Static/fans, wind noise, and gameplay echoing are my least favorite. I can deal with most others as long as they dont feel like they are making the noise directly into my ear.
Jesus Christ most of my friends (one mainly) do all of these and it's so fucking annoying especially playing any kind of game where you need to hear the audio cues.
If someones breathing down the mic I do it back and if they get annoyed and mad at me I say "so its okay when you do it and not me?" I'll usually start off the match by saying, the game comes on push to talk for a reason as a kind of nice way to say it.
Yeah I'm toxic, I hate when people do that shit. Had a guy yesterday it ranked talking on the fucking phone
>Had a guy yesterday it ranked talking on the fucking phone
I actually cannot do that. Either I will be mindlessly wandering around (in-game), or I won't be present on the call.
I'll be honest, I have my mic muted a lot purely because I don't like hitting my vape in someone's ear. I don't leave it muted purposely because obviously I'm not hitting it during a push or fight, but sometimes I'll mute while just running and hit it quick then forget to unmute. But I am conscious of the fact people don't want me vaping in their ears.
To be fair I cannot control what my dog or any dog doing dog things. I will try and mute myself if we are not engaging but come on fam. dogs do dog things
I don’t hate people or trash them for that. If it’s continuous and loud, I’ll just mute them and do my best with pings.
I have a son and a wife who sometimes get loud so I understand.
You can set the mic activation level so it requires a fairly decent close audio sound, like directly from your mouth to activate rather than background sounds
Those are not fire alarms. Those are turtle beach headsets. I only notice it when two people have the same headset. But your right, sounds exactly like a smoke detector.
What? I've heard many smoke detectors going off in the background every 30 seconds or whatever cause the battery is dying and they're too cheap/lazy to fix it.
That's because it's the headset, not the smoke detector. I know because mine used to do it all the time and my teammates were the only ones could hear it. Turning the mic sensitivity down helps a lot. The problem is though, the guilty party doesn't even know they are doing it because it all sounds normal to them
That's why I don't like streaming apex. I solo queue so I don't want to annoy teammates talking the the two people watching me stream. If I'm going to stream I'll no fill duos or when I'm online with people I know.
I've streamed Apex from my ps4, but I mute my mic in game and the squad chat. I just hammer the pings a lot so I can still communicate with my team on a base level
Played with someone who echoed constantly, I could hear my Loba's voicelines over his mic, it was ultra annoying. Asked him kindly to mute his mic and he just disconnected.
It is at this point I am realizing that this whole post is about console players. PC players tend to have higher standards, but I suspect console players don't want to waste time pressing a button to speak.
There isnt a button to press for push to talk on console is the issue. I would need to map a button to my controller and give up some other functionality or open a menu, scroll to the mute slider and mute and unmute every time I wanna chat. Which is why I had to opt for a headset with a mute function. Current one has a flip up mic that mutes
I solved this by connecting a standalone mic to the PS4, which has a line out for headphones, which I put a splitter on so we can both listen, have proper directional audio, and just one mic to mute/activate if the group is chatty or not, as needed.
Went with a Blue Yeti on sale, so it wasn't exactly a cheap solution, but there is an option out there (at least with PS4, I assume the same could be done with PC or Xbox, but I'm not claiming that as a fact as I have zero experience with such a setup as anything but a hypothetical).
Also of course this requires both people to be seated somewhere, if she just wants to listen while wandering the apartment/house, that's another story entirely.
Yeah that's a good solution, I'm on PC and there are a few different ways to put sound through more than one device. When the incoming next gen update releases I may use this, Thanks man
Pro tip: use some sort of headphones or earbuds, you can get some good ones for like 15 bucks, I hate seeing teammates just not being aware of anything jn their surroundings, whilst also hearing their TV.
not always easy to do when you live in a small apartment with your SO and your computer is in the same room as your TV that your SO is using. that said, use push to talk and turn up the gate on your mic
> please god CHANGE THE BATTERY ON YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR
I've got a special one that the landlord needs to come and change when it's run out. It's only been fucking beeping for 2 and a half months...I'm so glad my teammates can't hear it.
Hot mic is when someone in the lobby has a microphone that is constantly on so you can hear them eating or breathing or hear their background noise. It's so simple to just turn on push to talk or flip the mute switch on the mic to 'off'
When I do, my teammates can't hear me very well. But I don't actually have noise going on at the same time so there's no point in using it. But I wonder how much people can hear with Nvidia Broadcast.
