30-somethings going all boomer with regard to CoD lobbies is so funny.

CoD implemented some kind of llm powered slur detection system that would insta-ban people for using slurs and people were malding so hard and it was glorious

is it a bunch of children screaming into voice chat? is that what theyre failing to "survive"?

Voice chat was a mistake

I'm at the point in my life where I don't play games that rely heavily on voice chat. If I can disable it, I do. If i can't disable it, and it is not deemed a necessity to have success in the game, I just ignore it and play the game on mute.

: "Lol, you're not kewl enough to handle a conversation with nazis! We're too hardcore!"

Oh please, I'm well aware that 99% of the population are a bunch of worthless douchebags.

Last time I played an online shooter it was still just twelve year olds screaming slurs. Literally the only thing that's different is the average mic quality is better and a lot less likely to blow out your ears every time their voice cracks.

It is kinda cool that modern day video game lobbies are unironically more LGBTQ+ friendly so that racist dipshits get bullied out of them.

Kids today would not only survive COD lobbies but they'd be bullying the shit out of the loser with 3 frags screaming the n-word.

I only played games like CoD, Halo, etc, in parties with friends so I never experienced the lobbies for more than a couple seconds at most, and that was enough for me. I never got why putting up with a bunch of kids screaming or someone who didn't mute themselves arguing with their spouse/partner/parent was a badge of honor. I just want to sit back, relax, and play some games with friends, not listen to someone blaring music over their shitty mic while someone else eats the loudest snacks possible

Back when I played multiplayer games on the Xbox 360 I had my voice chat volume permanently turned down to zero because I didn't see how hearing obscenities yelled into those horribly low quality Xbox microphones added to the experience.

When the Master Chief Collection and Gears of War 5 launched on PC I ended up leaving the voice chat on because I became deeply amused and fascinated by the Xbox players I crossplayed with. People noisily munching Doritos into the void, middle-aged parent gamers talking to their children in between callouts, people who have really loud music blasting in their living room, groups of friends who like to play and chat together but for some godforsaken reason don't just use Xbox parties or Discord.

Naturally, there have also been horribly racist moments, like the one time some -brained gamer started being racist to a black person on the same team from the moment he heard his voice, at one point telling him that his ancestors were building aqueducts while the black person's ancestors lived in mud huts

In response, the black guy just made fun of how nerdy the white guy's voice sounded and how badly he was playing. I kept dying in that match because the absurd banter had me dying in real life

Every time I see someone say shit like that I'm half tempted to butt in on the conversation and be like bitch I was a Halo 2 kid

Of course i'd never survive, my gaming reflexes aren't like what they were 15 years ago.

Is this the current discourse on Reddit or wherever gamers hang out now

People who say this don't understand gen z being such a radical and chronically online generation. Like you're more likely than ever to have some 13 year old try to dox you because you killed them. The kids are still as mean as ever, they just pointed their meanness in a better direction

I’m still glad I dropped FPS games when MW2 killed dedicated servers.