I don’t talk either for the same reason. If there was an option to easily and quickly mute people then maybe I’d consider it, but I have no idea if I can even mute at all.
I don’t think there is an option to mute/unmute. I’ve tried to mute a few people playing music through their mic and I can’t find any UI to even do it in-game.
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Ok ok yeah I thought you meant it with the emote. Lol. I was double checking.
This. Omfg this. You’re playing ranked. You’re playing sweats. Communication is key. I’d be onyx 1900 in solo/duo if I wasn’t the only one making callouts.
What’s even more frustrating is being dead, warning a player there’s a one shot flanking them, watch them react and clean it up before they’re 2v1’d, and then go on living life like that comm didn’t matter.
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In settings there is deafultly not allowed Open mic. I played for three days with mic and players didn’t react on me. I was confused as well. Then a friend told me what to check. I suppose this should be the problem.
I noticed that over the years I stopped talking in the mic myself to the point where I don’t even have it on when I play anymore. I miss the days where every game was full of talking people, but it’s been like this for years now, before the xbox one even came out.
I think one thing people aren’t doing either is pinging. Something they’ve clearly copied from Warzone is pings. There’s a -Yoink!- achievement for it as well, but people don’t use pings.
For what it’s worth, up on the D-pad marks a ping on the map.
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I use mine. I assume most people are in private lobbies. I know I always jump into ranked with a full team so coms are not an issue.
I personally love smack talking my team that is playing Slayer during a CTF, Stockpile or Oddball match. I love getting that text chat popping up on the top right telling me to shut up. I makes me happy that I can annoy the people who not only can’t play objective but also can’t find the mute button.
99% of the time when others have their mics on were able to have group up and make a few good plays. But that 1% really brings me back to the good old days of Halo 3 days on Xbox live and brings out my inner child.
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I’d honestly rather get a lobotomy than hear someone “they’re on B” again
I have a headset and talk with friends in Xbox party, but with randoms, let’s be honest, 90% of the team isn’t playing the objective anyway, so why even bother
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Lol okey I guess now I know why people don’t use a mic. Didn’t know there was so much people against it.
I find comms to be extremely important in ranked games. There has been a bunch of times I did not died bc my teammate told me that someone was coming from behind or a sniper was in certain area, or bc we pushed together an objective, etc.
But that’s just my opinion. I guess I’m an old timer.
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I think this says more about how social gaming has changed over the years, people just became more comfortable without using a mic, mostly because back in the day when you’d attempt to speak there was always abuse being thrown around and it put you off
I do hope something like Spartan Companies return for Infinite to ignite that social presence in the game.
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I think of using my mic, but then I realize if I’m not careful, especially with some frustrating parts of the game, I’ll say something I’ll regret.
Or
I’m in a party talking to friends using my phone for party chat.
Or
I don’t want to sit in a game talking to myself, because as you’ve pointed out, people don’t seem to be using mics.
This is what happened to me.
I agree with what you are saying, but the way I was spoken to, I’m not going to use the mic. If I was down the street or out somewhere with my husband and somebody spoke to me like I was spoken to, I can only imagine what he would do to them.
Would a better way to report n ban guys that are verbally toxic convince yall to use mics? If it was a actually proper effective system to remove these bad fate actors