Allow unmuting your microphone for viewers of your stream.
Using R.E.P.O purely as an example, if you have a group of people playing and some people in the lobby not playing, you might have one or more players streaming their gameplay. This game includes proximity chat, so players mute themselves in Discord and chat in-game. People not playing can listen to a stream and backseat-game or w/e.
The problem is that players listening to the stream are able to hear everyone as though they were with the person streaming, *except* the voice of the person streaming.
My proposal is, when you stream a game to Discord, add a tickbox under the “Also share application audio” tickbox saying “Also share my voice”, which effectively unmutes you *just* for people watching your stream.
This could be implemented by rolling the streamer's microphone into the game audio, or by literally letting the streamer unmute their microphone in such a way that only people watching that person's stream hear them if muted normally. The latter feels like it would be easier to implement well and would be more flexible. (e.g. if they unmute themselves in discord, people watching the stream don't hear them twice)
Other solutions are available at the minute, but none are as elegant/ideal - they either introduce hearing players twice, or require the participation of everyone in the group and not just the person streaming, making it much less convenient to just casually stream gameplay.
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