Help make Halo a more SOCIAL game!

Games Other Halo
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For the new Halo members "You picked a hell of a day to join up. " When Xbox live added Party Chat Custom game died (with a silent death for matchmaking)… It killed off the Halo 2/ Pre-Halo 3 generation. Which I like too call the social generation of players.

With no underestimation of the name social gen, we had the most fun to say the least. As far as Halo 2, partys would be active in chat, and developed the colors of custom game “Honor rules”. Games like hit-man, zombies, troy and other fun games would be impossible to develop and play with out in-game chat. It also created more friendships.

We then get to Halo 3 (the best custom game fun), were Honor rules were now at a minimum. Which made the game even more enjoyable with the lack of people complaining of people not following rules, and the atmosphere of the party would be awesome with the voices of everyone talking.

Halo 3 had fantastic communication. A team channel were you can only hear your team (zombies/other slayer variants), and the ONLY time you could hear your opponent was when they were near you! (Perfect for Zombies when you could hear the horde coming closer, and them letting you know your going to die lol)

From a multiplayer standpoint it was good as well! People who get randomly pair with you ACTUALLY TALKED! Calling out stuff in the game for intense teamwork. (again more friendships were made) and the ever so awesome “team trash talk” in post/pre game lobby.

Xbox had an update, and we got party chat… It killed everything! Multiplayer got silent, People in multiplayer who had mics would be in party chat when playing games, and in custom game you would get people in party chats who refuse to get out of there party. The only way to resolve was to boot, or be lonely lol.

Then Reach just killed it when you could bluntly hear the other team talking in a zombies match. Don’t get me wrong people still talk, but its not like before, and getting people out of there partys is just a hassle… Also, stuff like this do still happen, but rarely …

Finally my Proposal

Remove the hear everone in Flood mode/ and in other game variants. Make it so only humans can hear humans, and flood only hear flood, team only team. the only time they can hear each other is if they were in close proximity.

Have an option in custom game to prevent party chat, and have a wargames playlist (like call of duty S&D) and have the in game chat only to start.

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Yes, lets kill Halo even more by making you only able to play if you’re not in party chat.

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A playlist (non plural)

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Call of duty have done it with certain playlists, why cant we for ranked matches? plus i was part of that social generation, i met my one of my best friends through halo 2, we played for about a year before we realised we lived around the corner from each other, i do miss the big custom game sessions from back then :frowning:

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Are you yoinking serious? customs games died because of party chat?

Whatever.

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> Are you yoinking serious? customs games died because of party chat?
>
> Whatever.

Many aspects of it did, as well as matchmaking. Been a member for 7 years of xbox live, and seeing the changes it has endured. I think I’ve hosted my fair share of huge party’s to notice this from Halo 2, all the way to Halo 3 with (9,554) of custom games alone in , and wopping 13,150 games played in Halo 3. Noticing such a subtle change mid way Halo 3 - into Reach.

> Yes, lets kill Halo even more by making you only able to play if you’re not in party chat.

It worked in Call of duty S&D, the most team work/communication playlist in the game…

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I haven’t really been online on xbox live consistently since Halo 3 launched, so about 5 years. And since then any time I’ve been online I’ve realised that NOBODY talks constructively ingame anymore. I honestly didn’t think Halo 2 was that great for talking since it was push-to-talk, but I remember playing some amazing custom games with randoms I’d met in matchmaking. I sort of miss that atmosphere online nowadays.

I never thought to associate it with the introduction of party chat though.

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exactly, I believe its a problem that needs to be addressed!

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While I don’t think custom games died because of this, I would love to be able to enter lobbies and actually talk to people again. Actually use team work with randoms again.

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Sorry I said that for the lack of better words, Its more like the social aspect of the game died.

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Please keep this alive, for 343 to relies this! Its for the best of Halo online experience! It kept Halo 3 in throne of communication and community! It was one of cores of Halo and truly supported the statement “GAMEPLAY MAY CHANGE DURING ONLINE PLAY” Get this new wave of players to be social like before!

Thank you

-Captn

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before the halo 3 days is when you could play with people who were actually mature enough to play the game.

Im not gonna be forced to talk to 10 year olds. period. Its depressing enough that i have to play with them, let alone talk to them.

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It seems the mute button was actually useful back then. I agree to an extent, I was considered to be a kid back then (around 12 yrs old) gaining respect form others.

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> It seems the mute button was actually useful back then.

IN that case id be muting everyone with mics anyway, so its pointless to force me into game chat.

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When rank playlists come back ban party chat so everyone has to talk in game. Custom games are still fun, but dang Halo 2’s zombies were the best, better than any other zombie/flood thing created.

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man those social days were the best i made so many good friends in halo 3, but now that halo 4 is out i get bored playing with my mic on i never hear anyone talk back when the social world was around smack talking meant more cause your couldn’t wait to wipe the floor with them, come back social gen :frowning:

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> > It seems the mute button was actually useful back then.
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> IN that case id be muting everyone with mics anyway, so its pointless to force me into game chat.

I support it was a well proof social system. Besides finding “KIDS” in Matchmaking is not even a problem, its more of an occasional thing really. It was a never a problem in the first place for me in Halo 3, just get to know them and humbly get there respect. I was treated the same way in Halo 2. Its an ONLINE game so its a given to encounter a thing like this. Deal with it or mute it! Halo 3 even had it on the tips list in matchmaking lobby, mute or just simply ignore! In a whole since it was a BETTER community, and social! Social aspect of Online gaming is DEAD! Call of Duty S&D did a fantastic job to cope and maintain!

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I support OP, Being social in the game is just dead… and finding new people to play with to start custom is hard when everyone is in party chat. totally miss smack talking! Bump of justice!

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Again I’m not compliantly against the party feature, it would be Hippocratic. I say limit party chat in some playlist , and have options to allow it or not in custom. I believe it would make the game more chatty. (I remember Reach had options to get paired with chatty people, It didn’t work well enough and I was hoping 343 would revise it and make it better)

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i dont see why not if it had its own playlist. If it has mature players might even use it occaisionally. especially if the players were better too. Interesting thought line here…its worth a try IMO.