2012 20:05 GMT
#17
I occasionally have the same problem in team games (when in a party), but just for one game at a time. I started getting it after 1.5. I don't have any privacy options on or busy on.
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ailouros
Profile Joined August 2008
United States193 Posts
September 08 2012 20:16 GMT
#18
Yep, I got a buddy who can't read or send in-game chat.
Cycle
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States300 Posts
September 08 2012 21:10 GMT
#19
On September 09 2012 04:56 Zenbrez wrote:
Forgive me if this has been mentioned, I don't want to read all the posts.

In Options --> Battle.net --> Privacy, if you have the setting to be set to busy during games, that might be removing your chat. I know I used to have it on and I couldn't see any chat (even my own) when talking. However, I don't remember if I was talking in party or whisper. Either way, this may or may not help.

I also cannot read or send messages on certain maps in team games. Even if you are not on "Busy" in-game, this error still occurs.

Also this error occurs only for the in-game chat. I'm able to whisper to people or talk in chats while in-game, but not to players.
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cari-kira
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany655 Posts
September 08 2012 22:47 GMT
#20
same here.
we play 4v4 nearly every evening, and the problem is known to our group from patch 1.5 on.
when the error occurs, you cant even read your own chat, nor the chat from your party members.
when you dont see your own "glhf" at mapstart, we know that we have the "chatbug".
it occurs so frequently, that we got used to it.
nearly every game one or more of our group has it, for the others it works fine.
it changes randomly who has this problem.
i am really surprised that blizzard has not patched this with a hotfix after some weeks now...
Live and let live
AcesAnoka
Profile Joined April 2011
Belgium262 Posts
September 11 2012 15:56 GMT
#21
Does anyone know how to forward this problem to blizz?
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