Xbox Series X: Game Chat is Broken in Arena

Note: This is not an issue on non-arena playlists. This bug only occurs in arena for me.

I am unable to communicate with my teammates in game chat. I can’t hear them and they can’t hear me. When I tap the “select button” on my controller. I can only see my own microphone next to my nameplate. It’s as if my audio settings are forced to “Disabled” in arena.

This has been a problem for me for MONTHS, but now I’m finally so fed up I had to login to this website just to rant. Interestingly, my arena game chat worked in about 50% of games before this recent pointless “hotfix” (on Jan 20 I think). But now my game chat in arena works 0% of the time, almost as if the hotfix made it worse.

I’ve always been a loyal competitive halo player (50’s in H3, Onyx/Champion in H5 awhile back, Onyx in Infinite)
but I’m over it, can’t even play this game until this gets fixed

And before you ask:

  • My settings are set to “Open Mic”
  • My Profile Privacy Settings is all Open
  • My controller is updated
  • I uninstalled-reinstalled this game
  • Hard Reseted my xbox

Are you playing with friends or with randoms? A lot of people have to mic chat on disabled, so even if you have it on abled, they will still not hear you

Happens when I play with friends and/or randoms, my friends’ mics are open and they are able to communicate with the other players on our team because they are on PC ( I guess this bug doesn’t affect PC players)