\nBelow are the common techniques of muting players in CSGO: <\/p>\n
Block individual players via the UI<\/span> The actual code Note:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Only copy code from my post seen in the code boxes (like above) How to enter this mute key bind – Enabling the developer console (Options > Game Settings > Enable Developer Console – 5th from the top) How to mute people<\/strong> Fig.1 – Muted preview<\/p><\/div>\n How to unmute people <\/strong> Explanation and Customization<\/strong> The first line <\/strong><\/p>\n The first line is a single command, we are binding voice_scale to zero (silencing players) to the NUMPAD 8 key The second line<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/em>This is actually 2 commands – which both happen at the same time – when pressing “V”, How to customize<\/strong> Upsides to our new solution<\/strong> Downsides\u00a0to this solution<\/strong> Conclusion<\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ive always been frustrated with the options available to mute other players in CounterStrike: Global Offensive, Whether\u00a0you’re getting yelled at in a clutch round or just joined a noisy server where people are spamming their music, you cant be expected to mute and un-mute individual players in dire situations. I found that some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p337.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Blocking players individually requires you to open up the main menu during a firefight and be vulnerable for at least 2 seconds while you go through and manually mute each noisy teammate.
\nSet up a voice toggle key using: bind\u00a0BindToggle “[KEY]” “voice_enable”<\/em><\/span>
\nThis works well, but there is no indication if your toggle bind is on or off, as enabling mute hides the visual popup of a player talking in the server, ive left on for hours using this setting without knowing it, and missed some vital callouts.
\nconfigure 2 separate mute \/ un-mute keys using: voice_scale 0<\/em> \/ voice_scale 1<\/em><\/span>
Including your voice chat button, this solution requires 3 keys, while its one of the better solutions, I would prefer one single mute key, as I always forget which key is mute, and which is unmute.
\nAutoexec mute scripts<\/span>
\nthere are many one page scripts you can find online,
\nbut as a developer I want to understand all of the code inside them, especially when I have\u00a0issues trying to get them to work or modifying them.
I also dont want to have to find all my autoexec code to deploy on any new PC’s I play on
\n(Tip: with the solution im about to show you, you can just google “best mute config” and this blog post comes up)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Today I will be documenting my new\u00a0mute function I wrote for myself:<\/p>\nbind \"KP_UPARROW\" \"voice_scale 0;\";\r\nbind \"v\" \"+voicerecord; voice_scale 1;\"<\/span><\/pre>\n
\nthere are\u00a0issues copying the double quotes into CSGO from anywhere else in this article.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>You can enter\u00a0the\u00a0mute bind seen above by:<\/p>\n
\n– Then Opening the developer console (default “~” key)
\n– Then Pasting the commands into the console (together, or each line individually) and press Enter.<\/p>\n
\nThe above bind sets your mute key to NUMPAD 8 on the right number pad.
\nit mutes everyone by setting their voice transmit volume to zero,
\nThis means you still get to see when people are talking (eg Fig1)
\nbut you wont’t hear them until you start talking yourself (by pressing the voice key).<\/p>\n![\"Muted](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/R27z5JG.png\")
\nOnce you are ready to hear people again, you just go ahead and press the “push to talk key” which is now set to “V”
\nThe beauty \/ simplicity of this bind is that using voice chat\u00a0is also the un-mute key!!<\/p>\n
\nI will go on further to explain how you might want to customize the commands for yourself.
\n(Eg. if you dont want “V” as your push to talk key)<\/span><\/p>\nbind \"KP_UPARROW\" \"voice_scale 0;\"<\/em><\/span><\/pre>\n
\nYou can swap\u00a0“KP_UPARROW”<\/em>\u00a0out with any other key such as\u00a0“K” (especially if your keyboard dosnt have a full numpad) <\/p>\nbind \"v\" \"+voicerecord; voice_scale 1;\"<\/em><\/span><\/pre>\n
\n– the +voicerecord <\/em>action (the action of using voice chat)
\n– then sets everyone’s voice scale (you loudness you hear people at) back to full volume<\/p>\n
\nSo lets say you want to change your mute key to “M”,
\nyour voice chat key to “K”,
\nand for some reason you want other peoples voice volume audible\u00a0to you\u00a0at 75%
\nYou would customize the binds to read as per below:<\/p>\nbind \"M\" \"voice_scale 0;\"<\/em>\r\nbind \"K\" \"+voicerecord; voice_scale 0.75;\"<\/span><\/pre>\n
\n– “voice_scale 0” (<\/em>which we are using) is a more elegant\u00a0alternative to\u00a0“voice_enable 0”<\/em> because when using “voice_enable 0”<\/em>\u00a0you never actually know when people are muted, you dont get the visual reminder on screen (seen above in Fig.1) when a muted person is trying to talk to you.
\n– No autoexec requirement
\n– No Aliases (Aliases are stored binds that are removed when you close CSGO)
\n– Doesn’t require you to remember 3 dedicated keys for “mute”, “unmute” and “voice chat”
\n– you’ll never have the frustration of playing half a comp game and realizing you haven’t heard your teammates all game because you accidentally had\u00a0“voice_enable 0″\u00a0<\/em>ages before the \u00a0current game even started.<\/p>\n
\n– You have to hardcode your “voice_scale”\u00a0<\/em>setting<\/span>(volume at which people speak to you)
\nIf you go into the menu and change this value with the slider, every time you use the voice chat key, it will override that value to 100% voice receive volume.
\n(not a big deal for me, I always use 100%)
\n– You have to use the push to talk button to un-mute people<\/span> (small drawback for simplicity)
\nyou may occasional have to quickly tap voice-chat to hear people again\u00a0during games, which is visible to everyone.
\n– Needs to be configured once on every computer<\/span> (most mute configs\u00a0require this anyway)
\nBut you can easily find this bind again\u00a0by typing into google “Best mute config” and using this post!<\/p>\n
\nThis mute option isn’t going to be for everyone,
\nthis is simply the closest I could get a mute config that worked the way I wanted it
\na mute config that actually informed you when you had people muted. not requiring 3 pages of auto exec to apply, or multiple keys to manage it.
\nI hope some others can also get\u00a0some use out of my\u00a0new mute binds!<\/p>\n