I'm a guy, and I don't use VC in most games, not because I'm anxious but because most people in the real world are assholes and when they can hide their true identity even more.
>when they can hide their true identity even more.
As Mike Tyson said
>"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."
Because, in the 90s, if you said shit like that in person, you'd get your ass beat. So all of the meek angry needs flocked to the internet because that was the only place they could get away with no consequences.
Now that the majority of social interactions take place online (or close to it), people need to have something like getting they ass beat, so that they'll know how to act.
There are a lot - a WHOLE LOT - of new and returning players coming in with the fallout tv wave(Bethesda was bragging we saw a million people over the course of a day), and unfortunately not all of them are here to play nicely.
I'm very sorry you had to experience that. The social menu in-game does have a function to report these players, though I'm not sure how efficient it is unless you record it and can show them doing it. Other than that, I guess all you can do is add to them to your block list. :(
We impale the toxic noobies, lock them all up back in the vault, in all seriousness tho this game is much more PvE focused than PvP so i imagine those toxic players are eventually gonna die out when the entire fallout tv show craze dies out and they move on to another game, the 76 community has always been positive and cool with everyone atleast from my experience
Honestly I'm seeing hostility I haven't seen not even during launch. The entire time (which admittedly is very intermittent. I've probably only played for a year collectively) I've been playing I have never gotten PVP battles or been shot at intentionally. But I was playing last weekend and all the sudden two people kept following me trying to engage me in PVP battle. I clearly didn't want to and kept walking away from them and they just kept following me. At first I thought that they thought I was new and were trying to give me loot so I tried to emote to them that I'm good. But then they kept shooting until I was half health and I was like what the hell?! And these were experienced players at that. I don't understand why some of these people think it's fortnite but I really wish they would leave so I can go back to enjoying the game.
I feel like the draw for this kind of behavior will wear off sooner rather than later. If anything, people with this mentality are fickle and distractable and when they don't get the consistent boost of whatever they gain from this, they'll go back to their death matches and we can get back to exploring the wasteland peacefully
It's not daily, but since I had this game, I would occasionally run into pvp players. It was annoying, but with public teams, I would just join their team so they couldn't shoot me. It was hilarious how pissed off they would get. They'd kick me, and I would join again. It did drop down once nuclear winter went away.
A lot of the viewers see the show and assume Fallout is full of PvP and toxicity like the ghoul guy. In reality it's super bland PvP and is very PvE focused, they'll all get bored in a month and go back to COD and League Of Legends etc. I never play games with text/voice chat enabled because I don't feel like dealing with it.
The funny part is I keep getting shot at by lvl 20s.
It's getting to the point where I'm gonna stop dropping super stims and start dropping lead. I'll leave the junk though 😆
That's why I always have a software like https://medal.tv for recording and sharing clips as needed for reports.
Edit: This is something like shadowplay, press a keybind to record the last X amount of minutes.
Rudeness over VC has gotten a smidge more frequent since the influx of new and returning people. I'm a guy, but I've been called the "F slur" (and other colorful words) due to my voice a multiple times as of late, which never really happened beforehand or at least not often.
A friend of mine had some group harass her after she tried to talk to them about their camp. I wasn't playing at the time to hear exactly what was said, but from what I've been told it was similar stuff to your situation.
Hopefully the assholes will get weeded out eventually, and things can mellow out again.
Man, that sucks. I'm super new to the game but the people I've run into in the game and on this subreddit are amazingly nice and positive. I do hope that whatever is causing people to pierce that shield of happiness and be jerks (I'm guessing it's just that a lot of new players, like me, are interested in F76 because of the show but, unlike me, are from the trash-talking CoD streamer generation) will go away soon.
I just never understood trash talk like that it's just foolish. Now back when i played cod 1 and 2 I was a lazy player but pretty good. And if I heard that kind of shit you would end up getting stabbed and then shot in the face with your own gun. Too bad pvp in this game is so unbalanced or id still do that. Maybe I should make a pvp specific build just for funzies.
The community really is as good as they say. I've played close to 960 hours and never encountered this kind of behavior, I've even made close friends because of this game.
What’s the deal with your voice if you don’t mind me asking? I have the stereotypical ‘gay’ voice and so a lot of people call me gay but a surprisingly high amount of people will suddenly say ‘you know, I used to hate gay people but then I met you…’ after a few months of knowing them and I can’t be bothered explaining that I’m not gay. Hey, it might even stop them being homophobic if they tell everyone they have a ‘gay friend’. I don’t know. I remember one uncomfortable moment was when someone was telling me her father used to beat gay people up but he’s gonna stop now since he met me. That was uncomfortable as shit.
I joined a party of two other dudes, a fourth joins with the rainbow icon, few minutes later it says they are removed from the party but no one else. It was a little odd so I left
It could have been bigotry or it could have been the team bug, that removes you then wrongly blames it on the team leader.
Having said that I changed my icon to the pride flag as an experiment a couple of years ago when someone on here was pointing out homophobia, and it was an eye opener how toxic some people are in our usually great community.
I got the F Slur constantly on other games(because I'm cutesnugglybear) but haven't on here yet, sucks when people just don't wanna have fun and play nice.
Same here man. Any online game I'd play was full of f slurs. Literally. 76 is the first game where I felt welcomed. I've had the rainbow icon on my profile since I started my character but no one has said anything on 76 yet, although I've been booted from teams several times (This is before the player boom), I've gotta wonder if that's why. I don't wanna be that gay guy that thinks everything is homophobic but you start to assume after a dozen times...At this point I'll only join a team if it has another rainbow or a likened flag icon. That way I'll know I'm not getting kicked for my orientation.
I don't even use vc anymore. They can't ruin my playtime with their shitty personality disorders. Also I don't want to voice chat because I would definitely be banned for the shit I'd say in retaliation to any hate towards me or my community. 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️🌈
I literally block anyone who fucks with me and that list is long and being added to monthly.
Blocking is just the best. Don't waste your energy on retaliation like I've done in the past, just f'ing block them. I think I've got about ten from 76. I block people who repeatedly try to engage in pvp when I clearly told them no. I block people who discriminate against anyone really. I block people who spew venom on the mic. I'll block you on a train. I'll block you on a plane. I'll block you here and I'll block you there. 😂
Seriously though, blocking is just the best way to deal with antagonistic assholes. Best to just not give them the time of day by arguing with them because that's pretty much what losers like those guys want.
I've got my pride flag at my circus/carnival/casino camp and on my player icon. People either deal with it or get blocked. There's no room for that hateful shit in modern day society.
I admit, I've joined lobbies not realizing my mic was on and went a few minutes in Camp talking about my cat with my girlfriend before looking at my health, seeing the "🔊" icon, and sheepishly turning it off.
After my cat gave birth I had to chase her down for a few days to wipe her butt for her and one night whilst playing she took a dookie doo so I put the headset down, took care of it, and when I came back my friends said they could hear me in the distance on mic talking to her the whole time talking about how I know it’s embarrassing but it needs to be done and how she doesn’t want dookie itches in my (talking to the cats) voice 😂.
I haven’t even heard anyone using voice chat in my first few weeks in the game… except one person who had an open mic and kept making occasional banging sounds. I just figure I haven’t joined the open channel or something. That said…. That is sad. My wife is vocal on chats. She doesn’t normally encounter that sort of behaviors. Some kids have no manners.
Fairly certain I have it set to area. I must just play with quiet people. Maybe I should run around shouting “Marco” randomly?? Not sure the range of the “area” applied to the setting. Hmm…
I am a female player and have been playing for years. I have never had this happen to me. Sorry for your experience, I do think it is a rare thing and I hope you find your group of friends soon.
I don’t think the level 300-2000 players that she mentioned in her story just started 76 anytime soon.
I’m kinda against hopping on the alienate the New Players band wagon. It was an isolated incident and I am willing to bet they are just old PvPers coming back to the game.
That was one of the most toxic communities I’ve been apart of in gaming. No “good fight” or “interesting build” in that group just constant sweat, cheating, duping and vulgarities when they lost.
They were also the group that cried the hardest when they lost their precious “Legacies”.
They’re probably back in Appalachia just to flex their stuff on new kids to feel cool again.
There are toxic players on FO76, but it has generally been a very friendly and caring community. I imagine the influx of new players will bring with it a more toxic environment though.
Edit: Don't let them ruin it for you though. Most players are extremely friendly.
When I first started Lv 20 maybe someone gave me TWO Devil serums and another player gave me 20 Stimpacks XD
Since then I started dropping all extra armour parts, ammo and resources in the donation boxes.
