How to create a Discord to play Among Us with voice

Playing Among Us with friends is a most fun experience. Although it may end some of your friendships after so much betrayal. But there is a very strong difference between playing Among Us while talking to your friends and playing Among Us with your friends without any mechanism beyond the in-game chat. Or, above all, without being able to speak Well, there is a solution for that. It's called Discord and surely you've already heard of its servers. If not, keep reading and I'll tell you step by step how to use it to improve your games.

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Download Discord on mobile or PC

The key to this entire communication system is Discord. A platform that allows you to create private servers or channels to join your friends. Something like a WhatsApp where you can chat, call and talk during the games Thanks to all these tools you can be in direct communication, by voice, even if your hands are full killing to crew members or carrying out maintenance tasks on the ship. Of course, you can also silence it so as not to ruin the game experience. But let's go by steps.

If you play Among Us from your mobile you can download Discord through the Google Play Store or the App Store. It is a free application and only requires a basic registration with your email to create an account in it.It is simple and guided, so there is no loss.

The process is exactly the same on mobiles as on computers. And it is that if you want to play on the computer or simply connect to Discord via PC, all you have to do is download the program from its website. The rest of the process is similar. In fact, the Discord interface is the same on PC and mobile, only adapted to different screen formats.

Set up a Discord server for Among Us

Now it's time to create a channel to be able to play Among Us and communicate with your friends at the same time. To do this, open the side menu from the three lines in the upper left corner. Here you will see a dropdown menu with all the servers you participate in. If this is the first time you are using Discord, you must create one by clicking on the + icon.

You will have to give it a name and customize it, optionally, so that everything is to your liking. And, from here, invite all those friends with whom you want to communicate. Discord has a built-in contact system. In other words, if those friends also have a profile on this platform, you can send them an invitation. As if it were a social network. If this is not the case, on the invitation screen itself, you can create a direct invitation link. With this you can copy the link and share it via WhatsApp or any other way with those people.

In this way, these players only have to click on the link and confirm the Discord invitation to be able to participate actively on the platform and in conversations on that server.

How to send or pause sound in a game on Discord

Now, the idea is to be able to communicate in spoken form during moments of discussion or "emergency meeting" of Among Us. If you talk during the game the game experience is ruined, ruining strategies, secrets and all the tension.

To do this, simply go through the Discord server that you have joined or that you have created and join the voice chat Al doing so will give the app permission to collect information from your microphone. With this the conversation is underway and you can communicate orally at any time. But what we are looking for is to slightly limit this spoken chat. That's why Discord's overlay feature is interesting, which uses chat bubbles to quickly access the controls of this voice chat.

This way we can go to Among Us and always have a conversation bubble in some corner of the screen. A long press displays the microphone and speaker mute options The idea is that you mute your microphone throughout the game until it is time for the emergency meeting. So you can have access to voice chat with a click on the bubble. In a matter of tenths of a second you will be in direct communication with your friends.

Of course, to activate the overlay function you will have to offer extra permissions to Discord within your mobile If you decide to activate it, the application itself It will take you to the settings menu of your mobile to allow this application to work above the rest of the apps. An essential requirement to keep the conversation going even when you are moving and playing in Among Us.

Computer walkie-talkie system

If you decide to play Among Us on the computer, or simply play Among Us on the mobile but be accompanied by your computer to talk on Discord, there is a very interesting and comfortable formula to enjoy the experience . Something that professionals do in gaming: use Discord in walkie-talkie mode That is, press a computer key to talk. This way you won't have to constantly turn the microphone on and off. And you can stay comfortably muted until you have something really important to say.

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To do this, look for the cogwheel in the lower left part of the screen in Discord, already inside a server. Here look for the voice and video section of the settings. Among all these options, look at the section Input mode, where you can mark the option Push to talk Here you must assign a key on the keyboard that serves as a button to activate the microphone. Once you have all this running, you will only have to press said button and speak. So you won't have to go out and go in, or deactivate the microphone when you are playing Among Us. Just push the button and talk in chat moments.

By the way, on Discord for PC you can also use the overlay system and put a chat bubble above the game in full screen. The option is in the Discord settings, in the section Overlay Activate the overlay function in-game and choose the corner you want it to appear in while playing. Of course, you will also have to go through the Game Activity section so that Discord recognizes it as one of these games in which to use the overlay function as such. Add the game in the link Add it! By selecting it in the drop-down and activate the overlay option by clicking on the crossed out computer icon.With this you will play with the system always accessible even when you play Among Us on the computer in full screen.