Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Is there chat in the multiplayer?

Is there a chat function in the multiplayer of this game? My friend wants me to get it to play with him but I wanted to make sure we'll have a way to communicate in the game. I prefer not to use voice chat on discord because I think it would distract me from the story.

Not in game, only chat that I know of is in the lobby screen.

In this day and age, does anyone use anything but Discord for chatting in a game?

Pretty much everyone who wants to play RP style in games like BG 1/2 and NWN 1/2

Has there been any official word from Devs on this?

There has not. The idea that part of their advertising was based around the multiplayer aspect, and that game design choices were made based on accommodating multiplayer, and yet there's no in-game chat function, is just so incredibly ludicrous and amateurish it beggars belief.

I'd actually appreciate a word from Larian on this, commenting as a non-verbal person who cannot just use a 3rd party external voice chat; How am I meant to communicate with my multiplayer friends without having to switch out of the game entirely to use an independent 3rd party chat program?

Steam overlay chat.

Weird exclusion though.