Make mics required for ranked

[Shrakn3l]

Mics need to be made a requirement for ranked.

the game needs to perform a mic check before allowing anyone to queue for ranked, and it should passively monitor for sound coming from each players mic(s).

So many games lost just because a team won't communicate.

The end game should also give you the ability to rank team members based upon how well they communicated.

The players that get rated higher consistently for communication, get placed into separate mm pool than those who get rated low consistently.

 

[submersed767]

I don't think it should be required. There a lot of other ways to communicate with pings, clicking the mini map, and using the chat wheel. Requiring voice chat could make people want to play less often. There is too much possibility for people to be mean in voice chat. There's enough toxicity with text chat as it is.

 

[gimmekeyplskthnx]

Having a mic vs not having one is night and day in terms of game quality. I think people are subconsciously more willing to listen to something spoken to them over something that is written or pinged to them. Judging from the voice chat changes they tried pushing (only to back out a day later due to all the backlash) I don't think that the developers will be too keen on adding mic requirements for ranked, mostly to protect the sensibilities of people that don't have any business playing a competitive moba shooter like above.