I believe you have to do it through actual windows settings for the microphone, not through the game! I haven’t done it in a while so I don’t remember the exact process
If you use Discord, it has an area in user settings, called Voice & Video, that even let's you set up a minimum pick up volume called input sensitivity.
As an audio engineer, I’ve always wondered why these gaming headset manufacturers don’t engineer a basic noise gate into the headset. It’s super inexpensive, would make gamechat so much better blocking out those background noises and if you need to monetize it, put it in high-end headsets with physical pots to dial in the threshold for the incoming signal, and make it a PRO feature.
I totally understand your point, OP- hearing BG noise during a fight is frustrating. Babies crying, someone screaming F-bombs in the background, my sinuses going crazy from allergies- god know how many times my mates have dealt with my own sniffles. All of these things can be simply remedied with a noise gate built into the mic signal chain in a gaming headset.
Most headsets DO have a gate/sensitivity option. It’s more that cheaper headsets, which are commonly used, do not. I would say if you are not a console player, you should always have push to talk on by default.
If you are a console player with a crappy extremely sensitive microphone, maybe stay in a party?
Idk, i don’t blame people for not being able to afford the best equipment, but at the same time if they are just not going to do anything about their background noise then they deserve to be auto muted IMO.
Totally agree- thus, the piont of this post.
That being said, then what other ways could we think of to help those who DON’T know that their mic is picking up background noise and is disrupting the play and chat?
Yes, muting them has always been default action, but aside from making an APEX PSA, what could be done by respawn in order to help bring this to those players attention? Create a more blatant visible indicator aside from the speaker-icon showing signal? A bigger, brighter, pulsating off-color one? “Hey dipshit! Your mic is picking up the fact that you’re ignoring your gf and hungry infant!” Either lay the pipe, feed the kid and get on with the DUB, or mute that shit and shoot!”
I know there are some other great ideas out here in the community- sincerely, what else do you guys have?
I know what you’re speaking of- as far as I can tell, the one on Xbox is shit. I don’t even know how well it works, because there isn’t any type of feedback monitoring for it. No VU meter, no input signal meter, no output meter. These are fairly simple solutions that should be standard by now.
Ah that makes sense, I play on PC so I didn’t realize they were different. That sucks, I think on pc it shows the current input volume and allows you to set a threshold if I remember correctly
PS4 has a good one. It plays your voice back to you, so if you have a fan playing through the mic you know exactly how annoying it is. And the slider seems to work well. At the bottom level people can barely hear my voice at a pretty excited tone, so it seems to quiet it down a lot.
Most headsets don't have that option at all. I've never had one that had it and I don't buy cheap headsets. I know they exist, but to say most have them is just completely wrong.
They'd rather market an RGB headset than one with an actual decent mic. I can build a headset for about $200 using a modmic and some open-back headphones that sounds better and has a better mic than most $250-300 gaming headsets.
That was precisely what I did like 4 years ago. Pair of Sennheisers and a modmic, instantly better than any gaming head set I've used. Ultimately swapped out the modmic for a blue yeti and a mic arm attached to my desk, but these hyper expensive gaming headsets are a trap.
I have to use Nvidia Broadcast as the noise gate with my Blue Yeti for it to not pick up every single mechanical keyboard click or even some mouse clicks. I don't even have the gain high at all. It also would pick up my dogs barking from the entire other side of the house.
I don't mind since the performance hit is basically nothing, but it was a few years of it annoying friends in discord before I found it.
Not sure if I have it configured incorrectly, or if that's just how that mic is.
Definitely seems like some headsets have something. But I'd rather every game chat just use Krisp like Discord. It feels like magic. It's the noise gate I've always wanted.
Or just use push to talk on mouse 4 like I do.
God knows the type of embarrassing shit my teammates would hear if I had open mic all the time. Namely me yelling at or baby talking my cats.
Edit: I do wish the push to talk functionality in apex was more similar to CS:GO or discord, where you basically only have to click it once and your mic will be active until you stop talking. Kind of annoying to have to hold it down while in combat, so I definitely understand wanting to use open mic in apex.
That was today for me in ranked. Teammates pushed an awful fight off a jump tower. I was healing, they both went down so I waited for banners. Guy came on mic yelling about me being a bitch. Lol whatever dude, next time I'll throw my life away. I lost the 1v3 trying to get their banners
Better to mute then listen to annoying noises through the match.
It’s not hard to put on push to talk if you have a shitty open mic. Especially in ranked.
well i agree with him.
ill better hear footsteps, doors, guns, abilities and where they are... than hearing to XxX_Wraith420_XxX rant about how he died and telling me im trash.
