Like any system it has it’s limits, but at least it allows you to convey information you want. Whether people listen to it or not is their choice, and it’s just as useful as voicechat.
What difference does that have to VC other than allowing your own personal “color” to be added? Even if you are giving the best callouts ever, if someone doesn’t want to listen then it’s the same deal.
Most people I’ve seen who are INSISTENT on people joining VC are exactly the kind of people I’m going to ignore 99% of the time because their callouts are:
“DVADVADVADVADVADVA”
“MERCY IS ONE BAR! ONE BAR! FOR THE FU#*$& LOVE OF GOD SHOOT HER ONE BAR!”
“DON’T RUN IN ONE BY ONE YOU’RE THROWING!”
now I will say, there is useful information here, but none of it is presented in any way I’m going to pay attention to.
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I only wish the screen showed that players weren’t in text/match chat too just to make people angrier tbh
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What we absolutely DON’T need is chat with the enemy team. In what way does it help your own team at all?
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If you talk like that in text then why on earth would someone want to hear your voice? Let people save their own sanity.
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Im assuming your gold/plat. No one talks in those ranks. You give a call out and the crickets outside start chirping.
But at the same time voice chat in OW is a toxic as hell. I’ve heard slurs ive never even heard on MW2 lobbies.
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Because something as simple as:
“There’s a Sniper out there. Can someone handle it?”
Is ban worthy now.
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you will not be better in a game where winrate is forced to 50% by matchmaker.
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Are you an Alien or something? Have you never seen people?
Some are quiet,
some play casually just to “chill”,
some are busy,
some listen to music,
some watch a movie on second screen,
some are shy,
some dont have microphones,
etc etc etc.
Does this even have to be said? ERTNUETRUKZSFJY 
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I understand people not wanting to have to use the mute function at all:
Imagine a key on your keyboard had a random chance to give you an electric shock. You can turn the button off, but only AFTER it has given you an electric shock.
I’d wager a lot of people would stop using that key.
There is a good reason a lot of people straight up don’t use VC any more.
On the bright side: We are never going to get ‘forced into VC’, so this isn’t a concern I have.
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I’ve got nothing to say to feeders.
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No game should ever force voicechat
Some people just don’t want to talk and that’s okay
I get by 100% fine with chatwheel and ping
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Bueh, since OW2 and ping system I rarely ever talk in my games. I come to voice chat to listen for sometimes useful comms, but I’ll be honest, I played many games out of voice and it barely makes a difference. If you are high rank, you don’t need communication because everyone knows what they are supposed to do. You look where your team plays and that’s it, that’s all information you need.
Comms helps mostly with dive and calling for nanoboost. Outside of that… meh just look around what’s going on. Spam ultimate ready if you want to use ult, use ping to call for targets (it’s actually better than screaming at mic, because it shows you exactly where that low target is), you can even use 3…2…1… ping for calling dives. I played with few GM Winston players who were out of voice, but were pinging 3…2…1… and it was very effective.
I sometimes hate comming to voice chat even if it’s chill and not toxic, simply because people talk so much I can’t hear my thoughts, let alone footsteps in the game. Too much talking is worse than not talking at all.
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It is back when you and i were kids we were taught “sticks and stone may break my bones but words will never hurt me” but today they are taught words are now violence and everything can hurt you
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I typed the other day “Stay around the healers don’t overextend or hide we cant reach you”, but nobody answered. When we won the 1st map, I typed again “Nice <3 stay around us”. The tank replied, “muted and blocked”. I replied back “muted and blocked for being nice?” and he replied, “no for spamming”.
I literally typed 2 things (i did not use voice at all, nor other voice lines) and they (1 dps agreed with him) considered the communication (even the compliment) spam. That person probably reported me too for spamming. It’s natural then people to stop communication in any form if there are people like my example in their games.
I reported that person back for toxicity, misinformation and misleading the team.
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The game is much less toxic with all chats closed. Tested and approved.
There is something call ping, use it.
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Chat is mostly used to abuse others, op is close to proving that point.
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I can just not join vc. My problem is solved. If you want comms, group up with friends.
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Are you playing on EU servers? If so, no comms are normal.
This doesn’t solve the problem. It doesn’t make everything they said prior to you muting them just go away.
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people are not scared of people being toxic
people are bored of people being toxic
that’s the big difference
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