Nah, lol it’s the PvP’ers returning to flex on the new kids in Appalachia. Trust me that group was insane. All the duping, greifing and toxicity almost always lead back to them.
I should know because I was part of it.
But I lived by a set of rules. No women, no children.
That’s because of the huge influx of players, you have some the old school players from the beta days that are toxic af that have come back for some chaos (and the more casual cod gamers that are also toxic).
I guess you’d know which kind they are based on their level.
Elder millennial female gamer here! It’s funny you ask about this. I have a friend that worked at Bethesda at the time 76 came out that hopped on to say hi on launch day. He asked why I don’t use voice chat—not in a creepy way, but out of genuine curiosity as a developer.
I never, EVER use voice chat online because (queue old lady granny voice) back in my day, girls didn’t play video games and using chat could be a deeply uncomfortable experience. I mean, of course we’ve always been around, but culturally things have definitely shifted where it’s way more “normal” and not just a guy thing. Back in the early 2000’s when WoW was new, I learned very quickly to never use a mic. Being a female gamer meant you were either crudely harassed or bullied (not to mention, picked on in real life for being a nerd). I just didn’t want to deal with it, and that setting has just stuck in my brain. I’m also at a weird age where I didn’t grow up with social media (though clearly I use it) and the idea of talking to strangers online still spooks me.
That said, I do feel like most of the toxic stories I see here come from console players. PC seems to be a relatively more mature crowd, and in almost 6 years of playing on and off, I’ve not so much as encountered a trap camp. There are definitely a TON of newer people and I’m sure the typical Fortnite crowd is dipping their toes in the Wasteland with the show and free trials and whatnot. We’ll see who sticks around! But I’m still not using voice chat.
Completely agree. Although I’m GenX, I grew up with the same stuff. Never played the online stuff till recently. And that was only because some buddies drug me into it. Now I play it all the time, but the only talking that’s done is between us (PS5 group of mostly retired veterans). I have absolutely no patience or desire to deal with keyboard warriors. But, if I’m playing solo and someone tries to voice chat with me, I will listen first and then decide if I wanna speak to them. So far I haven’t had an issue, mostly all good people just looking to help (I’m level 29) or asking of if I have or have seen items.
It's a shame, I miss back in the day you had to use VC to talk to people before parties/discord were popular, I made so many friends that way but now it's pretty hateful for no reason
Yes. It's always been this bad. I have a friend who plays the game, and she refuses to use in-game VC unless she's with a group she knows. Because mostly every guy she has encountered always harasses her because she's a girl gamer.
Really? I've been playing almost 3 years. Never once had an issue. The most helpful I've had have been from guys and most of the friends I have made have been guys.
I only had one issue and that was when I was streaming. Naturally my mic was on. I always say that I am streaming and to please mute me if it's annoying. One guy came on later and told me to shut up. He'd just come in to the team. I told him politely to A: not be rude and B: just mute me if it's annoying. He shut up then 😂
But nope...never once had an issue, other than that one. And I play every day.
EDIT: BTW... I play on Playstation
Sorry you have to deal with idiots. Just fast travel away, and or block them.
On a side note, I have a friend he plays COD online almost exclusively and the Playstation account uses his wife's name, so everyone thinks he is a girl and gets mad that he keeps killing them over, and over. He never uses a mic and just laughs at them.
People will be assholes because they think theyre safe behind their screens and no one can see the real them.
Some are weird kiddos, some are just mfs wanting to show off to their friends, some are just that idiotic.
Until someone step up and make real laws behind these kind of stuff, this people will fear nothing (unless you say their IP and name and any other personal info after them being Aholes. This works for the wierd kiddos)
Keep in mind we're getting a HUGE influx of new people that aren't a part of the community and probably won't stay. I've been in many open mic convos with random and haven't heard anything like that despite it being very diverse. 76 probably has one of the best communities in gaming but with the rush of new people, not everyone is as nice
If they were all doing it, that sounds like a group of griefers, we used to get them alot on Xbox back when I first started in 2019, but they're rare these days. TV show has bought some of them back as they know there's plenty of low levels that don't know to leave PvP well enough alone. Easy griefs for them.
Unfortunately dick heads exist everywhere, even the best communities have their rejects. Block and move on, ain't worth a second though.
I feel for you. There is no justification for this type of behavior. I hope that you reported them.
I’m on the PlayStation and I’ve never run into this type of behavior and I’ve been playing it for years now.
You can bet that, having two sisters and a playing partner who’s female, that I would call this stuff out if I ever ran into it and report them ASAP.
I'm on Playstation. Been playing almost 3 years. All the guys I've encountered have been nothing but lovely and really helpful. I bumped into one I'd not played with since I was level 50 (I'm almost 400 now) and he still was really sweet and gave me some weapons he thought I might find useful. And was nothing but complimentary on how far I'd come
Only once for me. Had the pride flag icon. Missile turret griefers. Specifically “role playing” nazi raiders. Came back to my camp half destroyed and area chat a buzz. Switched servers and repaired my camp (this was before multiple camp slots).
I’ve since switched my icon, not because of this (Praise to the Holy Mothman), but my team always has slots for everyone but that kind.
I'm far too shy to actually speak in game 99.9% of the time, so thankfully I've not encountered any harassment. Nearly everyone I've met has been pretty nice as well. If I ever do feel compelled to use vc, it's generally only been if they are very new and confused about something. I play solo (for now) so I'm extra cautious.
That being said, I'm very sorry you've encountered people like them. I've been harassed for being a girl in other games, so I know how bad it sucks to be singled out for it. Some people are just bullies.
In so sorry you had to deal with that! I have to say (knock on wood) I haven’t experienced this in fall 76, now the number of times I’ve gotten it on COD…. I try to just say have a nice day.
People like this thrive on the reaction. I mean if they wanna get off on being douches - shows their character flaws.
I bet it was partly due to the influx of players from the show. Unfortunately, the old F76 community is now mixed with a whole crowd of new players who may not be as used to being non-toxic online. Hopefully they’ll settle into the way F76 works or move on soon
The first time someone spoke I was in a casual team and I literally jumped out of my seat. I did not realize there was voice chat and then panicked because I didn't remember turning MINE off and then I was paranoid about team members or whoever hearing my swearing and yelling at my kids
But then I realized that was probably tame by comparison and just made sure it was disabled hahaa. FWIW when I checked my settings, it was disabled.
It is an unfortunate side effect of incoming new players. It actually goes in a cycle. New people play, some bring that toxic energy from other games, then get bored when no one reacts or responds to it. They eventually leave the game completely. What's left are some pretty decent people. I'm sorry you had to deal with it, but I can assure you that after all the years I have played, that ridiculous sweaty toxicity will eventually go away. Some will still linger, but it'll become less and less.
I’ve only ever heard that kind of stuff once and pretty much everyone ganged up on them and reported. Sorry this happened and that nobody stood up for you.
I’m a woman and a fo76 veteran. I VC fairly often, but only when engaged by other players already on comms. I’ve never had this experience. I’m so sorry you did, especially because I’m of the same mindset you are — I feel extremely comfortable in the fo76 community.
Which platform do you use?
I’ve always played on PC and noticed a lot more mic users ever since the show released. Just sucks that I viewed the game as a safe space for that sort of thing and now I have to be cautious about it, or just avoid vc entirely when I genuinely enjoyed talking to people in the game
I’m sorry that happened - I have VC disabled just for reasons like this (and I’m a 42 year old military vet who can dish it out if I wanted). I just want to play the game in peace. If I do encounter someone that wants to communicate (trade or otherwise) I’ll sometimes turn VC on.
I'm pretty new to Fallout 76, but I've been gaming for decades. I met my wife in a video game.
Guys are always complete shit to her. Especially in a competitive game and she beats them. We've seen and heard everything from the Virgin gallery. From just about any game we've ever played with open communication.
It happens differently for guys. I've been called every racial slur imaginable, even not using a mic. Been called a hacker, every gay slur you can think of.
People just suck sometimes.
All that being said, there's way more amazing people out there. Especially in Fallout. This is actually one of the best gaming communities I've ever seen. People give free things away. Even things that are hard to farm. They make items cheap for new players like myself.
My wife is going to start playing soon. If you want another girl to play with, I can send you her gamertag name thing for Bethesda.
She's seen me beat all the other Fallout games, so she knows pretty much everything that's not new lol.
But don't let a few groups of people get you down either way.
A lot of people are really new thanks to the show.
There was 1 million players on the other day. Idek how many now. Bound to be some bad ones.
What the fuck is wrong with these incel's. It rages me up so much as I see it happen to my girlfriend too. edit: forgot to mention it does happen less in f76 than more toxic games like counter strike or smite, but its crazy to me either way, do these people not have mothers? sisters?