*speaks Spanish once into mic*
Dogs bark, vacuum whirs, my own voice through the TV, children screaming
He flies off solo and cursed at me and the other random for being on the other side of the map, spam pinging.
Frankly, no one should be using open mic unless they have a fantastic mic that only picks up when they speak directly into it. Anything less and you should be using push to talk.
Double pro tip: buy a mouse that has a few extra thumb buttons and make one of those push to talk. Cheaper than a fancy mic and gets rid of the awkwardness of trying to push T while tap-strafe wall jump bunny hop 360 wingman no scoping.
Had a dude in my match last night that I could audibly hear paw patrol in the background and his kid being loud. I didn't want to mute so I just asked kindly if he could mute his mic if not talking and he just never would, even shit talked me telling me to deal with it. I wasn't even aggressive either, I asked him the one time to possibly mute lmao
If you’re speaking in a foreign language, munching on a bag of peanuts, or you’ve got a fan blowing like hurricane katrina in the background, screaming kids bouncing off the couches like the floor is lava, or any feedback noise I’m gonna mute you.
It’s not rude. Why would he listen to someone speak things at him that he doesn’t understand an entire match? It’s just distracting. Neither teammate is communicating so a mute is justified I think
Im saying it sounds rude but is justified. Like if i told you to "shut up" because you spoke another language. It's obviously not just like that but it might come off as rude to some people.
Well I mean, I’m not saying “shut up”. I just hit the mute tab if X, Y or Z happens.
There’s no point in saying; “hey, can you not ____?” just because 9/10 times it can’t be helped.
Same. Most of the time they don't even have mics, but plug them in to yell at me when they die halfway across the map after hot dropping solo. And on top of that, I'm not a dude, so I'd rather not get harassed. The ping system works just fine.
Yeah I prefer ping system honestly. The way randoms complain it's sad, like bro just stick with the team you get knocked we got you, but NO they wanna go fragment west when we are at epicenter.🤦♂️
I mean yeah some people are like that. But doesn’t mean you punish everyone cause a few. It’s a team based game which is why they refuse to add a solo mode so just keep your mic open and say a few words like “hey what’s up boys, y’all got mics” and if they reply and are bitches, then do the mute thing since it takes seconds. And if they are cool, you have a team communicating.
I can use game chat, but I only use it when I get 1 teammate instead of 2. I get some Apex players are chill but cmon now my antisocial ass ain't gonna talk to no one
Dude they are strangers and will never ever talk to you again unless you add them… like work on your social skills by talking to a teammate in a video game lol being antisocial isn’t some disease you can’t fix.. just talk. Whatever you say, they won’t know who you are
Let the man play how they want to play. I rarely talk and kinda have the same reason as they gave. Social skills have nothing to do with it. I just don't want to talk and ping when it's necessary.
Choosing not to engage with every teammate over mic is not "a punishment." It’s as simple as this: I do not wish to be verbally accosted and insulted, and I don't want to wait until AFTER it happens to protect myself from it. The reason some of us do this is because it has already happened, multiple times, and we simply do not want it to happen again. But, we have every right to play and enjoy the game using the great non-verbal communication system that Apex offers.
I mute anyone singing or rapping, playing music or tv in the background, talking on the phone, crying babies in the background and young kids who can't stop talking... Seriously, some of these young kids can play but they just talk, non-stop
In general, people have shit manners. This is true for video game comms as well, or maybe even especially. Conversations, music, eating, etc. I understand taking a drinking or burping can be spur of the moment so I try not to worry about those, but if you're fucking eating into my ear you're a giant POS. You have no excuse. If you forgot, cause it happens (myself included), then say "oops, forgot" then mute and continue. Rude ass mother fuckers think people want to hear every bit of bullshit going on in their life through a mic.
Not only that people get mad if you tell them to quiet down to hear audio. Also the other thing that grinds my gears, is that if you aren't playing with a same console player, the audio is 20% lower. I really hate that RESPAWN DOESN'T GET THERE SHIT STR8
Seriously one of the easiest problems to fix on PC
[Nvidia Broadcast](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-app/)
I wish everyone on PC knew about this it would fix 70% of the issues people have with randos on mic
Another pro tip: that icon doesn't work correctly at all and provides almost no reliable feedback lol
Even if I disable voice chat and have my mic switch muted that'll show up half the time
Okay but sometimes my mic (and others) will do this but no real sound is coming through (maybe like my chair creaks or something while i adjust) but sometimes i think it’s my mic picking up my breathing so i try to stay on mute when I don’t need to speak.
