I use voicechat and I know, you cant be a shy little mouse when it comes to online games.
At example, in the beginning of a match when I join vc and say “Hi” sometimes somebody is like:
“Harrr, its a girl ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)”, Or:" Giirls arr not video games!" and other [Forum Moderator Note: Redacted obscene language]. I ignore stuff like that and keep making calls.
But sometimes, things get heavy in the match and then I often hear sentences I cant and wont ignore like “Go back to kitchen!” or “Sure, we are losing, we have a girl in our team…”
Thats the reason I wont join voice chat in my next match… -_-
This is when you mute, block and/or report people. I’ve done it plenty in the past myself. But I’ve only ever heard inappropriate chat against a woman once, and I spoke up about it…
Humans talk smack to other humans. Especially in games like this. They say whatever gets to you, independent of gender. That’s just how it works. Welcome to online gaming, I guess. Use mute.
Whenever I used voice chat someone usually types Is ThAt A gAmEr GiRl!? . Makes me laugh, on rare occasions though people can be cucklords so I’d say use avoid as teammate if you have one slot left. And mute those guys, just do your own thing which makes you win. If literally everyone is a piece of sh** then leave voice chat and you can also hide the chat entirely by pressing ctrl + shift + c.
You can’t really help with the type of people you meet on the internet, but you have the tools to avoid the toxicity so use them.
So? What do you want us to do? Welcome to the wonderful world of online competitive multiplayer games…Mute people, blacklist them or don’t even use voice chat. It’s up to you to use the tools the game offers to deal with such behavior.
I think the OP knows what to do, I think the point is they shouldn’t have to do it, which I agree with.
As for more permanent solutions OP, I’d recommend joining a clan or community of some kind. There are ones out there that are active and would crack down pretty hard on that kind of harassment/BS.
I kinda disagree with the point, probably because I’m way used to it (considering I’ve been playing tons of fps shooters since 6 years). As far my personal experience I just think that people on the internet are anonymous and that’s what they take they take the advantage of, some people you meet can be nice, some can be bad. You can’t do anything about them. And of course any of those people who harass people over chat won’t regularly check forums seeing posts telling them to stop…you just can’t help it. Which concludes that you have to adapt to the world, the world can’t adapt you. And it’s the internet/competitive game, you have to see that sorta things coming.