unless you are in a group, and still have the option to mute indviduals
but im tired of people not joining to hear call outs
i dont even care if u dont talk at this point atleast join.
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Sorry but no thanks. From my observations with the people I see in game chat; things get worse not better.
People think they know more than you, theyâre rude, they flame or blame people the list goes on.
Iâd rather take a hit on callouts than deal with the clowns Iâve seen on chat.
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Why? The personality type to want to FORCE team chat is probably the same type I donât want to be hearing. Think of it this way everyone has the power to mute people, and youâve just been pre-muted.
Go on find group if itâs really that important to you.
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my end is set to auto join team chat i think though i left team chat once due to an annoying person
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^ same here. i atleast join, i dont always talk but im there for the call outs
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God no, I would wonder about quitting Competitive entirely if this was the case.
As a female with a very high voice, I get so much unwanted attention. Wether it be from guys who want to duo, or guys/girls who claim I fake my voice, or guys who just hate having women in their games⌠the list goes on.
All of these things that people force onto me have nothing to do with the gameplay which is why itâs so frustrating.
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Toxic people do not appear THAT often to where you have to completely turn off team chat.
You can also just mute individual people
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Team chat is always on, whatâs not on is voice.
Muting individually is a hassle, weâre 5 years into this games life and it still doesnât have a feature where you can hold tab, and mute with a single mouse click like other more popular games, itâs called an industry âstandardâ and blizzard is way behind on them.
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i always get the stereo types too omg a grill gril u suck kill urself, is that a 12 year old boy? but what im talking about is simply mandatory join teamchat, WITHOUT mandatory open mic, thats different. u dont HAVE to talk but atleast hear those who DO
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I see, this would be interesting but at the same time I dont want to stop communicating with my friends because now there are strangers around.
Like me and my friends talk pretty much all throughout the round, meanwhile team chat is more about call-outs.
I dunno, maybe itd be a big improvement for solo play, but group play would be a little weird.
If you join a game and youâre in group chat, would you all get booted to team chat?
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This would just make people waste more time by muting everyone. If someone doesnât join chat, thatâs fine. This is not OWL.
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7/10 times that ONE person not in chat is âŚbad. to say the least and because they cant hear they cant co ordinate, i play with a zarya main and i can just feel his frustration, because zarya and many other heroes require coordination. then you have the 2-3 stacks which is HALF the team. its not good. it is even worse when its a sombra not in chat 
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Nah buddy.
The people who want everyone in voicechat are usually the worst. Voicechat with random players is highly overrated.
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I donât need people screaming in my ears when Iâm trying to focus on what Iâm doing. I donât need someone telling me what to do or how to do it. I donât need someone telling me to switch. I donât need to hear someone telling everyone they suck. I donât need to hear toxic players. I donât need distractions. I donât need to hear you.
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No but it does ruin the experience. Especially when thereâs a sombra on the team and no one knows whoâs hacked or people who need to know arenât in the chat.
They donât when to fall back or push. (the little comm wheel shts do nothing)
They donât understand the ult bank of the enemy team.
Thereâs so many positives and not that many negatives when you literally have a mute option you can use on the individual player causing your problems, instead of just out right not hearing the ENTIRETY of your team.
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Extremely few people actually do call outs and even less do them correctly. It feels like it exist in this game just to be toxic to each other.
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I wouldâve quit the game years ago if team chat was mandatory. For me it ruins the game and should never have been added to overwatch. I still love Overwatch with over 2000 hours played and Iâm confident itâs because I dont join voice.
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Based on your personal opinionâŚ
They absolutely can. You donât need to hear someoneâs voice to follow up on something. There are in-game features along with visuals that allow you to coordinate things.
Too bad. Even if the person was in voice chat doesnât mean they would listen. People being toxic would also most likely lead to a negative reaction from the person which would mean they perform worse than if they didnât hear the person in the first place.
It really doesnât. If youâre that upset that someone else isnât forced to hear your voice and opinions, you need to get over yourself. You are not Godâs gift to man nor do you qualify as team dictator just because you put yourself on a pedestal.
Hacked targets have a visual indicator. If You canât see the person she hacked by looking, you wouldnât see them if she called them out. If she hacks a tank or someone big/in the frontline and you donât see it or are just not focusing the tank who isnât using abilities in the open, it is not Sombraâs fault you suck as a team.
Sombra communicating does help but it is not 100% necessary and she does not need to call out every time she hacks someone.
If you using the comm wheel does nothing, you saying it isnât going to do anything either and if they canât tell when to fall-back themselves or push with the team, your voice is not going to magically make them a better player.
People usually have their own mental assumptions based on the characters they interact with. This is not a huge issue that requires hearing someoneâs voice.
Sometimes (at least for me) people donât want to hear voices of other people and focus on their own performance. If you absolutely need people to be able to hear your godly call-outs, make a stack and you can all talk and listen to each other all day.
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Crazy how thatâs none of what I said.
Itâs detrimental when your teammates canât hear important call outs, then THEY do idiotic sht that loses us the game because they couldnât hear the team.
Literally the whole reason why sheâs bad is because of the amount of teamwork and coordination is necessary with her, lmfao bye.
Iâm not some godly figure who NEEDS to have their voice heard so you can stop with that ignorant argument. The fact is, it helps A LOT to have communication. Thatâs like everyoneâs problem with low elo is that no one communicates and it leads to the team have little to no teamwork.
Thereâs a reason why some heroes in OWL work SO MUCH better, and itâs because of teamwork and communication.
D.va and sombra are good examples of that.
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You are at a great disadvantage if you donât join voice chat. You should just mute the toxic ones or the ones that are giving prescriptive advice (ie advice on hero choice or how to play heroes - usually they are wrong anyways). Voice chat should be primarily used for enemy position call outs, or for the initiators (usually tanks - but not always) to let their team know they are going in to initiate a fight, or to remind their team to not stagger and group up.
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