Valorant the free-to-play multiplayer FPS game released in 2020 and dominated the market. As in 2023, still one of the best game to stream and create broadcast where your viewers can also join. As a multiplayer games the plays heavily rely on communication. To share what is your strategy, and where are the enemies. You can communicate with your friends through Discord, but If you playin alone the built-in Voice Chat you would like to use. However If you’re streaming on Discord or to Twitch your viewers maybe not can hear your voice.
In this article you will find the solutions to hear valorant comms on Discord Stream. Most of the time this is because of the not properly setup Discord or audio settings. But also there’s a choice to use third party softwares and tools for streaming. Let’s see what are these.
Fix your Audio settings to hear valorant comms
The first and foremost problem that occurs is in audio settings. Probably there’s a misplaced settings in Valorant, Discord or in Windows.
Windows Audio Settings
The first step is go to the Settings in your Windows computer, and select Sytem, Sound settings. In there you should select your proper output and your input. There’s a chance especially If you’re streaming from a notebook, that your default is the built-in microphone, which can cause the crappy sound. Also make sure, that the right output is selected.
Discord Audio Settings
The second option is the Voice Settings in Discord. If you’re using this tool to communicate with your friends, then you need to setup voice settings. Select your Input Device to your microphone that you’re using. If the option is on “Default” there’s a chance that the software catched the bad settings from you computer and using the wrong input as well as output device.
After you selected the devices run a Mic Test to verify your mic.
Valorant Audio Settings
The last audio setting we’ll cover is in Valorant. In Valorant open up Settings, and Select Audio, then Voice Chat. There you’ll find all of the settings where you can select your input and output devices. As you can see, by default “Default System Device” selected. This can be wrong, in case If you connected your mic or your speaker after opened up the game (It can’t happening regularly, but there’s a chance).
Select your device in use, for example USB Microphone, or what you’re microphone called in settings, and forget the Default device.
Is Valorant Voice Chat working?
There’s a case when simply Valorant Voice Chat is not working. In that scenario you will get a red exclamation mark at the top left corner inside the game. It says “Voice Chat Unavailable”. Then
Use third party streaming software like OBS Studio
If you’re tried everything but nothing works, there’s also an option to use a third party software to stream. One of the best streaming software is OBS Studio, which absolutely free and easy to use. With that software you can stream to Discord by using the output of OBS Studio.
We made a detailed guide about OBS Studio setup, and how you can stream to multiple platform.
Try Virtual Audio Cable
As the option to use OBS Studio, you can use the OBS Studio output sounds as your microphone as well. For that solution comes the tool called Virtual Audio Cable into place. With that software you can create virtual sound inputs and outputs that you can use in softwares. Here’s our tutorial how to set it up and use in Discord!
Reinstall your software
The last tip, you will get is to simply reinstall, probably Discord. There may some third party software can be a voice changer or a program that uses your mic, which connected to Discord and that’s why you can hear Valorant comms on Discord stream.
The first thing is to search for softwares that you installed not long ago and maybe using your microphone. As we mentioned it can be a voice changer tool, but can be a display recorder as well.
The second and the last thing is to reinstall Discord and Valorant as well. This can be your final rescue, but in most cases the previous solutions will help.
None of them helped you? Let us know in the comments!