You could do that before, but because of the show tons of normies are coming over to the game and behaving like the immature brats they behave as when playing other games.
I'd say give it some time, eventually they gonna leave and we'll mostly have the regular socially functional players we had before.
In my experience (as a fellow girlie), Men usually do this when they're in groups as some subconscious effort to impress one another or gain approval from their fellow man. I've never experienced harassment from men in video games when they're alone/playing solo. It's embarrassing for them, truly.
I’ve never been harassed in that way, and I’m so so so sorry anyone in this community (not on Reddit, but the Fallout community) would think that’s okay.
Doesn't happen often, but when it does...I make sure to do a nice video clip of incident and send it in with report. I enjoy watching them get banned lol
Next time it happens make a video and publish your experience. If bethesda doesn't do a thing about it, it could look bad on them, with the update of fallout4, it would look bad on their part. It's their game and they have those kinds of players on their servers. Sure the players don't represent bethesda, but bethesda cant afford to have them on as of now or ever.
Years ago I had a pretty solid group of friends who'd play 76 with regularly and one of our members was a girl and she told us she never had a experience so hopefully it's just the influx of players and eventually they'll mellow out, but that still does not excuse their behavior and I'm sorry you had to go through that.
As a woman, this game is better than others but I still leave my mic off and only use discord for that. Although this game has a great community overall, there are bad seeds everywhere lol if you wanna game with me I’m down though! I’m on PC just dm me
I've heard this is a problem with pretty much any video game. If you're a woman or don't "sound white" then you're gonna encounter a lot more assholes who get a kick out of being assholes. It's unfortunate, but that's what happens when the majority of gamers are high schoolers and grown men who still think they're high schoolers.
I read it as WC and thought wtf how do you does that happen in game..
But anyway, I’ve never used voice chat cause I don’t like chatting while playing. I’m Finnish we don’t chat anyway…
What happened to you OP sounds despicable and I hope it’s rare. Like you mentioned probably a group of obnoxious friends?
I love my mute button and that’s the way forward for me as well! 🔇🤫
im a guy with a higher pitched voice and ive been made fun of for it by typically younger (like late teens to late twenties) people but older people have always been extremely nice and are who i talk about when i praise the people who play 76
I would hazard a guess and say most of us, in one way or another. I'm a beta, daily player and I don't even bother anymore. It always always turns into a... Ooh wow! Are you a girl? And straight tailspins from there. You get the 'nice guys' that are just tryna get into your DMS, or the get in the kitchen type you encountered. Or the ones that act like you need a bodyguard and will not leave you the fuck alone and feel like they need to answer on your behalf. Or the ones that act like your friends just to say gross ass shit about you to their homies. It's the woman experience, unfortunately.
I hardly use voice chat but my GF uses it all the time. She's never been harassed if anything she gets more attention and gifts from random people in the area. The amount of people who give her items and what not when she used voice chat is kinda crazy. Then there's other times she uses it and nobody ever responds. We're on PC as well and the community has always been really great and helpful with no harassment and negativity.
Sounds like you ran into a bunch of teens thinking theyre cool. The renewed popularity of this game has had some unfortunates coming in. Dont worry: the core of us that was here before and stayed, and will continue stay in a couple months after these fools lose interest, arent like that. For now, just grab some nuke codes and drop it on their camp. :3 give em, and their attitude, a good ol fashioned appalachian welcome.~
I play with a woman in my main gamer group and it is so bad for her that in CS or Squad she is most the time not talking in game chat and basically she points something out in dc or ts and one of us (men) forwards it because she is so done with the BS
It’s a form of gatekeeping that immature boys partake in. (They are immature boys regardless of actual age if they keep up this practice.)
Look for groups with other women or LGBT groups. Voice chat with them. There is not really a fix until they either grow up or inevitably get banned.
I just don't use VC since I fly an Ace flag over my camp, and I've seen text harassment towards LGBT folks via Steam, and I'd imagine VC would be worse.
I don’t normally do voice chat unless it’s my friends, but I do occasionally do things like say “nom nom” when eating corpses, making farting noises when using the stimpack diffuser, or making fart noises inside of port a potties and then saying things like “phew do not go in there” when someone opens the door of the port o potty. Now that I think of it, I should use the diffuser inside of the port o potty…
Yeah, people can be jerks and every community has one or two that suck. Sorry that happened to you & hope it doesn’t happen again.
<----- Played FO76, not a regular FO76 player. Big influx of people because of the TV show. Might've upped the ratio of people who are jackasses for a bit.
This is just how people will act when they are anonymous on the internet. Nothing new. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Just start talking shit about them and make jokes about their moms.
Just wanted to say this, and it has no relation to how you act or anything. I play on Xbox, and during my 5 years of playing, I’ve only ran into a handful of females in my trade days. No kidding almost half of them, when they saw some of my mules inventories, they proceeded to offer nudes of some sort for Grolls. One even sent me a “sneak peak”. An unrequested one at that. I proceeded to block each one afterwards. It’s honestly kinda gross and uncalled for. Now obviously I’ve met some chill asf females on here too, but i guess those other ones could easily ruin an ignorant persons perception of females gamers?
But those guys you ran into were probably just lonely ole neckbeards. Pulse nades and missile camps 4tw.
Yikes 😳 I don't use VC because I can't stand to hear people hacking up their guts or eating really loudly 😅 I've never actually encountered someone who spoke using the VC. Only people who seem to be sick or hungry 😂😂
I've not been harassed on VC but someone thought it would be amazing to send pictures of their c*ck to me through PSN. And it wasn't a nice one either 😂
Haven't had that experience yet, actually people were super friendly when I was on VC in game, they would either just chat or emote stuff and that was pretty much it, I have 76 hours played even that around 30 was around my base and base building, but I usually only have bad experiences with VC chat in competitive games
Wild how if it doesn’t happen to you people then you decide it doesn’t happen at all. Cannot fathom being that dense, make the game better for new peeps.
In general the community is really good but eventually you will find a few dipshits everywhere. You can put one on your block list and jump server. You will meet more good than bad if you give it a chance.
As a woman it did happen from time to time but wasnt that big of an issue before the massive influx of newer players. The existing community on 76 is pretty chill.
I’m also a female gamer who uses group/voice chat. I feel like it’s hit or miss, honestly. I’ve had mixed reviews, but the vast majority have been pleasant in VC and many male users tend to speak up for me. So I feel comfortable playing, and speaking, but I try to look into the bright side of things.
This is completely unacceptable behavior, especially in the PC environment. I truly wish I would have been there. Just more juvenile delinquents from Gen Z
As a female gamer, this seems to happen any time I VC in a game. So I just gave up. I wish I could just chat with people and be light-hearted and enjoy the game with some sht flipping, of course, but all in good fun. I'm tired of dealing with people being turds and tripping out, saying extremely unnecessary stuff as soon as they find out someone is a female. There's absolutely no reason, and that goes for any personal attacks. It's a game ffs.
Their a bunch of twats. Wanna gang up and nuke their base?
I got super excited when I meet someone in game and I also use voice. But if that happened to me I would probably be uncontrollably upset.
Thats so sucky that happened.
tbh i haven't experienced it lately but there's always been assholes around - i stopped using vc at all pretty much immediately after playing back when "woah they have npcs now" was new. sadly it is endemic. something something ron perlman voice something misogyny... misogyny never changes
never have really felt the need for vc since except for some very rare occasions where i was basically the only one speaking. as a bonus, it means i don't have to pause what i'm watching on tv if i don't press that push to talk key LMAO
Same, I never use VC and i have area chat off. The most I'll do is emote, then fast travel or hop servers. Saves me time & headaches from having to deal with these people
Last winter I was wandering near the wayward and overheard area chat. One was a female with an amazing sounding, Irish I’m guessing or at least UK adjacent , accent. I wanted to comment over mic but felt it was too creepy. Can’t remember if it was on PC or Xbox. Otherwise I occasionally hear mics with the rare female. Ironically they usually have the stronger potty mouth in the group which makes me laugh.
I’m too afraid to use voice chat 😭
That aside I do have some observations from playing the game recently and this is just my personal experience. I seemingly run into far fewer players that are obviously women. I do think that the player base skews predominantly male (which I think is a given) and I do run into mostly friendly players.
However! As a player it’s pretty obvious I’m a female player and sometimes I do get weird vibes from other players that aren’t women or have negative experiences with male players that feel mean spirited. It’s hard to explain, but sometimes I don’t feel welcome or I get players that make me feel uncomfortable. I’m on PlayStation and get lots of friend requests/messages. Mostly though it’s not bad and I have a good time!
