I noticed today that my audio input wasn’t working when I was using voice chat today. My husband and I are currently in different locations to each other so needless to say when we’re in game we use the voice chat rather than text chat. I noticed that whenever he said something, it came in on my speakers and not my headset. I opened the audio settings to fix the issue and low and behold the input device has been removed from the audio settings. This means that while speaking in game over voice chat, anyone that replies to me over voice chat can be heard by anyone else in my home. All the normal sounds of the game (npcs, sound effects, etc…) come through on my headset, but for voice chat any incoming audio comes in on my speakers and not my headset. What’s up with this? Did some programmer at Blizzard royally screw up and remove the audio input from the audio settings by accident or was this purposely intended? I find it very annoying that other people in my home can hear whatever my husband or whoever else is in voice chat with me in the game says. The whole point of using a headset while playing the game is so that both the game sounds and the voice chat does not disturb everyone else in my home. Does anyone know what’s going on here?
I just checked and the audio settings in-game do seem to have ‘output device’ as well as ‘microphone’.
The microphone section is allll… the way down near the bottom, so scroll all the way down?
I have seen this get wonky at times. My friend and I use in-game chat ever since her Discord went weird, so you need to check two places if you run on Windows.
Check the in-game settings to ensure they’re what they’re suppose to be.
Then check your windows sound settings to make sure the defaults haven’t changed, because the WoW defaults will or should grab the settings from the Windows settings but it sometimes gets misaligned.
You also might try a scan and repair, if the ui is bugged. I have had to do this once myself.