Ubisoft reveals new chat system for Ubisoft Connect

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After removing the natter service from its game catapult, so it could be reworked to "align with the reside of the Ubisoft Connect see", Ubisoft has announced the feature's return. Opening now, you'll again be healthy to chat to folks over Ubisoft Connect (formerly known as Uplay and Ubisoft Club), at least in its desktop app. Meanwhile, chat will return to the Get in touch overlay in "the coming weeks".

Ubisoft reckons the new chat service bequeath cost faster, more than unfluctuating and reliable, while providing players with a "good and friendly environment." Should you find yourself conversing with a yank, or worse, you can block them or Indian file a report.

A event of the new system is that naturalized chatters bequeath begin it with a "mostly clean ticket", with solely certain active group chats retaining their message history. From now on, group chats will make up limited to fair-and-square 24 players as well.

Ubisoft says that this reworked chatter service will allow information technology to "quickly implement new tone of life features, extra anti-perniciousness measures, and make it easier to implement on additional platforms beyond PC in the future." So information technology's basically the first step in a new cross-platform schmoose service, something that tallies with Link's support for crossplay.

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