It drives me crazy that I still cannot talk to people in my fireteam in the pregame lobby without joining an Xbox Live party. However, now that you are in a party and matchmaking finds all players and begins to load the map you can hear everyone… Except that now you can’t because you are in a a party. I know they have the switch between party chat and game chat feature in game which is cool but it’s not an option in the matchmaking lobby. Yes, you can do it in the dashboard but I shouldn’t have to do that. I should be able to jump in my buddy’s fireteam and start talking to them immediately. I thought this was a release bug but its been a long damn time. Please fix this.
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> It drives me crazy that I still cannot talk to people in my fireteam in the pregame lobby without joining an Xbox Live party.
Agreed, the pre and postgame lobbys were places to socialise and extended the fun from game to game when your mates weren’t online. Now it is next to impossible to meet people who aren’t in a party by default. Massive mistake on Xbox and 343i’s parts
Thankyou. This is my biggest gripe with H5.
I’ve made numerous posts/polls etc working for a fix for this. I’ve even tweeted at bravo asking if the game chat is working as intended or if it’s being worked on. I’ve recieved no acknowledgement (it seems you need to be a pro to get a response from the community manager) 
Its ridicilous that you need to wait until the match is starting before you can talk to your fireteam, then you can only communicate while the opposition can also hear you, then you lose the ability if the ft leader decides to change lobbies.
ive had numerous people advise me that i should be in party chat but we’re not always a team of four so we wish to communicate with others on our team.
also people say we should switch between party and game chat at the start/end of each game but this isn’t viable with my team.
please can we just have a working game chat function. Thanks.
Not to mention that you can’t even tell which players are on your team or what their names are, but thats a-whole-notha mutha. Hopefully the “UI updates” will include some of these features. sigh That comes out on Tuesday right?
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> Not to mention that you can’t even tell which players are on your team or what their names are, but thats a-whole-notha mutha. Hopefully the “UI updates” will include some of these features. sigh That comes out on Tuesday right?
Does the ui get updated Tuesday? Well I’ve got my fingers crossed for a functional game chat but I don’t hold out much hope it doesn’t seem to be a concern for more than a few
The community update said it GOM would contain UI updates but it didn’t say what they were so my guess is they are minimal…
This is 1 of 7 missing features / bugs that I’ll be highlighting in my next video on YouTube.
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> This is 1 of 7 missing features / bugs that I’ll be highlighting in my next video on YouTube.
When do you think it’ll go out? I’ve given you a subscribe for highlighting it. Don’t let me down 
I still need a couple of screenshots from Reach and to do the commentary, otherwise it’s mostly done. At this point I want to wait until the Ghosts of Meridian update to see if it fixes anything, so I’m hoping for this weekend if possible.
you can do that… You don’t need to be in a party.
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> you can do that… You don’t need to be in a party.
Do what? Be in game chat? We know that. The problem is losing contact with your fireteam when you’re in game chat.
I refuse to talk about this!