Last month, we mentioned that Archetype Studios was partnering with Discord – and today we have a surprise for you! After an outpouring of support from our backers and fans, Archetype Studios is proud to announce that Midair will have seamless in-game voice chat!

When it launches, Midair will have built-in VoIP chat for our players, powered by Discord. Discord currently provides voice chat and community features for 25 million gamers, peaking at 2.3 million simultaneous users, all sending more than 100 million messages a day. This past week, Discord announced its Gamebridge SDK that lets developers build Discord functionality right into their games, and Archetype Studios is one of the first partners for this tech, among many other big names you might recognize.

This is a huge win for Midair players. Now, we can tightly integrate features like team voice chat into the game, where Red team and Blue team each get their own automatically created channels for a match. This is a feature that we initially couldn’t commit to during our Kickstarter, but one that we are now really excited to finally be able to deliver. What other things can Discord integration do for Midair? Stay tuned – the full list of Discord-powered features that will make it into the game is still being finalized.

Coordinating a pick-up game? Debating CTF strategies? Want to get players’ unfiltered thoughts on the latest backers-exclusive Instant Access build? Join the Midair community in the Official Midair Discord at discord.gg/playmidair – and we’ll see you in Midair!