I was reported and i get advised on game: “Voice chat may be recorded to investigate and verify reports of disruptive behaviour.”
And i’ve the voice chat turn off, why i received this alert?
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They don’t verify anything, x amount of reports and boom you are silenced or suspended.
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So? if someone just want to report me, i could get ban?
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Yup and CS will give you a generic copy paste response to any tickets you submit. That is if they actually respond to any tickets. I have one that hasn’t been responded to in over 4 months.
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There are alot of things OW can’t compete with rivals in no fault of there own but good god it blows my mind that they still double down on this system it’s bred such a toxic environment in this game. In what world is the rivals system not Infinitly better? Rivals and R6 both censor any foul language in chat automatically so people who get the urge can’t upset other and no one in the game gets hurt literally the perfect system but we don’t have it for some reason…
Does rival have a significantly different system? Overwatch censors chat by default too does it not?
I’ve gotten “thanks for your report” messages in rivals for reporting basically the exact same types of comment as in overwatch so I’m a bit confused how you mean
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Sure so OW only censors slurs I’m pretty sure Rivals censors EVERYTHING you cant even say idiot (try it out) in chat. So I’m just saying if you’re goal really is one of less toxicity then you’d adopt a model like rivals 1 for 1. It makes 0 sense to me to give people the chance in the first place if you really have no tolerance policy
Everyone gets this alert, it’s just them informing you that your voice chat gets recorded.
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If you were bullying someone or spamming chat you probably got reported by someone that was angry with you.
uhm… i remember in the previous game i “spam” (3 times in a row) the “I need healing” commmunication, that is consider spamming?
If you did it three times in a row. More than like it was seen as spamming.
I see lots of gameplay where people seam to come off as “trolls” and sit there and spam
“group up with me” x100 in chat
or just keep spamming " I need healing".
Or the worst is people that SPAM pings. Those are so annoying that it literally takes my attention away from other priorities in the match such as watching flanks, all because someone is worried about something petty that could be dealt with, by themselves.
The people that do this absolutely get reported. it is a form of disruptive communications.
The rule of thumb is: If you press it once. People have seen that and the voice prompt plays. So people know it.
1 ) Supports know you are low on health - they see your health bar at all times.
2 ) Supports have priority for tanks. If they know you are low, tanks are priority so don’t expect as a DPS to be healed.
3 ) If you are playing tank and your support doesn’t heal you. Welcome to Overwatch, where they don’t think they need to help out. Since they are also DPS raid bosses with regen.
4 ) if you play tank and you press “group up with me” and people dont follow you. Chances are your team just doesn’t care about the match. So welcome to 10 minutes of FORCED “lets waste your time and QQ about leavers watch”.
5 ) Supports and DPS pressing “Group up with me” are just being trolls. The tank’s job is to lead the team.
Bottom line is. Don’t press it more than once in a match.
ok, but that action deserve a report? I mean, if overwatch allow me, why should be this considered as disruptive behaviour
Realistically speaking it is a two way street here.
I agree the devs could use a simple script in less than 50 lines of code, that says “Please wait 25 seconds before pressing this communication function again” and mute it.
While they, as programmers could argue. "I shouldn’t have to code that, just like when kids are on a road trip with their families and they repeat “Are we there yet?”
Since using UNITY engine and working with some stuff myself as a contractor for another company, I would personally just go through the effort to build something into the game that prevents the function.
But as I have said "its 2025 you have to “idiot proof EVERYTHING”. 
Don’t act like you are in a court, your account is their property and you signed for this, they can do whatever, and yeah they are jerks with their abusable reporting system
It’s not one person reporting you- one person reporting you does not matter. What matters is when you get different people reporting you in different matches. If you get reported in enough different matches within a given number of matches, you get actioned.
So, one person reporting you- who cares. Different people reporting you in 3 of your last 5 matches (or however many it is), you get warned and they give you some generic language based on the category that people are reporting for.
If you keep getting reported across different matches by different people, the penalties increase. So you have to figure out what it is that you are doing that so many people in different matches are finding annoying enough that they take the time to report you.
They tell everyone that, because it’s required by law, I think?
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Everyone gets the notification about voice chat. It has nothing to do with getting reported.