Team Test silently enables your microphone while saying it's muted, resulting in unfair moderation at worst

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#1

In a game with Voice Chat enabled, opening a Team Test server will result in your microphone being enabled while saying it’s disabled.

This video is enough to demonstrate the problem, I believe. I’m not in a Discord call or anything, my friend can just hear me despite me not explicitly enabling my microphone:


You can repro this issue on an empty baseplate, as shown above. I get the issue in every single game I develop on.

This actually caused me to get a VC warning when I was chatting with friends over Discord, not Team Test’s VC, which I don’t really think is fair.

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I’ve had this issue for a considerable amount of time now (at least 2 months), but have largely ignored it since I didn’t use Team Test often.

My beta features:

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Material Generator
Notched Screen Support
Upgrade Shorelines

Expected behavior

I expect Studio to not do that. I expect it to accurately reflect my microphone state, and ideally not enable it at all unless I enable it.

Workaround

You can click the microphone icon a few times to reset its state back to truly being disabled.

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#2

Thanks for the report. We’re looking into it.

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#3

Some more info: it looks like it has something to do with the focus state of Studio. Tabbing out will cause your microphone to silently turn on again.

External Media

^ Streamable link

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#4

Thanks for the additional info. I was just about to ask if you’d seen this happen other than switching focus?

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#5

I don’t think so, at least from what I’ve seen of it

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#6

Sorry this is taking so long. We have a fix in the pipeline but it hasn’t made it to release just yet.

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Microphone suspended while in Team Test in Roblox Studio, microphone should be OFF
#7

This should be done very soon, but there’s currently a different bug blocking testing. Sorry for the delays.

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#8

Ok. I’ve got a partial fix turned on. There’s still some issues where it now does exactly the opposite (showing that you’re unmuted when you’re not, particularly if you have the Only Play Audio from Window in Focus setting on) but at least you shouldn’t be overheard accidentally now. Let me know if you see anything else unusual going on with team test voice. (I’ll leave this ticket open until we can get it 100% fixed.)

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#9

This got rolled back as part of an incident investigation. I’ll have to turn it back on tomorrow.

#10

The fix better include no moderation for the voice chat either. Studio actions have never been, and should never be moderated.

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#11

You should file a separate bug for that. This bug is for the microphone icon incorrectly showing you as muted when you’re not.