From 27ded3e5a34b7702738642765f9afbf5525ae163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joonas Rikkonen <poe.regalis@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:34:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed dead/spectator chat. Closes #264

---
 Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/Source/Networking/ChatMessage.cs | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/Source/Networking/ChatMessage.cs b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/Source/Networking/ChatMessage.cs
index 5c6afcd8c..688697f0b 100644
--- a/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/Source/Networking/ChatMessage.cs
+++ b/Barotrauma/BarotraumaShared/Source/Networking/ChatMessage.cs
@@ -186,7 +186,10 @@ namespace Barotrauma.Networking
                 GameMain.Server.SendChatMessage(denyMsg, c);
                 return;
             }
-            if (c.Character != null && !c.Character.CanSpeak) return;
+
+            //dead characters are allowed to send chat messages, 
+            //we'll just switch the message type to dead chat in SendChatMessage
+            if (c.Character != null && (!c.Character.CanSpeak && !c.Character.IsDead)) return;
             GameMain.Server.SendChatMessage(txt, null, c);
         }