Why are console players obsessed with open mic?

[Pirate Beard]

Every time I play with randoms, there's at least one console player who has open mic turned on, it's not that they're even using it to communicate, you just hear their tv in the background blasting into their mic, or they're coughing or grunting. It's even worse that their controllers have a built in mic so it's the lowest quality old man grunting imaginable. Is open mic set to default? Are they doing this on purpose?

[Jojos_Abnormal_Quest]

Maybe its a default setting? Cuz ive noticed the same lol and they just dont notice

[Frostbeast]

Console players have no keyboard?

[Knights]

Because it's default on in options.

[ZeSentinel]

its not annoying me, if someone has that, im ignoring it and keep on with the game

[Alex]

It gets annoying sometimes. It's either an echo of the game or some fat guy's breath. Come on, have some respect for your fellow players. If you aren't gonna talk in the microphone, at least turn it off.

[Frostbeast]

You can mute them.

[Chaos]

Is it really a console thing?
Anyway, if someone leave their mic to "always on" then I just mute them.

[Frostbeast]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Is it really a console thing?
Anyway, if someone leave their mic to "always on" then I just mute them.

Consoles dont come with a keyboard. You need to get one. Not many will do that, is my guess.
But, its pretty much a small thing you can miss, as a developer. Fatshark missed it too, in Darktide. But they patched it in later.

[Cope, Seethe and Sneed]

console players, ESPECIALLY PLAYSTATION, are complete and utter mouth breathers

[Blood of Kerensky]

Deactivate Crossplay and you will never experience this again.

[ZeSentinel]

weird, my comment has disapeared.....hum

[Winblows]

more of a ps5 thing. they have a mic built into the controller and its like on by defualt. I dont even know how many have it on with out knowing.

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Frostbeast:

Consoles dont come with a keyboard. You need to get one. Not many will do that, is my guess.
But, its pretty much a small thing you can miss, as a developer. Fatshark missed it too, in Darktide. But they patched it in later.

Oh yeah, typing the controller is...not very convenient, so most of the game made for console just default have their mic (on the controller) on I guess.

[Oforfs]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Is it really a console thing?
Anyway, if someone leave their mic to "always on" then I just mute them.

It is, absolutely, predominantly, a console thing. I played on consoles and PC for years and it is just normal in multiplayer console lobby to have mics blasting from multiple people. While PC lobbies tend to be silent in general, PC players just use in game voice much, much less (which is, in itself, somewhat of a problem). There are still mic blasters on PC, you just see them far less often. While its just a norm in console multiplayer space to go and mute people lke every second game.

[gzd]

A few nights ago one of the players in my group kept moaning and gasping. Literally sounded like he was wackin it. Thank god I was only in a 3 minute eradication mission.