You just got home from a long day at work. Hoping to unwind, you hop into a match of Warzone in Halo 5. Suddenly, you hear it: the piercing, unforgettable sound of an eight-year-old bragging about his K/D ratio. Donât worryâweâre here to help.
In-game voice chat is enabled by default in the latest Halo game, which came out for Xbox One last week. Sometimes, if youâre lucky enough to get matched up with folks who donât talk much, you wonât notice this. But this is Xbox Live, so youâll probably get stuck with a bunch of teenagers with a penchant for unique racial slurs.
Halo 5 doesnât make this obvious, but thereâs a way to turn off voice chatâby muting everyone else in the game. To do this, open up the list of players (by hitting the back button), then hit X for âmute all.â You have to do this every time you start a new match; thereâs no in-game option to make it permanent.
Alternatively, you could go to your Xbox Live privacy settings and set it so you can only get voice/text messages from your friends, which is probably the best option if you just want to shoot things in Halo without having to listen to anyone else.
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