I hear so many people these days threaten others into voice chat. Stop it. No one benefits from this. If you think harrasing people into voice chat helps your chances at winning, you need to step back and focus on yourself. Information over opinions. You do not control any one player you queue with.
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There is good communication, and bad communication. Like any relationship or team, or society, being able to exchange information in an efficient way is beneficial to the whole.
Trust, information, and teamwork all rely on good communication.
You don’t “have” to communicate. Also just because you get in voice and say Hi or talk about your day does not equate to useful team information.
But saying it does not help at all misses the point. You think a swat team, special ops, a corporate business, or even a husband and wife can work well without talking to each other?
Attempting to talk is at least putting forth effort. Not even trying already removes you from the team, creates a lack of trust and animosity, and is a determent in cohesion. Bottom line.
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Except it is not required. If a player does not communicate, they are in said match because of their skill without communication. Morally they should, however how do we know if they can or cannot? Not up to us to judge them on any level.
Communication is overrated. Useful in high ranks, but low ranks just keep preaching about how important it is without knowing why. Communication does not win games, game sense does. If you have low game sense communication can help a lot, but only if your team is communicating effectively. Using comms to tell people to switch off a hero is not using it effectively. Use it for vital information only.
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There should not be negative pressure on an individual who is not in team chat.
There SHOULD be encouragement and motivation to join team chat.
I’m going to take a step back and apply my own experiences and slightly agree with you in some sense.
Just because you join team chat, you will not win…BUT…it IS the first step into working as a team.
I have been in the military for the last 15 years, part of military leadership training involves teamwork and self reflection. One of the most generic and eyeball rolling things ever to do is to regurgitate the lessons from these leadership courses…which I am about to do.
The stages of teamwork can be broken up into broad terms: Storming, Forming, Norming, and Performing.
Every team initiates in the storming phase because you have to learn who your team mates are and how to interact with them, some teams never get past this phase (typical overwatch random queue team mates).
Some individuals click better than others and they will breeze past the storming phase and move into forming.
Forming is where everyone finds their place and begin to see how they can contribute to the team, after this gets situated you have norming.
Norming is where you are operating as a team, but there are still areas of improvement.
Performing is the pinnacle, where everything is set and things happen fluidly (the goal of any consistent team).
So yes, most teams you run into are in the storming phase, and communication is toxic and negative. But that is a natural aspect of interpersonal communication and social interaction.
As you continue relations with these individuals, the goal is to build trust and develop connections where you can assist each other in a common goal.
Unless you play on a dedicated team, you will probably never reach norming or performing. You can get past storming and reach forming though.
i like communication in plat, somebody yelling that “this hero” is one and they actually have half of their healthbar left or yelling to push at last 20 seconds on payload map while there is pharmacy combo just waiting for behind the lines
i would prefer no communication over terrible calls
I have won many matches without being on mic. I don’t think anyone needs to necessarily be on mic but you all should least go to team chat incase someone on mic is making vital call outs or suggestions. This way you’ll know strategies being discussed. One thing I absolutely hate is when someone is mute all match and gets on at the end to run their mouth.
This.
Comms are good for callouts and comboing ults with people who are too clueless to notice you spamming “My ultimate is ready” directly at them. Everything else can be done with the teamchat hotkeys.
That is still a form of communication, albeit a limited form, it gets the point across.
There is no keybind for “reaper above you” or “focus the zarya” though.