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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?
Now if they'd just put in a rewind / "I want the last 10 minutes of my life back" button for those all-too-frequent situations where all of the other players are whiny, adolescent idiots...
This feature is at least 5 years old. You could ignore players voice chats and setup different channels in FREE ONLINE PLAY on PS2 since the original SOCOM.
The problem with the people that love halo is that they've never played the competition, so features like this are innovation instead of imitation.
Perhaps. (BTW this is probably more towards the GP than the parent but . . . ah well, I've already clicked reply.)
Maybe you just have to get over being offended by those sorts of things. There are arseholes everywhere, but if you get offended by someone trying to insult your race/creed/sexuality then it says something about your self-confidence as well as him being either stupid or simply an arse. If you're worried about anything like that then you should just get over it, because all of people you're around already have.
I get more annoyed by people for example complaining about the news talking about two "arab", "black", "asian", or even "white" men on the run when obviously they should say "these two men have black hair, dark brown coloured skin, brown eyes..."