GurtTractor wrote:

I'll mention something that I discovered recently that I think might be useful to folks - With Discord you can not only do voice chat but also stream your screen and watch other people's screen within a channel, if you have a dual or triple screen setup (very highly recommended for PC peeps) you can be playing a game on one screen and have a Discord chat and other info on another. You can stream only the application so you don't have to worry about leaking personal info, and it uses the GPU encoder by default so it's pretty lean on system resources. I came across this when flying about in Flight Simulator with people on a Discord server, at first I wasn't keen to share my screen but I quickly realised how much sense it makes for cooperation and for laughs. People can more easily see what you are talking about and assist you - "that red button right there, push that one", and it makes messing around that much more fun when you can see their perspective and witness whatever crazy shit they're up to. After recent experiences with this I'm quite sure that this is going to end up being the new way to experience multiplayer, particularly with coop/sim type games. It's just a good vibe, sort of like a LAN session where you can look over at your friend's screen. It's been a revelation with Flight Sim, I always stream my screen when playing that now, people will drop in and out to join or just watch whatever mad shit we are up to and have a chat. I haven't checked but I presume we can video stream in the voice channels in the B&B Discord channel. I recommend trying it out, it makes for a much less isolated experience.