Do You Instantly Mute People In Online Multiplayer?

[Dylan]

Age based matchmaking is an interesting idea. Most people that spazz out in a game from my personal experience lean towards the younger side. On the other had, if its like a fps on PC and you're on a team with a bunch of old farts, you'll probably get bopped by the younger teams lol.

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Totally fine with never winning another match if I never have to hear players suffering from juvenile garbage mouth syndrome ever again.

I used to play on a dedicated TF2 server that was mostly 35+ in age (with the median age probably closer to 45) and I had such a great time regardless of how I performed. I miss that.

Playing with young kids just feels weird after you've past a certain age threshold. E.g. I wouldn't go out and play basketball with a bunch of kids I didn't know, and I'm sure their parents wouldn't want me doing that either. It's a weird problem specific to gaming.

 

[VaporSnake]

Callouts matter immensely in everything I'm interested in playing so of course not.

 

[Birbos]

In Siege I mute text chat from the start until I want to hear a response to my toxic comments

 

[NightShift]

The first thing I do when I start a multiplayer game is check if there's a mute all setting. I played CoD with a mic on for years so I did my time.

 

[Deleted member 17990]

Always mute everyone.

 

[NoKisum]

Yep. From my experience, everyone on voice chat is usually racist until proven innocent.

 

[Foffy]

Yes. Discord group or silence for me.

 

[Firima]

In competitive games, I give people a chance, especially because I play Overwatch and communication means a better chance at victory.

But if you gunk up comms with useless shit, it's a mute.

 

[Bradford]

Yup. I usually also go into settings and set voice volume to 0 just in case I forget to mute people specifically.

 

[P00PNINJAMVC3MK]

Some of the coolest people I met and still talk to come from random voice chat in games so nah. It's also always hella entertaining whether they're raging or not.

 

[Treestump]

I give everyone a chance, especially when I solo in Overwatch but make a dummy out of yourself or if warned by another teammate, then bye. I've honestly had a pretty good experience with voice chat recently. Guess I've been lucky.

 

[Log!]

Always. I rarely have a game of Overwatch or TF2 where people aren't either being assholes or talking over each other, so I much prefer being able to hear the in-game audio than hear somebody complain about a teammate's hero choices.

The number of times I was able to save my team from a sneaky Pharah ult 'cause I could hear her jump jets is way more than from somebody's call-out.

 

[Ultima_5]

I️ can't remember the last time I️ talked with randoms

 

[KtSlime]

Silence is golden.

 

[zMiiChy-]

Not all, but often.
I'd probably mute you though.

 

[Ahti]

Depends on the game. Hunt Showdown? Never. COD? Always. Apex Legends...sometimes. Gears...sometimes.

 

[JumbiePrime]

I take it a step further. If you're not on my friends list you cannot contact me in any way , message or voice chat . Unless the game has a text chat or something but even then I won't respond , just read .

 

[StayMe7o]

I make a private party so I don't have to be called a slur or hear people's bad mics

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

you never mute me~

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Thats because we're soul mates

 

[leburn98]

Depends on the game. For Call of Duty, voice isn't really needed. For something like Siege, it's absolutely needed.

Having said that, some of my favorite online moments have been because of random voice chat. During the early 360 days, it was the best. Halo 3 led to a lot of great moments.

I remember playing a rocket race in Halo 3 when my friend decided get off the quad bike and leg it to the finish line. Some other guy saw him and said "Dude's makin' a run for it" and then started to laugh. The entire chat lost it, and both my friend and I were in tears. I also remember doing another race when some guy was hit with a rocket while trying to make a jump. As he was hit he actually yells "Weeeeee", we again lost it and had tears in our eyes trying to complete the race. Finally, I remember playing during the Halo 3 beta and lobbying up with some randoms who were equally as bad as me at the game (I was fairly new to console shooters). We could not make it pass rank 1 so we would chant "We're #1" at the lobby.

A few years ago I remember play Day of Defeat Source on PC and someone was giving use the Bill Pullman Independence Day speech to rile us because we were losing. We ended up winning :). It's unfortunate at how toxic chat has become over the years, and I miss moments like these.

 

[Rizific]

Depends on the game. Cod? Yup mics should just be muted by default. Battlefield? Nah. It's rare that Im in a squad with anyone talking anyway. But when I'm in one it's usually a couple people actually working together and rarely some dipshit just mouthing off.

 

[Deleted member 10234]

I usually disable voice chat in settings before playing.

 

[Skade]

Yes, i want to hear the game, not someone trying to say something, or their TV, or their mom, or anything really. So i disable that the first time i launch a game.

Not that i play many multiplayer games anyway, but those i do, i have no need to hear anyone.

 

[Mukrab]

Era: People nowadays don't ever talk in games.

Also Era: Do you mute everyone before the game even starts?

To answer your question no and such a thing would never even cross my mind.

