On average how many players in your games use mics?

In addition to how many people on average in your games use mics, how often does your team effectively respond to your call outs?

If you feel comfortable posting your rank as well please do.

In my experience in mid masters people respond to call outs fairly well, but not great.
We are also usually lucky if we have half a team with mics.

What about you?

I wouldn’t know. I don’t use voice. :joy:

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I play with a group of friends. We’re also on mic. And we also go in team chat a lot, encourage our teammates outside of our group to join, and usually talk there.

9 out of 10 games, my entire team uses mics. I think sometimes people just need someone to break the ice :smile:

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the mic population here is pretty decent, well in comps anyways.

Yeah, the only time I really use voice when playing OW is if I’m grouped with friends.

As for call outs, I think it works fine if I type it. Most of them type back as well. Personally, I gave up on using voice in this game.

like 1 or 2 and they leave if I ask them why they picked DPS when we needed off tank (plat)

i don’t know, i don’t use voice chat

In Diamond competitive on EU servers, there is a good percentage of mic users. If there is someone not in voice it’s usually a stubborn DPS who thinks he will solo carry, or a duo that forgot to switch to team chat.

As for people on team chat AND use their mics, there is at least 3 (usually more) in most teams.

Average 3 people in voicechat. Average in 10 games players actually talking (so ~30 total voice players)
:10-12
Sometimes they are just in voicechat seemingly deaf and mute sometimes 2 people actually talk.

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I’m on PS4 and drift between 2700 and 3000ish SR.

Since the LFG feature was introduced, practically no one is on a mic or even listening to team chat when you solo queue. Me and 2 other people seems to be the absolute maximum now.

As far as listening to callouts goes, my rank tend to be good at listening to “this person is low” and focusing a target, but any callouts about position usually fall on deaf ears. If you say something like “They have grav, everyone play spread out” they stay grouped.
If you’re trying to decide on a tactic before the round “Speedboost at the statue, go left and straight onto point” the team will split and 9 times out of 10 only 3 people (max) will follow the plan.

Listening to callouts (especially about tactics or positioning) has gotten more difficult with the introduction of LFG and particularly the ‘shotcaller’ endorsement - with LFG everyone is on mic, and everyone is looking for a shotcaller endorsement so comms are a mess of different plans and confusion.

Having said that, you obviously get really good games occasionally, where a tank or support is a good shotcaller, and everyone else only chips in with ‘target low’ or ‘target position’

Once I broke down and started using one, most of my games don’t have people using them now :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m only talking about solo q because when I lfg the main requirement is for everyone to have a mic and use it, so by choice I don’t end up with games with less than 100% mic usage.

In solo q I’m currently in low plat, about 2500-2600 (my profile is public so it can be seen at any time what mu current sr is) and play on eu. I’d say most often everyone is in voice chat and can hear the callouts but very few people actually use their mic. About 1 in every 3-4 games I will have another teammate who is using their mic and maaaybe 1 in 7-8 games I will have someone who is actively shotcalling.

As to whether teammates listen to callouts, it’s about 50/50. But when they don’t it’s mostly just lack of focus instead of a concious decision to ignore me. For example, this week when I had a (yet another) genji on me as zen and called out the genji in the backline, no one turned to help. I died, respawned, said in voice “please next time someone turn for the genji in the backline”. Genji, persistent as ever, showed up again and this time my teammates actually turned around and smashed his face.

I’m pretty sure people just tunnel vision and this is why they don’t shift their focus on another target or on the backline. I myself have found it difficult at times, especially if I can’t see the target that’s low. But after all, that’s why we’re in plat and not higher.

About 4-5. But some games have no mic user.

all of them…
just use lfg
plat

No voice: 90%
One person complains twice and leaves: 3%
One person suggests a plan once, it fails, followed by complete silence: 2%
One person suggests a plan once, it fails; they complain and quit: 2%
One person spends the entire game complaining about that one guy not in voice: 1%
Waits till the very end to flame entire team: 1%
One person tilting off the planet: .5%
Two people tilting off the planet: .2%
Two people tilting off the planet but two more join in during halftime: .2%
Irrelevant chatter from that 3 stack: .05%
Serious calling and plans until we lose the first teamfight: .025%
I’m 6 stacking with friends so we make real calls: .025%