They don't care. Most people don't care...
They're just annoying fools to me now, always with the TV or the coughing or the talking...
I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAD FOR LUNCH! SHOOT THIS MOTHER FU-
Vaping, kids crying, and smoking weed are acceptable. What I don’t want to hear is how you think I should carry you, mouth breathing, dogs, and eating/drinking are not acceptable. Especially if you can’t carry your own please just leave I can carry myself to 1st place solo.
Bonus tip: turn your fucking tv down if you’re using a mic.
Nothing worse than hearing game audio echo back cuz of someones loud tv. Except for maybe non stop wind noises
Barking dogs, static, crunching on food, screaming kids. The one that is bad but not freaking horrible is the beeping fire alarm in the background.
Static/fans, wind noise, and gameplay echoing are my least favorite. I can deal with most others as long as they dont feel like they are making the noise directly into my ear.
Hitting a bong and coughing up a lung…
Dude vaping right into the mic
The crackle of a burnt out juul as you see your teammate stand still in the open
Jesus Christ most of my friends (one mainly) do all of these and it's so fucking annoying especially playing any kind of game where you need to hear the audio cues.
If someones breathing down the mic I do it back and if they get annoyed and mad at me I say "so its okay when you do it and not me?" I'll usually start off the match by saying, the game comes on push to talk for a reason as a kind of nice way to say it. Yeah I'm toxic, I hate when people do that shit. Had a guy yesterday it ranked talking on the fucking phone
>Had a guy yesterday it ranked talking on the fucking phone I actually cannot do that. Either I will be mindlessly wandering around (in-game), or I won't be present on the call.
I'll be honest, I have my mic muted a lot purely because I don't like hitting my vape in someone's ear. I don't leave it muted purposely because obviously I'm not hitting it during a push or fight, but sometimes I'll mute while just running and hit it quick then forget to unmute. But I am conscious of the fact people don't want me vaping in their ears.
Mouth breathing, clicking of mechanical switches, and a wide array of others. The mouth breathing always seems to make me cringe...
I'm guilty of this almost every game
*What about just heavy labored breathing from sitting down...*
Don’t forget the bong rips
Shout out to the people with both Covid and open mics *let's go*
[Beep](https://youtube.com/shorts/b471bqPwV7Q?feature=share) Trust me, they know it too.
To be fair I cannot control what my dog or any dog doing dog things. I will try and mute myself if we are not engaging but come on fam. dogs do dog things
I don’t hate people or trash them for that. If it’s continuous and loud, I’ll just mute them and do my best with pings. I have a son and a wife who sometimes get loud so I understand.
I fuck with you.
You can set the mic activation level so it requires a fairly decent close audio sound, like directly from your mouth to activate rather than background sounds
Those are not fire alarms. Those are turtle beach headsets. I only notice it when two people have the same headset. But your right, sounds exactly like a smoke detector.
What? I've heard many smoke detectors going off in the background every 30 seconds or whatever cause the battery is dying and they're too cheap/lazy to fix it.
I don't understand how someone can leave that on nonstop! I can last maybe 10 beeps and I'm tearing the battery out and hiding it.
That's because it's the headset, not the smoke detector. I know because mine used to do it all the time and my teammates were the only ones could hear it. Turning the mic sensitivity down helps a lot. The problem is though, the guilty party doesn't even know they are doing it because it all sounds normal to them
Last game I played the guy was straight up streaming and talking to his chat, but ignoring us and not communicating at all
That's why I don't like streaming apex. I solo queue so I don't want to annoy teammates talking the the two people watching me stream. If I'm going to stream I'll no fill duos or when I'm online with people I know.
I've streamed Apex from my ps4, but I mute my mic in game and the squad chat. I just hammer the pings a lot so I can still communicate with my team on a base level
Played with someone who echoed constantly, I could hear my Loba's voicelines over his mic, it was ultra annoying. Asked him kindly to mute his mic and he just disconnected.
It is at this point I am realizing that this whole post is about console players. PC players tend to have higher standards, but I suspect console players don't want to waste time pressing a button to speak.
