Not only would it require teammates (with mics) to communicate/work together, but it can prevent cheating. I just spectated someone for the first time, and noticed you could see enemies through walls. What’s to stop people from using party chat and spectating, and calling out the enemies to their friends? This is a huge oversight.
Also, why not make it so people could chat while in the lobby? You would think they’d have fixed that by now.
No.
I use it as a mute to get rid of kids speaking some language very loudly to their parents, thirty siblings or what have you, in my ear. I want to hear the game, not a -Yoink!- fiesta or party or something.
I need Party Chat to maintain my sanity when without friends and don’t like playing with randos.
If party chat was banned then I would just mute everyone but my friends, so thats a waste of time. Also if you are spectating, it is about 10-20 seconds behind live, so there isnt much risk of callouts unless the enemy are pitching a tent
Hell no, big turn off if they do. I agree they’re helpful when you actually do get people wanting to communicate strategies, but there’s to much -Yoink- from other people like screaming, noise in background, music, etc etc ect. Party chat lets me get away from that and if 343 seriously force me to listen to that crap I’d just drop my volume and still refuse to talk. You can’t force leople to do anything anymore.
due to my experience in scrims, spectating a live game is a non issue. You’re 30 seconds behind the actual current moment where the playing players are. So you can call out whatever you want but odds are that callout won’t mattter as you’re looking at stuff the playing players saw 30 seconds ago, they intentionally made it that way so that you can’t cheat like that.
lobby chat? Depends. Odds are it’s to lessen trash talk.
If party chat was banned I would uninstall Halo 5 in a heartbeat. My friends don’t play the game, so you’d be forcing me to give them up for some laggy multiplayer. My friends are a bit more important to me than that.
I don’t think people are so smart to be doing that. Seems like a lot of work.
Spectator mode isn’t real-time, so cheating isn’t possible.
You can’t force players to speak with or listen to teammates. And, if you eliminate party chat, more people will move to Discord and other outside options.
Don’t get your hopes up for lobby chat. It’s not going to happen in Halo 5:
> Party Chat pre-game lobby
> Same as the previous issue. We like it for sure, but we won’t be seeing it soon.
I don’t get it, how can pre game lobby chat not be done in Halo 5?
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> I don’t get it, how can pre game lobby chat not be done in Halo 5?
Anything can be done, but they’ve likely made either a business or programming decision (or both) that it’s not worth the time and expense or technical risk of potentially breaking something.
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> You can’t force players to speak with or listen to teammates. And, if you eliminate party chat, more people will move to Discord and other outside options.
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> Don’t get your hopes up for lobby chat. It’s not going to happen in Halo 5:
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> > Party Chat pre-game lobbySame as the previous issue. We like it for sure, but we won’t be seeing it soon.
We use discord.
So you want even less people playing H5? Sounds like a terrible idea.
Yeah no. I do wish you could mute once the match has begun though. Had this jerk as soon as the match began start playing music in the background loud enough it almost overwrote the in game music.
I don’t need to listen to everyone telling me to go make them a sandwich the whole game. That got old in Halo 2.
I like not having sexist and other derogatory language thrown my way while playing Halo. Oh and not listening to someone’s garbage music that they’ve decided everyone must hear.
Take away party chat and I’ll either mute my mic and not talk or not play. Likely not play.
People aren’t nearly as social on XBL as they were a decade ago. Remove the ability to communicate with people who they prefer to talk with, and they will simply just stop talking all together.
No thanks, I’d rather have the luxury of being able to speak with friends in a party than have teammates with mics constantly whine about our team being bad and have him call us racist slurs.
Back in 08 or 09 when I finally got on the H3 wagon, people had mic etiquette. So it was easier to party up with non-idiots and go on winning streaks til sunrise.
The current community just isn’t the same. Kinect hadn’t helped, as it picks up ambient sound around the device. Plus more lil kids playing than I EVER remember in a Halo.
Times in general for online gaming are different. But with that said, I use invite-only party when I solo-queue also. Its a necessity IMO.
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> Not only would it require teammates (with mics) to communicate/work together, but it can prevent cheating. I just spectated someone for the first time, and noticed you could see enemies through walls. What’s to stop people from using party chat and spectating, and calling out the enemies to their friends? This is a huge oversight.
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> Also, why not make it so people could chat while in the lobby? You would think they’d have fixed that by now.
No, everything about this is a terrible idea.
This is bait isn’t it?
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> This is bait isn’t it?
Either that or a genuine opinion that’s just a seriously poorly thought out idea.
Yeah, I don’t know how well that would settle with the community… maybe something else, specific to gamertags and teams and such. But banning party chat in halo? I don’t even think they CAN do that.