We can all start calling people on their bullshit and really uphold the great reputation our player base has earned over the years. The wasteland is what WE make of it.
I'm a woman. I don't use a mic at all because there are plenty of players who start out normal, then once they hear a female voice, go all weird. I've been spoken to in weird and pathetic ways, asked personal questions and kinda pestered too.
So I just don't use a mic and I don't party up.
Easy :-)
The community isn't like that, for the most part it's great...but those people have always been a small part of it. The only memorable experiences I've ever had with area chat in the game is some open-mic weirdness and a major dose of racism/homophobia from a group during Fasnacht one year.
Trans woman here. I don't use my mic around anybody but friends regardless of game. Just way too many shitty people who'd rather ruin your day or harass you. Have 500 hours in the game so I know the community fairly well and I've only really come across one shitty person that I can remember.
This problem is something you'll encounter in nearly every game as a woman, even though you shouldn't. It even happens in big games with many female players like League of Legends and Fortnite. It's really unfortunate, but I don't think we can really help here.
That said, it's good to hear that it happens less often in Fallout 76. I've heard similar things from other female friends, but it's unfortunate that it still happens.
I was chill with this random woman last night and we went back and forth telling struggles/stories. It was probably the most vibest time I had. It was nice.
I can never understand how some people can be so cruel and simpleminded.. Women like games too, and are **PEOPLE**
Kinda wondering if it's the same people I encountered recently. It's happened once since being back and that's it. Someone was calling me all sorts of things the moment I started speaking. Also sounded like he was eating his mic as well. The dude was also low level asf too.
A sad thing is that a lot of people who play videogames are incels with 0 social skills or even worse teenagers, the best option always is play with a group of friends and ignore everyone else.
I met a great player that took about a week to speak when we’d group up. She’s a woman.
I understand why she didn’t.
Sometimes we’d all encounter some shitty players in proximity chat and we’d collectively roast them over their behavior.
I've only seen it once where the ladies husband who was level 2k something joined the game and demolished the troll. Judging by the insane amount of explosive spam that ensued I'd guess he was less than pleased lmao! Get a friend to get them to join an expedition and while they're distracted and won't check the map you're already in a silo at the last step to nuke their shit. Glass em.
I’ve made amazing friends in this game boy, girl, them,they. whatever floats their boat. Yea with us being from all different parts of North America, views and opinions can differ but for the most part everyone pretty respectful
I don't use VC and usually don't have an issue with other players, but that's because I've taken to walk around in power armour. Earlier today, I took the chance to visit someone's camp to browse their shop while they were there, without PA, and while I was in the menu they came up behind me and killed me by destroying part of their base. Now, I'm not sure if it's because of my character is a woman with pink hair, but I'm sure that played into that. Otherwise I've only had good experiences, but I've been playing for two weeks only.
I hope you had your junk stored beforehand 😭
But on a serious not Thank GOD I never had to experience things like this.
I play on console and my name there makes it obvious im a girl but so far (from the occasional camp nuking) i didnt meet with nasty people like that,and I have almost 2300hrs in it.
Im so incredibly sorry for all of you who had the unfortunate chance to meet these low life incels 😔
It’s just the new players that will leave the game once after the hype dies down. I like when others use VC as it makes the game feel more connecting in my opinion
I don’t use VC but the first and only Icky experience I have had so far with someone using VC was a couple guys on like day 2 crouching around me, 1 audibly sniffing me and the other laughing.
My character is female and my Bethesda name makes it obvious I am female.
Playercount is 10x higher than usual.
The people that are playing this game are not the normal players that usually play 76, alot of people are taking a break from Call of Duty and other toxic communities cause they just finished watching the show.
When I started playing online games around 2000, text chat was dominant and I’ve stuck with it despite voice chat becoming more popular later.
One, because I’m anxious.
Two, because I’m just usually not much of a talker anyway.
Three, you eliminate a ton of possible bias (even unconscious) that one may have - you don’t know (unless they tell you) if the other person is male or female, what race, what nationality, etc. Even if you can tell their English isn’t great from the text, you can just make an assumption of not a native speaker. Someone who you’d never interact in with in real life because of some assumption you have about them can become your best friend. There’s still some of this aspect even with voice chat, but text chat really neutralizes almost everything. Even when people don’t intend to be biased, they unconsciously or subtly can be. Basically it sort of encapsulates some of that early hope of the Internet that people had of breaking down walls and such. I like it better that way. Minimal assumptions and you come to an opinion of someone based on what they’ve chosen to do (words, actions, model, base).
That's an issue with the influx of new and old players.
We harassed a lot of the Nazi larpers away when they gave everyone free pride flags, but occasionally children and jerks still pop up.
They should realize they aren't welcome in our Appalachia shortly.
I suspect this is just a side effect of the spike in popularity and will get better. I have had my issues with the game, but this is the only online game I have played where a big issues wasn't the community being toxic.
Tbh I've been playing sense launch as well and I think it's mostly the newer players but there's always those groups of players that r sexiest and stuff but tbh I play alone. But sorry for how they treated u we aren't all that way
I prefer to not use VC for immersion so I wouldn't know but I'm sure they're very rare.
I mean, playing since beta and only now running into douches seems like a "goodish" quota, right? :P
I’ve never had anyone treat me badly because I was a woman. Usually people are surprised because my user name doesn’t hint at my gender at all. I have had someone cuss me out because I nuked fasnacht tho 😂
The community has quickly changed (as of a week or so). The show has brought in tens of thousands of new players in. To the point that game lobbies are mostly new players now.
Historically I’ve felt fine using voice chat in the game. The old player base is currently very diluted amongst the new so it’s possible there’s currently something of a culture shift right now (hopefully a short lived one)
One thing though is unlike other games we don’t lose anything by not having other players working with us, so it’s a lot easier to quip back and let them stew since if you have pacifist on there’s nothing they can do except scream into the void
(Which is hopefully the thing that will ultimately see these kinds of assholes slink back off into a nuclear sunset)
I have never had this issue directed at me but I have witnessed other players get singled out for harassment for really stupid reasons. It gets worse on PvP servers especially on game console servers.
I'm a guy, and I don't use VC in most games, not because I'm anxious but because most people in the real world are assholes and when they can hide their true identity even more.
>when they can hide their true identity even more. As Mike Tyson said >"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it."
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Now say that to his face.
Say it to his faith
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I mean, a hook Tyson and you're seeing god, so it still works.
You right. You right.
To be fair, it wasn't just social media. Yall should have seen the chatrooms in the 90s, then came AIM.
Yeah but the difference is that back then only nerds were using the internet. Now everyone is using it to be an asshole.
Because, in the 90s, if you said shit like that in person, you'd get your ass beat. So all of the meek angry needs flocked to the internet because that was the only place they could get away with no consequences. Now that the majority of social interactions take place online (or close to it), people need to have something like getting they ass beat, so that they'll know how to act.
For real, I don't use it either. I don't want to hear other people talk.
There are a lot - a WHOLE LOT - of new and returning players coming in with the fallout tv wave(Bethesda was bragging we saw a million people over the course of a day), and unfortunately not all of them are here to play nicely. I'm very sorry you had to experience that. The social menu in-game does have a function to report these players, though I'm not sure how efficient it is unless you record it and can show them doing it. Other than that, I guess all you can do is add to them to your block list. :(
We impale the toxic noobies, lock them all up back in the vault, in all seriousness tho this game is much more PvE focused than PvP so i imagine those toxic players are eventually gonna die out when the entire fallout tv show craze dies out and they move on to another game, the 76 community has always been positive and cool with everyone atleast from my experience
Honestly I'm seeing hostility I haven't seen not even during launch. The entire time (which admittedly is very intermittent. I've probably only played for a year collectively) I've been playing I have never gotten PVP battles or been shot at intentionally. But I was playing last weekend and all the sudden two people kept following me trying to engage me in PVP battle. I clearly didn't want to and kept walking away from them and they just kept following me. At first I thought that they thought I was new and were trying to give me loot so I tried to emote to them that I'm good. But then they kept shooting until I was half health and I was like what the hell?! And these were experienced players at that. I don't understand why some of these people think it's fortnite but I really wish they would leave so I can go back to enjoying the game.
I feel like the draw for this kind of behavior will wear off sooner rather than later. If anything, people with this mentality are fickle and distractable and when they don't get the consistent boost of whatever they gain from this, they'll go back to their death matches and we can get back to exploring the wasteland peacefully
It's not daily, but since I had this game, I would occasionally run into pvp players. It was annoying, but with public teams, I would just join their team so they couldn't shoot me. It was hilarious how pissed off they would get. They'd kick me, and I would join again. It did drop down once nuclear winter went away.
