My main account is silenced for a week, don’t really want to get into the specifics of why, but I am just wondering if someone can confirm for me whether or not I can join team voice chat? I know I can’t speak in team chat (not a big deal to me because I never use my mic anyway), but am I able to join and hear what other people are saying? The article on account silencing FAQ is pretty vague because it says I dont have access to team/match text channels either but I can still see what everyone else is typing in QP matches, I just can’t say anything myself.
Watched some YouTube videos where other people were silenced and they could still hear their team (just not talk), but those videos were over a year old so I dunno.
Asking here because I don’t want to join a comp match and test it out for myself if I can’t hear my team.
Thanks for clarifying, appreciate it
Hello. I’m silenced like 100% of the time so I’ma pro. You can use team VC (talk and hear) and whisper.
Damn lmao. Thank you for your advice, o’ wise one.
yeah im rly toxic. I even have two accounts on hold from forums atm 
It’s a problem but I’m not working on it
See, don’t take this the wrong way, but you sound like the kind of person that I would expect to be silenced on multiple accounts.
I feel like that one girl from The Breakfast Club who was in detention for the first time.
Ah. My fellow toxic folk. I have found my way home <3
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A plat tank main? You want to add my main? When I’m unsilenced I’ll pocket the ever living heck out of you.
Sincerely, a plat support main
lolwhat gives off that vibe.
you were still toxic tho xD
The fact that you don’t care about the silences where as I’m over here panicking that the next time I log into my main Overwatch account it’ll somehow be permabanned.
I mean, yeah, that’s true. Teammates that don’t group up, tanks that don’t press w, dps that doesn’t kill anything, healers that don’t heal their other healer… all of these things do frustrate me and I will call people out for it. Do I feel bad? Somewhat.
I’ll learn my lesson when I’m permamuted.
it doesn’t even take that much for me. I just like toxicity tbh.
I don’t even like being toxic. I don’t even try to be toxic, but I guess you can only sarcastically say ‘i didn’t know you could have ai bots for teammates’ in chat so many times before people start getting offended.
lmao hmu
Yea don’t worry about it too much. I’ve been silenced like a solid 10-15 times or so because I may or may not call people c*nts for playing something like sombra or doomfist eheh
oops
fr tho just try and stay positive. Rather than getting upset after every game, think about what you might have been able to do better that could’ve at least made it a closer game (positioning, ability usage, shotcalling, etc). Trust me, I know how it feels. But that’s the best way to not be toxic imo.
But isn’t toxicity just gonna make them play worse? What do you gain from this? Do you really think people feel down when you say it? They just get annoyed by you.
They’re not gonna be like “oh no i’m bad, better get better” in reality they’re like “we have a 13 year old virgin troll that i don’t want to play with and i don’t care about winning anymore if people are gonna belittle me with unconstructive bs”
And then they will either mute you or fire back.
And nobody gained nothing, except annoyance…
Edit: see, now I’m being pseudo toxic. Isn’t that annoying?
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Yeah. See, I’m not a 13 year old virgin troll, I’m 28 years old, and like I said, I’m not the kind of person who goes into a match actively trying to be toxic on purpose and I also feel bad about some of the things I’ve said looking back on it.
Having no communications for a week (I’m only on day 2 of 7 right now) is definitely even more annoying because, as a support player, I can’t call out when someone’s targeting me or when someone’s low or anything else, but it’s definitely given me perspective. I don’t know, hopefully I’ll be able to be a Changed Woman when my silence is over, but this game frustrates me, and ending up with bad teammates frustrates me even more. I’m just an easily frustrated person.
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I yell out loud, I complain to my mate sitting next tome. But i just keep it out of voice or team chat. That’s all it takes. I know fingers may hurt (I’ve been there) but just keep it to yourself as much as you can.
The only time I allow my toxicity to be unleashed is when somebody else is overly toxic to someone else who didn’t deserve it (that’s how i conpensate)
But even then I wouldn’t call someone a bot or something, I make sure i constructivly criticize that person otherwise i don’t get pleasure out of it.
Like I’ll tell them when they’ve fed or not do something they could have in detail.
I used to do that, and I think the toxicity from other people has just brought me down over the years. I mean, there’s only so many times I feel like nicely saying “so and so, please stop feeding and wait for the rest of the team before going in” to be met with things like ‘sh-t up b-tch,’ ‘god you’re annoying,’ etc. etc. before I’m just tired of it and start flat out being like ‘stop playing like a god damn bot you’re literally the reason we’re losing every push.’
It’s not nice, and I know I need to work on it, but it’s just so hard. Many e-dudes who think they can 1v6 the entire enemy team don’t want to listen to the girl playing Mercy on their team asking them to group up lol
There’s your problem!
Use the word “We” instead of “playername”.
“We have to stop feeding”
“2 down, regroup. We have one job guys, don’t feed and don’t die”
It’s like, you’re complaining, but nobody get’s offended by it, that’s why the word “we” is so great.
Never call people out by names for bad stuff. That’s a recipe for disaster.
Even if it’s just one person, pretend like it’s the team, he’ll know who he is believe me.
Example: Genji is feeding hog
You say: “We need to stop feeding hog”
And the Genji will be like “oh sh*t i’m feeding hog”
Mindgames
Hmm, you might be onto something there. I’ll be more careful about my word choice when I get unsilenced. Thanks for the advice.
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