Tripwire finally caved and shoved text chat into Killing Floor 3 with patch 2.012 on May 14, because apparently voice-only comms were too much for the masses to handle. Now every platform gets full cross-play text channels for team coordination, public trash talk, and spectator spam, complete with opacity sliders, profanity filters on PC, and virtual keyboards for console peasants. Performance tweaks and bug fixes came along for the ride, like fixing crashes and making those medic darts actually recharge, but the real headline is the chat system that should've been there at launch. Players begged for this from day one, and Tripwire dragged their feet until the complaints hit critical mass.