Das Oberlai

If you’ve been following Discord for a minute you may have heard about our upcoming In-game overlay feature. This was built for people who can’t get enough Discord in their lives and need access to it while on those inevitable 12-hour raid sprees.

Now people have been asking: What does it look like? How will it work? Why is Rocket League so amazing? Who is Mr. Robot? We will attempt to answer all of these questions for you through the following post.

Look who’s talking!

Here’s the basic view of overlay. You’ll see a list of the people in the voice channel you are currently connected to that hovers over your gameplay. You can click on Discord dude and move this around the screen so it shows up in an area that doesn’t disrupt your gameplay. More on settings stuff below.

You do have the option to turn this off but should you chose the dark side of the force this amazingness will show up while playing games.

Quickly Adjust, Organize, Switch

Clicking on the Discord logo will bring up an expanded Discord view so you can hop around without leaving your game. During those slow moments when you’re waiting for a match to start or need to respond to that pesky troll of a friend, you can quickly jump into Discord and yell at them Molly Ringwald style.

Starting a new voice chat, switching voice servers, and looking at the pretty windows are all options from this view. We’ve heard from several Discord users that alt+tabbing to sort out a loud friend sucks. Alas! All these voice settings are accessible here.

For you MOBA (and Rocket League) fans breaking up into teams or grouping competitors into channels quickly is a breeze from this view. Don’t waste time getting organized for a match again!

Customize your Overlay look

When building the Discord Overlay we realized we wanted to adjust the way it appeared depending on which game we were playing. So Andy “the super engineer” added a few options that allow you to adjust appearance on the fly.

From this view you can choose Small or Large icons. I like Large most of the time except when I’m playing RTSs. You can also change the level of detail you see for each of your friends and tweak that based on voice activity.

Close out

In summary, Rocket League is amazing because rockets+cars+soccer = DUH. Mr. Robot is not a person or a figment of someones imagination, he’s the dog and the dog can code like a pro. And finally, the overlay will make using Discord while playing games even tastier.