Why do half of you not say a single word? I ask if anyone has a mic and you remain silent, like I insulted your family or something. I do not enjoy talking, but I have the decency to respond when someone is talking to me. If you are not going to use your mic, please switch it off so you do not give me the false hope that at least one of my teammates will also call out. Thanks.
Don’t worry. I kept my mic in party chat.
I keep mine in all the time, but I won’t talk to someone unless I have to or something
I mute myself so I can listen to loud music, turn up my tv way loud, and carry on other conversations.
But it’s the only way i can hear better if i don’t put it the talking part i ccan hear the game more than you.
> Why do half of you not say a single word? I ask if anyone has a mic and you remain silent, like I insulted your family or something. <mark>I do not enjoy talking</mark>, but I have the decency to respond when someone is talking to me. If you are not going to use your mic, please switch it off so you do not give me the false hope that at least one of my teammates will also call out. Thanks.
Thats why, most people are afraid(or don’t want) to chat nowadays.
99.5% of the time I’m playing with friends & am in a party or talking to them, but that other .5% of the time, I’ll talk to my team. There’s a better chance of winning if you communicate. Warn team mates of campers, people coming up behind them, grabbing my ordinance weapon if I get killed so that the other team doesn’t get it & use it against us, etc. Now what I can’t stand when it comes to mics are 5 year olds playing. Literally little kids who’ve got no business playing the game. The majority of the time, players with mics get put on the same team, so I’m handicapped with some 5 year old who babbles about nothing & gets 3 kills & 17 deaths. I know there’s nothing that can be done to fix that, it’s just my pet peeve. Agreed though, every system comes with a headset. More people should USE THEM.
If you say ‘hello’ I’ll answer, if you start talking trash or blame your teammates for losing the game I’ll probably not care to answer.
When I play online, the only time I talk is either in parties or I hop into game chat for about 5 seconds, say something random and hop back out. If most people don’t want to talk that’s their choice. I’ve played many other games where teamwork is a factor but nobody is in game chat. I also don’t always want everyone in a lobby to hear my personal conversation with my friend.
I totally get what you’re saying OP. I’m not always in game chat but whenever I am no one talks. I remember the golden days of Halo 2 & 3 where everyone had mics and communicated. It seems like those days are past us now though unfortunately…
use of mics between random team mates would help. One of the big advantages organised teams have is communication.
I almost always have my mic on. But I hate running into kids that literally screech into their microphone. They usually get nothing but Russian from me, which is funny in a way. Other people are so dry they can’t take a joke. A few times I will find people that I enjoy chatting with, but it’s rare.
Ah, gone are days of Halo 3 sociable chat.
I’ve found that people talk more once a match is in progress
In the pre-game, people don’t talk as much, in my experience
I have two theories - introducing player cards into the pre-game lobby makes things more personal. Maybe personalizing things makes people less likely to say anything
The other theory - perhaps people are more comfortable talking with randoms when in the middle of a game because they have something to talk about
Just a thought
EDIT: I find most younger players talk a lot, but it’s mostly B.S. from my experience i.e. they just talk about total random nonsense. Some of them are cool though - they know callouts and want to help the team. But the question is - why the hell are they playing Halo anyway? I don’t want to sound like an old fart, but the game IS rated MA17.
If you talk, everybody mutes you, meaning you get a voice/mute ban.
Nobody seems to want to talk or listen to any human voice while playing Halo anymore.
We had it good in the days of Halo 3! Maaaan…
No visible ranks = no incentive to communicate
> No visible ranks = no incentive to communicate
Communication is its own incentive. That’s just how humans work. It has nothing to do with visible ranking and much more to do with party chat being available.
Communication in-game doesn’t have to be about the game. In fact, most of the time (at least in my experience) it’s not.
^What?
Anyway, I noticed that to, Sometimes I say “hellerr” kinda like medea, Kicks off from there
Well, the only reason I talk is when I have the need to shout “Boom, Headshot” or “IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZOR”, so… well, most of the time people get annoyed with that, and also I have a tendency to curse… a lot I mean, both in English or Spanish. So, better keep my mic shout to make everyone get a bad game with foreign cussing.
Legend has it, that trash talking try hards destroyed the friendly “good game” talk era that started in the days of Halo 2.
alot of people have the Kinect and if they don’t go in and turn the mic all the way off in the kinect settings, Halo4 shows that you have a mic on. Even if you have the Kinect settings to video chat only(no in-game chat) it will still show the mic icon. I assume most of the people who don’t respond to you aren’t doing so out of spite, just that they cant respond.