Over the head emoticons on certain emotes

[Frank_Stein]

I feel this would just make people even more distracting from the chat and not read the radio which is already a big issue in my eyes.  

We'll have to agree to disagree about that. As for the radio chat not being read, I think a big part of you have to look away from where the game is going on to read text. This is a communication system that keeps your eyes in one place, rather than darting back and forth between two, or having to scroll through missed text because so much was happening in one area you couldn't focus on the other.

This isn't a replacement for the radio chat log, it's a feature for making sure more important stuff isn't missed, like how PDA messaging makes a beeping noise.

just make it a toggle? if you have it on you see peoples bubbles, if you don't, you don't. toggles solve like 80% of disagreements, guys

Or an opacity meter that goes from 100% to 0%.

Here's the bubble at half opacity



And the bubble AND the icon at half