Sony has released the car-breaking game Destruction of AllStars Tuesday exclusively for the PlayStation 5, but it comes with one very annoying feature: voice chat in multiplayer games is turned on by default, which means you can be subject to your opponents’ unfiltered comments and background noise. And even worse, it was not immediately obvious how to eliminate chats.
On Friday, however, developer Lucid Games addressed the issue by releasing a hotfix for the game that disables voice chat in multiplayer lobbies by default (via Kotaku).
I jumped in a few games with the hotfix installed to test things out, and my teammates greeted me with a lovely silence. However, it seems that there is currently no option for public voice chat at all. I could not find a way to turn on voice chat in the menus. Before this patch, you could mute voice chat per game with the PlayStation 5’s activity cards, and I also saw no way to turn on voice chat from those.
Maybe public chat conversations will return at some point as Lucid Games said it is “Work actively to improve the voice communication system in the longer term.” And if you want to play Destruction of AllStars with friends and chatting with them, it should still work, too. I was able to chat with a Edge colleague as part of a party we made without any problem.
Here is the full notes:
Several client crashes involving multiplayer lobbies and UI have been fixed.
– Lucid Games (@LucidGamesLtd) 5 February 2021