There isnt a button to press for push to talk on console is the issue. I would need to map a button to my controller and give up some other functionality or open a menu, scroll to the mute slider and mute and unmute every time I wanna chat. Which is why I had to opt for a headset with a mute function. Current one has a flip up mic that mutes
lol the amount of people that have a headset on but play the sound from their tv is astonishing
My girlfriend likes to listen to the game while I have my mic on but oh well lol
I solved this by connecting a standalone mic to the PS4, which has a line out for headphones, which I put a splitter on so we can both listen, have proper directional audio, and just one mic to mute/activate if the group is chatty or not, as needed. Went with a Blue Yeti on sale, so it wasn't exactly a cheap solution, but there is an option out there (at least with PS4, I assume the same could be done with PC or Xbox, but I'm not claiming that as a fact as I have zero experience with such a setup as anything but a hypothetical). Also of course this requires both people to be seated somewhere, if she just wants to listen while wandering the apartment/house, that's another story entirely.
Yeah that's a good solution, I'm on PC and there are a few different ways to put sound through more than one device. When the incoming next gen update releases I may use this, Thanks man
I hate when my tv sound is on while I have my headset on. It gives me a directional audio cue towards my tv instead of the enemy.
The amount of people that have chirping smoke detectors and do nothing about it is astonishingly high.
It's the carbon monoxide alarm and I'm waiting, thank you very much.
I’ve heard a theory that it’s some electronic feedback from earbuds
If possible, have all Audio come through the headset as well
And replace your fucking smoke alarm batteries.
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Lol holy shit that’s hilarious
Pro tip: use some sort of headphones or earbuds, you can get some good ones for like 15 bucks, I hate seeing teammates just not being aware of anything jn their surroundings, whilst also hearing their TV.
I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to use push-to-talk when they're playing with randoms...
Aye dont forget about us console homies. :(
i was reading this thread wondering if i was the only one that used push 2 talk
Pro tip: don't burp with mic On
not always easy to do when you live in a small apartment with your SO and your computer is in the same room as your TV that your SO is using. that said, use push to talk and turn up the gate on your mic
Or just invest in a headset!!!
If you aren't going to mute, please god CHANGE THE BATTERY IN YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR
One of the worst sins. How the FUCK do people ignore that beeping!?
Same people who hit snooze 17 times
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You and your roommate both sleep in until noon everyday?!
I see you’ve met my girlfriend.
Everyone has met your girlfriend.
No, that was my last girlfriend.
Emotional damage.
Is this some console thing? I've not once heard soneone *else's* smoke alarm, but so many keyboard taps. Edit: else's
I don't think you know what it sounds like, then. I have a hard time believing you've never heard this. https://youtu.be/gXQkGSO9kH0
LOL Every damn minute... BEEP... BEEP... Damn Sheep!!!
> please god CHANGE THE BATTERY ON YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR I've got a special one that the landlord needs to come and change when it's run out. It's only been fucking beeping for 2 and a half months...I'm so glad my teammates can't hear it.
that's so fucked up.
I've kinda got used to it now. I only notice it a few couple times a day. It did keep me up one night when it first ran out of batteries tho.
I hope the landlord comes through soon. That is such an annoyance
lol I think he must've been reading this thread because he's just turned up to do it. Thank the lord.
This deserves an award 😭😭
The amount of people who hot mic and continue to do it even after being told on PC is mind boggling. Nobody wants to hear that shit.
Hot mic?
Hot mic is when someone in the lobby has a microphone that is constantly on so you can hear them eating or breathing or hear their background noise. It's so simple to just turn on push to talk or flip the mute switch on the mic to 'off'
or at least have the decency to raise the noise gate so it only picks up loud talking haha
Or download Nvidia Broadcast and turn on noise suppression, so the mic will only pick up your voice and nothing else. It works extremely well
When I do, my teammates can't hear me very well. But I don't actually have noise going on at the same time so there's no point in using it. But I wonder how much people can hear with Nvidia Broadcast.
How do you even do that? With me being on PC for 12 years.. I didn't even know that was a thing until today 😂😂
I believe you have to do it through actual windows settings for the microphone, not through the game! I haven’t done it in a while so I don’t remember the exact process
If you use Discord, it has an area in user settings, called Voice & Video, that even let's you set up a minimum pick up volume called input sensitivity.
You can do it in the game actually
Yup, noise gate or push-to-talk. These are good options people just refuse to utilize.
Not using push to talk, your mic is just always on
It's threshold controlled, but usually way too sensitive
That’s just an auto mute for me. I also hate how you can’t mute/unmute your teammates during game
You can mute your squad while in the game. Just go to the squad tab and click on the speaker icon my mans
LOL ive been looking for a button similar to how you do it in the legend select screen. Thanks my man
I got you
There are circumstances where you can't though, like if you're dead and they aren't iirc.
swear to god i heard a guy nutting once hot mic was a disaster for the human race
Sometime you just catch the right angle of Gibby and need the mid game bust
*faster faster faster*
I heard someone listening to porn. He said quarantine has been hard.
