What happened to voice chat on PS4?

Calicancer77

I can't join any of the available voice chat channels for my guilds or zone, yes, I tried restarting the game. Is anyone else having this problem?

msetten

I am actually having the opposite problem on my PS5: Every time I restart the game or login to another character, Zone Voice chat is automatically enabled. Which is annoying, so I have to turn it off every time.

ZOS_Adrikoth

Greetings @Calicancer77

The troubleshooting in this article might be able to help if you are unable to join voice chat on PS4.

Puzzlenuts

msetten wrote: »

I am actually having the opposite problem on my PS5: Every time I restart the game or login to another character, Zone Voice chat is automatically enabled. Which is annoying, so I have to turn it off every time.

This has been happening to me as well

Brrrofski

ZOS_Adrikoth wrote: »

Greetings @Calicancer77

The troubleshooting in this article might be able to help if you are unable to join voice chat on PS4.

This is not the answer.

Xbox has this issue too, since the update.

Nobody can join guilds chat at all.

It's a bug that has obviously come through with the new patch. Can this be flagged please?

fizl101

msetten wrote: »

I am actually having the opposite problem on my PS5: Every time I restart the game or login to another character, Zone Voice chat is automatically enabled. Which is annoying, so I have to turn it off every time.

Same here, no idea why I am defaulting to area chat, its the first thing I jump out of when I create a new character

deleted220419-005321

msetten wrote: »

I am actually having the opposite problem on my PS5: Every time I restart the game or login to another character, Zone Voice chat is automatically enabled. Which is annoying, so I have to turn it off every time.

I'm having this same issue as well.

redlink1979

msetten wrote: »

I am actually having the opposite problem on my PS5: Every time I restart the game or login to another character, Zone Voice chat is automatically enabled. Which is annoying, so I have to turn it off every time.

Same happening to me.
Why do I keep getting added to the zone's voice chat now every single time I log in with a char?
Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
I searched in Options (Audio and Social) and there's no mention besides "Players Volume"...

PS - I don't use a headset atm but I've a PS cam (VR).

Hypnotica713

I am on ps4, and everytime I log into the game I am automatically thrown into area chat, having to leave on EVERY TOON I LOG IN as well, EVERY SINGLE TIME. If you leave the channel, that should be it until you rejoin, period.

cynicalbutterfly

msetten wrote: »

I am actually having the opposite problem on my PS5: Every time I restart the game or login to another character, Zone Voice chat is automatically enabled. Which is annoying, so I have to turn it off every time.

I'm actually having the opposite happen. I have it set to automatically join voice chat (I'm lazy and never changed the default settings). Instead it has opted me out of it and it doesn't always happen each time I log in. Seems to be a roll of the dice whether or not it'll opt me into voice chat each time I log in and I haven't changed any settings before or after the update.

There's also been reports of people hearing group voice chats on the PS. So there's definitely something wrong here xD

fizl101

Please fix the auto add to area voice chat whenever a character logs in. PS5 and every time it does it. It also shows my name at the bottom as if I am talking even though it says the mic is muted.

Adzer2

Issue also happening here, fix this issue immediately, there are data privacy risks here when people don't realise their mic is on, the PS5 mic doesn't even need a headset to be attached

Brrrofski

Brrrofski wrote: »

ZOS_Adrikoth wrote: »

Greetings @Calicancer77

The troubleshooting in this article might be able to help if you are unable to join voice chat on PS4.

This is not the answer.

Xbox has this issue too, since the update.

Nobody can join guilds chat at all.

It's a bug that has obviously come through with the new patch. Can this be flagged please?

@ZOS_Adrikoth @ZOS_GinaBruno

Is this a known issue to the dev team?

cynicalbutterfly

I'd like to add in something that others haven't mentioned yet (if they have, I haven't seen it). I was derping the other day doing my normal questing/exploring stuff in Blackwood and heard some people on voice chat. It wasn't anything extremely unusual at first so it didn't catch my attention. But then, it started to sound like one of them was doing the exact same quest I was doing. NPC was the same, the lines were the same, everything I just went through with the npc was the exact same. Only this random person on voice chat was nowhere to be seen. I was standing right there in the same spot that they should be in and there wasn't a single person except me. Then I thought well that's weird. But it kept happening. All over Blackwood I'd find random ghost voices and no character in sight. Now I know maps are instanced so what I must be hearing is all the other map instances' voice chats. Which has never before happened.

Doesn't seem to occur in other zones. Not that I'm aware of. I do often see these voice chatters in my loading screens. Like after I've come across one their name haunts my loading screen. I don't hear their voice, just see the names. Doesn't go away until I've relogged.

I don't want to be haunted any more ZoS. It was fun at first but now I'm a little weirded out

disintegr8

Like others, I'm finding zone chat re-enabled on characters when I log in. I do daily writs on 8 characters and I've definitely turned it off more than 8 times in the last week. PS4 here.

Rittings

For an MMO... I've never EVER known any other MMO have so many voice chat issues. This has dogged the game since release - and it seems Zenimax have never found a workable solution that is long lasting. At this point .. it's a feature... it's part of the syntax of ESO.

ApostateHobo

Yeah voice chat is completely broken. I don't even know what's going on with battlegrounds voice chat. It puts you into a "group" voice chat that has dozens of people in it.

cynicalbutterfly

ApostateHobo wrote: »

Yeah voice chat is completely broken. I don't even know what's going on with battlegrounds voice chat. It puts you into a "group" voice chat that has dozens of people in it.

That you can't leave after you've left the battlegrounds behind.

vivisectvib16_ESO

Also noting that group chat cuts out during loading screens.

Ingenon

vivisectvib16_ESO wrote: »

Also noting that group chat cuts out during loading screens.

^This

I play ESO weekly with another family member, and we notice this during every load screen since the Blackwood patch dropped.