cl_drawhud 0
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maybe turn pyrovision on too since you're such a pussy
TF2 isn't toxic enough. I want players to experience anemia and low blood sugar just by having the game installed
"The few people that do speak out get rebuked for 'creating drama'," she said. "It's embarrassing."
This is not specific to TF2 or gaming as a whole. Go on Twitter and look for someone speaking out against something and at least one of the responses will be along the lines of "stop creating drama". People like living in stress-free bubbles and shudder at the thought that the bubble must pop eventually.
TF2 isn't ESRB but this is why ESRB puts
http://i.imgur.com/Xwh1NMA.png
I understand that basically all online videogame communities are toxic and full of grown up sexist manchildren, but it's not something you can do anything about unless you want players to boycott your game for policing morality. Especially since so many TF2 servers are community servers.
Fact: all online videogame experiences are better when you disable voice communication. Then you don't have to listen to some dickhead screaming at you for going B instead of A in casual matchmaking
hud_saytext_time 0 if you want to have a hud with no chat.
This is the same game where there are ingame voice lines such as "Scotland is not a real country, you are just an Englishman in a dress" and "Off to visit your mother!"
Literally all you have to do is hit tab, right click on the person you don't like, and block them. Problem solved. Or if Steam's overlay is too much for you, just hit escape, locate the ear with an X, and mute them. But if you're so much of a pussy that blocking them and muting them isn't enough, you can kick them, although you'll most likely get laughed at for being such a baby and have the kick turned around on you instead. But wait, theres one more option! Play on a community server with moderators, and if you bitch enough, one of them will either mute the offender, or mute you. Depending on whoever they deem more annoying and toxic to their own little community
Banter is part of the TF2 experience, if you can't handle it then fuck off, learn to have a little fun in your life maybe. From what I can understand, this was all just in game over voice chat, unless I missed something. If it was over twitter and the harassment follows you outside of the game, then just report them. You shouldn't blame an entire fucking community because a minority of people started harassing you online.
I don't see why you think Valve should act as your baby sitter when you have the tools for yourself at your disposal. Act like a fucking big boy and do the work yourself.
Also
>Competitive TF2
Yeah, because being fed up with being harassed makes you a pussy. You're so tough.
Not to mention these things also take place outside of the game.
"o no, people said mean words about me"
guess what, that has also happened to me, and to literaly anyone else.
Literaly.Everyone.Else
You know what sucks more?
Getting reported for absolute baseless bulshit, and have the report fall through, going into low priority, because a bunch of fucking neanderthals can't understand the ideas behind each character they pick and how they can affect the game by merely picking wrong.
Oh wow someone said something because you're a woman, big fucking whoop, do you need a bandage also because you're a woman? Because I'm a man and I've had a whole lot of shit flung at me, maybe more than you over the course of 15 years of gaming every day, shit that actually specificaly does kind of hit me every now and then, because of personal family issues, and yet I haven't resorted to writting an angry letter on the internet about it and told everyone that male gamers in the online world are something akin to a corruptive force that infests a thriving city and its inhabitants turning them into mutant zombies like a disease.
This goes for this, and every other person who takes toxicity in games as such a dire problem that they can't just use a mute button and be done with it.
I'm curious - is "going out of your way to say 'tranny down' after scoring a kill on a transgender player" still banter or is it already being a piece of shit?
Outside of the game is one thing. That's straight up harassment, and that IMO is basis to call the cops on someone.
Inside though, mute and forget.
I'd say it is. I've been in a lot of matches where people have binds akin to that that they spam every time they get a kill. If you don't like it, then do one of the following options I gave, mute them, block them, kick them, or complain to a mod.
For those of you who are dismissing this article's concerns: give me one good reason Valve shouldn't have a system like Rainbow Six Siege, that automatically temp-bans people from casual matchmaking for saying niggger, faggot, tranny, and any other slur in text chat.
Theres a clear difference between regular toxicity & banter, and straight up being a bigot dickhead. How hard was it to not be a racist asshole to people like uberchain and tagg, who poured their heart into the game. Glad this shit is getting some attention.
