Is it just me or is the matchmaking community just not what it used to be?
It’s not just you. I have also noticed it. Mainly, NO ONE USES MICS ANYMORE. It is very hard to play with anyone who doesn’t have a mic, or who does have a mic, but just blasts music through their mic.
I don’t care what you are talking about, or if you even talk, but just having the mic plugged in is enough to make me happier because then their is at least the potential for some form of coordination. Oh, I am also only talking about team games.
And since there is nothing to play for in Reach, their is really no motivation to not teamkill, -Yoink- around, or AFK.
> It’s not just you. I have also noticed it. Mainly, NO ONE USES MICS ANYMORE. It is very hard to play with anyone who doesn’t have a mic, or who does have a mic, but just blasts music through their mic.
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> I don’t care what you are talking about, or if you even talk, but just having the mic plugged in is enough to make me happier because then their is at least the potential for some form of coordination. Oh, I am also only talking about team games.
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> <mark>And since there is nothing to play for in Reach</mark>, their is really no motivation to not teamkill, -Yoink!- around, or AFK.
I beg to differ. The reason I play any game’s matchmaking is for the satisfactory win. At times I find there is no better thing than besting your opponent. To me that is what separated Halo from Call of Duty. In CoD the only motivation I had was to either play on the map Nuketown or get a new gun. I play Halo every chance I get, not because my buddies have it, but because it can be a good game without it’s gimmicks. It is probably the only game out there that is basic and it is fun to win. CoD just has a russian say “we are victorious comrades!” In Halo that win means something, that you’ve won! Against an evenly matched team (Reach only does this with the ‘skill’ setting on in a populated playlist.)
Anyway, I play for the win, and that is what keeps me going and playing MP. Otherwise, Halo has quite a good story. Been a fan since Halo II. While the community may not be like it was, it can and will renew itself. We have two more trilogies on the way, about 20 years more Halo. We’ll find new guys.
Totally agree, I used to play Halo 1 just for fun with lan parties, and kept playing, but now it just seem to have quite the nice shiny polish it used to. Thinking of the upcoming -logies of Halo would that seem to create a Schism? Old School vs. New School Halo? A curious thought. Old schoolers would have something that new schoolers never quite did (the game yes, but the experience, no)
> It’s not just you. I have also noticed it. Mainly, NO ONE USES MICS ANYMORE. It is very hard to play with anyone who doesn’t have a mic, or who does have a mic, but just blasts music through their mic.
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> I don’t care what you are talking about, or if you even talk, but just having the mic plugged in is enough to make me happier because then their is at least the potential for some form of coordination. Oh, I am also only talking about team games.
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> And since there is nothing to play for in Reach, their is really no motivation to not teamkill, -Yoink!- around, or AFK.
I got tired after all these years of annoying players with mics so I no longer use mine outside of party chat. If I’m not with friends everyone is muted. The silence beats hearing random crap and nonsense for me.
I only put my mic on when I’m eating.
When Reach launched, yes. Before Reach, no.
I’d say it’s been going downhill since people realised how they can manipulate the 50 rank system and noticed how people were using that number to determine their importance in the world.
> I’d say it’s been going downhill since people realised how they can manipulate the 50 rank system and noticed how people were using that number to determine their importance in the world.
That makes sense, because we’re having this problem in Reach and Reach used the 1-50 system.
Haha… teams of inheritors aside, I don’t really use my mic these days because 1) I don’t play with a team anymore and 2) a lot of times the random chatter and insults get annoying after a while.
And is there anyone else out there who plays worse if they’re trying to talk over a mic and play halo at the same time?
I prefer it when people don’t use mics personally. There is always that person you can hear breathing into the mic and that just gives me the goosebumps. As to a decline in community quality I’m not sure. I’ve seen more randoms fall prey to traps (really obvious ones) recently but Ive also noticed an increase in coordinated teams.