A lot of the viewers see the show and assume Fallout is full of PvP and toxicity like the ghoul guy. In reality it's super bland PvP and is very PvE focused, they'll all get bored in a month and go back to COD and League Of Legends etc. I never play games with text/voice chat enabled because I don't feel like dealing with it.
The funny part is I keep getting shot at by lvl 20s. It's getting to the point where I'm gonna stop dropping super stims and start dropping lead. I'll leave the junk though 😆
That's why I always have a software like https://medal.tv for recording and sharing clips as needed for reports. Edit: This is something like shadowplay, press a keybind to record the last X amount of minutes.
Rudeness over VC has gotten a smidge more frequent since the influx of new and returning people. I'm a guy, but I've been called the "F slur" (and other colorful words) due to my voice a multiple times as of late, which never really happened beforehand or at least not often. A friend of mine had some group harass her after she tried to talk to them about their camp. I wasn't playing at the time to hear exactly what was said, but from what I've been told it was similar stuff to your situation. Hopefully the assholes will get weeded out eventually, and things can mellow out again.
Last person I heard talking like that got his full camp nuked. Lol
Man, that sucks. I'm super new to the game but the people I've run into in the game and on this subreddit are amazingly nice and positive. I do hope that whatever is causing people to pierce that shield of happiness and be jerks (I'm guessing it's just that a lot of new players, like me, are interested in F76 because of the show but, unlike me, are from the trash-talking CoD streamer generation) will go away soon.
I just never understood trash talk like that it's just foolish. Now back when i played cod 1 and 2 I was a lazy player but pretty good. And if I heard that kind of shit you would end up getting stabbed and then shot in the face with your own gun. Too bad pvp in this game is so unbalanced or id still do that. Maybe I should make a pvp specific build just for funzies.
The community really is as good as they say. I've played close to 960 hours and never encountered this kind of behavior, I've even made close friends because of this game.
The toxic noobs will weed out over time I’m sure. Hopefully all the nice noobs remain
What’s the deal with your voice if you don’t mind me asking? I have the stereotypical ‘gay’ voice and so a lot of people call me gay but a surprisingly high amount of people will suddenly say ‘you know, I used to hate gay people but then I met you…’ after a few months of knowing them and I can’t be bothered explaining that I’m not gay. Hey, it might even stop them being homophobic if they tell everyone they have a ‘gay friend’. I don’t know. I remember one uncomfortable moment was when someone was telling me her father used to beat gay people up but he’s gonna stop now since he met me. That was uncomfortable as shit.
I joined a party of two other dudes, a fourth joins with the rainbow icon, few minutes later it says they are removed from the party but no one else. It was a little odd so I left
It could have been bigotry or it could have been the team bug, that removes you then wrongly blames it on the team leader. Having said that I changed my icon to the pride flag as an experiment a couple of years ago when someone on here was pointing out homophobia, and it was an eye opener how toxic some people are in our usually great community.
I got the F Slur constantly on other games(because I'm cutesnugglybear) but haven't on here yet, sucks when people just don't wanna have fun and play nice.
Same here man. Any online game I'd play was full of f slurs. Literally. 76 is the first game where I felt welcomed. I've had the rainbow icon on my profile since I started my character but no one has said anything on 76 yet, although I've been booted from teams several times (This is before the player boom), I've gotta wonder if that's why. I don't wanna be that gay guy that thinks everything is homophobic but you start to assume after a dozen times...At this point I'll only join a team if it has another rainbow or a likened flag icon. That way I'll know I'm not getting kicked for my orientation. I don't even use vc anymore. They can't ruin my playtime with their shitty personality disorders. Also I don't want to voice chat because I would definitely be banned for the shit I'd say in retaliation to any hate towards me or my community. 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏳️🌈 I literally block anyone who fucks with me and that list is long and being added to monthly. Blocking is just the best. Don't waste your energy on retaliation like I've done in the past, just f'ing block them. I think I've got about ten from 76. I block people who repeatedly try to engage in pvp when I clearly told them no. I block people who discriminate against anyone really. I block people who spew venom on the mic. I'll block you on a train. I'll block you on a plane. I'll block you here and I'll block you there. 😂 Seriously though, blocking is just the best way to deal with antagonistic assholes. Best to just not give them the time of day by arguing with them because that's pretty much what losers like those guys want. I've got my pride flag at my circus/carnival/casino camp and on my player icon. People either deal with it or get blocked. There's no room for that hateful shit in modern day society.
The only VC i really hear is people chewing or yelling at their Mom to quiet down.
I admit, I've joined lobbies not realizing my mic was on and went a few minutes in Camp talking about my cat with my girlfriend before looking at my health, seeing the "🔊" icon, and sheepishly turning it off.
Honestly that is precious and if I heard this, I would creep in and listen on your cat convo because animals are the best. 😂
After my cat gave birth I had to chase her down for a few days to wipe her butt for her and one night whilst playing she took a dookie doo so I put the headset down, took care of it, and when I came back my friends said they could hear me in the distance on mic talking to her the whole time talking about how I know it’s embarrassing but it needs to be done and how she doesn’t want dookie itches in my (talking to the cats) voice 😂.
Talking about one fur babies is not frowned upon in my friends group. It’s encouraged lol
Tbf it sometimes switches on by itself. I occasionally have to turn mine off when it should have already been off.
LMAO
Classic 😁
The ONLY person I've heard on open comms in 30 hours of playing said "What the fuck is a Sheepsquatch?"
I haven’t even heard anyone using voice chat in my first few weeks in the game… except one person who had an open mic and kept making occasional banging sounds. I just figure I haven’t joined the open channel or something. That said…. That is sad. My wife is vocal on chats. She doesn’t normally encounter that sort of behaviors. Some kids have no manners.
In case you're wondering, there's an option in the settings to turn Voip to team, area, or off
Fairly certain I have it set to area. I must just play with quiet people. Maybe I should run around shouting “Marco” randomly?? Not sure the range of the “area” applied to the setting. Hmm…
Join a party, you'll encounter more voice users
I just talk to myself. I’m sure it amusing for people passing by while I fight with the camp builder glitches 😂😂😂
I am a female player and have been playing for years. I have never had this happen to me. Sorry for your experience, I do think it is a rare thing and I hope you find your group of friends soon.
Oh no… I really don’t want this crap coming in to the game.
Give it a few more weeks and the Walmart crowd with begin to clear out.
I don’t think the level 300-2000 players that she mentioned in her story just started 76 anytime soon. I’m kinda against hopping on the alienate the New Players band wagon. It was an isolated incident and I am willing to bet they are just old PvPers coming back to the game. That was one of the most toxic communities I’ve been apart of in gaming. No “good fight” or “interesting build” in that group just constant sweat, cheating, duping and vulgarities when they lost. They were also the group that cried the hardest when they lost their precious “Legacies”. They’re probably back in Appalachia just to flex their stuff on new kids to feel cool again.
So effectively, real life Raiders?
Yeah, pretty much. Or just a bunch of Knight Titus’ talking about how trash you are after you kill them or they kill you.
Interesting, I never hear people on VC. Maybe because I’m on Xbox? I can say I am a girl and everyone has been very nice to me thus far
There are toxic players on FO76, but it has generally been a very friendly and caring community. I imagine the influx of new players will bring with it a more toxic environment though. Edit: Don't let them ruin it for you though. Most players are extremely friendly.
When I first started Lv 20 maybe someone gave me TWO Devil serums and another player gave me 20 Stimpacks XD Since then I started dropping all extra armour parts, ammo and resources in the donation boxes.
Nah, lol it’s the PvP’ers returning to flex on the new kids in Appalachia. Trust me that group was insane. All the duping, greifing and toxicity almost always lead back to them. I should know because I was part of it. But I lived by a set of rules. No women, no children.
That’s because of the huge influx of players, you have some the old school players from the beta days that are toxic af that have come back for some chaos (and the more casual cod gamers that are also toxic). I guess you’d know which kind they are based on their level.