I'd rather put up with shitheads than deal with the kind of nanny state crap that blizzard pulls with their games.
is bad lazy developer a valid reason?
Did you or any of the people rating the OP baby read the article? This aren't random shitters in pubs that you can mute. It's about the actual competitive scene as well as shit like this:
Workshop creator Juniper "Fuzzymellow", who identifies as non-binary,
revealed they'd had to deal with transphobia within their TF2 projects
and had witnessed doxxing, stalking and harassment within the workshop
community. According to Fuzzymellow, one particular group of players
even followed them into a TF2 match in order to bully them and mock
their appearance. This same group apparently stalked vulnerable people
in the workshop community, even finding their Facebook profiles, and
there have been attempts to steal identities.
Yeah there's anti toxicity systems in Dota 2 and CSGO, but TF2 can't even get more then one content update per year now.
Except that insult was directly targeted at a specific person participating in the tournament. Even putting aside people's personal feelings, what kind of sportsmanly conduct involves calling other people "trannies" or "ugly gook cunts"?
That's another thing though...
I have nothing against transgenders or anyone not cis gendered, but how and why would someone know you're a transgender, for example?
Is there really a need to tell everyone who you are?
We live in a world where idiots will make jokes about whatever country you're from, or with your family members. And not the funny kind of jokes, but actually offensive kinds of jokes... Why would you reveal on the internet that you aren't "normal"?
chill
I feel like most of the responses in this thread are missing the point. The majority of the harassment here is taking place outside of the game. I know one of the examples in this article is someone being doxxed, should the response to that still be "haha just learn to take banter"? Should the response to being called slurs irl at a lan be telling someone to stop living in a bubble?
Because you want to be yourself? I don't think that's a lot to ask. This isn't randos getting matched up in a comp queue together, it's organized matches in a community where people know each other and a lot have probably met irl at some point. You shouldn't have to remain anonymous in that environment just to save yourself from harassment.
Watching the majority of people in this thread assume they know what the article is talking about while clearly having not read it is nice.
I know Uberchain personally (I funded her phenomenal documentary, and watched its debut at LAN). I don't agree with her on a number of issues but this is inexcusable.
This goes far beyond in-game skill-related trashtalk. This represents a range of issues, from "simple" bigoted in-game chat such as "tranny down" or "nigger", by high-level competitive players, to actual, real-life sexual assault and coercion.
This incident has been the catalyst for a lot of internal (and soon external) changes within pretty much all the largest TF2 services. You're never going to get rid of assholes, but bigoted pieces of shit shouldn't be profiting off the community.
Does make me sad to see that my favorite game's first major coverage in a while is very negative, but that's just how things go.
So basically transgender people should pretend they're not transgender because otherwise immature pricks will make fun of them and the trans folk will supposedly be the ones at fault here?
Duly noted, champ. Please keep me posted on what will be the next shameful thing, then!
Team fortress 2 is a toxic cesspool. What other game would allow THIS?
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211451/e4c0feea-6a54-4f0a-acd1-fd6647212a74/n4uf0vjyfl3y.jpg
Use the fucking mute button.
To be fair, that's an item that allows you to paste any image onto it.
May be a bad idea on the developer's part (it is), but they don't want that.
Then ban them from the tournament. UGC, and I'm pretty sure ETF2L, are community ran. Sure they're sponsored by the TF2Team, but they don't control how the tournaments are ran and who they decided to ban. If they want to make themselves look good for Valve then do whatever they think makes them look good.
Just let the community handle it. Blocking, muting, kicking, banning, all exist, and community servers exist. If you want to not deal with getting called a slur, then just join a community server where those rules apply, or block the offender. I know I keep saying that, but the solution is really that simple.
There is no mute button in high-level competitive play where your interpersonal relationships and interaction with others is not relegated to a single, in-game match.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109684/7a64e036-c9a2-4db6-ba54-1f6963bbe63e/IMG_20180814_140435.jpg
You made me look up my retail box,
it totally was rated by ESRB
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