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Discord integration

How the game works with Discord, and how to control it.

The Long Way Round works with the Discord desktop app on the same PC. It does two things:

Rich Presence: your Discord profile shows that you're driving, where, how far, and for how long.
Voice: once you allow it, the car's centre screen shows the voice channel you're in, who's there and who's talking, and you can mute or deafen yourself from the car.

The game only ever talks to the Discord app on your own machine. It never hears or records audio.

Getting started

Open the Discord desktop app and sign in. The browser version of Discord can't talk to games.
Start the game. Your profile shows your drive within a few seconds.
For voice, Discord shows a prompt in the app the first time: “The Long Way Round wants to access your account”. Choose Authorize. You'll only be asked once.

Voice is limited for now. Discord only opens its voice features to a game's approved testers until it has reviewed the game. If Discord says the game isn't allowed, Rich Presence still works and nothing else is affected.

In the car

Key	What it does
`M` (or d-pad left)	Switch the centre screen between navigation, media and voice
`V`	Mute or unmute your microphone in Discord
`K`	Deafen or undeafen yourself in Discord

On the voice screen, a green ring shows who's talking and red icons show who's muted or deafened. On the navigation screen, the names of the people talking appear at the foot of the map. While you're muted in a channel, a red microphone lights up on the instrument screen behind the wheel.

What the game can see

With voice allowed, the game can see your Discord name, your current voice channel and its server, the names of the people in it, and whether each of them is talking, muted or deafened. It uses this only to draw the car's screens, and doesn't store it or send it anywhere. The full details are in the Privacy Policy.

Turning it off

Hide your activity: in Discord, User Settings → Activity Privacy.
Stop the game using Discord at all: start it with --discord off, or set presence = off and voice = off in %APPDATA%\TheLongWayRound\discord.ini.
Sign the game out: delete %APPDATA%\TheLongWayRound\discord_token.ini.
Revoke its access: in Discord, User Settings → Authorized Apps → The Long Way Round → Deauthorize.

Troubleshooting

The voice screen says	Try
Discord is not running	Start the Discord desktop app. The game finds it within a few seconds.
Allow the game in Discord	Look for the prompt in the Discord app, which may be behind the game window, and choose Authorize.
Voice was not allowed	You declined, or voice isn't open to your account yet (see above). Restart the game to be asked again.
Not in a voice channel	Join a voice channel or call in Discord and it appears straight away.

Support

Something not working? Email steve@leafshade.io.