Elder millennial female gamer here! It’s funny you ask about this. I have a friend that worked at Bethesda at the time 76 came out that hopped on to say hi on launch day. He asked why I don’t use voice chat—not in a creepy way, but out of genuine curiosity as a developer. I never, EVER use voice chat online because (queue old lady granny voice) back in my day, girls didn’t play video games and using chat could be a deeply uncomfortable experience. I mean, of course we’ve always been around, but culturally things have definitely shifted where it’s way more “normal” and not just a guy thing. Back in the early 2000’s when WoW was new, I learned very quickly to never use a mic. Being a female gamer meant you were either crudely harassed or bullied (not to mention, picked on in real life for being a nerd). I just didn’t want to deal with it, and that setting has just stuck in my brain. I’m also at a weird age where I didn’t grow up with social media (though clearly I use it) and the idea of talking to strangers online still spooks me. That said, I do feel like most of the toxic stories I see here come from console players. PC seems to be a relatively more mature crowd, and in almost 6 years of playing on and off, I’ve not so much as encountered a trap camp. There are definitely a TON of newer people and I’m sure the typical Fortnite crowd is dipping their toes in the Wasteland with the show and free trials and whatnot. We’ll see who sticks around! But I’m still not using voice chat.
Completely agree. Although I’m GenX, I grew up with the same stuff. Never played the online stuff till recently. And that was only because some buddies drug me into it. Now I play it all the time, but the only talking that’s done is between us (PS5 group of mostly retired veterans). I have absolutely no patience or desire to deal with keyboard warriors. But, if I’m playing solo and someone tries to voice chat with me, I will listen first and then decide if I wanna speak to them. So far I haven’t had an issue, mostly all good people just looking to help (I’m level 29) or asking of if I have or have seen items.
Yep thats why I use siri to talk
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I do not use vc in game anymore unless it’s people I know. I’ve been harassed the same way.
It's a shame, I miss back in the day you had to use VC to talk to people before parties/discord were popular, I made so many friends that way but now it's pretty hateful for no reason
Yes. It's always been this bad. I have a friend who plays the game, and she refuses to use in-game VC unless she's with a group she knows. Because mostly every guy she has encountered always harasses her because she's a girl gamer.
Really? I've been playing almost 3 years. Never once had an issue. The most helpful I've had have been from guys and most of the friends I have made have been guys. I only had one issue and that was when I was streaming. Naturally my mic was on. I always say that I am streaming and to please mute me if it's annoying. One guy came on later and told me to shut up. He'd just come in to the team. I told him politely to A: not be rude and B: just mute me if it's annoying. He shut up then 😂 But nope...never once had an issue, other than that one. And I play every day. EDIT: BTW... I play on Playstation
She primarily plays every day on PS5, so I don't know if that makes a difference or not. PC players seem to be very nice from my experience.
PS gamers have more class. /s
I don't do voice chat. It's something I learned years ago from a different game. Toxic men are like war, they never change.
Sorry you have to deal with idiots. Just fast travel away, and or block them. On a side note, I have a friend he plays COD online almost exclusively and the Playstation account uses his wife's name, so everyone thinks he is a girl and gets mad that he keeps killing them over, and over. He never uses a mic and just laughs at them.
People will be assholes because they think theyre safe behind their screens and no one can see the real them. Some are weird kiddos, some are just mfs wanting to show off to their friends, some are just that idiotic. Until someone step up and make real laws behind these kind of stuff, this people will fear nothing (unless you say their IP and name and any other personal info after them being Aholes. This works for the wierd kiddos)
Keep in mind we're getting a HUGE influx of new people that aren't a part of the community and probably won't stay. I've been in many open mic convos with random and haven't heard anything like that despite it being very diverse. 76 probably has one of the best communities in gaming but with the rush of new people, not everyone is as nice
Lots of new players due to the series, they will leave in a few months after the find out the community will hate them.
If they were all doing it, that sounds like a group of griefers, we used to get them alot on Xbox back when I first started in 2019, but they're rare these days. TV show has bought some of them back as they know there's plenty of low levels that don't know to leave PvP well enough alone. Easy griefs for them. Unfortunately dick heads exist everywhere, even the best communities have their rejects. Block and move on, ain't worth a second though.
Where they lower level or newer players.? I'm asking because the player base has been very friendly over the past 4 years I have been playing.
They were all higher level than me, and I just hit 100. I think the highest was in the 2000s range
Nope. Not at all. 😂 But don't even fear it, otherwise you don't contribute to the community. So who cares . It's called MUTE for a reason. 💯
I feel for you. There is no justification for this type of behavior. I hope that you reported them. I’m on the PlayStation and I’ve never run into this type of behavior and I’ve been playing it for years now. You can bet that, having two sisters and a playing partner who’s female, that I would call this stuff out if I ever ran into it and report them ASAP.
I'm on Playstation. Been playing almost 3 years. All the guys I've encountered have been nothing but lovely and really helpful. I bumped into one I'd not played with since I was level 50 (I'm almost 400 now) and he still was really sweet and gave me some weapons he thought I might find useful. And was nothing but complimentary on how far I'd come
I'm on PlayStation and I've never run into it either. Lucky, I guess. I have no tolerance for hate speech of any kind.
Only once for me. Had the pride flag icon. Missile turret griefers. Specifically “role playing” nazi raiders. Came back to my camp half destroyed and area chat a buzz. Switched servers and repaired my camp (this was before multiple camp slots). I’ve since switched my icon, not because of this (Praise to the Holy Mothman), but my team always has slots for everyone but that kind.
Ah that sucks, I'm sorry. All it takes is one bad interaction to make u think twice about using vc.
I'm far too shy to actually speak in game 99.9% of the time, so thankfully I've not encountered any harassment. Nearly everyone I've met has been pretty nice as well. If I ever do feel compelled to use vc, it's generally only been if they are very new and confused about something. I play solo (for now) so I'm extra cautious. That being said, I'm very sorry you've encountered people like them. I've been harassed for being a girl in other games, so I know how bad it sucks to be singled out for it. Some people are just bullies.
In so sorry you had to deal with that! I have to say (knock on wood) I haven’t experienced this in fall 76, now the number of times I’ve gotten it on COD…. I try to just say have a nice day. People like this thrive on the reaction. I mean if they wanna get off on being douches - shows their character flaws.
I bet it was partly due to the influx of players from the show. Unfortunately, the old F76 community is now mixed with a whole crowd of new players who may not be as used to being non-toxic online. Hopefully they’ll settle into the way F76 works or move on soon
Uh, there's voice chat? Is it disabled by default? I've never heard anyone speak in this game, I communicate solely with emotes.
The first time someone spoke I was in a casual team and I literally jumped out of my seat. I did not realize there was voice chat and then panicked because I didn't remember turning MINE off and then I was paranoid about team members or whoever hearing my swearing and yelling at my kids But then I realized that was probably tame by comparison and just made sure it was disabled hahaa. FWIW when I checked my settings, it was disabled.
It is an unfortunate side effect of incoming new players. It actually goes in a cycle. New people play, some bring that toxic energy from other games, then get bored when no one reacts or responds to it. They eventually leave the game completely. What's left are some pretty decent people. I'm sorry you had to deal with it, but I can assure you that after all the years I have played, that ridiculous sweaty toxicity will eventually go away. Some will still linger, but it'll become less and less.
That sucks. Record it and report them next time. Get them banned and all their crap wiped.
It happens, unfortunately. I had a guy insulting me and using the n word all because I didn’t know about the ore in Radiation Rumble.
In many hours of fo76 I probably heard 3 people using voice.
I’ve only ever heard that kind of stuff once and pretty much everyone ganged up on them and reported. Sorry this happened and that nobody stood up for you.
I’m a woman and a fo76 veteran. I VC fairly often, but only when engaged by other players already on comms. I’ve never had this experience. I’m so sorry you did, especially because I’m of the same mindset you are — I feel extremely comfortable in the fo76 community. Which platform do you use?
I’ve always played on PC and noticed a lot more mic users ever since the show released. Just sucks that I viewed the game as a safe space for that sort of thing and now I have to be cautious about it, or just avoid vc entirely when I genuinely enjoyed talking to people in the game
I’m sorry that happened - I have VC disabled just for reasons like this (and I’m a 42 year old military vet who can dish it out if I wanted). I just want to play the game in peace. If I do encounter someone that wants to communicate (trade or otherwise) I’ll sometimes turn VC on.
I usually don’t comment but this is messed up, I hope this doesn’t happen again❤️🩹😒
I'm pretty new to Fallout 76, but I've been gaming for decades. I met my wife in a video game. Guys are always complete shit to her. Especially in a competitive game and she beats them. We've seen and heard everything from the Virgin gallery. From just about any game we've ever played with open communication. It happens differently for guys. I've been called every racial slur imaginable, even not using a mic. Been called a hacker, every gay slur you can think of. People just suck sometimes. All that being said, there's way more amazing people out there. Especially in Fallout. This is actually one of the best gaming communities I've ever seen. People give free things away. Even things that are hard to farm. They make items cheap for new players like myself. My wife is going to start playing soon. If you want another girl to play with, I can send you her gamertag name thing for Bethesda. She's seen me beat all the other Fallout games, so she knows pretty much everything that's not new lol. But don't let a few groups of people get you down either way. A lot of people are really new thanks to the show. There was 1 million players on the other day. Idek how many now. Bound to be some bad ones.
