Pax Dei Confirms Voice Chat and Return of Text Chat Bubbles

In the latest dev blog, Pax Dei’s developers chatted a little more about, well, upcoming chat features. This time specifically, voice chat has been confirmed, and chat bubbles will be coming back so you can see yourself getting smack-talked in real time, and by who. 

It seems the upcoming voice chat is part of Pax Dei's official partnership with Discord. Players will be able to opt in to the voice chat features, as well as control who they can hear through mute functions. There’ll also be push-to-talk and other settings available through a specific voice chat setting screen. 

If the Discord partnership holds true, the need to log into Discord will also remain optional as part of this addition; the Discord partnership is essentially largely back-end stuff that the gaming chat platform is piloting with other game developers. 

The Pax Dei blog also announced the glorious return of chat bubbles. Anything typed by someone in the Nearby, Party and Clan chats will also appear in a little bubble above the sender’s character, so you can essentially just look around and see who’s trading or raiding or flaming.

All of these will go live with Pax Dei's next major content update. We don’t know exactly when that is, but the team has been sharing previews piecewise, including a very recent Q&A and a preview of an in-game directional compass, a must for anyone who doesn’t want to follow shadows to get home.