First I just accepted the fact that a bug prevents you from blocking people, but I had enough of toxic teammates today, did some search and neither a regular search nor a reddit focused one brought relevant results. It's like nobody had this bug, but now I'm unable to mute/block people.
The block button is there, you can press it, it even gives a sound effect, but it doesn't turn into a 'blocked' button, and the chaser brats just happily spew their toxicity all game.
Did I miss something? Is it just me? Is there a maximum number of people you can block, or something?
UPDATE: After verifying integrity of local game cache files, it's still the same, so I thought I would contact Epic support. Their upload limit is 9.5MB, which is kinda funny in 2025, but okay, millions of reports (surely), let's just upload the footage to my YT channel and link it as a non-public video (it looks like pea soup already, and it's ~17MB).
Their reply was "Due to system limitations I'm unable to review your video here, but I'll kindly request you to share it in one of our socials mentioned: Here"
The link leads to their website where they offer the following 3 options to upload my video:
- Reddit (not touching it with a stick, lol)
- Discord (DISCORD. A feckin' voice+text chat program. For dealing with reports. From a multi billionaire company. I'm not touching it with a stick, lol)
- X (not touching it with a stick, or anything else in the Universe)
So here we are, they have to believe my word, and if I'm lucky they will pass down the issue to some intern. If I'm not, they will be just waiting until I actually upload it to one of the above 3 atrocious platforms, and then maybe start working on it.
UPDATE #2: I did a little experiment and un-blocked one player on my block list in the main menu. I could suddenly block one player in-game. When trying to block a second player, it was "buggy" again. So I assumed that there was a certain limit to the number of people you can block (which is typically a power of 2, most likely 256). I went and counted the amount of players on my list. I did it by hand, so it might be off, but I counted 581 people, which isn't just a little off of 512. But it seems like there is a built-in limit.
...which means it's not a bug, it's a feature. Something that was put in the game intentionally, has always been there, and they still haven't done anything about it in the past year (I have sent them 2 reports since), even though it isn't some mysterious phenomenon that needs investigating, but a known limit that they should actually know about. All the while I can't even attach 3 screenshot pngs with my report because it exceeds the 9.5MB limit (in 2025). Anyway, I had enough and compressed a video about it to 8.7MB.
And no, blocking 581 people isn't unrealistic unfortunately, considering I've been playing the game for the past 10 years, which means 1-2 blocked people per week. And if you'd been playing RL for more than 4 days then you know that there can be MUCH more toxic and spammy players than 1-2 a week.