Or neither.
Do you think you should stay in voice, chat, or should you get out because toxicity, and people will throw, or report, or just harass you?
What are peoples feelings on this, what is your advice here?
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Iāll just say I managed to climb to a new rank several seasons ago after being hard stuck for ages after I turned off voice and chat and focused on my own gameplay.
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So leave if you want to climb?
That is one for leave both.
Depends what kind of player the person is.
I swap often, donāt really talk too much besides call outs and have a deep voice.
I almost never get people toxic towards me.
Of course how someoneās voice sounds can have a big affect on the response they get; whether they are right on something or notā¦
I think using āmy ult is Xā command, group up, fall back and ping is all that is really needed if someone didnāt want to be in voice or chat.
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It just depends if you find more value out of making calls or avoiding toxicity. I keep voice and text chat muted because it means I enjoy the game more, but I climbed higher with clear and concise comms.
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Usually I donāt even join vc but when I do I simply donāt talk 
depending on what I hear I either leave VC, mute the only person speaking or play and stay silent 
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I will never turn chat on this game again. itās been disabled ever since my account came off suspension. People in this game will attack you and then when you defend yourself, youāre the one whoās wrong. They will blame everyone but themselves. They donāt want to help they want to be carried. Thatās my experience and I refuse to talk to these players now. Itās been better for me. I have never found talking in this game useful in any way.
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Like in just ranked or in general?
I joined voice chat once or twice when I did my first ever placements in OW1, but there was nothing of any importance happening in it so I opted out of joining voice chat in my subsequent ranked matches because I found voice chat to be more distracting than helpful.
Definitely would join voice chat if Iām with friends. But randoms only if the team asked me too and I wouldnāt really talk to anyone, just listen if necessary.
Text chat is totally fine. I do sometimes not notice the chat because Iām too involved in what Iām doing, and replying to chat for me is difficult so I usually acknowledge chat with comm wheel responses if possible.
Overall, not sure VC is even crucial in mid-low ranks. Always felt like it was an upper ladder problem I was never gonna encounter, so just not even a big deal for me.
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Routinely, both.
I prefer voice, because it is faster to hit the push to talk key than type something.
Text is more something that gets used if I they donāt seem to register that something has been said at all - some people just have voice off as a matter of course.
Either is used sparingly - I try to limit myself to short, very specific things that need attention, and I donāt spam either sort of message or say things just to say something.
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I wish I could join voice and that people would just be normal. But no. People canāt seem to avoid being toxic. And that affects my performance sometimes over multiple games. So, I just donāt join voice.
I do think that being in voice can improve your chances of winning if people donāt yell, blame, act racist or sexist etc. But itās not helpful if they do those things.
TLDR just stay out of voice and use pings.
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From my own experience, I very rarely found VC useful during my ranked climb to GM. In fact, it served as a hindrance far more often than it helped, with people so often getting preoccupied with coming up with new insults to hurl at each other, or harassing/flirting with any woman that dared to use VC, rather than just playing the game. Text chat is more or less the same.
Of course, it could be way different for others. Maybe communication is better on NA where everyone is pretty much guaranteed to speak the same language, and maybe other people have been fortunate enough to not have to deal with every other spoken word being a slur, but for me the experience was so bad that I was perfectly happy giving up whatever hypothetical benefit being in VC would have given me. I just use the ping system if I really need to communicate something to my team.
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If you value your account you stay out of chats.
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I just left chat permanently. It is a waste of time. It used to be funny listening to these psychos complaining about the most irrational nonsense; however, it gets redundant. There is no originality. These toxic players are carbon copies of one another. The entertainment value is severely attenuated once you have endured the redundancy for long enough and unfortunately you start empathizing with them because it is relatively obvious there is something wrong but it is easier to just not care.
I also personally lose motivation to carry them once I witness their temper tantrum. Throwing games is unfun and a waste of my time, itās best not to give me an excuse because my principles are stronger than most Overwatch players. That has become ABUNDANTLY clear over time.
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I would do what ever you feel comfortable doing, I am one to not start conversations, if i solo i will join chat if no one talks i donāt talk if they seem fun and are chatty i might talk.
I used to use both text and voice, and I found that I turned around quite a lot of negative lobbies by distracting people from their arguments and complimenting the person being flamed if they did something good later. But it really burns you out on the game quickly.
Now itās text chat only, and I think it would be for the best if match chat was removed from the game, as people only use it to torment each other. At least team chat has some productive applications.
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i join vc (with lowered volume) and mute individual whatever i donāt wanna hear.
donāt talk myself as I donāt use push to talk mid game. Messes up my gameplay. Therefore i donāt speak.
Iāve climbed to GM5 in two past seasons, dropped to Masters in rest. I have never used voice, and have turned off chat ages ago. I did join voice initially, like in one match and some DPS shouted at me āIām right behind you!ā Since then I have been put off. I find itās too stressful, I play the game for enjoyment. I turned off chat too. Comments are ridiculous made by other players telling me how to play. I do think you may need it as you get higher though. However Iām happy with my go to GM5 and drop to D5 then end up somewhere in Masters by season end.
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Oh and why do so many men think itās okay to burp down a microphone. No thanks!
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Iām a guy, and I donāt understand either.
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I met some amazing people through VC back in the day, but toxicity and screaming people have lead me to just turn VC off completely.
VC is a source of stress most of the time. I guess voices are better at soliciting emotional reactions?
Normal chat doesnāt bother me, its way easier to ignore.
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