Online games provide a special level of relationships and communication between players. In such an environment, the most unforeseen events may occur, unusual behavior of people takes place. For users, voice and regular chat management settings have been introduced. For example, you can reduce the volume of speakers or even block all their attempts to talk. Therefore, many players know what mut is. It should only be remembered that only the administrator can completely “confuse” the user.
What is mut?
This is the type of punishment that is used for violating chat rules. To better understand what a mut is, we will analyze those aspects that use microphone lock. Upon receiving muta, the player is able to continue to play, but he will not be able to communicate. Most often, voice chat blocking is received by those players who inadequately behave in any game. As a rule, users send mute to each other in order not to be distracted by extraneous criticism. For example, in some games, users can enter into voice chat as they wish. There are several categories of mutas, which will be discussed below.
- Custom mut. In games where the desired result depends on communication and teamwork, users often resort to using foul language and insulting other players. Sometimes the behavior of individual gamers is simply beyond description - then the mute function comes to the rescue. Thanks to it, you can eliminate unnecessary communication or annoying behavior of individual users in the game or program. Optionally, the one who sent the mut to another player can manually disable this feature.
- Mut from the administrator. On some community servers of a game, the behavior of players is monitored by an administrator who has a huge list of punitive teams. It often happens that mut is one of the levers of influence on too troubled users. Admin can give both permanent (for the whole time, up to the personal cancellation of the function by the administrator), and a temporary mut. As practice shows, blocking the microphone can often be both a solution to the problem and its aggravation.
Mut in communication applications
In programs such as Discord, Skype, and similar applications, you can also get mut from other users. This means that the user cannot use his microphone in the conversation where there are participants who have muddied him. In certain cases, you can stir up yourself to temporarily mute the microphone. Some programs have the option of muting talking people. It reduces the volume of a specific user exclusively for you.
Mut in CS: GO
Mut in games is almost the only method for solving some conflict situations. Voice chat, designed for players to communicate, turns into a conveyor of bad words to everyone who plays poorly or does everything on their own (not obeying the team). During the game, you can stir up any player - just open the table and click on the unwanted participant. A drop-down section will appear where the volume icon is located - by clicking on it, you can continue to play calmly without listening to the selected player.
Mut in Dota 2
In this game, you can also give a mut to players who send insults to your address. To do this, open the name plate and statistics, where you can click on the volume icon, which will stir up any user. It is worth noting that in some games there is a complaints system in which you can indicate the player’s name and the reason for the complaint (in this case, an insult in the chat). However, for this they give only a couple of days of muta.