Communication is an important part of competitive gaming. Your skill won\u2019t matter as much if you can’t seem to function with your team and communicate with them. If you’re playing with friends, there can also be a lot of banter while gaming, meaning it may be beneficial to use a secondary platform instead of your favorite game’s voice chat feature\u2014if it even has one.<\/p>
During the early days of online gaming, players used programs like Ventrilo, Mumble, Skype, and eventually Discord. While all the other voice chat solutions continued to exist after Discord’s debut, they were simply blown out of water. Discord finally cracked the winning formula and worked on all the shortcomings of its competition to emerge as gamers’ go-to voice chat program.<\/p>
A majority of gamers are likely to have Discord installed on their preferred gaming devices. If you were just invited to Discord and this is the first time you hear about it, though, you could have questions about how to download the application.<\/p>
Regardless of your platform, downloading Discord should only take a few minutes, but you’ll also need to create an account with an email to start using it.<\/p>
Here’s how you can download Discord on all devices.<\/p>
