I sincerely hope so since most reach players either play with no mic or are in party chat. At the very least H4 should deny party chat in most of the competitive lobbies. What do you think?
Well you can’t just punish someone for not having a mic…
> Well you can’t just punish someone for not having a mic…
Exactly.
It would depend on what type of social lobbies they have. I personally hate everyone’s voice online including my own so I always party chat with other people I enjoy talking to.
I definitely understand the benefits of what you’re proposing though. Maybe if there is a definite difference in social and ranked playlists like Halo 3 I would say it’s a great idea.
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Um NO NO NO NO NO NO!
think of it your in a lobby talking to your friends when then your in a lobby with a 9 year old kid with his kinect and all his 9 year old kinect friends talking trash.
Game Chat + Kinect = FAIL!!!
Plus i hate listening to all my annoying team mates that just talk trash at you.
NO NO NO NO
> At the very least H4 should deny party chat in most of the competitive lobbies. What do you think?
Nope.
Denying people access to Party Chat won’t force them to talk to others in Game Chat. In fact, many people will actually disable their in-game voice or even mass-mute everyone they see, out of a spiteful rebellion against such vocal “encouragement”. There’s nothing any developer can do to force communication.
There is only one assured consequence of removing Party Chat: you keep people from talking to their friends. I fail to see the benefit there.
You cannot deny access to party chat. When I play any Halo, I’m always in a party chat with friends. It’s awful to hear derogatory, rude, ignorant fools during the entire course of your game. If you want people in chat, then get rid of the fools.
I miss the old days of xbox live when everyone talked in lobbies. Met many cool dudes back in the day. However, I guess the influx of little kids has made it nearly impossible to not have party chat. As much as I’d want to say disable party chat in competitive game modes it would become annoying very quickly.
> You cannot deny access to party chat. When I play any Halo, I’m always in a party chat with friends. It’s awful to hear derogatory, rude, ignorant fools during the entire course of your game. If you want people in chat, then get rid of the fools.
Not to mention the people who “tactically” talk trash, under some bizarre delusion that strategically ruining other people’s enjoyment of a leisure activity doesn’t make them a terrible person.
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I don’t play Games to hear random people ether raging or screaming down there Microphone I really just prefer staying in parties with my friends.
> > At the very least H4 should deny party chat in most of the competitive lobbies. What do you think?
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> Nope.
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> Denying people access to Party Chat won’t force them to talk to others in Game Chat. In fact, many people will actually disable their in-game voice or even mass-mute everyone they see, out of a spiteful rebellion against such vocal “encouragement”. There’s nothing any developer can do to force communication.
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> There is only one assured consequence of removing Party Chat: you keep people from talking to their friends. I fail to see the benefit there.
This.
I hate people who suggest things like this. I’d be fine with one playlist that requires a mic. and for you to be out party chat, but certainly not the main playlists.
Why should I be forced to listen and talk with strangers from different countries than me?
So if im playing halo, then im not aloud to talk to my friends that are playing minecraft/cod/deadspace/bf/whatever? No. Please, no.
If they made it so you had to be in game chat to play playlists you would destroy matchmaking. look at mw2 for example wide array of playlists but lots of them are under populated (back when mw2 was new) why? because the requirement for gamechat. people would rather go play something else in game then have to listen to randoms -Yoink-.
Forcing communication is NEVER a good idea. Your better off making a team of your own and be in party chat. if your playing MLG or some other ranked playlist by yourself your probably doing more harm then good anyway.
I agree with the premise here but it’s not going to happen. I too miss the old days of say Halo 2, where every single person in the lobby had a mic and was actually of age to play the damn game or at the very least, close. Go pop in CoD and head into any playlist (but if you are particularly self-loathing, then might I suggest S&D. It’s game chat only) and witness the great wall of mic icons. This will excite you for 2.7 seconds until you hear the squeaky little nerd boys yelling non-stop non-sense. I’d like to think that Halo is home to a more mature community but I really don’t see it coming back. Maybe in the first week or so but it won’t last long. Hope I’m wrong.
Itll likely cater just as much as any other game. Believe it or not, many people play halo for the fun of it. If Im talking with my buddies in a party because I hate the rascist, fawl, sexist, whiny, underaged scum that is random XBL users. why should i be restricted? CoD does this, and i, along with many others, hated that feature.
If you really want teamwork with communication: join a match as a group/clan. Problem solved.
Why not an option that let you search for people with microphones? An option that works and takes longer if it has to.
Perhaps wargames could be called the matchmaker? Hehe.
I met halofanforlife , if you’ve heard of him, on matchmaking randomly. I saw his gamer tag and I decided to and him trivia messages. It went from there.
I have met people in random matchmaking but in reach not too many, there it’s usually because of rank or something like that.
> <mark>Why not an option that let you search for people with microphones? An option that works and takes longer if it has to.</mark>
> <mark>Perhaps wargames could be called the matchmaker? Hehe.</mark>
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> I met halofanforlife , if you’ve heard of him, on matchmaking randomly. I saw his gamer tag and I decided to and him trivia messages. It went from there.
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> I have met people in random matchmaking but in reach not too many, there it’s usually because of rank or something like that.
Agreed. For people like the OP.
> At the very least H4 should deny party chat in most of the competitive lobbies. What do you think?
And that’s why they made Skype.
> I sincerely hope so since most reach players either play with no mic or are in party chat. At the very least H4 should deny party chat in most of the competitive lobbies. What do you think?
If they add an incentive to win like Halo 2 and 3 had, then there would probably be more mic usage. Back in those games, people you were matched with actually wanted to win. Those were the days…