Sony released the game of crushing cars AllStars Destruction exclusively for PlayStation 5 on Tuesday, but it launched with a very annoying feature: voice chat in multiplayer matches was enabled by default, which means you could be subject to unfiltered comments and background noise from your opponents . Worse, it wasn’t immediately obvious how to turn off voice chat.
On Friday, however, developer Lucid Games solved the problem by launching a hotfix for the game that disables voice chat in multiplayer lobbies by default (via Kotaku)
I skipped a few games with the hotfix installed to test things and was greeted with a glorious silence from my fellow players. However, it appears that there is no option for public voice chat at this time. I couldn’t find a way to enable voice chat in the game’s menus. Prior to this patch, you could silence voice chat each time you play with PlayStation 5 activity cards, and I also didn’t find a way to enable voice chat with them.
Perhaps the public voice chat will return at some point, however, like Lucid Games said it is “Actively working on long-term improvements to the voice communication system.” And if you want to play AllStars Destruction with friends and voice chat with them, which should also work. I managed to talk to a Border colleague as part of a party that we had without problems.
Here they are full patch notes:
Fixed several client flaws related to Multiplayer Lobbies and UI
– Lucid Games (@LucidGamesLtd) February 5, 2021