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Halo 3 gets a "Mute Retard" Button

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Originally Posted by Bungie

Multiplayer UI is coming along beautifully. We�re meeting today about some manual stuff, and honestly one of the big problems with making the manual this time around will be fitting everything in. There are so many options that explaining them all will be a tough thing to compress into a little manual. Luckily the UI itself is incredibly self-explanatory � like the new �A-Hole Button� as Colm Nelson jokingly describes it.

Anyone who�s played MP on Xbox Live knows the following is true: Teenagers, plus anonymity, plus microphone = idiot. Xbox Live already gives you powerful tools to mute, well, tools on a case by case basis. The �A-Hole Button� in Halo 3 lets you exact instant, silent vengeance. These kind of vocal buttmunches, as it turns out, are exactly as fun to play against as normal people, as long as you can�t hear them. So now, you simply press a button (back button, for the moment anyway) and up comes the score list with everyone�s tag on it. The right stick lets you highlight the miscreant and you can then instantly mute them for the rest of the game. These morons continue smacktalking anyway because they can�t help themselves, but if you don�t have to listen to it, you can simply enjoy killing them over and over again, knowing that as their Ritalin wears off and their frustration builds, it�s less and less fun for them. Aaaah. So satisfying.

Been a long time coming, is all I have to say.

I was actually surprised other games didn't have that before. And I love how they don't in the slightest bother to skirt around the issue or be even remotely diplomatic. Seriously. I'm all for diplomacy, but there's a time and a place for almost everything.

Now this will definitely help me enjoy playing on Xbox Live. I was getting sick of preteens cursing at me and insinuating rude things about my mother.

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Originally Posted by Buddha Fett

Now this will definitely help me enjoy playing on Xbox Live. I was getting sick of preteens cursing at me and insinuating rude things about my mother.

quoted for truth

GREAT SUCCESS. It should really be called the "A-hole" button in-game.

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Originally Posted by Kerensky287

GREAT SUCCESS. It should really be called the "A-hole" button in-game.

Or possibly the "Shut-the-@#$!-Up!" toggle for added hilarity.

The rub, the task - which exists in all games featuring a mute or ignore option - is to get everyone else to stop talking to or about the annoying individual and mute the miscreant themselves.

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I am now in the market for an Xbox 360 and Halo for online play.

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Originally Posted by Meister

I was actually surprised other games didn't have that before.

But ALL 360 games have this function, it's just gonna be a lot quicker to do in Halo. I don't quite see the reason that this makes the news page on Gamespot.com and other such places.

"Guide>Players List>Select player>Mute." Job done!

My roommate and I both played Halo 2 feverishly, and we made mention multiple times of such a button.

Don't get me wrong, you can do it, but I can see anyone I want to mute in the lobby during the 10 seconds that a game's about to start. If they start singing the Llama song, it's a pretty good sign they're not going to say anything constructive during the game.