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Subject: Please Bungie, take this out for Halo 3..

Remove the ability to hear your opposing team when they are close to you.
Halo 2 is the only game i'm aware of online that does this. And its the only game i get really annoyed when playing online due to screaming kids in my earhole!

The idea of setting up a room of 4 friends, and playing ranked gametypes is superb. Using tactics etc, but when all you hear down your headset is abusive language, i just can't be bothered.

What does anyone else think?

[Edited on 6/29/2006]

  • 06.29.2006 7:40 AM PDT

It is true that you don't really get anything useful from proximity voice.

  • 06.29.2006 7:41 AM PDT
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I think all games should have that .. and battlefield 2 modern combat has that even though you cant hear the enemy if someone on your team is talking .. but you see their name come up in red ... i think its good .. its realistic

  • 06.29.2006 7:42 AM PDT

if you have 4 people in a room and youre not playing BTB, i just wouldnt use headsets.

  • 06.29.2006 7:44 AM PDT

I'm blue da ba di da ba dai!

How do you know its in halo3 you did say take it out you should just wait for more information before posting.

  • 06.29.2006 7:44 AM PDT

I think you misunderstood me jmh.
When i said "room" i meant lobby - sorry

  • 06.29.2006 7:45 AM PDT
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well it was in halo 2 and its a big part of communicating im 82 percent sure that it will be in 3

  • 06.29.2006 7:45 AM PDT

I would assume it WILL be in Halo 3, because at the time it was original and seemed like a good idea.

  • 06.29.2006 7:47 AM PDT

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I dont really mind it cuz i like being able to hear the players on the other team who are talking and dont know im there. Then you can just crouch walk up to them and sneak attack. And if players are screaming and stuff that bad, you can always mute them

  • 06.29.2006 7:49 AM PDT

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Seriously dude, just mute them. It's not like there's a bunch in every game either. Proximity voice is great. Like the above poster said, if you sneak up to your enemies you can hear them talking about strategies and alert your teammates or in a no motion sensor game you can know if someone is near you or not.

  • 06.29.2006 7:56 AM PDT
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Why should you have to mute half of the people you play on xbox live for a useless gimmick that doesn't glean much info (and if you do, you probably knew it already). Furthermore, it's not realistic and doesn't make sense; you can suddenly pick up and decrypt coded com signals because you're 5 feet away, but not when 6 feet away?

Make it like other games; by default speak to your team

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  • 06.29.2006 8:24 AM PDT
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I like it its fine with me to stay.

  • 06.29.2006 8:31 AM PDT
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Maybe should there be an option to always mute the entire ennemy team...

  • 06.29.2006 8:34 AM PDT
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I have gotten plenty from sneaking around and listening to conversations. If you find someone to annoying there's a mute button that makes it so, you know...You don't hear them.

  • 06.29.2006 8:54 AM PDT
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buddy just mute them...voice proximity is that shixz

  • 06.29.2006 9:04 AM PDT
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Because as we all know it's really quick and eazy to mute the opposition.

Press start. Press Y. Wait for the menu to load. Go to players. Figure out the one's not on your team. Select each player one by one and mute them.

By that time unless you've hidden yourself in some obscure corner, you'll probably have been found and killed. And if not, you've wasted about half the round.

  • 06.29.2006 9:13 AM PDT
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I like that feature,it's funny,like if someone is trash-talking on the other team,and they suddenly die,it sounds like this:OHHH!I PWN--UHHH!Keep the feature in,yeah I don't like trash-talkers either,but really,I have no problem with it.

  • 06.29.2006 9:19 AM PDT

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Have you ever heard MUTE?

  • 06.29.2006 9:26 AM PDT