Those falling below 3000 represent but a minority of the individuals playing Dota 2. In this new update, Valve removes chat for toxic players who fall below 3000 behavior score.Īssuming players were evenly distributed this would be nearly one-third of the player base. Your behavior score will drop dramatically if you are particularly toxic, don’t play as part of a team, are abusive and for a variety of other reasons. Image courtesy of Valve and Silencer, who’d very much like you to stop swearing in your Dota games. It is measured, in part, by the number of reports and commends you receive, including both amount and frequency. This is a measure of how well behaved you are during your interactions with other players. (We told you that you should be paying attention to yours.)įor those of you that don’t know, your behavior in Dota is ranked between 0 and 10,000. The threshold we’re talking about is determined by an individual’s behavior score. Who Will Be Affected When Valves Removes Chat for Toxic Players? This should act as a deterrent for players who are close to or below the threshold, hopefully encouraging them to improve their behavior. Valve themselves have implemented this feature both as a protection measure and as a warning system. The intended effect is to stop players who are extremely toxic from ruining the experience of others. This means they will no longer have access to either voice or text chat during a game of Dota 2. The removal of the chat feature involves denying access to all forms of chat for those Valve deems toxic. We’ll go into that in a bit more detail shortly. Yes, but only for a certain demographic of players. In their October 10 th update, Valves removes chat for toxic players.īut what constitutes toxic? And exactly what privileges have been taken away? Find out all this and more as we explore this bold new strategy in Dota 2. Well, that could be about to change… In a bid to improve the overall Dota experience for everyone, Valve has taken some pretty dramatic steps. Last week we suggested that Dota might be getting harder.
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