 

[plngsplsh]

i usually don't mute + i have my mic set up
sometimes it helps to talk to people that behave at initial glance like anti-social idiots

in my experience, some of them are just as disappointed in the other players as oneself is and are also looking to play a good game with good teamplayers. sometimes they just want to mess about, which is okay, because i also sometimes just want to mess about, thus i join them and generally have a good time.

 

[Cookie Dough]

I'd rather lose than listen to what shitty thing someone has to say.

 

[CrocodileGrin]

Usually, yes. In games like Fortnite when I'm playing STW or Team Rumble, it's a must. For Overwatch, I give some people a chance. If they demand someone pick a specific character, get loud, is a kid, or have music playing in the background, they instantly get muted.

 

[Static]

I don't mute unless someone gives me reason to mute. But when they do, that's that.

 

[Deleted member 19767]

To the people who have voted yes, y'all better be staying out of ranked playlists.

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I'd just use LFG or something if I wanted to take a specific game/playlist seriously. For everything else, always on mute - including ranked modes. I'd rather lose 100 times than listen to one person mouth off once.

 

[Caeda]

Wish I could answer "yes, I stick to private calls with friends" because any in game chat option is immediately disabled, but I chat with my friends over discord. I'm a woman who has a hearing loss that affects my ability to detect audio cues like footsteps, don't really want to deal with people being salty piss babies when I'm just trying to go bang bang shooty shoot with my friends.

 

[skeezx]

muting by default is ... kinda bizarre to me

i can understand certain instances but for the most part i dunno

 

[AM_LIGHT]

I always mute . I have no time for chat during games .

 

[Mbolibombo]

I've got everyone muted by default.

 

[Kurita]

Haven't played in an online FPS in a while, but yeah, 90% of the time I just mute people.

 

[Zoon]

Only mute people who are toxic or extremely annoying.

 

[FakePlasticTree]

Yes because people rarely have anything useful to say.

 

[Lyre]

You get a lot of people that seemingly just talk to themselves, they get muted straight away. Likewise people playing music, or kids.

If people are arguing (because it's funny) or actually communicating teamwork, then I wont mute them.

 

[DeoGame]

If someone is talking and is an ahole, yes. Otherwise, most of the time, nobody even talks. I don't when I'm not with my coworkers/friends.

 

[Soulflarz]

Thats because we're soul mates

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pls

 

[Fusionfrenzy]

I mure everyone. I can never hear anything other than garbled noise and maybe their music in the background while they try to say indistinguishable words. It is rubbish.

 

[SlickShoes]

I've been playing ranked valorant recently and I'm not good. Anyway, I give people a chance, but you can usually tell in the first few minutes and if people are screaming or doing weird impressions or moaning already they get muted instantly. Same goes for people that complain we are losing badly when only 3-1 down and they have 0 kills and 4 deaths. They want out of the game instead of fighting back and become toxic so they get a swift mute too.

 

[5pectre]

If I chat myself it usually in a party but when I'm alone playing with randoms; see below

In this generation I don't hear as many people online? In PS360 era EVERYONE was mic'd up. I hear people mostly when playing Forza Motorsport 7 and it's absolutely hilarious to hear people rage :D

So I give people a chance. If they sing or scream/yell into the mic constantly I mute that one person.

 

[Siresly]

I only play Battlefield on PC and so don't need to mute anyone as no one uses voice chat anyway.
But I do hide the text chat by default. And if people did use voice chat I'd mute that by default as well.
I'd do the same in all other games, assuming communication isn't basically required.

I'd guess about 60% of public chat communication is some sort of worthless, and 50% of that is toxic.
It's just not worth it. I don't want to listen to random assholes. Just hush them and turn them into dynamic bots.

 

[HDNA]

The moment i hear a voice or a cough im like "shit, how do you mute everyone in this game"

 

[Hzoltan969]

I never even turn on voice chat in the first place.

 

[Kyuuji]

Unless I know them they're muted.

 

[Bakuryu]

I keep team quick chat in Rocket League. That's it. Have never been a fan of chatting to anyone, not even friends in online games. Not a massive fan of online games regardless.

 

[Naru]

First thing I in every CoD and FPS multiplayer game:
1. disable voice chat
2. disable text chat

The only things to keep playing and stay sane.

 

[Ravelle]

I don't mute them, I go to the settings and change voice volume to 0.

Not just because rude people but because a lot of games still to the thing in which it auto enables in-game voice communications causing everyone to loop and hear themselves and double because everyone pretty much uses third person software.

 

[TheEchosOfTheCyborg]

Unless it's friends I know and trust, mute by default, been burned too many times and heard too much garbage online.

Seriously, ranked modes became WAY MORE FUN when I don't have to here that abuse, bigotry and "orders" by "real players". And screw people who try to shame those for not having a mic, this has been an issue for decades now that devs haven't found good solutions especially when you don't get the same abuse many of us have to,