Discord’s Overlay Update May Finally Convince Your Friends to Turn On Video Chat

Discord is supposed to be the voice and video chat made for gamers, but in its current iteration it sucks if all you want is to see your gamer friends’ bedraggled, sleep-deprived mugs while you’re in-game. That may finally change with Discord’s new update to its overlay. The new version of Discord’s Game Overlay should make it possible to stick your friends’ faces where you want, without killing your game performance in the process. If you’re like me, now you just need to convince your friends to finally turn on their cameras. Discord’s current version of Overlay is one of those features you may not know about because it is both limited and too-obtrusive. You need to enable and disable it for your individual games, and getting a call widget to appear on screen takes multiple steps. The new Discord Game Overlay is no longer “hooked” onto the game’s window. It instead appears like it would when you open the Xbox Game Bar on PC, darkening the current screen and offering a host of widgets ... Read full article.