Use the com wheel. People have chat off for a reason, you wont change that here.
I will never join voice, no matter what kind of hissy fits this community throws. The reason is rather simple: Overwatch has excellent sound cues. It is much more important to be able to listen to that, than some childish bickering over hero picks. By the time anyone says Reaper behind, you are already dead. Voice chat just makes you lazy. You stop paying attention to the actual game at hand.
Also, Overwatch is no rocket science. You should know when to push, when to retreat, when to ult. You do not need a babysitter for that.
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Lost a game on Hanamura today.
âRein donât go top right, they have junk and sym, youâll dieâ
âRein, they are teleporting right side, donât just stand there at mainâ
Needless to say we lost. And people still try to argue that not being in voice chat is not throwing. It is and there is no other way around it. OW is an objective based team game with strategy. What strategy can you come up with to take an objective with a team that doesnât coordinate.
No it isnât. Playing without call outs is stupid. Playing a hero you want is one thing, not being able to hear that Reaper is about to pop a cap in your behind because you think my voice isnât worthy to grace your ears is stupid and one step away from throwing.
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Having to mute everyone cos of how worthless the sounds they make are gets pretty tedious pretty quickly⌠
This rein just sucks. He has a situational awareness of a wooden table. It has nothing to do with Voice Chat. Thatâs the point. You will never get better at being aware of whats happening if you rely on voice chat.
Also your case is an exception. High level voice is as follows: WINSTONWINSTONWINSTONWINSTONWINSTONDVADVDADVADVADVADVADVADVADVASOLDIERSOLDIERSOLDIERSOLDIERSOLDIERSOLDIERSOLDIER
Thatâs not communication, thatâs just annoying spam. People really should know their priorities.
Lower level VC is just either complete silence or QQ the whole match.
This entire post just shows a complete and utter lack of understanding and empathy towards people who donât join voicechat.
You are under the illusion it is a conscious refusal because they donât personally like you or something.
Plenty of people do not join voice for reasons out of neccessity, usually mental health related (anxiety, easily triggered by authorative and angry voices, or unable to deal with the additional sensory input)
but it can also be a physical reason such as deafness. Or maybe a more practical reason of not having a headset and playing late at night and the volume is so low they donât want mouthbreathers making it harder to hear the game.
So again: stop forcing your own personal viewpoints down other peopleâs throats. Itâs like a dang religion. âOnly salvation through voice chat. Join us or go to hellâ.
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Being the support calling out the flanker while your teammate mashes INEEDHEALING and then berates you for âbeing badâ is up there too
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Canât relate, I never die on support 
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I always join VC and canât remember the last time I encountered the behavior or toxicity people here claims happens every day. I truly believe that while itâs not impossible, it is exaggerated.
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Tilting your team in VC is also throwing. And more than a few players arenât so utilitarian with their callouts its a lot of cussing, racism, and vile words mixed in with callouts.
Itâs like they want to lose by making sure people play worse.
Probably better to play it safe and just stay out of there, callouts and VC would be great if people could ya know stop being terrible
welp, there we go. Blizzard doesnât policy their game and people just constantly say racist, sexist stuff and also very vile. A shame that this game doesnât have an automated ban for massive reports on a person for saying all that.
Idk, you guys make it sound like the moment you join voicechat the sky falls. And thatâs such a farfetched take and not the ordinary. You know whatâs ordinary? people not being in vc and making random excuses for it for the most part.
Nah. In my region if i join voice is only to hear people crying about DPS being bad so i donât even join voice and only do my stuff.
People can have legit reasons for it. Anxiety, its more of a distraction, or just outright do not want too. If you want it to be part of every comp game you play, consider LFG. Havent had a team there that didnt all use voice or at least listened.
Iâm calling you out JASONBENT, iâll see you in the HELL IN THE CELL THIS SATURDAY NIGHT.
Dude, just let them spread their make-believe superstitions. They wonât budge. Itâs probably better that theyâre not in vc, given that they seem to only be aware of the negatives.
When you can only see the negative, it probably means that youâre in that mindset too, so itâs better that they quarantine themselves.
The irony here is that he associates voicechat turn-off to winrate, when it may very well be that everyone but him/her was in vc and he got carried with their teamwork.
And then you gotta love that widowmaker player that stays completely away from the team, misses shots and quits vc because the teammates are giving info. Those are the best: âCaNt CoNcEnTrAtE, tOo MuCh NoIsEâ
The reason iâm not joining voice at all is because i get stressed over ppl yelling over each other and i canât concentrate on what iâm doing.
I hate how ignorant ppl can be like you thinking itâs lame or whatever, like do ppl like you live under a rock or something and doesnât know about social anxiety or other stuff like this?
Iâm so sick and tired that i have to get sht on by ppl in overwatch when i need to explain myself, calling me an attention whre and a liar etc.
Canât ppl like you leave us ppl alone for once and accept that some of us doesnât want to be in voice chat? Not only because of social stuff but also from ppl being sexist and just plain mean?
Overwatch is just a game and doesnât have to be taken serious, iâve even had successful games and been winning games in a row without voice chat. The game is only supposed to give you something fun and not having demands on you. There isnât a rule in ow that says youâre forced to join voice at all.
Iâve had my sh*t with voice chat and iâm so sick and tired of it so iâm never gonna join EVER! So donât come here and call me lame just because i donât want to be called toxic names and other bs. Because iâve had enough of that!
or i could just not join it, and never have to worry about muting someone
Toxic people are lame.
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I am glad that all toxic VC is gone thank to the 100 % accurate bna system there is 0 people saying vile things in voice chat everyone is super nice and no one is shouting or berating one another ever its great!
I am glad your experience in OW is free of anyone every being horrible in VC sounds like a fun time. But you know because we have different experiences its whatever. I am sure all the times Iâve been called racial slurs actually didnât happen and I was just imagining it your right its better I just accept it and let it happen.