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Assuming you mean 'never seen in a FPS game', in TF2 if you mute someone it also blocks all text.
There are plenty of other genres where blocking text chat is standard (MMOs, for one).
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The teams were in fact relatively balanced. Aliens may have had a slightly better team on average.
Both teams had some greens, some 'average' players and a few with several hundred hours played.
If the marines were just…