No NPC chat bubbles

The problem is seen in two places. The first is with NPC dialog chat bubbles and the second is with my mastermind's pet bubbles. I don't see any of them. When playing through missions, I don't see the enemies say anything anymore. I thought it could be just the missions I was on that didn't have the content, but I still don't see chat bubbles on Mission Architect missions where I know they should be talking. With my pets, I have a few macros to make them say thing and act out little scenes. I no longer see the chat bubbles from them either, and I've checked with other players who tell me that my pets are talking. The macros are working, my game isn't.

I noticed this problem when I started playing CoH/V on my new PC, so I'm inclined to blame it on Vista. Has anyone else seen this problem before? What should I try to fix it?

Thanks.

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There are a couple settings you could look for to make sure the options didn't change on your new system:

Menu> Options> General> Chat> "Chat Balloons" > "Enabled"
Menu> Options> General> Chat> "Pet Response Text" > (not "Disabled")

Also, check your chat tabs and make sure at least one of them has all the following:
Cutscene Captions
NPC dialog
Pets

You can even hide them on a Tab4 somewhere if you don't want to see them show up in your normal chat, but that should make sure you see all the chat bubbles.

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Thanks, I'll try this when I get home tonight. I did check the chat options, but didn't know about having the proper channels in the tabs.

I heard there were some changes with the text system (I haven't played in about a year), but I didn't realize that it would hide bubbles that you didn't have a window for.

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Thanks, I'll try this when I get home tonight. I did check the chat options, but didn't know about having the proper channels in the tabs.

I heard there were some changes with the text system (I haven't played in about a year), but I didn't realize that it would hide bubbles that you didn't have a window for.

[/ QUOTE ] I think it's been since i12 (last year) that the "Cutscene Captions" was added, and people started having issues with bubbles appearing. Adding "Cutscene Captions" fixed the Cutscenes for people, so I assume you wont see a bubble for anything else you don't have in your chat.

That's strictly my assumption, as I haven't done any extensive tests or anything, but based on what has worked for people so far... it's safer to just have them on a hidden tab anyway just in case it's not intended behavior and/or a bug that only happens once in a while for some people.

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Also, check your chat tabs and make sure at least one of them has all the following:
Cutscene Captions
NPC dialog
Pets

You can even hide them on a Tab4 somewhere if you don't want to see them show up in your normal chat, but that should make sure you see all the chat bubbles.

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Every time I make a new character, I have to add these. I do put them on chat tab 4 also. It seems the default is to NOT have them, which is quite annoying.

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Also, check your chat tabs and make sure at least one of them has all the following:
Cutscene Captions
NPC dialog
Pets

You can even hide them on a Tab4 somewhere if you don't want to see them show up in your normal chat, but that should make sure you see all the chat bubbles.

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Every time I make a new character, I have to add these. I do put them on chat tab 4 also. It seems the default is to NOT have them, which is quite annoying.

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Once you have your chat window set the way you want it you can save it to be your default using Menu > Options > General Tab, and near the bottom there is a "Chat settings File" section with buttons to save/load the chat settings.

Hit the "Save to default file" button.


The slash commands to do the same thing would be :

/chat_save [Saves a list of chat settings to COH_INSTALL_DIRECTORY\chat.txt]
/chat_load [Reads a list of chat settings from COH_INSTALL_DIRECTORY\chat.txt]

/chat_save_file filename [Saves a list of chat settings to a file named "filename"]
/chat_load_file filename [Reads a list of chat settings from a file named "filename"]

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Good to know. Thank you, shadowtech.

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Yeah, this sounds like my problem and it makes sense as a solution.

I'm pretty sure this will work, but it'll have to wait until tonight to see. If I don't post again, then this worked.

Thanks again for all the help!

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