As the title states, ever since this game has come out blizzard has decided not to make team chat the default setting for everyone. This decision is baffling in a team based game. Is it not smarter to have everyone in team chat when they join a game and make the choice to leave. I think everyone will learn the fundamentals faster and this could cut down on possible toxicity against teammates, as they will have everyone listening to them and have multiple reports if they get toxic. This is not forcing people to speak if they don’t want to, just listen to call outs, hear suggestions on hero switches that would counter multiple heroes on the enemy team and receive praise when they do a great play/save a team or teammates from certain death(Healers the unrecognized hero’s in POG). Lemme know what y’all think, should Blizzard make the change to automatically have everyone listening in team chat every match. Lemme know your pros and cons.
I’m on xbone and I wondered this myself. That is until my wife was playing without me one day and I hear this horrible screeching from her game room.
It was squeakers. Glad I muted all voice.
The ping system is fine for comms. Bad guy there. We should go this way. I’ll stay and defend this spot/the objective. Etc. I doubt people would listen to reason presented verbally any more than they respond to those pings though.
Probably because having no comms lowers the barrier of entry for new players. Joining a quiet game feels like a “safe-ish space” for players to experiment and just have dumb fun. For any product, you need to hook a customer before you reel them in. Besides, not every Mystery Heroes player is going to grind competitive.
However, it would be nice for a prompt to appear before Comp to say “Hey, btw Comms aren’t required, but sometimes they can be pretty important here.”
Also, I don’t want auto-join mics to accidentally transmit some kid’s parents argue in the background, when the kid thought he wasn’t in VC.
This makes sense, yet it’s actually surprisingly quite in most matches even if everyone is in team chat, unless your In a group allready. A prompt is a great idea for competitive.
I’m on board with your prompt idea. A quick prompt would be a quick and easy fix to any reason you wouldn’t want to be in team chat.( Like squeakers, toxic players, echos and feedback)
My wife doesn’t like headphones and we’re looking for either neckphones or bone conduction for her. That being said, she and I are yelling back and forth to each other from across the house (we have our own game rooms) to communicate. Nobody on comms wants to hear that.
I think a husband and wife duo hollering across the house is great entertainment but I get your point lol
Reminds me of that collegehumor thing.
“WHAT’S YOUR NAME?!”
-“TONY!”
“$#@& YOU TONY!”
bc blizz wants players to be less social
which is why LFG was withheld purposely.