Does Anyone Use the Microphone?

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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So I am trying to get into Halo multiplayer…I have always been pretty active in Call of Duty (don’t flame me), but I’d like to get more into Halo.

Just an observation and it is by no means scientific…but I feel like when I am randomly searching for matchmaking it is rare to find another person active on the microphone when compared to Call of Duty. I am by no means saying that CoD is perfect…because in a lot of cases the kids on those microphones can be annoying, but I feel like pretty reliably I could jump into a CoD Hardcore mode and find a group of guys with a mic that are atleast interested in trying to work together.

Do you have a different experience? What gives? These multiplayer games are exponentially more fun when you have a group that communicates…I feel like that has been pretty hard to find in my limited (one week) experience in Matchmaking on Halo.

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Yeah it’s pretty rare for me to find people with mics too, and the ones that do either don’t speak or blast music

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Halo 2 used to be nothing but mics going constantly. People talking and joking and laughing and yelling. It was great. I haven’t had a multiplayer experience like that since then. When I think about why that could be I realize that I’m 11 years older than I was then. Less prone to talking to strangers, Plus console online multiplayer was still so new then…now it feels so…routine and mundane. At least that’s why I don’t talk.

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I’m always in a party. I won’t talk to randoms. Too many -Yoink- experiences.

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I use a mic when I play with my team. Other than that, I won’t use it at all.

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I do. Or I try to. No one ever talks anymore, they let 1 or two experiences turn them mute.

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I normally mute everyone unless its someone I know lol

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I only use a mic when im playing with someone i know.

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Thanks for the feedback…so I’m not the only one. I guess I just wonder why it seems different on CoD. The willingness to have teammates work together makes or breaks a game for me. Honestly to do well in Halo you need to work as a team…in CoD I can carry and can compete 3 on 1, but that doesn’t (usually) work with Halo.

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i think xbox private chat stops people talking to others in game

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I run into people using mics regularly, but it’s just mindless chin wagging. Nothing relevant to the game, no strategies, no call outs, just noise un-ending. I usually just mute voice because of that.