Gradually, the console world is opening up to crossplay, with gamers from different platforms joining together to go hunting in games like Minecraft Dungeons, State of Decay 2, Sea of Thieves, and many more.
This shiny new world of crossplay, however, has presented new challenges. Back in the day if everyone was on Xbox, jumping onto party chat for voice comms was a relatively straightforward affair. These days, people are using Discord for voice comms most frequently in the gaming community, but Xbox doesn’t yet have a native official app for Discord on its platform. Sure, one of you could just jump onto Discord via your phone, but that might interfere with your ability to, y’know, hear your game if it isn’t coming through the same output. Thankfully, there is an easier way to go about it, at least if one of you is playing on Windows 10 or Windows 11. And don’t worry, you don’t need Xbox Game Pass or Xbox Live Gold or anything like that.
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How to cross-platform voice chat between Xbox and PC
If one of you is on Xbox, and one of you is on a Windows 10 or 11 PC, you can join the same Xbox Live party relatively easily, although if the person on Windows PC hasn’t yet signed up for Xbox Live, they’ll have to go and grab a free account over here first.
Add a friend on an Xbox One, or Xbox Series X|S console
The first step is to add each other as a friend on Xbox Live. If you know how to do this, you can skip to the next section.
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On Xbox, navigate to the guide by hitting the nexus (Xbox) button on your controller.
Source: Windows Central
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Navigate to the People section, and select Find someone using the A button on your controller.
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- Search for your friend’s Gamertag; they will have created it while signing up for an Xbox Live account.
- Once they pop up from the search, select Add friend.
Now, the PC friend should get a notification on Windows 10 or Windows 11 that they were added. Next, the PC user can add an Xbox Live friend in a couple of ways. You can either use the Windows 10/11 built-in Xbox app, or the Xbox Game Bar …….
Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-voice-comms-between-xbox-and-pc
