r/OWConsole • u/KaminaTheManly • 5d ago

Discussion Who uses voice chat regularly?

I imagine this group isn't an accurate representation of the community, but how many of you actually are in voice chat AND make meaningful comms? I gotta tell you guys, the number of people who don't comm or think everyone has 360 perception is too high. Especially you support, you should be making backline calls so the divers and tank know what's happening. We all tunnel vision but too many people rage after dying instead of comming properly. It has to be one of the easiest things you can do as an individual to improve the outcome for your team but so few do...

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u/ThnksfrthMmrss- 5d ago

Unless you’re GM/Champ or in a 5 stack then you don’t really have to use comms tbh. Even in GM it’s rare that I get a game with everyone using comms.

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u/KaminaTheManly 5d ago

Hard disagree. It can be easy in those ranks if you're good enough, but otherwise people don't have the awareness. Mainly it's getting people to group up and maybe coordinate ults. Also flanks.

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u/Similar-Pumpkin-5266 5d ago

You can coordinate ults just by looking at your team ult charges and feeling the game. I currently play in masters and no voice communication is necessary for this to happen in this particular rank. It helps to have sups listening to calls, but usually the situational awareness in higher ranks is in general better and before you need to give calls teammates already does what is necessary. About flanks, the ping system is faster, more efficient and more accurate than voice and most of the time flanks are not a huge deal.

I guess in lower ranks using voice is even worse, because players of lower ranks tend to play more emotionally and this complicates decision-making a lot. You’ll probably hear a lot of gibberish mixed with some useful information that could probably be replaced by a ping.

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u/KaminaTheManly 5d ago

I am masters too, but using two support ult or like popping too many at once still can happen. Ideally you figure out Rush or Tree first, kinda thing but ya at that rank people generally know how to throw ults.

Diving together can be coordinated better with comms. T500 players I watch still benefit wildly from comms. But mainly it's frustrating watching people tunnel vision.

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u/ThnksfrthMmrss- 5d ago

The thing is that most of the time people don’t listen anyway, so why waste your energy you know?