Arctic7 Steel Series Mic works everywhere except HOTS

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Hey, Loop! There’s been some issues with the microphone with Heroes of the Storm in the past and currently with Catalina.

This issue is primarily with the access permission for the microphone not prompting properly. These workarounds that may help prompt the permission:

• Try forcing Windowed mode and see if the prompt may be appearing in the background when attempting to use the microphone.
• Try going to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Microphone and allow access for Heroes.

If you are on MacOS Catalina, here’s the thread where a few users are helping each other out with some workarounds that are not supported by Blizzard due to some advance terminal commands needed.

[Catalina] Voice Chat not working in Heroes of the Storm

Thanks for calling this out with Steam having the same issues, Zentgraf. This is not something that we can recommend, but if you do feel comfortable with these changes, there’s some resources that our players have provided. We have seen some situations where the same TCC file has to be readjusted because it was moved some time ago. Here’s the forum post about the TCC.db, for step 2.1, you may need to do this for ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db instead of the location on the …