I can't talk in games or party chat.

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Thank you for your understanding.

Kind regards,



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Hi xSkaterBeanz,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forums. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today.

We understand the inconvenience caused. As per description, you are having difficulties in joining party chats and games due to your microphone issues. You can only hear your own self, but you cannot talk. Let us check on this together and sort this out to assist your concern.



However, we’d like to know more about it in details so that we can provide a more accurate resolution for you. To start, please provide us information/answer on the following questions:

1. What platform are you playing (Xbox Console, PC or phone)
   
2. What is the current version and edition of Windows Installed? (Search for WINVER in Windows search to see this)
   
3. Xbox app and Gaming services version? Xbox app > select Profile picture > Settings > About.
   
4. What troubleshooting steps have you done?
   
5. Was this working before?
   
6. Recent activity or changes made before the issue appeared?
   
7. Have you check NAT type?
   

So far, from the details you provided, you can try the following steps and let us know the result. You can just skip those you have done already.

Solution 1. Troubleshoot Game Bar. Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows | Xbox Support (Follow the steps here)

Things to keep in mind:

• Before you begin troubleshooting any of the following problems, first verify that you have the latest version of Windows and that all Windows updates are complete:How to get software and driver updates for Windows devices
  
• If you’re using a Windows N edition, you may need to download additional software. This is available as a free download. To do this, see:Media Feature Pack list for Windows N editions
  

Solution 2. Troubleshoot NAT errors and multiplayer game issues | Xbox Support (Follow the steps here)





Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.

We will be glad to follow up and help you.



Sincerely,



Xbox Forum Moderator

Microsoft Community

You can can change your privacy settings by

1. Going to https://account.xbox.com/en-US/settings/home? and click privacy settings.
2. Then scroll down to "Others can communicate with voice, text, or invites?" and select "Everyone"
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to save

Hope this helps!

My headset only works in party chat. When I'm playing other games I can see that people are talking but I can't hear them and they can't hear me. It only works in party chat.

I get the same thing. I also can't hear anyone talk in game either. I'm not even in party chat. I'm in game chat.