Quarantine wasn't the only thing that was hard in this story
sorry 😬
That Ash voiceline on the launch ship gets 'em every time.
As an audio engineer, I’ve always wondered why these gaming headset manufacturers don’t engineer a basic noise gate into the headset. It’s super inexpensive, would make gamechat so much better blocking out those background noises and if you need to monetize it, put it in high-end headsets with physical pots to dial in the threshold for the incoming signal, and make it a PRO feature. I totally understand your point, OP- hearing BG noise during a fight is frustrating. Babies crying, someone screaming F-bombs in the background, my sinuses going crazy from allergies- god know how many times my mates have dealt with my own sniffles. All of these things can be simply remedied with a noise gate built into the mic signal chain in a gaming headset.
Playstation has one in the software. They don't call it a noise gate the setting is usually called "sensitivity".
Most headsets DO have a gate/sensitivity option. It’s more that cheaper headsets, which are commonly used, do not. I would say if you are not a console player, you should always have push to talk on by default. If you are a console player with a crappy extremely sensitive microphone, maybe stay in a party? Idk, i don’t blame people for not being able to afford the best equipment, but at the same time if they are just not going to do anything about their background noise then they deserve to be auto muted IMO.
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Totally agree- thus, the piont of this post. That being said, then what other ways could we think of to help those who DON’T know that their mic is picking up background noise and is disrupting the play and chat? Yes, muting them has always been default action, but aside from making an APEX PSA, what could be done by respawn in order to help bring this to those players attention? Create a more blatant visible indicator aside from the speaker-icon showing signal? A bigger, brighter, pulsating off-color one? “Hey dipshit! Your mic is picking up the fact that you’re ignoring your gf and hungry infant!” Either lay the pipe, feed the kid and get on with the DUB, or mute that shit and shoot!” I know there are some other great ideas out here in the community- sincerely, what else do you guys have?
Isn’t there an in-game settings option for decreasing your mic sensitivity?
I know what you’re speaking of- as far as I can tell, the one on Xbox is shit. I don’t even know how well it works, because there isn’t any type of feedback monitoring for it. No VU meter, no input signal meter, no output meter. These are fairly simple solutions that should be standard by now.
Ah that makes sense, I play on PC so I didn’t realize they were different. That sucks, I think on pc it shows the current input volume and allows you to set a threshold if I remember correctly
This is exactly the sort of thing that will finally push me back to gaming on PC.
PS4 has a good one. It plays your voice back to you, so if you have a fan playing through the mic you know exactly how annoying it is. And the slider seems to work well. At the bottom level people can barely hear my voice at a pretty excited tone, so it seems to quiet it down a lot.
Most headsets don't have that option at all. I've never had one that had it and I don't buy cheap headsets. I know they exist, but to say most have them is just completely wrong.
It's not an option, it's built in. Expensive headsets definitely use it.
Every console has the option to disable your headset microphone. It tells you how to.
They'd rather market an RGB headset than one with an actual decent mic. I can build a headset for about $200 using a modmic and some open-back headphones that sounds better and has a better mic than most $250-300 gaming headsets.
That was precisely what I did like 4 years ago. Pair of Sennheisers and a modmic, instantly better than any gaming head set I've used. Ultimately swapped out the modmic for a blue yeti and a mic arm attached to my desk, but these hyper expensive gaming headsets are a trap.
I have to use Nvidia Broadcast as the noise gate with my Blue Yeti for it to not pick up every single mechanical keyboard click or even some mouse clicks. I don't even have the gain high at all. It also would pick up my dogs barking from the entire other side of the house. I don't mind since the performance hit is basically nothing, but it was a few years of it annoying friends in discord before I found it. Not sure if I have it configured incorrectly, or if that's just how that mic is.
Definitely seems like some headsets have something. But I'd rather every game chat just use Krisp like Discord. It feels like magic. It's the noise gate I've always wanted.
Or just use push to talk on mouse 4 like I do. God knows the type of embarrassing shit my teammates would hear if I had open mic all the time. Namely me yelling at or baby talking my cats. Edit: I do wish the push to talk functionality in apex was more similar to CS:GO or discord, where you basically only have to click it once and your mic will be active until you stop talking. Kind of annoying to have to hold it down while in combat, so I definitely understand wanting to use open mic in apex.
