Baffled me too, no public announcement and positioned in probably the most disruptive place possible.
I imagine this may be a quick-fix to cover themselves against public figures who have abused the in-game voice chat while Roblox get voice moderation up-to-scratch.
They could at least have placed this in a less disruptive area like the left-bottom-corner. Hopping into some top games for a few minutes it’s easy to see millions of players are going to be disrupted by this:
Sounds like a good time to just
Who at Roblox thought this was a good idea? Randomly adding a ui element with NO warning for most people (except top devs) that looks extremely out of place?
Put it in the menu or something Roblox! Don’t cover our screen with a permanent button that looks completely out of place! This is honestly just another example of why trying to develop on Roblox is a nightmare.
On top of that not even telling 90% of the developers who has VC Enabled on their games.
Yup, I have vc enabled in multiple games and they didn’t pm me. Beyond unacceptable.
Hey Roblox, if you’re going to add an intrusive element to all mobile games, then at least make it look good! Not only is the button ugly (it just doesn’t fit in with all of the other buttons), but it’s extremely intrusive. PLEASE give us the option to disable this!
I think it went to developers that:
Junk.
If anyone was wondering where the new, out of place beta icon was, I’ve gone ahead and found it for you:
To find: explorer > CoreGui (go to settings > explorer > enable CoreGui if you havent had it already) > ThemeProvider (make sure the game is running to find this) > TopBarFrame > LeftFrame > Button > ActualButton
Screenshot:
(and yes, I got to this without being ID-verified, or having vc turned on)
That’s even worse, considering the mobile joystick is there. Remember that 52% of players are mobile and 10% tablet, so 62% would experience disruption. Bottom right is better though, and the fact that it’s coloured yellow…
Question: Are we allowed to modify the look of the button? Saw the hierarchy and sure we can’t remove it for legal reasons, but can we at least edit the look of it so it doesn’t look like an eyesore?
I believe alpha is where ux surveys would come in handy and that’s what roblox is doing. Let’s give this feature some time to evolve overtime. I’m definitely supporting this move from roblox.
It’s been almost 10 months since the VoiceChatService API was rolled back to private, is there any update on this? There haven’t really been any new updates on voice chat for a while, and voice chat is still limited to simple proximity chat (without any workarounds).
When will we have VoiceChatService??
I’d love to get the API updated, with features like :RemoveMicrophoneBubble()
For real, I can’t believe we haven’t had anything else after this. Being able to route a microphone to speaker objects would be absolutely amazing for walky takly style systems or ATC, and even concert or stage events.
Yes, and for people who say this wouldn’t be safe, there’s a feature in the roblox menu that is exactly a microphone button, users can mute theirselves with that button and nothing bad will occur.
Maybe we could even get Voice to text? Would love this for horror games
Starting to wonder when roblox accepts people into their beta program.
So I saw a clip from RDC 2021 that there was plans to add audio reflection “soon”. That would be useful with normal audio objects since they sound flat and will only play out one ear when panned and not have any sort of positional feel like real life does. Why was this just glossed over and forgotten about?
ah yo still waiting for push to talk. any day now roblox
You can use third party services but this can lead to ban so use it carefully
