[Reynolds]

- If you have a mic, use it

Instead of it only being up to the person being healed. The medic should use their mic equally as much...

But meh...only in a perfect world.

So yeah...

Yeah, perfect world, everyone would be on a mic, and it wouldn't devolve into not being able to hear anything because 5 people are talking at once.

I'm thinking about looking into some type of desktop mic solution myself, but I dunno if I can handle it. Fact is, after 9-10 hours at work, often having to deal with gamers a fair bit of the day, I know that I a) Don't want to sit around in a headset b) Will probably start spewing obscenities when totally stupid/clueless shit happens, and c) probably be a total ass in correcting people when they say things that are just plain wrong.

I figure this is probably true (or similar) for others too, so I'll only hate on the people actively using a mic but not using it when something important is happening in game. I mean, if I hear you talk about your enchillada's and the explosive gas they gave you, I'm going to have that expectation that you can do something like call for uber, or say "gtfo shit is coming". If someone is silent, I don't have that expectation, so I'm working on picking up whatever slack I feel I need to in evaluating a situation (which results in random crit to the face, random body shot as I peak around a corner etc).

/really not trying to be a hypocrite here, honest. I know people WITH mics get just as pissed off at people without mics (or those that just don't wear em like me).
/it's about the expectation though, in the heat of the moment.