So I've been playing multiplayer on the PC and I have my microphone all hooked up, and it outputs ingame and everything. I'm fairly certain other people can hear me because someone tried to kick me when I started singing during the loading screen (to be fair I didn't think they could). I've seen other people's output move, but I can't hear anything. I think I may have once but it was distorted and too quiet to hear. What am I doing wrong here? Why can't I talk to people. Is that not the way it works? Am I being a n00b?
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I'm trying to get my Shepard to live. I replayed the ending (just the final battle, getting back to earth) with over 5000 EMS and destroyed synthetics but I don't get the gasp at the end. Is it because Eve died? Do I have to go back further than that to get it to register that I now have more resources?