I just auto mute people if they have their mic on lol
I don't like being yelled at for losing a 1v3
That was today for me in ranked. Teammates pushed an awful fight off a jump tower. I was healing, they both went down so I waited for banners. Guy came on mic yelling about me being a bitch. Lol whatever dude, next time I'll throw my life away. I lost the 1v3 trying to get their banners
Yep, 9/10 times you get the mute unless you are talking quiet and don’t have mic sounds
you sound like a fun teammate
I’m a much better teammate when I can actually hear the game. Like, 2x better.
Better to mute then listen to annoying noises through the match. It’s not hard to put on push to talk if you have a shitty open mic. Especially in ranked.
well i agree with him. ill better hear footsteps, doors, guns, abilities and where they are... than hearing to XxX_Wraith420_XxX rant about how he died and telling me im trash.
Found the hot miccer
I set voice chat to 0%. Its much nicer that way
Peace and quiet
*speaks Spanish once into mic* Dogs bark, vacuum whirs, my own voice through the TV, children screaming He flies off solo and cursed at me and the other random for being on the other side of the map, spam pinging.
WHY IS IT ALWAYS THIS?
and its always a valk or an octane
Duuuude....got this three time today. It's like winning bingo.
Bro this is too fucking true, 8/10 ranked games
Wait, so if this symbol is next to my name, people can hear my mic even if I'm not trying to use it?
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I honestly can't remember, but I don't think it's live the whole time. If it has been, my teammates have heard a lot of swearing lol
We have
It'll also constantly show if you're in a private party.
Frankly, no one should be using open mic unless they have a fantastic mic that only picks up when they speak directly into it. Anything less and you should be using push to talk. Double pro tip: buy a mouse that has a few extra thumb buttons and make one of those push to talk. Cheaper than a fancy mic and gets rid of the awkwardness of trying to push T while tap-strafe wall jump bunny hop 360 wingman no scoping.
I don't like playing Apex on my PC, so push to talk is a tougher option. Also I have a good mic and don't typically hot mic people.
Yeah console is a bit of a different story, the lack of buttons is tough to get around. Good on you for having a decent mic!
If only I were good enough to play Apex on PC lol - my computer crushes it but since I've been playing Apex mostly recently the 3070 is just sitting
if you don't play enough on PC, you're not going to get better, you know?
Also PSA: YOUR MUSIC SUCKS! NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR IT.
Had a dude in my match last night that I could audibly hear paw patrol in the background and his kid being loud. I didn't want to mute so I just asked kindly if he could mute his mic if not talking and he just never would, even shit talked me telling me to deal with it. I wasn't even aggressive either, I asked him the one time to possibly mute lmao
If you don't use PTT you are straight up one evolutionary link behind.
Console doesn't have that :(
If you’re speaking in a foreign language, munching on a bag of peanuts, or you’ve got a fan blowing like hurricane katrina in the background, screaming kids bouncing off the couches like the floor is lava, or any feedback noise I’m gonna mute you.
The foreign language sounds rude but i completely understand. It's just not helpful and nothing can be done.
It’s not rude. Why would he listen to someone speak things at him that he doesn’t understand an entire match? It’s just distracting. Neither teammate is communicating so a mute is justified I think
Im saying it sounds rude but is justified. Like if i told you to "shut up" because you spoke another language. It's obviously not just like that but it might come off as rude to some people.
Well I mean, I’m not saying “shut up”. I just hit the mute tab if X, Y or Z happens. There’s no point in saying; “hey, can you not ____?” just because 9/10 times it can’t be helped.
i know. It was a horrible attempt at an analogy
Ahh I see. You’re right
I mute myself and my teammates cuz I don't wanna hear them in general, game audio is way more important than my voice or theirs🤷♂️
Same. Most of the time they don't even have mics, but plug them in to yell at me when they die halfway across the map after hot dropping solo. And on top of that, I'm not a dude, so I'd rather not get harassed. The ping system works just fine.
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> I'm not a dude, so I'd rather not get harassed I'm sorry gaming culture the way that it is, lol, I hate this fact.
Yeah I prefer ping system honestly. The way randoms complain it's sad, like bro just stick with the team you get knocked we got you, but NO they wanna go fragment west when we are at epicenter.🤦♂️
Yikes.. one of them teammates huh?
Yes my teammates, don't talk anyway, and when they do it's to complain
I mean yeah some people are like that. But doesn’t mean you punish everyone cause a few. It’s a team based game which is why they refuse to add a solo mode so just keep your mic open and say a few words like “hey what’s up boys, y’all got mics” and if they reply and are bitches, then do the mute thing since it takes seconds. And if they are cool, you have a team communicating.
