As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to modify or change anything with vc. I’m not asking for ways to be able to change it exactly but just for the default to be changed. The vc toggle being right above the player sometimes gets in the way of players actions in a game. They also accidentally click it when they don’t mean to. Moving it to the top bar where the current “beta” icon is would remove this inconvenience and give everyone a better experience. Having a setting to disable and enable it in the esc menu would be nice as well as custom button hotkey to set to toggle vc. Default could be the “<” key since that’s rarely used in any games for anything.
If this issue is addressed, it would improve my development experience because I wouldn’t have to make things to avoid clicking above the player’s head. While even if that’s avoided such as a mouselock that aims from above, players still run into the issue of clicking it by mistake and there’s nothing the developers can do or change about it.
Of course if there’s better positions and default hotkeys to put the toggle button besides right above the character and not in the topbar that’s up to your team, the topbar is just my suggested location.
While this is a strange case I’m presenting because I’m not exactly presenting something the developers should or shouldn’t be able to do but rather just a change in general, I think it would improve gameplay within many games. If anyone disagrees, please let me know the downsides of not having the toggle right above the player.
@VSCPlays I’ve changed the format to hopefully better fit the category.
@BizzarBlitz I’ve changed my recommended hotkey to “<”, but also noted that any other button their team finds to be more fitting can also work as a default key. The main thing is to have some kind of key to toggle or player customized one to make life easier. Now I think about it a push to talk option would be really nice as well.
I think now, its time to remove the BETA label. With games using TopBar+ created by Forever HD. It just looks weird being spaced out from the chat icon.
Yeah the label there doesn’t serve any function! Replace it with the vc toggle button instead. If they really wanted they could have a setting to let players choose to have it over the char or in the corner since some players might be used to it over the players since that’s how its always been.
I and others have experienced a large number of instances where the mic is accidentally unmuted due to it being in the center of the screen. In third person shooters, clicker simulators, and any game that requires rapid clicking in the main focal point of the screen, it becomes very easy to accidently and unknowingly unmute the microphone. This presents a major privacy issue. The button to mute and unmute should not be placed in the center of the screen.
My privacy has been violated for like 10th time now by having voice chat enabled. The amount of times I have been doing something else while Roblox client was in the background, and had my conversation streamed without my knowledge to all people around me, and recorded for “moderation purposes” is insane. To add to the pain, the automated moderation system have processed those conversations, and warned me several times.
I have mentioned how serious this issue is to several Roblox engineers in few of my posts since the first early beta version that was made available to the public, and still nothing has been done to fix this. Nobody at Roblox seems to take this seriously. I am currently forced to keep voice chat disabled for sake of my privacy and to avoid getting moderated for this nonsense.
