How to have chat overlay on discord. Click the overlay tab and enable in game overlay. In the overlay you can direct message or voice chat. Lets ensure the overlay enabled.
I feel like it would be annoying having the name of the userusers talking always pop up and fade whenever they stop talking. Our longterm vision for the overlay is to make using discord in game as convenient as possible. Click the pin icon to make a window appear even when you lower the in game overlay menu.
Open up your user settings. How to use the discord overlay. You can now use the keyboard shortcut shift to open the overlay or whatever shortcut you set to open the overlay.
Enable the overlay of the desired game. You can go to settings overlay and change show user from always to only when talking. The overlay should always be there for you and always listen to you when youre sad and lonely at night.
Especially if there are 50 users in the voice chat. Click the game activity tab. After opening the overlay you can open any chats you may be part of.
You should basically never have to alt tab if you dont want to. Once your overlay is up and running you can pin a text chat window over your game. The overlay is a pretty fancy and fun piece of tech so there are some important points to go over.
Were aiming for a 647 increase in convenience.
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