My friends/ public games can't hear me in game or party chat (COD:AW)

Ive got multiplayer problems keeps telling me my friends joined like six times when we are in a party. I know he's in here cause I invited him to it but it's really bugging me and freezing issues aswell and party half the time I can't hear my friends or
some one can't hear out of are party please fix these issues.its not just my console either whoever is the party leader gets the friends message like six times while we are playing cod aw.

That's not really my issue. My friends can hear me while I have Game Bar up on screen. As soon as I exit and play my game, my friends can't hear me. I just figured out that if I pin the party chat widget on game bar so it stays there when I exit game bar, my friends will still be able to hear me. For now that's what I'll stick with, but I'd like to be able to remove the party chat widget from my screen.

I feel the entire problem with party chat is the default settings. When somebody starts a party, it is automatically private. Most people don't even pay attention to that because they are already talking to their friends. Most people are not starting parties
for privacy reasons. Most people start them because its easier to connect with their friends. I bet if the party system was set up with the option for public or private in game chat when you create the party, you would hear many more people talking in games
and games besides Halo, Gears and COD would be able to establish communities instead of being dead in a month or two because you can't meet really meet somebody already in a party.

Thanks for the info. It didn't work. Game chat still works completely fine. When I'm in party chat, my friends can hear me, I just can't hear them. So, still not sure what glitch is occurring.

If a game refuses to let me party chat, I wont play it. I wont be talking in the public chat regardless of if they force me to or not, and if I am being forced to exit party chat and stop talking to my friends, then I wont bother playing the game. *** whoever
decides to do this.