All Xbox users now have access to built-in Discord voice chat

The Xbox November update, which contains a slew of important additions, is now available. Beginning today, all Xbox One and Series X/S users will be able to join Discord voice channels directly via their console, eliminating the need to set things up using their phones. This should make it easy to communicate with friends even if you’re all playing various games on different platforms (or if you’re all playing Halo Infinite together on console, PC, and mobile).

Simply go to the Parties & conversations section and pick Discord after you’ve linked your Discord account to Xbox. You’ll be able to check your available servers and choose a voice channel. Before you join a server or voice channel, you may see who else is there.

Despite Sony’s investment in Discord, Microsoft outpaced it with speech integration on Xbox (including a noise reduction option on Xbox Series X/S). According to reports, PlayStation will have better Discord integration next year.

In addition, owing to built-in features, Xbox players may start a Livestream through Twitch, Lightstream, or Streamlabs more quickly. Go to Capture & share, Live streaming, and then More choices from the guide. You may start a broadcast using the Twitch, Lightstream, or Streamlabs Studio applications under the Destination area. The Xbox Twitch app will now only be used to watch other streams as part of this change.

Additionally, you may go to a friend’s profile and ask whether you can join their game. You used to have to do this from the Happening now page.

There’s a new Capture app on the guide’s Capture & share menu, as well as in My games & apps. According to Microsoft, the software enhances the viewing, administration, and editing of your pictures. You’ll be able to save images and clips to an external disc, and Xbox Series X/S systems will support higher bitrates for 720p and 1080p clips.

Notifications when someone shares their want list with you (in case you want to give them a game) and alerts when things on your wish list go on sale are other new capabilities that Microsoft is currently rolling out. While your console is turned off, you’ll be able to see more information on power use than when it’s in sleep mode.

Furthermore, whether you play using Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, Microsoft now allows controller rumble (even on third-party gamepads) for Xbox Cloud Gaming on PC and Mac. Rumble support for Samsung TVs will be coming later this month – Samsung recently announced that cloud gaming services would be accessible on certain older smart TV models.