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[Corey1097]

The only people i talk to with a mic is my friends (most of them are over the age of 20) because they know i'm mature for my age and i won't scream like other people, but randoms assume every kid on XBL is the "annoying screaming brat kids"

[Omega2079]

Playing with randoms, I've encountered many open mics picking coughing, throat clearing, and the occasional vacuum in the background. Never has anyone tried to start a conversation.

[swjobson]

Too many idiots for me to bother talking. I use a bluetooth headset, but mostly I just mute the mic on my end and put it somewhere far away. That way it will take others' mics off my sound system so I don't have to listen to idiots, unrelated conversations, sh*tty music, etc

[Cette]

I live in an apartment with extremely poor sound insulation and mostly play in the middle of the night on days off due to working third shift.

Don't really need the neighbors lodging noise complaints about me holding loud one sided conversations in the middle of the night.

[captainkaleb]

me3 says i dont have a mic =(

[EVILFLUFFMONSTER]

I am often too self concious to talk, and most of the time I can't. I usually play while my sons are asleep and my girlfriend is asleep in bed next to me. She wakes up if I go downstairs and says she can't sleep without me.. :-s

I do communicate though, through a device called a Trashtalk - it is a sound board with 16 different sound banks that fits into the base of the controller, it doesn't need batteries and is very easy to use. I can answer yes or no questions, say hello thanks and goodbye, swear and curse and insult rude players. Most importantly, I can make Wookie noises.

[HolyAvenger]

Not necessary, basically.

[RazRei]

Shajar wrote...

Lionheartwolf wrote...

Shajar wrote...

This is PvE, so no mic for me

just curious im not into PvP but what the heck do you need a mic in PvP for other than to trash talk?

Then you are clueless, PvP is all about tactics.

And their isn't in PVE?  Once you start to play with people you know for sometime you get the rythem down however you still need mics for PVE content for tactics also.

[Joe1962]

captainkaleb wrote...

me3 says i dont have a mic =(

This is my problem as well.

Of course I could be doing something wrong as I never played a MP game before last week.

I got a 360 mic when I got my 250 gb hard drive, and plugged it into the controller, but it doesn't show up.

It has a switch which shows as either red or green, I assume green is supposed to be on.

I'm going to try another controller today to see if it is the controller or the mic that is bad.

[WestLakeDragon]

Joe1962 wrote...

captainkaleb wrote...

me3 says i dont have a mic =(

This is my problem as well.

Of course I could be doing something wrong as I never played a MP game before last week.

I got a 360 mic when I got my 250 gb hard drive, and plugged it into the controller, but it doesn't show up.

It has a switch which shows as either red or green, I assume green is supposed to be on.

I'm going to try another controller today to see if it is the controller or the mic that is bad.

I had this same problem a few  years ago, twas my controller.

Also, whenever I play with some friends, and we have 1 spot open for a random, we just invite them to our XBL party, if they have a mic and are invited to a party they feel compelled to talk,

[Drenick18]

eh. I only talk to real life friends. on skype. audio quality in in-game chat is really bad too.

[Dunmer of Redoran]

K1LL STREAK wrote...

I am often too self concious to talk, and most of the time I can't. I usually play while my sons are asleep and my girlfriend is asleep in bed next to me. She wakes up if I go downstairs and says she can't sleep without me.. :-s

I do communicate though, through a device called a Trashtalk - it is a sound board with 16 different sound banks that fits into the base of the controller, it doesn't need batteries and is very easy to use. I can answer yes or no questions, say hello thanks and goodbye, swear and curse and insult rude players. Most importantly, I can make Wookie noises.

Best thing I have read all day.


To answer the question for myself, it's because it isn't necessary. If a team is good enough to hold its own on Gold, I don't need to talk to them about anything. On the other side of the coin, if they're bad enough to not win Gold, there's nothing I could say or do that would change their fortunes.

[jla0644]

Omega2079 wrote...

Playing with randoms, I've encountered many open mics picking coughing, throat clearing, and the occasional vacuum in the background. Never has anyone tried to start a conversation.

This, and it seems like some people just enjoy making loud random noises to ****** off everyone else in the game. I usually start out a MP session with my mic on, and almost always end up turning it off in frustration.

[jdi_knght]

• The main reason I do MP is for the SP galactic readiness rating.
• While I use a high quality mic, it often picks up stuff others don't want to hear. I subject my friends to it when gaming over skype/vent because they'll tell me when they hear something they shouldn't - I'm not willing to subject 3 random people to it who may not say anything.
• I play on bronze, and it's rare that we need levels of co-ordination beyond what we can figure out by playing together for a few minutes anyway.
• When the host is laggy and I'm the last guy left alive, and somebody bailed, and my guy is clipping all over the place, and I'm having to guess where I'm supposed to shoot.... I'm usually saying unkind things. Fortunately, nobody can hear me.
• The only guy that I've heard on a mic in MP was very loud and obnoxious. Thus, I now have voice completely disabled (couldn't find a place to turn it off, so I have voice chat input/output set to an empty audio device).

Those are why I don't use a mic. If I were a hard-core MP gold player, I'm sure I'd use it. As a bronze player doing casual MP only for galactic readiness in SP, I don't think there's really much need/benefit.

[Podunks]

GhostV9 wrote...

I can't say. I'm really disappointed in the ME3 online community for this reason alone.

Haha!! You and me both, makes it realy boring... 

[Minic78]

Because we'd rather use text chat?

Oh wait

[Keeper32]

I have been trying to use my webcam mic (Logitech C310), but ME does apparently not like it. It doesn't respond when I try to talk.

Really wish there at least was a mic setup screen so I could test the damn thing in-game.

[PaperAlien]

Because no other multiplayer game on the PC would lack such a basic thing as text chat.

[TLK Spires]

i wanna enjoy my sci fi game with its sci fi sounds without having to hear "WHAT THE **** I WAS IN COVER" or "BULL**** I ****ING SHOT HIM IN HIS ****ING FACE" or "REVIVE ME GODDAMNIT"

[Vipala]

For some reason, everybodys voicei is kinda to low. There should be a slider ton increase the output volume..

[Final Marauder]

People laugh and question my stuttering.

[BLY78NOR]

I can only speak for my self

I don't want to talk to you, i don't care about you or what you have to say

[Wowky]

If someone uses a mic first I will usually then start chatting too, but I rarely instigate the conversation. Mostly just feeling odd talking to total strangers like we're buddies.

[Rohirrim]

I finally added some players from the forum who all like to talk and ...wow! Mass Effect just felt like a different game to what I've been previously playing.
Everybody was signalling where the phantoms were coming from, what combos we'd go for, who would do objectives etc....
We had successful extractions on Gold vs. Cerberus on three different maps and only struggled against the Reapers (wave 8, I think, when the Banshees grabbed all four of us). Verbal communication made such a MASSIVE difference! We all stuck together, and the biotic team (Asari Adept, Drell Adept, Turian Sentinel and Salarian Infiltrator) worked like a treat. Great change to the usual Infiltrator/ Engineer farming squads you can be very successful with in games with "random" players.
What I enjoyed about this particular group was also the nearly complete absence of swearing.

[tallinn]

maxulic wrote...

BDelacroix wrote...

The game lies. I have no mic. Haven't had that many troubles without it either.

This. I have no idea why the lobby shows I have a mic. I have one but not plugged in, so?...

As long as you are at least able to hear, what others say, you will be listed as voicechat enabled in the lobby.