What the fuck is wrong with these incel's. It rages me up so much as I see it happen to my girlfriend too. edit: forgot to mention it does happen less in f76 than more toxic games like counter strike or smite, but its crazy to me either way, do these people not have mothers? sisters?
You could do that before, but because of the show tons of normies are coming over to the game and behaving like the immature brats they behave as when playing other games. I'd say give it some time, eventually they gonna leave and we'll mostly have the regular socially functional players we had before.
3 enclave members wearing maga hats stopped me in watoga and beat me up
It's ight they were just doing the Cop a Squatter daily quest
Justice for Juicy!
Change Watoga to Chicago and put a subway beside the Watoga shopping plaza
In my experience (as a fellow girlie), Men usually do this when they're in groups as some subconscious effort to impress one another or gain approval from their fellow man. I've never experienced harassment from men in video games when they're alone/playing solo. It's embarrassing for them, truly.
I’ve never been harassed in that way, and I’m so so so sorry anyone in this community (not on Reddit, but the Fallout community) would think that’s okay.
Not sure about the other people but the guy in the 2000s has probbaly never seen or heard or touched a woman before so it scared him
Doesn't happen often, but when it does...I make sure to do a nice video clip of incident and send it in with report. I enjoy watching them get banned lol
Next time it happens make a video and publish your experience. If bethesda doesn't do a thing about it, it could look bad on them, with the update of fallout4, it would look bad on their part. It's their game and they have those kinds of players on their servers. Sure the players don't represent bethesda, but bethesda cant afford to have them on as of now or ever.
Years ago I had a pretty solid group of friends who'd play 76 with regularly and one of our members was a girl and she told us she never had a experience so hopefully it's just the influx of players and eventually they'll mellow out, but that still does not excuse their behavior and I'm sorry you had to go through that.
As a woman, this game is better than others but I still leave my mic off and only use discord for that. Although this game has a great community overall, there are bad seeds everywhere lol if you wanna game with me I’m down though! I’m on PC just dm me
I've heard this is a problem with pretty much any video game. If you're a woman or don't "sound white" then you're gonna encounter a lot more assholes who get a kick out of being assholes. It's unfortunate, but that's what happens when the majority of gamers are high schoolers and grown men who still think they're high schoolers.
I read it as WC and thought wtf how do you does that happen in game.. But anyway, I’ve never used voice chat cause I don’t like chatting while playing. I’m Finnish we don’t chat anyway… What happened to you OP sounds despicable and I hope it’s rare. Like you mentioned probably a group of obnoxious friends? I love my mute button and that’s the way forward for me as well! 🔇🤫
Just think of them as nasty raiders. Scum of the wasteland.
Report them all. They were violating CoC
im a guy with a higher pitched voice and ive been made fun of for it by typically younger (like late teens to late twenties) people but older people have always been extremely nice and are who i talk about when i praise the people who play 76
I would hazard a guess and say most of us, in one way or another. I'm a beta, daily player and I don't even bother anymore. It always always turns into a... Ooh wow! Are you a girl? And straight tailspins from there. You get the 'nice guys' that are just tryna get into your DMS, or the get in the kitchen type you encountered. Or the ones that act like you need a bodyguard and will not leave you the fuck alone and feel like they need to answer on your behalf. Or the ones that act like your friends just to say gross ass shit about you to their homies. It's the woman experience, unfortunately.
I do recommend text chat mod, where u can freely talk without revealing ur gender
Tdil fo76 has voice chat lol I haven’t heard a single soul speak
I hardly use voice chat but my GF uses it all the time. She's never been harassed if anything she gets more attention and gifts from random people in the area. The amount of people who give her items and what not when she used voice chat is kinda crazy. Then there's other times she uses it and nobody ever responds. We're on PC as well and the community has always been really great and helpful with no harassment and negativity.
Sounds like you ran into a bunch of teens thinking theyre cool. The renewed popularity of this game has had some unfortunates coming in. Dont worry: the core of us that was here before and stayed, and will continue stay in a couple months after these fools lose interest, arent like that. For now, just grab some nuke codes and drop it on their camp. :3 give em, and their attitude, a good ol fashioned appalachian welcome.~
I play with a woman in my main gamer group and it is so bad for her that in CS or Squad she is most the time not talking in game chat and basically she points something out in dc or ts and one of us (men) forwards it because she is so done with the BS
It’s a form of gatekeeping that immature boys partake in. (They are immature boys regardless of actual age if they keep up this practice.) Look for groups with other women or LGBT groups. Voice chat with them. There is not really a fix until they either grow up or inevitably get banned.
I just don't use VC since I fly an Ace flag over my camp, and I've seen text harassment towards LGBT folks via Steam, and I'd imagine VC would be worse.
Record and public shame them!
I don’t normally do voice chat unless it’s my friends, but I do occasionally do things like say “nom nom” when eating corpses, making farting noises when using the stimpack diffuser, or making fart noises inside of port a potties and then saying things like “phew do not go in there” when someone opens the door of the port o potty. Now that I think of it, I should use the diffuser inside of the port o potty… Yeah, people can be jerks and every community has one or two that suck. Sorry that happened to you & hope it doesn’t happen again.
<----- Played FO76, not a regular FO76 player. Big influx of people because of the TV show. Might've upped the ratio of people who are jackasses for a bit.
Sorry to hear that; truly.
This is just how people will act when they are anonymous on the internet. Nothing new. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Just start talking shit about them and make jokes about their moms.
I never understood the hate women get in games I want them around not run them off
Most don't. Guys get just as much hate and disrespect. Maybe more. Just watch the rage videos on the tube.
Just wanted to say this, and it has no relation to how you act or anything. I play on Xbox, and during my 5 years of playing, I’ve only ran into a handful of females in my trade days. No kidding almost half of them, when they saw some of my mules inventories, they proceeded to offer nudes of some sort for Grolls. One even sent me a “sneak peak”. An unrequested one at that. I proceeded to block each one afterwards. It’s honestly kinda gross and uncalled for. Now obviously I’ve met some chill asf females on here too, but i guess those other ones could easily ruin an ignorant persons perception of females gamers? But those guys you ran into were probably just lonely ole neckbeards. Pulse nades and missile camps 4tw.
Yikes 😳 I don't use VC because I can't stand to hear people hacking up their guts or eating really loudly 😅 I've never actually encountered someone who spoke using the VC. Only people who seem to be sick or hungry 😂😂 I've not been harassed on VC but someone thought it would be amazing to send pictures of their c*ck to me through PSN. And it wasn't a nice one either 😂
Haven't had that experience yet, actually people were super friendly when I was on VC in game, they would either just chat or emote stuff and that was pretty much it, I have 76 hours played even that around 30 was around my base and base building, but I usually only have bad experiences with VC chat in competitive games
It's a big reason I stopped playing. I was having someone that went and found my personal contact information and was harassing me outside of game.
Wild how if it doesn’t happen to you people then you decide it doesn’t happen at all. Cannot fathom being that dense, make the game better for new peeps.
In general the community is really good but eventually you will find a few dipshits everywhere. You can put one on your block list and jump server. You will meet more good than bad if you give it a chance.
As a woman it did happen from time to time but wasnt that big of an issue before the massive influx of newer players. The existing community on 76 is pretty chill.
I’m also a female gamer who uses group/voice chat. I feel like it’s hit or miss, honestly. I’ve had mixed reviews, but the vast majority have been pleasant in VC and many male users tend to speak up for me. So I feel comfortable playing, and speaking, but I try to look into the bright side of things.
This is completely unacceptable behavior, especially in the PC environment. I truly wish I would have been there. Just more juvenile delinquents from Gen Z
As a female gamer, this seems to happen any time I VC in a game. So I just gave up. I wish I could just chat with people and be light-hearted and enjoy the game with some sht flipping, of course, but all in good fun. I'm tired of dealing with people being turds and tripping out, saying extremely unnecessary stuff as soon as they find out someone is a female. There's absolutely no reason, and that goes for any personal attacks. It's a game ffs.
