what things do you consider un sportsman like, or rude?
not neccssaryily toxic. but something that is frowned upon
ill start: in arcade 6v6 or 3v3 elim i consider it distasteful to run around the map and not engage. purposefully wasting the other ppls time. ( this happens when they are on the losing side) and the person is gonna lose anyways
Most of what makes Overwatch struggle is the following.
That is basically overwatchâs core examples of CAUSTIC players that instigate fights in chat and why the FAMOUS 3 letters that start with âKâ. Get thrown down!
Maybe a new system of detection that detects player behavior.
- Instigator. (the person that started the fight in chat)
New system âthis account has been muted for X amount of minutes today, due to multiple reports of fighting in chatâ
RETURNED system - AVOID THIS PLAYER.
i have to agree with the toxic pre made groups. ive had some pretty nasty sexist crap said to me, and it seemed like the guys just came on to do this kind of thing that night. its worse when its non comp. but thats pure toxcicity not just etiquette
Agreed, the other major problem I forgot to mention is the Disruptive spectators in this game.
If there ARE premades. They often will have other spectators that STACK behind the STACk and if someone wants to. They can LEAVE the match, join in that slot. then suddenly the other person is in that SAME exact slot!
Specators also derail matches because they spend MORE time heckling others in chat, and disrupting the game, so fighting commences in chat. Nothing gets done and the person that sides with their friend, joins in too!
It also doesnât help that spectators can literally WATCH the back of their friends.
So yes. I would agree. Overwatch in a (NUT SHELL_âŚ
I disagree with banter, banter is fun in a competitive game.
Banter is different from being toxic and insulting.
the enemy team lost a player. the team with 6 players goes bastion/junk/bap/mercy/Sig/Rein
This isnât real. Itâs all in your head.
Not to most of the OW playerbase it isnât.
Yeah, not wrong. If I shoot friendly banter at people theyâre almost always immediately on edge.
Itâs like if you tell someone IRL âsucks to be youâ
and they react with âwow, did you just tell me my life sucks and that Iâm the most miserable human with the most miserable life to ever exist?â.
Thatâs usually the kind of reaction I get to my non-insulting friendly banter in comp, feels bad man.
I donât blame them personally. The world we live in makes people that way.
Still, it sucks when you try to get a little playful poking going on and they immediately go on full lockdown.
I guess comp alongside life makes it that way too.
My god the amount of times Iâve said âyour momâ and people lose their sht.
I mean I know 10 years ago it was âinsultingâ but nowâŚ
On the upside, itâs super easy to tilt the red team and make them completely collapse on eachother, which can lead to some easy wins.
Silver lining and all that.
Itâs funny, but I get away with more playful banter on the forums than in game. I donât know if Iâve established a reputation of people just knowing I donât mean what I say or I just donât like speaking much in game, but I donât know if I could get away with (playfully) calling someone a âlimp armed DPSâ in game without repercussions.
If you want to directly blame me, one of two (and often both) things are going to happen. We are going to lose, or I am going to verbally abuse you. If you think I care about a video game or that I am going to listen to some whiny beta, you have another thing coming. And it always results in their hurt feelings. Stones and glass houses, I suppose. Surprised nobody with thick skin talks trash.
I got caught by a pocketed Soldier as a lone Mercy last night and he thought it would be fun to spray and tea-bag me. I thought that was pretty trashy etiquette considering there was absolutely no competition to be had in that situation. It strikes me as pretty insecure behaviour⌠
Generally toxic chat such as âEZâ, âX-role diffâ, âYou guys suckâ, âMy team is trashâ, and other unnecessarily nasty lines are examples of terrible sportsmanship. Winners trying to insult the losing team always get to me simply because it costs nothing to be nice or say nothing, but instead they would rather indulge their fragile egos by getting off on being needlessly rude for fun. It doesnât matter whether theyâre on my team or not.
Smurfing is also terrible etiquette and sportsmanship considering those people enjoy easy games where they just get to roll worse players becauseâŚit makes them feel good somehow? Itâs even worse when they come here to the Forums and try to justify their actions. Maybe I should go to the local park and kick some kids - If they get upset Iâll just blame them for not being 5â9 like me lol.
People with thick skin donât talk trash because they donât need to put other people down to feel better.
Good point, no idea why I didnât come to that conclusion myself.
Thereâs two schools of thought on trash talking. One of them is to tilt the other team so they make mistakes and play poorly, which is just part of the game. The other is just to make people mad because youâre only interested in making them mad.
Thatâs actually horrendous sportsmanship.
I recall losing a player recently (Quick Play, so you literally lose nothing by being a good sportsman for 5 minutes) and we didnât get a replacement. We couldnât leave the spawn room without being destroyed by the enemy teamâs hitscan despite a couple of people in that team requesting they hold fire for a moment and let us take the first point.
They went full on try-hard for a lopsided Quick Play match, and one of them had the absolute nerve to say something like âIâd leave too if I had to play with you guysâ at the end. Shocking.
How would that be considered Phony? When a round/match is over wether we lost/won and it was a close match, I will always say gr/gg.