I never feel the need to turn off voice chat since like only one or two people ever use it in Overwatch. I only use my headset if I'm playing with someone from my friends list because at least I know who they are.
I use voice chat all the time with friends obviously but I have only ran into a handful of people using voice chat in pub games.
I don't have voice chat off, and I feel like I very rarely do hear people and when I do they actually seem to be contributing useful info. Or at the very least not spewing hateful nonsense.
Shamelessly stealing this from Reddit, but here's a Bastion getting POTG for killing himself and nobody else.
Bastion, Reaper, and Mcree are so annoying. Love their designs but can't stand going against them sometimes. That said I'm a big Pharrah and Junkrat main and I'm sure they annoy the shit out of people too. They just feel so familiar to me given my thousands of hours spent on TF2
Finally got my win % up over 40% after a really rough start. I have also discovered the awesomeness of Lucio. Probably my favorite character to play with at this point.
Muting everything from the get go is rather unfortunate, I'm the guy in public lobbies trying to communicate with my team regardless if I have friends with me or not. Also give a friendly hello from the start, haven't experienced any vocal grief in OW.
I've not experienced much grief at all other than the odd 'noob' and the odd N word from people who I guess are under 15 and think it's cool. I reported them, for whatever good that does. The worst is people spending half the game telling others what to do rather than just focussing on what they're doing. I'm having a real shitty night tonight. Think I've lost my last 8 games. McCree is really kicking my ass every game and for the life of me I can't even hit a Tracer.
I just got a loot box and I opened it and I got all excited seeing the purple light come up and it was a Mccree highlight intro. I never have even used Mccree and now I'm super bummed. I did just have a really good game with my main girl D Va we even got the POTG for throwing the mech in the middle of the opposing team capturing the point.
Welp, my win rate is shit again and my loot boxes are shit again. Nothing new to report here. At least the individual win rates for most of the heroes I use often are above 50% (poor D.Va's is only 39%). Roadhog skin. Another hero I don't use. Yeah, it feels like teams are getting worse and worse. This isn't fun anymore without people I know.
Uggggh, I know haha. I try to limit my video game purchases but this year has been spectacular and the games I was looking forward to aren't even out yet lol. Maybe Ebay can do me a solid.
I don't know if @lightning13 was one of the people I revived but I somehow managed to get the revive four people at once achievement with Mercy. I was super happy plus I found out in about 4 hours of playing with her I have around a 50% win rating with her.
Decided to finally start playing more as Mei tonight. Did surprisingly well, had a POTG and won most of my games.