I miss the good old days of halo 2 voice chat. I can’t be the only one 
I don’t because I don’t want to disturb my family.
I think the clue is in my name.
Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
Too much BS coming through the headset when I was using mine. Kids yelling, people playing crap music into the mic, babies crying, people yelling at someone in the room without being courteous enough to mute, etc, etc, etc.
Actually, the above two posts are an even better reason. I hate when I forget to mute other’s mics when I enter a game.
Yeah, all the above and the fact that I am almost always in a party.
I would have to agree with these comments, I’m sorry to say but the community has turn toxic. that why I stay in party chat almost always, are mute everyone.
I use my mic.
In party chat.
I try to use my mic when I’m solo queuing in ranked playlists, but otherwise I stay off it. It’s always kids that are too young to be on the game, people yelling profanities, or that one guy that forgot his mic was on and is playing music.
There were a lot of annoying things back then, but there was also those amazing moments that you could only get from everyone having a mic plugged in and talking which made it worth it.
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> Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
A thousand times this.
Now I only get abuse via instant msg rather than having to deal with it verbally in-game.
I used to in Warzone and other social playlists. They’re also good for communication in Customs lobbies (gametype and map suggestions and the such). I will occasionally put on my mic just to say and do stupid -Yoink- in Warzone in different voices just for the hell of it.
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> Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
This, although this has always been an issue online. Now finding teammates, clans and Spartan Companies is rather easy, more and more people find people and then party up with them, rather than going into a game in gamechat and expecting to find people to communicate with. Basically, because you can definitely find people online with the same attitude towards the game as you do, there is no longer a need to communicate with random people who may or may not be… desirable company.
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> Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
Yep, I was also gonna say that the other reason might be that since we have a mute all button and not a mute button on single person like Reach had. So people who want to hear their teammates but can’t because the only option to mute a person is to mute all of them.
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> > Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
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> Yep, I was also gonna say that the other reason might be that since we have a mute all button and not a mute button on single person like Reach had. So people who want to hear their teammates but can’t because the only option to mute a person is to mute all of them.
You can mute individuals once the match starts, either from the scoreboard or by going to their profile. Trust me, I mute a lot of people.
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> > > Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
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> > Yep, I was also gonna say that the other reason might be that since we have a mute all button and not a mute button on single person like Reach had. So people who want to hear their teammates but can’t because the only option to mute a person is to mute all of them.
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> You can mute individuals once the match starts, either from the scoreboard or by going to their profile. Trust me, I mute a lot of people.
I guess there’s that but is still ridiculous that you need to do it during the game while Reach can do it in the pre-game lobby.
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> Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
While it’s kind of a problem with online gaming in general, this right here ^ is usually why I don’t. Sometimes if people are quiet and i feel like being a try-hard (which is rare) i do call-outs to help my team out, but that’s about it
- There is no etiquette class to teach proper communication skills on xbox live.
- Most games are so fast , twitchy at this point communication is pointless. What good does it do to use call outs when the enemy is no longer in the area?
Seriously , it would be nice if Major Nelson or some other Xbox community manager would just make a video that would appear on every ones dash board (Like Mjr. Nelsons This week) that just gave etiquette tips while using a mic , it would be tremendously helpful. I know we would still have to listen to kids and dogs and babies , but the hope is they would be fewer and farther between than the norm they are now.
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> > Yep, I was also gonna say that the other reason might be that since we have a mute all button and not a mute button on single person like Reach had. So people who want to hear their teammates but can’t because the only option to mute a person is to mute all of them.
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> You can mute individuals once the match starts, either from the scoreboard or by going to their profile. Trust me, I mute a lot of people.
I mute the whole lobby as soon as I can because I have no faith in humanity.
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> Though in all honesty, there aren’t a lot of people on live who do have mics that i want to speak with. They are either taking things way to seriously, singing/rapping into the mic, spouting racial slurs, under the age of twelve, or the like. I only pull mine out when people I know are on.
Is this really an issue? I mean I understand that people get upset when they lose (I have a friend who looses a barrage of swears any time he dies) , and that is irritating , but at least I know they are trying to win. I would much rather have team mates who are trying to win , instead of chatting about random crap IRL. I get wanting to relax and have fun , but have the gossip group another time please!