Friendlies used to be banned, and US-1 was a pretty good place for death matching but now half the server is either friendly or in spawn afk or in spawn being toxic over mic. There have been multiple homophobic/ racist discussions this week by people not playing the game. I report and mute but its annoying enough to bring up since the report votes often don't pass. Friendly's being allowed just changes the culture of the server.
The wait times are reasonably long in some regions, so I feel its not great to have someone taking up a spot to talk about Kamala Harris's ethnicity in spawn to the whole server.
The 2fort servers were the same as now before we removed the no friendly rule with entire servers turning friendly sometimes and people not playing the objective. They were banned constantly and all it lead to was
critique in online forums, our forums and in game. We aren't going to ban half a server at times, and yes sometimes someone did report half a server but that was hightower, point stands
2fort is an iconic map and the most popular one, seen still as a meme map by the community which draws in people who wish to play extremely casually and the general consensus is that it's not supposed to be played seriously. I don't see banning friendlies very realistic in the long term while I still understand why they upset some players. I dislike them too
We aren't going to make different variants of 2fort with specific rulesets as most players wouldn't even be able to understand and differentiate the two versions eventually leading into confusion about the rules in general
being toxic over mic. There have been multiple homophobic/ racist discussions this week by people not playing the game
This should not have any correlation with certain players not playing the objective. If it leads to arguments and people cannot function as normal human beings and choose to be obnoxious, toxic and racist they should be reported and they will be punished. You can also make a report directly here instead of using the votereport function if it doesn't pass
Further clarification about friendlies currently. They are not allowed to grief their own team in any way that is directly helping enemies such as blocking sniper scopes, feeding enemy team sandwiches, healing enemy spies, holding spawn doors open so enemy team can spawncamp you etc. This will lead to ban
If they are very clearly idling in spawn or at some corner of the map and occasionally moving slightly to avoid being put to AFK and kicked from the server. They will be banned
Friendly's being allowed just changes the culture of the server.
Personally I haven't noticed any change, US1 is usually very sweaty during the times I play there which is around midnight in US time
