First, I love the text chat by pressing the "T" key on the keyboard of the PC version to type in any text to chat. It allows people to actually communicate and roleplay with other pirates if you or they don't have a microphone, can't speak for whatever reason (be it medical or otherwise) or can't have sound enabled for one reason or another at various times (and let's face it, the Pirate chat wheel - while wonderful and better than nothing - is way too limited - there is no way to tell people to vote for the voyage, maneuver, required action, explaining how things work to your random crew member, etc. which would all be essential as well plus many every day situations). It's a wonderful feature, well done, Rare!
On my Xbox One X, however, I have tried using my Xbox One Chat Pad to use text chat, to no avail, as it doesn't appear to be supported. It would be great if either the left or right D-Pad (it would also be nice to add this functionality for the controller on the PC, by the way) which currently don't have a button bind would activate the Text Chat and those with the Xbox One Chat Pad or a USB keyboard (on a side note, it would be nice to have full optional USB keyboard and mouse support on Xbox One as well!) connected to the Xbox One could use text chat just like PC players can. The implementation shouldn't be a problem, since the functionality is already there for the PC version and since the game is UWP it should be easily portable.
It would also make it impossible for "platform-bigots" to know you're a PC player so the PC haters won't brig you for being a PC player or Xbox haters won't brig you for not being a PC player, both of which sadly happens way too often.
On a side note, it would be nice if we could get a keybind/controller bind to display/scroll through the chat log as well in case you missed a line.
@Rare-Employee , please add support for text chat on Xbox One. It would improve the quality of life on the Xbox One immensely! Thank you very much!
PS.: Adding a push to talk keybind/controller bind on the Xbox One and a quick shortcut keybind for the speaking trumpet (on Xbox One and PC) would go a long way as well.
PPS.: It would also be nice if you could add a communication Tutorial every player has to go through so they can learn about the communication methods in this game. Many players have no idea that there is a pirate wheel or how it works (with situations and items in hand modifying the options, etc.), that there is Text Chat or voice chat and how to use it/set it up, etc..
PPPS.: Since there is now finally a Feedback + Support Forum where this topic belongs to, this is a repost of a thread from the alpha/beta in the Discussion forum which is now closed and you can find for reference by clicking here.
