How long must I wait for a GM to get back to me about a report?

[VelKallor]

right click "general" "Hide log Window.

Better idea. Dont spam emotes incessantly.

i get it, you would rather be a victim than actually do something to prevent it, woe is you.

But, thats not the case, I CAN do something actually.

i can report you and then, after you find yourself in Mordion Jail, a GM will be more than happy to explain it further. But.....heres the good news.

You can avoid all of that by simply being considerate of others and not flood their chatboxes with emotes.

[Renalt]

Danger Bongos intensifies

[Mostly_Raxus]

You do realise that if you are indeed spamming emotes, that will show in the GM logs? They see and log everything.

so youre accusing me again?
by all means keep spamming me your false accusations on the forums. maybe i should report you for attempted doxing..

[Noumenon]

About an hour ago I was in a game of Frontline and we had a player who was spamming macro and sound effects. Multiple plays asked them to stop and they refused, we had a couple of instigators as well but in the grand scheme of things they are not as important. The moment I got out I reported the offending player for the spam so now I'm just stuck wondering if I should wait or go about my day as normal. In my 2 and half years of playing, I've never reported someone before so this is all new to me. We ended up losing the match because the sound effect spam distracted all of us and a few others in the match said they would report the offending player as well. I did leave extra comments detailing a bit more in the initial report but I'm not sure if they will still ask for more details. The only other time I know someone reported another player was when I was with a friend the GMs responded as soon as he submitted the report.

Edit: I'm sorry if this isn't the right place for this type of post but when I tried posting in the support threads the forum kept saying it wasn't allowed.

Yikes. So someone using macros and sound effects telling people what node to capture or what team to attack is now being reported.

Toxic casualism knows no bounds. The fact you call them a "pvp tryhard" tells us what the other side of the story is.

[Noumenon]

this doesn't really sound like a drop everything emergency, im sure they will get back to you when they can, until then you will just have sit patiently and perhaps learn to cope.

i swear some of you people act like spamming an emote is causing you actual harm, if youre so high strung over something that minor maybe turn of the internet and go back to single player for a bit.

It's even worse, the only macro and sound effect spam I've seen in Frontlines is from people who actually care about playing the game instead of AFKing, and leading the team by telling them where to go, who to attack, what objectives to pursue. Unless OP has evidence to the contrary, it looks like they got upset that they have to actually play the game instead of mindlessly wandering around and doing nothing for 10 minutes.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

/a Get Burst Ready <se.8><wait.1>
/a 5 <se.12><wait.1>
/a 4 <se.12><wait.1>
/a 3 <se.12><wait.1>
/a 2 <se.12><wait.1>
/a 1 <se.12><wait.1>
/a Push <se.7>

Idk about you; but these sort of callouts are what helps me gain Battle High 5, alongside other players who are up for that sort of coordination.

The satisfaction when you clear out 15+ players under 4s? Yeah, those callouts helped my team achieve that sometimes.

Usually the caller I'm seeing just stops doing it after 2 or 3 attempts when nobody tried to follow up their assault.

[Mostly_Raxus]

I agree, its a classic case of "report them for using the chat box for its intended purpose"

[Noumenon]

Idk about you; but these sort of callouts are what helps me gain Battle High 5, alongside other players who are up for that sort of coordination.

The satisfaction when you clear out 15+ players under 4s? Yeah, those callouts helped my team achieve that sometimes.

Usually the caller I'm seeing just stops doing it after 2 or 3 attempts when nobody tried to follow up their assault.

The fact they think that macro is useless really shows how deep the toxic casualism problem goes.

How else are you going to sync a DRK and DRG LB without joining a premade?

These players don't understand what that macro is used for, and yet instead of educating themselves, they call it moronic and report the people who are playing to win.

[Toutatis]

Idk about you; but these sort of callouts are what helps me gain Battle High 5, alongside other players who are up for that sort of coordination.

The satisfaction when you clear out 15+ players under 4s? Yeah, those callouts helped my team achieve that sometimes.

Usually the caller I'm seeing just stops doing it after 2 or 3 attempts when nobody tried to follow up their assault.

They don’t need to mark the passing of each second with a sound. That is just abuse of sfx and it’s awfully distracting and annoying. Push in 5 would followed by push 5 seconds later would be sufficient. I mean, surely you can count 5 seconds in your head?

The fact they think that macro is useless really shows how deep the toxic casualism problem goes.

How are you going to sync a DRK and DRG LB without joining a premade?

These players don't understand what that macro is used for, and yet instead of educating themselves, they call it moronic and report the people who are playing to win.

I know what the callouts are for and they don’t need that many sfx. It’s not the callouts that are moronic per se but the abuse of sfx. There’s no need for that many sfx to coordinate. I will continue to report the abusive use of sfx. I’ve been in some matches where that macro would be used constantly along many others non stop throughout the match.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[...]I mean, surely you can count 5 seconds in your head?[...]

You'll be surprised that can be challenging to some folks especially in FLs where the battle dynamic is ever so fluid things can quickly change in less than 5s. I do see your point on thinking how it can be annoying though. I just personally don't see it that way when I know what their purpose is. Perhaps reserve the <se.1> for the prompt & execution specifically would be a fine compromise IMHO.

Then again, I don't think OP ever mentioned what sort of 'callouts' were being spammed. If it's something like "Attack Maelstorm!!!" being spammed 10 times in row? Yeah I think that would be obnoxious, too.

[...]You realize that OP was not in a premade and there is no obligation to join premades[...]

I think it's specifically because they're -not- in premade is why such callouts are being used.