Discord Voice Chat Comes to Xbox Consoles

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Get ready to connect with your Discord friends and communities on Xbox! Discord Voice chat is coming to your Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. You will be able to chat with anyone on Discord via voice channels or group calls directly from your console making it easy to connect with friends across mobile, Xbox, and PC. The update will start rolling out to Xbox Insiders today and will be available soon for everyone.

Today's update enables a highly requested feature - Discord Voice on Xbox consoles allows you to talk with your friends and community while you play your favorite games. Planning a few rounds of multiplayer action in Halo Infinite with buddies on both console and PC? Exploring new biomes with your friends in Minecraft? See them already playing a game that supports cross-play? Connect to their voice channel and chat as you all play.





While you are playing on your console, you will be able to see who is in the call and speaking. You'll also be able to adjust the sound, and switch between Discord Voice and Xbox game chat.

Link your Discord account to your Xbox

To get started, open the guide by pressing the Xbox button on your console, then go to Parties & chats and click Try Discord Voice on Xbox. You'll see an option to scan a QR code. The QR code will take you to the Discord and Xbox apps to connect and set up a two-way link between your Discord account and Xbox. If you've previously linked your Discord account to your Xbox, you will have to re-link. To link your Discord account you must be at least 13 years old and other parental controls may apply.

Once your Discord account is linked to Xbox, you can hop in a channel you'd like to talk in using Discord just as you normally would. On the Discord mobile app, you'll see a new option to Join on Xbox. At this point, you'll need the Xbox app to transfer voice chat from your Discord account to your Xbox. If you have it installed, the Xbox app will launch and let you connect the Discord Voice chat to your Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One console. Discord's safety standards will apply when chatting on Xbox consoles with Discord Voice.

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[Solaris17]

Get ready to connect with your Discord friends and communities on Xbox!

y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

 

[bobsled]

y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

Apart from it being an Electron app, is there a reason?

 

[Solaris17]

Apart from it being an Electron app, is there a reason?

Of course, but at that point I am derailing the thread more than I already have.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

Its ok, no one blames you for sticking with skype.

Discord is a chatroom (AOL?), small file server, message board, and voicechat all rolled into one. No messing with IPs and passwords unless you're an admin or have permissions. Its perfect for creating complete gaming communities. Mumble or Teamspeak cant compare (aka dinosaurs).

 

[bobsled]

Its ok, no one blames you for sticking with skype.

Discord is a chatroom (AOL?), small file server, message board, and voicechat all rolled into one. No messing with IPs and passwords unless you're an admin or have permissions. Its perfect for creating complete gaming communities. Mumble or Teamspeak cant compare (aka dinosaurs).

Discord doesn’t have a proper calendar though, and as far as networks are concerned, it’s a mess to allow through your firewall (something around 20,000 ports need to be open IIRC)

Certainly not suitable for a corporate network.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Now if only discord would expose more options/functions to the user so we have more control....

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Discord is the best way to in game voice, me and my mates use it all the time, have done for a long time.

 

[Mussels]

Discords UI annoys the crap out of me, but it provides a reliable free service
Teaching someone who's never used it before is always a nightmare, as it's just not intuitive at all.

Hell i saw a comment yesterday on social media about how "Discord replaced useless web forums" and I still can't wrap my head around that one

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Discord doesn’t have a proper calendar though, and as far as networks are concerned, it’s a mess to allow through your firewall (something around 20,000 ports need to be open IIRC)

Certainly not suitable for a corporate network.

True, but it wasnt designed for corporate use. Although I wonder if it could be used within such a network, without internet access. It cant it depends on its servers for voice.

 

[Frick]

Does it do bluetooth headsets in Windows yet?

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Does it do bluetooth headsets in Windows yet?

You can change output in settings, so if you're set up in windows, no problem.

 

[neatfeatguy]

y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

You're not alone.

 

[etayorius]

y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

No, i really hate it too. I find Discord annoying, usless and redundant. PC Gamer posted an article on facebook regarding this same news, and people went balistic telling me how much of a slow idi*t i was for not using it. They said, "Facebook has a shittier and more cluttered UI than Discord, and yet here you are you Ecking Slow idiot." I just don't like that a lot of game Forums that i used to frecuent have now migrated to that stinky crap.

When i play L4D2 on steam and some random dude add me and i happen to accept them, they always ask me to install or use that crap in order to use "voice chat". Like seriously? what about the In-Game Voice Chat or Steam Group? like... WHY you need a third software when Steam and pretty much every game already have them?

I tried it once back in 2019, i couldn't set my mic properly and they couldn't hear me, but they could hear me in Game in game voice chat. Also, they were posting a ton of super nasty Trans, Scat and some sort of animated kiddy Pr0n. So i got fed up dealing with that crap and never went back. I don't care if their mommas and their dog use it. And i still don't get why a lot of devs are shutting down their own forums in favor or this redundant crap. The whole point of a forum was to help other people by reading your 5-10 year old comment with a fix for such issue, but on this nasty crap you need to scroll, scroll and scroll for like 20 minutes in order to find the frigging file for fix. God i hate it. WHY are people flocking in mases to Discord? WHY?

 

[c2DDragon]

No, i really hate it too. I find Discord annoying, usless and redundant. PC Gamer posted an article on facebook regarding this same news, and people went balistic telling me how much of a slow idi*t i was for not using it. They said, "Facebook has a shittier and more cluttered UI than Discord, and yet here you are you Ecking Slow idiot." I just don't like that a lot of game Forums that i used to frecuent have now migrated to that stinky crap.

When i play L4D2 on steam and some random dude add me and i happen to accept them, they always ask me to install or use that crap in order to use "voice chat". Like seriously? what about the In-Game Voice Chat or Steam Group? like... WHY you need a third software when Steam and pretty much every game already have them?

