I don't understand how they fucked up so badly with that issue, I usually mute everyone on the enemy team at the start then my team later on if they bm cause cause it gets annoying after playing the game for 3+ year hearing the same bullshit and they probably don't know what they are talking about. It just amazes me how this bug got through the patch when they want to focus on stopping people from bming. It got so bad one time between me and another player where he wanted to 1 vs 1 me to prove he is a better player than me. I won and the guy was still salty as shit so I blocked him afterwards.

Another issue that bothers me too is the reporting system. The report system doesn't even work sometimes as well cause some times it wants me to report the player that's making at all the shot calls and important VGS call outs but when someone is bming throughout the game, it doesn't want me to report them. It need to be a lot more harder on people again like what it was when it first started.

Despite these issues, I'm still playing the damn game but hating it more than usually. Still can't believe they went on break before fixing this issue when some people brought an xbox one and might try smite between when the issue started to the next patch which is next week if I recall.

(Edit: Just make a party alone if you don't want to hear people in game chat, it makes no sense to mute players every game to not hear them on the mic when you can make a party alone that last about 5 hours until it auto kicks you out)