Just started playing the game, and I'm enjoying it a lot. What struck me for my first five hours or so was how friendly everybody was, and how generally wholesome the people in my teams were, even as I ran around getting my head blown off and contributing nothing to the team except reliable disappointment and failure. That did a lot to ease the learning curve and add to the fun.

But then the last few games I played struck and totally changed that perception. A lot of it wasn't particularly worse than the average angry basement dwellers you'd find in many other FPS or MMO in a competitive context (I'm playing unranked here, obviously, so it still feels out of place), but it was still a stark contrast to my first few days. The worst was a couple of dudes who were obviously together who ridiculed and cussed out a girl for daring to use her mic, and who when spectating me and the other (presumably new? I don't know how matchmaking works) players I was with told us to kill ourselves, that we're the worst, etc, laughing along with each other as the girl they were abusing went silent and the other guy we were with stopped trying to talk.

What was sort of troubling to me is they were both high level players, and this felt fairly par of the course for them. I know you can mute and report, but this kind of stuff just really sucks any fun out of the game, and if it's common as you progress I'd honestly rather just call it quits now (I don't accept that it's just "part of the FPS experience," as much as I know that's often touted out).