All forms of communication besides squad voice chat have been removed in the new lone fighters mode, which I find very confusing.
In my experience, only a handdul of people have ever used voicechat and most of the communication (if there’s any at all) are done by text chat or quickchat commands. Now that these two options are removed, there is practically NO communication in lone fighters mode, a hardcore one where communication would play a key role.
If the developers are trying to force the players to use voice comms, they would be greatly mistaken. People rarely communicate anyway and I doubt the removal of the chat options would improve anything, rather the opposite: Tthe teams in which nobody communicates, everybody is just fighting on their own. Vital informations like hidden unmarkable enemy tank position can’t be conveyed to teammates.
Everyone is literally playing as “lone fighters” without chat, which is not a great experience.
Therefore I suggest that text chat and quickchat commands be brought back to lone fighters mode. Thank you.
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The new Lone Fighters mode is a poorly conceived shit-show and the missing chat is one of the lesser problems.
But yeah, I agree. Players in groups can still communicate over stuff like teamspeak and that is no less unrealistic than using in-game chat. No need to punish everyone else.
Interesting. The missing chat and teammate icons from pilot view are the only two major issues I have with this update. I find myself quite comfortable with the new lone fighters mode.
Although I do think it’s too unforgiving for players who are used to arcade gameplay. It should be a seperate “hardcore” mode beside the old lone fighters mode.
I played one or two rounds only but it wasn’t not much worse than previous version of LF for infantry-only gameplay. The friendly-markers in game are still very revealing (which is less hardcore and good for me).
At least I did not get bombed and artillery-wiped out 50% of the game, there was actual gunfight and tank chasing.
I guess it’s a pre-alpha verson of the hardcore mode, with beta coming when you can teamchat and have possibility to voice chat with nearby teammates, being able to chat at the end-game and when waiting for spawn, plus being able to determine whether a teamkill is to be punished or forgiven.
Oh and if 70% bot games gone, or bots in those cases beefed up if team is losing badly. 
Totally agree, chat is very usefull, not not everyone has a microphone or intend to use it.
The lack of text chat and increasing tks in LF is really getting annoying. PLS FIX ASAP
Chat has been returned in the latest update. Thank goodness.