This has been bothering me since day one. Why can we not talk to our fireteam while in the lobby? I have to start an xbox chat and then we can not talk to the rest of the players without having to constantly switch back and forth.This is especially frustrating during warzone where talking to the many other players would be helpful to organize.
Anyone know about this problem?
Well most of us just use xbox party’s because it turns off game chat and we can hear each other all the time
Which is fine for most arena games. But in Warzone it is really needed to work with the big team size. Also this was so not a problem in any other Halo game.
yea, idk what 343 did with these new lobbies. I like the old pregame lobby better.
This bothers me as well. I suspect it’s a limitation for using dedicated servers. I’ve noticed that if you stay in the same lobby without backing out of the playlist after each match, you can hear your fireteam while it finds more players. I’m assuming we can’t hear out fireteam members when we’re connecting to a new server.
I have not known people to use their mic. Most all xboxes come with them and no one knows how to talk anything but smack.
they nerfed the lobbies too hard…bring em back!
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> This bothers me as well. I suspect it’s a limitation for using dedicated servers. I’ve noticed that if you stay in the same lobby without backing out of the playlist after each match, you can hear your fireteam while it finds more players. I’m assuming we can’t hear out fireteam members when we’re connecting to a new server.
Yes once the countdown has ended so does the ability to hear your fireteam.
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> I have not known people to use their mic. Most all xboxes come with them and no one knows how to talk anything but smack.
There are some, like myself, who actually use the mic for cooperative use and not just telling people their supposed sexual orientation and what they did with their mothers the previous night.
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> yea, idk what 343 did with these new lobbies. I like the old pregame lobby better.
This lobby is pretty terrible.
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> I have not known people to use their mic. Most all xboxes come with them and no one knows how to talk anything but smack.
… Or sing annoying songs
… Or keep open mic w/Xbox volume blaring or LOUD family and/or friends nearby
Would be nice to have option to communicate w/fire team only or fire team + rest of team in all games. Set as a selectable option even.
That would be a good option CaptJeter02. Some kind of communication.
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> Which is fine for most arena games. But in Warzone it is really needed to work with the big team size. Also this was so not a problem in any other Halo game.
i think mics are far more important in arena than in warzone
Yeah, the pregame lobbies need an overhaul.
Yeah, they’re garbage. Need a com. fix at a minimum.
You can’t chat in lobby because the dedicated server’s aren’t up yet, that’s where the voice chat goes through. It explain why you can hear people before the game starts but after it’s done loading up the server.
Then there should be a different way to do that. Why can it not run the chat on a separate client like an xbox live party but then seemlessly transition into the game chat when it is time?
I’ve posted about this a few times over the months. I don’t see any acknowledgement by 343 that this is being addressed. It’s finally come down to my group abandoning Halo 5 and going back to REACH. Seems odd that Bungie can do Lobby Chat on the XBOX ONE, but 343 can’t.
I understand everyone’s points above, but the big thing for us is we have a group of guys that play twice a week…and we get to smack talk and hang out in the lobby between custom matches. Then when we go into team games we can talk strategy and compete…without the lobby chat it’s really a pain (yes, we use party chat because its our only option, but that defeats the purpose of the team matches) and we finally got fed up and went back to REACH.
PLEASE fix this…if it’s the dedicated server problem, then add the servers…if nothing else, please give us some indication of when it’ll be fixed 343.