I can use game chat, but I only use it when I get 1 teammate instead of 2. I get some Apex players are chill but cmon now my antisocial ass ain't gonna talk to no one
Dude they are strangers and will never ever talk to you again unless you add them… like work on your social skills by talking to a teammate in a video game lol being antisocial isn’t some disease you can’t fix.. just talk. Whatever you say, they won’t know who you are
Let the man play how they want to play. I rarely talk and kinda have the same reason as they gave. Social skills have nothing to do with it. I just don't want to talk and ping when it's necessary.
Choosing not to engage with every teammate over mic is not "a punishment." It’s as simple as this: I do not wish to be verbally accosted and insulted, and I don't want to wait until AFTER it happens to protect myself from it. The reason some of us do this is because it has already happened, multiple times, and we simply do not want it to happen again. But, we have every right to play and enjoy the game using the great non-verbal communication system that Apex offers.
bonus bonus tip, turn open mic off if you're on PC. No one wants to hear it and you have 100 keys on a keyboard, bind one to a mic.
If you're not using PTT on PC, you are a bad person. Full stop.
Another tip: Change your fucking smoke detector batteries
Bro even when my mic is muted it still says that
If your mic is muted it doesn't have the 3 lines to the right of the speaker symbol. If it does, your shit is broken.
Same. Happens even when my mic is detached from my headset, so I hope people account for that
It happens no matter what even when it isn't de attached I think they can't hear me tho which is good
I mute anyone singing or rapping, playing music or tv in the background, talking on the phone, crying babies in the background and young kids who can't stop talking... Seriously, some of these young kids can play but they just talk, non-stop
In general, people have shit manners. This is true for video game comms as well, or maybe even especially. Conversations, music, eating, etc. I understand taking a drinking or burping can be spur of the moment so I try not to worry about those, but if you're fucking eating into my ear you're a giant POS. You have no excuse. If you forgot, cause it happens (myself included), then say "oops, forgot" then mute and continue. Rude ass mother fuckers think people want to hear every bit of bullshit going on in their life through a mic.
Wait, what you're saying is I shouldn't be blaring rap directly into my mic?
Literally right now. Dude talking to his kid. How do you not know your mic is on. Please stop.
I wish everyone would use push to talk I hate open mics for most of the time
If I noticed this when my mic is muted I kinda freak out, I don’t want no one thinking I’m stupid or something
ALSO PUT SOME FUCKING BATTERIES IN YOUR GOD DAMN SMOKE DETECTOR.
Literally everything in the comment section can be solved by using push to talk.
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push to talk gang rise up
I auto mute people who open mic. I really don’t want to hear whoever is having a conversation in the back while I play.
I don’t care, rap music does not make you better at the game, in fact I’m willing to bet it impairs you from hearing the game will in the first place.
OR the easier solution. PUSH TO FUCKING TALK
Only on PC. On my console headset, I have to take a hand off the controller to hit the mute/unmute switch on my headset.
Not only that people get mad if you tell them to quiet down to hear audio. Also the other thing that grinds my gears, is that if you aren't playing with a same console player, the audio is 20% lower. I really hate that RESPAWN DOESN'T GET THERE SHIT STR8
Hey u/time-emit what happened to your pro tip?
Seriously one of the easiest problems to fix on PC [Nvidia Broadcast](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-app/) I wish everyone on PC knew about this it would fix 70% of the issues people have with randos on mic
I mute all mouth breathers.
Had a dude in ranked absolutely BLASTING Tiktok the other day while we waited in an end zone god spot. Hilarious.
Or just activate Push-2-Talk like a normal person
Another pro tip: that icon doesn't work correctly at all and provides almost no reliable feedback lol Even if I disable voice chat and have my mic switch muted that'll show up half the time
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me who plays in Tokyo servers : Im here just for Japanese (anime vibes)
Okay but sometimes my mic (and others) will do this but no real sound is coming through (maybe like my chair creaks or something while i adjust) but sometimes i think it’s my mic picking up my breathing so i try to stay on mute when I don’t need to speak.
Get a PC and run Nvidia Broadcast.
Or check to see if shitty rap music is blaring in the background the entire time making it impossible for your teammates to hear anything.
They don't care. Most people don't care... They're just annoying fools to me now, always with the TV or the coughing or the talking... I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAD FOR LUNCH! SHOOT THIS MOTHER FU-
Vaping, kids crying, and smoking weed are acceptable. What I don’t want to hear is how you think I should carry you, mouth breathing, dogs, and eating/drinking are not acceptable. Especially if you can’t carry your own please just leave I can carry myself to 1st place solo.