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Subject: Who's better: Players with mics or without?
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A team can play better with mics to allow coordination. Although it doesn't matter if everyone on one team outclasses everyone on the other team.


However, if you search random and the people with mikes are squeaky 10 year-olds, then that would be quite a distraction.

Which is why, if I am desperate enough to search for skill for the one or two games that I can endure, I turn on search for skill. It at least filters most of them out.

  • 01.11.2012 9:56 PM PDT
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Its broken. That was my excuse.

Now when I play team games I wear it, and mute the other team.

Or I'm playing FFA and can't be bothered to hear what the other dick splashes have to say.

  • 01.11.2012 10:10 PM PDT

Why would having a mic on impact game play? I'm gonna say it does not matter.

Also I don't want some kid screaming in my ear.

[Edited on 01.11.2012 10:34 PM PST]

  • 01.11.2012 10:33 PM PDT
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It depends if i have my mic in and i'm making callouts then i'm in my competitive mode. But if my mic's out usually i'm playing chill unless I'm raging

  • 01.11.2012 10:36 PM PDT

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I miss players with mics. Mute ban killed the last of them off.

  • 01.11.2012 10:44 PM PDT

Posted by: analbumcover
I miss players with mics. Mute ban killed the last of them off.
I remember when I could hear people outside my party talk. Good times.

  • 01.11.2012 10:46 PM PDT


Posted by: DeathSkills
Why would having a mic on impact game play? I'm gonna say it does not matter.

Also I don't want some kid screaming in my ear.


Oh your poor k/d..

  • 01.11.2012 11:29 PM PDT

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  • 01.12.2012 12:20 AM PDT

I prefer not to use a mic so I don't get a mute ban.

  • 01.12.2012 2:10 AM PDT

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Does it count if my mic isn't plugged in? Cos the mic icon is always there for me regardless if it is/isn't plugged in.

  • 01.12.2012 2:53 AM PDT

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If you play without a mic you're missing half of the game.

  • 01.12.2012 2:56 AM PDT

I like to play Reach for fun. I hate MLG, campers, armor lock, and team killers because they ruin that fun. Deal with it.

I fail to see how a player can be better if he does or doesn't have a mic plugged into his controller.

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I don't see how a mic affects a player's skill.

  • 01.12.2012 3:41 AM PDT

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Players with microphones are always beneficial, but that doesn't mean they're guaranteed to use them. Most people--me included--who are playing Halo: Reach with their friends tend to be exclusively in party chat. Which of course is fine, as long as they're working together. The downside from a group of randoms who don't use mics are that they can't effectively communicate, and communication is key to winning any game; it's essentially vital.

  • 01.12.2012 3:48 AM PDT

Reach ... with mics ??? ... you joking - lol.

reach is NOT a team game. Even looking at the game design - you die, you respawn away from your team.
And playing outside of friends when did you ever get some team based chatter?

Mic on in reach is an invite for a 12yo to sing his fav tune.
Or the latest in rage chants.

  • 01.12.2012 4:15 AM PDT

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I honestly can say that I do better without a mic, without all the constant trash talking I hear and get ( mainly about my rank and k/d). But then there is always party chat...

  • 01.12.2012 4:40 AM PDT
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I don't see how a mic affects a player's skill.

What dark sorcery is this?

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  • 01.12.2012 4:52 AM PDT

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Each offset has it's pros and cons. A team who use microphones, will always have something completely beneficial over a team which doesn't use them: communication (not unless the other team can quickly and efficiently type X-box live messages to one another, which is safe to say...impossible).

If a team is willing to use communication effectively is another story. A person who has a microphone, and who doesn't use it for purposes beneficial to their team, may as well not have one to begin with. The question here shouldn't be "Which do you prefer: players with microphones or no microphones?" but, "Is the player going to contribute when they are given a microphone in the first place?" At least with this, you can judge each person individually, and hence do not stereotype an entire group (however this is simply my notion on things)

[Edited on 01.12.2012 5:02 AM PST]

  • 01.12.2012 4:55 AM PDT

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