Maybe because it is a bad thing. Adding a dedicated playlist for mic users would likely only segregate the player base even further. Besides, it’d be pretty pointless to create a playlist that only a tiny fraction of players want when the rest of the game needs fixing in some shape or other.
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I miss people being using mics online. Realistically private party chats and bans for inappropriate comments killed in-game communication. I would rather stay in a private party than be banned for talking smack.
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I think the era of ingame VOIP is mostly over to be honest. There are now just way better options for Voice communications which:
- Isn’t compulsory
- Isn’t policed
- Offers much better quality than ingame VOIP
And as you said, voice chat and proximity chat back in the day had its own share of issues, like mic breathing, people just being too darn loud and people blasting music. No one really wants that when playing with a stranger, though they will more often than not tolerate it within private groups.
Proximity chat would be nice but honestly, I don’t see the voice using players using it. Then slowly, the old school players will use it, realise it’s just not the same, and stop using it as well. And if anything, no one wants to use an ingame VOIP which can be scrutinized and get you flagged for saying something in the heat of the moment, in a game which often times becomes sweaty for no reason.
Oh nooooo you got flagged for saying the F word! In a video game! Online! In a game for mature audiences!
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Ah fair enough. Ima let this dream die x
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I actually ended up in a game once with a kid just screaming their yoinking head off and had to scramble to the audio settings to mute them (after asking them to stop ofc, didn’t help) which resulted in an extra death on my count.
If there was an easy way to mute someone, I’d probably be more open to using mic chat. (It does help in arena games that there’s a little “echo” around their armor/health dot on the map when someone speaks on mic, but it can be easy to miss bc the dot is small and on BTB it’s hopeless unless they’re nearby)
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I opened up a match once to someone listening to a podcast on full volume but not talking, had to text chat “someone got a podcast on? what we listening to?” and they turned it off but never used mic to talk XD
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I was probably the one screaming.
you have to understand, brotha. the warrior spirit is far too great to suppress. we all must rage on in the battlefield to vanquish our enemies.
if you need proof it was me,
my twitch channel is heyjorge1
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no, you sound much different 
lmao it was a very young voice non-stop high pitched screaming and i think they were just doing so for the hell of it
but i do hope if other party members are asking you to chill the f–k out you chill out a little bit bc ow my eardrums
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my fire will not be tamed!.
…but i will lower my mic’s input volume.
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I’m trying to use the mic mode but it never works
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Everyone is in party chat
I assume very easily. Xbox live knows If you have a headset connected just have an option in search to search for people that have headsets connected. If they mute after the game starts then they shouldn’t be playing.
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There is a reason for that, and it goes back to toxic behaviors. I am in party chat or no chat when I play because of interactions on Xbox live. I used to communicate on Halo 3, but the community was full of unpleasant people. I was on construct, and someone called out open purple and when I asked which one was open the guy berated me for not knowing. After that I just unplugged my headset. I also stopped playing a call of duty because you couldn’t be in party chat while playing my favorite mode. I agree there should be a microphone on mode but that doesn’t guarantee people will communicate call outs and info that is related to the game. I played a game on infinite and there was one guy I could hear through my TV, and not once did he provide information to help the team because he was too busy chatting with someone in his house. Anyway, sorry if this is just rambling and missing the point.
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So what if people just connect their mic and then set it down on the ground? Then youre right back to the original problem and all the effort put into making a convoluted matchmaking system that actually checks for the mic to be connected and on was for literally nothing lol
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I can hear anyone but my bro whos in the same room playing the game. So I feel like the Mic mode doesnt work
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Just wear your mic and if you have a toxic player, mute them. Or pull out/turn off your mic.