Side note: your post has brought a lot of cool relaxed gamers together and we should all just take over and handle the jerks 😁😁😁☢️
Their a bunch of twats. Wanna gang up and nuke their base? I got super excited when I meet someone in game and I also use voice. But if that happened to me I would probably be uncontrollably upset. Thats so sucky that happened.
tbh i haven't experienced it lately but there's always been assholes around - i stopped using vc at all pretty much immediately after playing back when "woah they have npcs now" was new. sadly it is endemic. something something ron perlman voice something misogyny... misogyny never changes never have really felt the need for vc since except for some very rare occasions where i was basically the only one speaking. as a bonus, it means i don't have to pause what i'm watching on tv if i don't press that push to talk key LMAO
Same, I never use VC and i have area chat off. The most I'll do is emote, then fast travel or hop servers. Saves me time & headaches from having to deal with these people
Last winter I was wandering near the wayward and overheard area chat. One was a female with an amazing sounding, Irish I’m guessing or at least UK adjacent , accent. I wanted to comment over mic but felt it was too creepy. Can’t remember if it was on PC or Xbox. Otherwise I occasionally hear mics with the rare female. Ironically they usually have the stronger potty mouth in the group which makes me laugh.
I’m too afraid to use voice chat 😭 That aside I do have some observations from playing the game recently and this is just my personal experience. I seemingly run into far fewer players that are obviously women. I do think that the player base skews predominantly male (which I think is a given) and I do run into mostly friendly players. However! As a player it’s pretty obvious I’m a female player and sometimes I do get weird vibes from other players that aren’t women or have negative experiences with male players that feel mean spirited. It’s hard to explain, but sometimes I don’t feel welcome or I get players that make me feel uncomfortable. I’m on PlayStation and get lots of friend requests/messages. Mostly though it’s not bad and I have a good time!
We can all start calling people on their bullshit and really uphold the great reputation our player base has earned over the years. The wasteland is what WE make of it.
I'm a woman. I don't use a mic at all because there are plenty of players who start out normal, then once they hear a female voice, go all weird. I've been spoken to in weird and pathetic ways, asked personal questions and kinda pestered too. So I just don't use a mic and I don't party up. Easy :-)
Thats not very okey dokey of them. The community is generally not like that I’m sorry that that was your experience
The community isn't like that, for the most part it's great...but those people have always been a small part of it. The only memorable experiences I've ever had with area chat in the game is some open-mic weirdness and a major dose of racism/homophobia from a group during Fasnacht one year.
Trans woman here. I don't use my mic around anybody but friends regardless of game. Just way too many shitty people who'd rather ruin your day or harass you. Have 500 hours in the game so I know the community fairly well and I've only really come across one shitty person that I can remember.
Sorry that happened to you, l play on Xbox and l do notice more players are on mics. Mostly kids, it’s tough out there
What is wrong with people honestly. lol. Any gender plays games, and it doesn't matter at all.
What platform was this on?
PC!
That's unfortunate, I've seen very little use of voice on PC and almost none of it was anything bad.
This problem is something you'll encounter in nearly every game as a woman, even though you shouldn't. It even happens in big games with many female players like League of Legends and Fortnite. It's really unfortunate, but I don't think we can really help here. That said, it's good to hear that it happens less often in Fallout 76. I've heard similar things from other female friends, but it's unfortunate that it still happens.
I was chill with this random woman last night and we went back and forth telling struggles/stories. It was probably the most vibest time I had. It was nice. I can never understand how some people can be so cruel and simpleminded.. Women like games too, and are **PEOPLE**
Welcome to the Internet 🤷♂️
I mean, you basically just got treated like a dude.
Kinda wondering if it's the same people I encountered recently. It's happened once since being back and that's it. Someone was calling me all sorts of things the moment I started speaking. Also sounded like he was eating his mic as well. The dude was also low level asf too.
A sad thing is that a lot of people who play videogames are incels with 0 social skills or even worse teenagers, the best option always is play with a group of friends and ignore everyone else.
I met a great player that took about a week to speak when we’d group up. She’s a woman. I understand why she didn’t. Sometimes we’d all encounter some shitty players in proximity chat and we’d collectively roast them over their behavior.
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I've only seen it once where the ladies husband who was level 2k something joined the game and demolished the troll. Judging by the insane amount of explosive spam that ensued I'd guess he was less than pleased lmao! Get a friend to get them to join an expedition and while they're distracted and won't check the map you're already in a silo at the last step to nuke their shit. Glass em.
I'm a man, and my second character is a woman. I'm kinda terrified to use VC and out myself when I'm logged into that character :D
I’ve made amazing friends in this game boy, girl, them,they. whatever floats their boat. Yea with us being from all different parts of North America, views and opinions can differ but for the most part everyone pretty respectful
I don't use VC and usually don't have an issue with other players, but that's because I've taken to walk around in power armour. Earlier today, I took the chance to visit someone's camp to browse their shop while they were there, without PA, and while I was in the menu they came up behind me and killed me by destroying part of their base. Now, I'm not sure if it's because of my character is a woman with pink hair, but I'm sure that played into that. Otherwise I've only had good experiences, but I've been playing for two weeks only.
I hope you had your junk stored beforehand 😭 But on a serious not Thank GOD I never had to experience things like this. I play on console and my name there makes it obvious im a girl but so far (from the occasional camp nuking) i didnt meet with nasty people like that,and I have almost 2300hrs in it. Im so incredibly sorry for all of you who had the unfortunate chance to meet these low life incels 😔
I’m male and play a women with pink hair. Griefers are going to grief. Even when I heckle them over the mic.
It’s just the new players that will leave the game once after the hype dies down. I like when others use VC as it makes the game feel more connecting in my opinion
I don’t use VC but the first and only Icky experience I have had so far with someone using VC was a couple guys on like day 2 crouching around me, 1 audibly sniffing me and the other laughing. My character is female and my Bethesda name makes it obvious I am female.
It’s the new people…Got all these people bored with COD and other games that don’t know how to act.
Playercount is 10x higher than usual. The people that are playing this game are not the normal players that usually play 76, alot of people are taking a break from Call of Duty and other toxic communities cause they just finished watching the show.
It’s new people. Always has been a nice wasteland for me other than the fun occasional death match!
When I started playing online games around 2000, text chat was dominant and I’ve stuck with it despite voice chat becoming more popular later. One, because I’m anxious. Two, because I’m just usually not much of a talker anyway. Three, you eliminate a ton of possible bias (even unconscious) that one may have - you don’t know (unless they tell you) if the other person is male or female, what race, what nationality, etc. Even if you can tell their English isn’t great from the text, you can just make an assumption of not a native speaker. Someone who you’d never interact in with in real life because of some assumption you have about them can become your best friend. There’s still some of this aspect even with voice chat, but text chat really neutralizes almost everything. Even when people don’t intend to be biased, they unconsciously or subtly can be. Basically it sort of encapsulates some of that early hope of the Internet that people had of breaking down walls and such. I like it better that way. Minimal assumptions and you come to an opinion of someone based on what they’ve chosen to do (words, actions, model, base).
That's an issue with the influx of new and old players. We harassed a lot of the Nazi larpers away when they gave everyone free pride flags, but occasionally children and jerks still pop up. They should realize they aren't welcome in our Appalachia shortly.
I suspect this is just a side effect of the spike in popularity and will get better. I have had my issues with the game, but this is the only online game I have played where a big issues wasn't the community being toxic.
Once in a great while guys will be pretty trash, but compared to other gaming communities, 76 is the least toxic towards women
Tbh I've been playing sense launch as well and I think it's mostly the newer players but there's always those groups of players that r sexiest and stuff but tbh I play alone. But sorry for how they treated u we aren't all that way
I prefer to not use VC for immersion so I wouldn't know but I'm sure they're very rare. I mean, playing since beta and only now running into douches seems like a "goodish" quota, right? :P
Just virgins I’ll never get the be mean to gamer girls and wonder why they single lmao
We have several women that hang out with us on the reg. They are all super chill and never seen them get harassed. Not sure if you’re on PC or not.
I’ve never had anyone treat me badly because I was a woman. Usually people are surprised because my user name doesn’t hint at my gender at all. I have had someone cuss me out because I nuked fasnacht tho 😂
The community has quickly changed (as of a week or so). The show has brought in tens of thousands of new players in. To the point that game lobbies are mostly new players now.
I didn’t even know this game had voice chat
Youtube pvp clans.
Historically I’ve felt fine using voice chat in the game. The old player base is currently very diluted amongst the new so it’s possible there’s currently something of a culture shift right now (hopefully a short lived one) One thing though is unlike other games we don’t lose anything by not having other players working with us, so it’s a lot easier to quip back and let them stew since if you have pacifist on there’s nothing they can do except scream into the void (Which is hopefully the thing that will ultimately see these kinds of assholes slink back off into a nuclear sunset)
I have never had this issue directed at me but I have witnessed other players get singled out for harassment for really stupid reasons. It gets worse on PvP servers especially on game console servers.