This Xbox Series X headphones update could fix its most annoying issue - SociallyKeeda

If you are a fan of taking part in Xbox Series X video games with an Xbox headset hooked up, you may know the ache of connecting your headset and discovering that exterior audio – from a TV's audio system, for instance – nonetheless retains taking part in till you individually mute it. Thankfully, although, Microsoft seems to lastly be fixing the irritating issue.

In a weblog submit, Microsoft laid out a characteristic touchdown with Xbox Insiders – which ought to hopefully roll out to the broader Xbox gaming public quickly after.

The submit states that "A new streamlined audio settings experience is now available with new features such as 'Mute Speaker audio when headset attached'." Anyone on the Xbox Insider program can discover this perform within the Volume & Audio Output menu, beneath Audio Testing & Details.

This is a typical bugbear for present-gen Xbox players making an attempt to make use of console-appropriate gaming headsets. It's simply mounted, however requires additional enter in a course of that feels prefer it must be automated, and the newest update ought to just do that.

It's nonetheless a characteristic that PS5 gamers have been having fun with simply tremendous, and it is annoying that anybody with an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S has been lacking it for a full 12 months after the consoles' launch.

Analysis: Transparency is barely a great factor

The Insiders program has lengthy been a approach for Microsoft to signpost incoming options, giving us a take a look at what the corporate is eager to check on the Xbox platform.

Before Dolby Vision gaming rolled out on Xbox consoles in full, it was trialled right here, and it affords a fantastic stage of transparency for these eager to know whether or not their greatest console issues are being mounted anytime quickly.

Microsoft additionally says it's "investigating reports of the audio mixer being unable to adjust chat/game audio levels", so hopefully there will be more information on that entrance quickly for anybody affected.

That's not all, although. The newest update for Xbox Insiders contains "testing for color blind filters" to assist "those with color blindness or color vision deficiency to explore more current games" – making use of to "games, movies, apps, menus" and the like.

If you are testing out this characteristic, or any others within the newest update, any suggestions you give Microsoft ought to assist enhance the characteristic earlier than its wider rollout. That's what being an Insider is for, is not it?