Yes… that little bit of plastic that ends in a fuzzy thing that sticks out from your headphones… Yes! That! You can actually use that to talk to people… call out enemy positions or equipment or things. It’s ESPECIALLY useful when doing firestorm squads. I mean, don’t get me wrong… I absolutely love playing four and five squad firestorm games in a row where NOBODY is talking on the mic (they aren’t in parties either… I checked). Not speaking on mic is a good way to challenge ourselves and put ourselves at a disadvantage when playing squads… (You know for that real hardcore experience)… but occasionally (and I’m just putting this out there)… Maybe just talk into the fuzzy ended piece of plastic? Shake things up a little? Just a PSA
I got a 24 hour mic ban for communications for BF5 first week I got this game. I was a bit shocked. I think all I said was on the mic before I left the squad was this squad is lousy. They all must of went to report feature and click toxic or whatever. What a hoot. Even though a buddy and I was in another game a few days later and he was swearing at the game every couple seconds. I doubt he got a mic ban. hahahahha He’s like in his late 50’s or early 60’s.
Depends on your platform. PC i get the annoyance as pretty much everyone uses headsets. But on console majority use tvs and sit on couches with no headsets, thus no mics
Even on pc just listening to someone that raged at me cuz she died and i was 10m away trying to fight off 6 enemies and not reviving immediately. If i had a mic on, id be banned for my reply lol
“Come on guys, we gotta take C. We take C we win this match. We need C. Squad leader, drop artillery on C.” Meanwhile the rest of the squad are working together, killing peeps & capturing the objective perfectly fine sans mic over at flag G.
I mute people that frequently use the word camper when someone kills them too.
For OP, I haven’t played Squads on Firestorm yet but I can see how no one ever using mics in that mode would be very frustrating.
Unless playing with friends, first thing I do is mute everyone with mics. Ninety percent of time you are going to get either loud music, dog barking, kid crying, wife(girlfriend) talking to them or them raging at you because he died.
My favorite is the guy who goes the entire round without saying a word, and then at the end says, “Good game”.
Of course there are some folks you don’t want using a mic, e.g. the drunk frat boy who runs his mouth nonstop, calls hack on everyone who kills him, blames you for him not having ammo (when you’re playing Medic) and so on. In his case silence would be nice.
But for the most part I’m amazed that so many players don’t use a mic to communicate with their squad as not doing so is a huge disadvantage.
Just use Morse code, I’m pretty sure there’s an Easter egg pertaining to this…
This is why I prefer clans and party chat, although looking at another conversation I have to wonder how often people think we have mics but aren’t communicating. I didn’t mind BF1 I believe, where you had the option to hear squad and party convo, and could invite someone to the chat if warranted.
Pretty much, unless I am playing with friends, I have not listening to some mouth breather trying to explain to me how to shoot the enemy while he hides in a bush, or is the first to die set to off