Xbox’s improved Discord expertise is rolling out to everybody

Microsoft announced it’s beginning to roll out the Xbox November replace, which provides the flexibility to connect with Discord voice channels straight out of your console, a brand new Captures app, and several other different enhancements.

Before, when you needed to hitch a voice channel in your Xbox, you’d have to make use of your telephone or laptop to switch the decision. With the replace, you’ll be capable of be a part of them straight from the Discord part of the Parties and Chats menu. When Microsoft let insiders check the function beginning final month, there was nonetheless the limitation that you simply’d have to make use of your telephone to hitch a direct one-on-one voice name.

Microsoft says the replace additionally features a new Captures app that improves the expertise of viewing, enhancing, and managing your display screen recordings, which can even allow you to copy these captures onto an exterior drive. The firm additionally says that the Series S and X will now seize 720p and 1080p recordings in barely higher high quality with a better bitrate, so issues don’t get as pixelated throughout heated moments.

In the identical game-sharing vein, the replace additionally allows you to begin Twitch, Lightstream, and Streamlabs livestreams from the Xbox itself.

The console’s want record function can be getting some upgrades; there at the moment are pop-up and in-guide notifications for when a recreation in your record goes on sale (in order for you them — there’s a setting to show them off), and Microsoft says individuals will be capable of purchase objects in your wishlist and have them despatched to you.