Fans Praise Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0’s Proximity Chat, With the Feature Causing a Rollercoaster of Emotions for Players

Call of Duty: Warzone 2’s lone new feature has already altered how the game is played. All Warzone modes now come with proximity chat enabled by default, which allows players to hear the enemy’s mic chatter while they are close by. If you notice a red chat indication on the left of your HUD, that tells you that you are hearing an enemy. The battle royal genre is expanded greatly by Warzone 2’s new elements.

From public squads to custom loadouts, proximity chat is the most enjoyable of them all. Battle royales typically lack a communication feature. To communicate with one another, the gamers must use third-party software like Discord. But Warzone 2 went down an original road and included in-game proximity chat for the benefit of all players, and they’re loving it.

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Call of Duty: Warzone 2 Players are Loving the Brilliance of Proximity Chat

The ability to communicate with other players in-game is provided by proximity chat. Who can hear whom depends on their proximity or distance, as the name would imply. The players are making the most of this element, which is relatively new to the franchise.

Fans aren’t the only ones making use of the function, content producers are as well, through sociological experiments in the gaming lobby that are entertaining. Warzone 2 proximity chat encounters have ranged from surprisingly wholesome to tragic in the first few days.

Players are making use of their right to free speech to negotiate truces, forge alliances, mock one another from a distance, and, of course, stab one another in the back. The video below, posted by Redditor AntiPiety, demonstrates how Piety was able to follow the sound of two players’ verbal communications for several minutes during a battle royale fight.

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Piety managed to knock both of them into DBNO when he finally came up to them, spoke with them, and then killed them. The group greets each other, laughs about one of them having a self-revive in their pocket, and Piety ultimately chooses to let them both live.

Here are some of the reactions of the fans to the new feature:

Within the first few days of release, it is immediately evident that Warzone 2.0’s proximity chat is going to be a stand-out feature. It might be yet another avenue for people to face harassment if they play Call of Duty. Fortunately, the Warzone 2.0 settings menu allows you to disable proximity chat, voice chat, and last words chat.

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