It's 2020 and we still don't have an option to permanently disable Match Chat

[Kaedi-11739]

@End-12543

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You can toggle your text chat by pressing Ctrl+Shift+C.

@MonkHound-1771

Toggle Backfill

Backfill is not likely to be an optional feature. Jeff Kaplan has stated this recently:

@JeffreyKaplan

Unfortunately, it’s best for matchmaking to sometimes substitute you into a match as a backfill. With that said, we would like to make some improvements. These are tricky and take time.

We did recently fix an issue that has not gone live yet. Once you serve as a backfill, there is supposed to be a cooldown on subbing you in again. But currently if you switch modes a lot (i.e. from quick play to mystery heroes), you can be backfilled multiple times in a row. In an upcoming patch, this will be fixed.

Again, we want to do more improvements to backfilling over time, but simply removing the system is unlikely to happen.

@MonkHound-1771

Disable voice lines

If a player is spamming voice lines excessively, you can go into the social menu and select that player, right click, and select “Squeltch Chat” to mute all communication from that player. Also, note that players who spam voice lines technically violate the Blizzard In-Game Code of Conduct and can be reported (this is confirmed by the Overwatch Development Team).

@MonkHound-1771

another crack at Pink Mercy!

There are no plans to return this or any other Legacy skin at this time.