Instead of making the chat appear in the game, why not add a chat only box on the upper or lower part of the screen.
I'm suggesting a black box where messages remain and can be scrolled up or down to see what has been written since the start of the game.
There should also be two buttons in that black box, one for 'Team' and one for 'All'. That might make communication between team-mates easier.
To access the box and scroll through messages, you have to press 't'.
The text written in the game will be saved to a log and can be viewed later. That would eliminate all the unnecessary "He said what he said so he said what they told him to say to them".
I'm suggesting a black box where messages remain and can be scrolled up or down to see what has been written since the start of the game.
There should also be two buttons in that black box, one for 'Team' and one for 'All'. That might make communication between team-mates easier.
To access the box and scroll through messages, you have to press 't'.
The text written in the game will be saved to a log and can be viewed later. That would eliminate all the unnecessary "He said what he said so he said what they told him to say to them".