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Overwatch communication options

Overwatch communication menu — Image credit: Unionhawk

Options for text chat, voice chat, emotes, and predefined voice phrases.

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Provide visual means of communicating in multiplayer
Support text chat as well as voice for multiplayer
Support voice chat as well as text for multiplayer games

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A collaborative effort between a group of studios, specialists and academics, to produce a straightforward developer friendly reference for ways to avoid unnecessarily excluding players, and ensure that games are just as fun for as wide a range of people as possible.

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