Can't turn off in game chat, REALLY???

[Hybrid]

Does anybody know if theres a way to turn off chat in game? If not this game is literally the first online game in history of gaming that doesn't have this most basic feature...you can't even turn off the enemy's team chat wtf is this lol

[MancakeBR]

Just don't look at chat.

That's what I do.

If I see someone being toxic, I'll not say anything and just report.

[HeadHunter]

Settings -> Social -> Chat -> Turn off everything except for whispers, if you need them.

[Hybrid]

Originally posted by HeadHunter:

Settings -> Social -> Chat -> Turn off everything except for whispers, if you need them.

Tried that, apparently didn't worked... O.o

[Rewdzi]

yeah you can't turn off match chat for some reason. only the team chat. They need to fix it

[Borko]

I guess the devs see it as a "gameplay experience" to be forced to see all the toxic filth spewed from the enemy team.
They also won't let you skip the end of match cutscenes.

[PocketYoda]

I just don't have time to look at it.. Maybe play a healer like me and you'd forget chat exists.

[Kilmeran]

Originally posted by Borko:

I guess the devs see it as a "gameplay experience" to be forced to see all the toxic filth spewed from the enemy team.
They also won't let you skip the end of match cutscenes.

It's a completely asinine lack of social QoL, and match chat is getting bad enough that at this point I'd rather hold my nose and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ play OW then log into Rivals again.

[Roland's 2nd]

You mean you can't be anti social and block all communication in a team based game where communication is the key to consistent victory?

That's wild. I wonder why they might have done that...

[Kilmeran]

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

You mean you can't be anti social and block all communication in a team based game where communication is the key to consistent victory?

That's wild. I wonder why they might have done that...

That would be Team chat, which is fine. Match chat is where the two sides can talk to each other, and is just a useless trash-fiesta. Match chat needs an option to be turned off.

[Mister Father]

Team chat is way more toxic than match chat.

[Roland's 2nd]

Originally posted by Kilmeran:

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

You mean you can't be anti social and block all communication in a team based game where communication is the key to consistent victory?

That's wild. I wonder why they might have done that...

That would be Team chat, which is fine. Match chat is where the two sides can talk to each other, and is just a useless trash-fiesta. Match chat needs an option to be turned off.

I've seen a total of 2 sentences in Match Chat that weren't "GG" or "GGWP" across 125 matches so far.
I think people are being a little hyperbolic and overly reactionary...

[HeadHunter]

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

I think people are being a little hyperbolic and overly reactionary...

Nah, I turn off VC and team/match chats in all multiplayer games nowadays. I do have neither patience nor energy to deal with the constant toxicity. From my experience, randoms are rarely able to act civil and provide any useful information.

[Roland's 2nd]

Originally posted by HeadHunter:

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

I think people are being a little hyperbolic and overly reactionary...

Nah, I turn off VC and team/match chats in all multiplayer games nowadays. I do have neither patience nor energy to deal with the constant toxicity. From my experience, randoms are rarely able to act civil and provide any useful information.

well yea, you can't ever know if you're wrong if you never leave the possibility open to see a difference

Like I said, 125 matches, 2 sentences.
I have data, you do not.

[HeadHunter]

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

I have data, you do not.

I turned off chats right after "gg ez" in a stomp game. Probably, about 10 matches in.

Played with them and actively communicated for ~ 10 years in games like CS:GO, OW, and Apex Legends — more than enough experience to have a good understanding of how people usually act online. Now I have no desire to talk to a bunch of immature, negative strangers.

[Blood of Kerensky]

Originally posted by Roland's 2nd:

Originally posted by HeadHunter:

Nah, I turn off VC and team/match chats in all multiplayer games nowadays. I do have neither patience nor energy to deal with the constant toxicity. From my experience, randoms are rarely able to act civil and provide any useful information.

well yea, you can't ever know if you're wrong if you never leave the possibility open to see a difference

Like I said, 125 matches, 2 sentences.
I have data, you do not.

In 250 games, I have been called a r*, a n*, got to me suggested that I be put into a death camp, be put into conversion therapy etc etc. I reported them all, of course and I can understand that there are people who don't want to deal with that kind of toxicity.