I tried it once back in 2019, i couldn't set my mic properly and they couldn't hear me, but they could hear me in Game in game voice chat. Also, they were posting a ton of super nasty Trans, Scat and some sort of animated kiddy Pr0n. So i got fed up dealing with that crap and never went back. I don't care if their mommas and their dog use it. And i still don't get why a lot of devs are shutting down their own forums in favor or this redundant crap. The whole point of a forum was to help other people by reading your 5-10 year old comment with a fix for such issue, but on this nasty crap you need to scroll, scroll and scroll for like 20 minutes in order to find the frigging file for fix. God i hate it. WHY are people flocking in mases to Discord? WHY?

People use it because it's "free", it's grabbing any data it can on your devices of course AND got a paid option if you want to hmm why is this $99/year option it for ? Ah yeah act like twitch but in worst and post more than 8mb of data (lol).

I still don't get why there is no competitor yet to this shit, it uses a lot of bandwidth for nothing.

 

[Why_Me]

I remember when Teamspeak used to be a thing.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I remember when Teamspeak used to be a thing.

I've got a group of buddies that use teamspeak still. I don't play with them as much as I used to, but I can still hop on the channel they use and chat from time to time.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

it uses a lot of bandwidth for nothing.

it does? gee I thought it only used bandwidth when you actively use it. hmm.

 

[Mussels]

I remember when Teamspeak used to be a thing.

The only reason any of my friends groups left Teamspeak was a simple one:

Teamspeak required a server, with port forwards. Either you used a public one and dealt with the general public (even the TPU teamspeak proved problematic for me with this, as we always had randoms interrupting gaming) or you needed someone you knew with an always on PC and reliable internet connection, who also knew how port forwards worked

Discord came along working for 'everyone' and working well multi platform (work buddies would do group skype calls on their phones prior to discord for their PS3/4 gaming sessions. madness i say)

And the final nail was that discord partially copied what twitch and other social media platforms do, with 'content creators' being able to run their servers with better interaction with the common users.

You couldnt have a Teamspeak server with Shroud and 500 randoms, but you can on discord - since the platform was setup to allow channel creators to set it so people can listen and view without being able to talk back.
Throw in the (admittedly minor) paid features of the platform to allow content creators to profit on discord, and there was financial motivation to encourage users to get into something that merged voice chat, live streaming, and a web forum in one location.

And then I guess kids grew up with it and it's UI and layout is so clunky and weird to everything that came before it, they developed this culture that you're an idiot if you don't understand it - so they feel like idiots when they go anywhere else and never leave.


I use discord daily, because it's reliable and we can choose voice servers located in-between all our users instead of at one of our houses - the paid and content creator aspects of it are still foreign to me. I'm like the old fart who uses facebook messenger by SMS to some kids these days.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

The only reason any of my friends groups left Teamspeak was a simple one:

Teamspeak required a server, with port forwards. Either you used a public one and dealt with the general public (even the TPU teamspeak proved problematic for me with this, as we always had randoms interrupting gaming) or you needed someone you knew with an always on PC and reliable internet connection, who also knew how port forwards worked

Discord came along working for 'everyone' and working well multi platform (work buddies would do group skype calls on their phones prior to discord for their PS3/4 gaming sessions. madness i say)

And the final nail was that discord partially copied what twitch and other social media platforms do, with 'content creators' being able to run their servers with better interaction with the common users.

You couldnt have a Teamspeak server with Shroud and 500 randoms, but you can on discord - since the platform was setup to allow channel creators to set it so people can listen and view without being able to talk back.
Throw in the (admittedly minor) paid features of the platform to allow content creators to profit on discord, and there was financial motivation to encourage users to get into something that merged voice chat, live streaming, and a web forum in one location.

And then I guess kids grew up with it and it's UI and layout is so clunky and weird to everything that came before it, they developed this culture that you're an idiot if you don't understand it - so they feel like idiots when they go anywhere else and never leave.


I use discord daily, because it's reliable and we can choose voice servers located in-between all our users instead of at one of our houses - the paid and content creator aspects of it are still foreign to me. I'm like the old fart who uses facebook messenger by SMS to some kids these days.

Me and my friends use to use teamspeak, but it was a pita to setup. Discord just works, and is easy to get voice working, even with a BT headset which i have tried.

 

[bobsled]

True, but it wasnt designed for corporate use. Although I wonder if it could be used within such a network, without internet access. It cant it depends on its servers for voice.

Except during Covid, where Discord made many efforts to reduce it’s targeting of the gamer crowd and instead focus on advertising towards user interest groups and working from home.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Except during Covid, where Discord made many efforts to reduce it’s targeting of the gamer crowd and instead focus on advertising towards user interest groups and working from home.

Yea there also was a huge increase in streamers and their communities during Covid. I'm guessing small businesses would choose it over paid relevant apps, I'd lean that towards online only businesses, like Etsy.

 

[R-T-B]

Mumble or Teamspeak cant compare (aka dinosaurs).

If you want to selfhost the server and setup the codecs discord can't compare. Other than that, yeah.

Hell i saw a comment yesterday on social media about how "Discord replaced useless web forums" and I still can't wrap my head around that one

Didn't you hear, apparently forums are dead?!

Yeah, I forgot to read the news on that one too.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

If you want to selfhost the server and setup the codecs

If you're self hosting, there is better than Teamspeak or Mumble or Discord. Beside Teamspeak doesnt allow self host, Mumble might.

 

[R-T-B]

If you're self hosting, there is better than Teamspeak or Mumble or Discord.

Do tell. I've yet to find better than mumble that's non-commercial/free.

Mumble is OSS, so of course it's self-hostable. You could run it on a Raspberry Pi if you wanted.