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Halo 3 To Have 'Mute the Jerk' Button
Eurogamer is reporting on comments from the Bungie website. A feature for the upcoming Halo 3, that they've just announced, will be most welcomed by aging FPS players tired of hearing high-pitched squeals through their headsets. When playing an online match, players will be able to hit a button and then choose one of the gamertags playing the game. The result: a total mute on that player for the remainder of the game. They don't mention it on the site, but one would hope the Xbox Live servers are taking metrics on this activity, to be used in calculating the player's reputation. The more you mouth off, the worse you look to future players. Anyone have some other feature they think might make online gaming better?
It's like manna from heaven!
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Too bad it doesn't address the problem where they're in the same room as you. I'd apply the ball-gag, but too often it's the host of the LAN party that's the problem.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
It's much better than "Jerk the Mute"
Who the f*** do you think you are ass wipe.
If you could just automatically mute anyone not old enough to drink.
Sounds like a philosophical question to me... "If a 12-year-old n00b plays halo and everyone has him muted, does he still complain about lag?"
Actually there is a gamer device that hooks in and allows you to record and playback audio with a button. I used one of those to record a moron like that and I constantly repeated his words right after he said them. It pissed him off so much he left the game.
Works great, and when everyone in the game decides to simply gang up on the idiot it makes for even more fun.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
And I'm stealing that for my sig.
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman