Do you use a mic while playing online??

Grahamer666

Have been getting into Uncharted 4 MP recently and was just thinking to myself how nearly everyone playing (the games i'm in anyway) don't use mic's.
Surely it's of benefit in multiplayer that you use a mic but any games i play no matter if it's U4 or Battlefield 1 that nobody is using a mic.

What are people's thought's on this? Find it a strange one myself.

Ardennes1944

I constantly have to mute people on BF1, its mostly people singing or listening to crap music or kids screaming imo.

Penn

I've tried using a mic for a while before, but I've found that people who use mics can be split into three general categories:

a) People who use mics for teamwork and are fine
b) People who use mics for teamwork but are sh*t at it and spend most of their time b*tching, whinging and moaning
c) People who purposefully annoy others by whistling, playing music, talking to others in the room beside them, or what I can only imagine by the sounds is deepthroating the mic.

Unfortunately in random games, b) and c) tend to outnumber a) by quite a large margin. That coupled with the fact the headphones aren't always that comfortable when lying down etc and I rarely play organised squad/team games with groups etc means I just never bother with a mic at all. I'd rather just take my chances.

Plus I'm always self-conscious about coughing or sniffing myself while playing and possibly annoying others. Or trying to tell others what to do.

whiterebel

Penn wrote: »

Plus I'm always self-conscious about coughing or sniffing myself while playing and possibly annoying others. Or trying to tell others what to do.

Sorry, I know what you meant, but this gave me a good giggle this morning.....:P

Grahamer666

I do get the odd kid talking to someone in the same room as them (what's the point?) but with so many people streaming to Twitch or whatever and all are using their mic's that i was just expecting more people to be using them. Maybe it's just the streamers who are comfortable about using them all the time?

Penn

whiterebel wrote: »

Sorry, I know what you meant, but this gave me a good giggle this morning.....:P

:D:D

Atomic Pineapple

Grahamer666 wrote: »

I do get the odd kid talking to someone in the same room as them (what's the point?) but with so many people streaming to Twitch or whatever and all are using their mic's that i was just expecting more people to be using them. Maybe it's just the streamers who are comfortable about using them all the time?

I don't bother with Twitch but I'd suspect its mainly PC Gamers who stream? If so you're much more likely to see mic use on the PC platform than on a console.

Skerries

I don't bother with a mic but I still bought a gaming headset last time (Hyperx Cloud 2) but have never attached the mic
to be honest it is so long since I did that I wouldn't know how to without looking it up and have sometimes wondered why I don't hear others when I do play MP

EoinHef

Most groups are going to be using PSN party chat,could be playing against/with groups but you wouldnt hear anything over the public game chat.

Grahamer666

EoinHef wrote: »

Most groups are going to be using PSN party chat,could be playing against/with groups but you wouldnt hear anything over the public game chat.

That's probably the reason I'd say. Nobody on my friends list uses a mic so that explains that.

smokingman

My mic is always on but I only ever party chat with friends.

RedXIV

smokingman wrote: »

My mic is always on but I only ever party chat with friends.

This, I got a headset so me and my best friend can sit miles away and still chat away while playing games.

smokingman

RedXIV wrote: »

This, I got a headset so me and my best friend can sit miles away and still chat away while playing games.

It's the modern equivalent to aul lads going to a pub to chat shyte and have the craic, except we're also shooting/racing each other, the couch is our own and the booze is way cheaper.