Is the in game irc coming this expansion?

[chemical_art]

Or is it for another one down the road?

[keith.lamothe]

It's not part of this expansion, nor really expansion work.  I started working on it months ago but haven't had time to really sink into it.  Possibly I could look at it after 6.0 or 6.1 (we're planning another official release about a month after 6.0 to upgrade to Unity 4, but don't want to upgrade for 6.0 because 4 drops support for PowerPC and some other older stuff).

[doctorfrog]

I look forward to having this feature someday as well, by in the meantime the Steam overlay works ok.

[Giegue]

you mean for the mac? hah! the entire OSX Lion dropped power pc. I was devastated that I couldn't play many of my favorite games on the mac side of my computer.

[BobTheJanitor]

I look forward to having this feature someday as well, by in the meantime the Steam overlay works ok.

Barely. The whole point would be a chat room that you are automatically dropped in to unless you opt out. Thus furthering a sense of community, getting a place you can easily look for coop partners, or ask strategy questions, or just shoot the bull with some people when you're playing solo so it's not such a lonely experience. A shift+tab to a steam chatroom that only contains people you've invited is not the same thing by miles.