The most up-to-date Overwatch replace made a giant change to how Blizzard is coping with unhealthy gamers on Xbox One.
Overwatch gamers with repute on the ‘Avoid Me’ degree, the bottom repute degree on Xbox Live, can not use the in-game voice chat.
Despite their repute degree, these gamers will nonetheless be in the identical matchmaking pool as the remainder of the participant base on that platform. Previously, ‘Avoid Me’ gamers had been grouped collectively in their very own pool, leading to a lot greater matchmaking instances.
The patch went reside yesterday, including the Junkertown map, the big Mercy and D.Va re-balance, and extra. The response to this explicit resolution has been combined, with some seeing it as a cop out for Blizzard that doesn’t really remedy the issue.
On the opposite hand, those that truthful the repute system has been unfair to them say they’re getting numerous unwarranted unhealthy studies when enjoying Overwatch than another recreation, which finally ends up decreasing their total repute ranking on Xbox Live.
Overwatch recreation director Jeff Kaplan lately mentioned that the studio is spending numerous time making an attempt to stop the “rising tide of toxicity” within the recreation, time he believes may very well be spent making new options.
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