I am visually impaired and struggle to focus my sight, usually using contrast and visual cues to navigate with my glasses.
While I was playing the new variant dungeon for the first time, I went to the middle path and got to the boss "The Lone Swordsmaster," and it was a very tough fight to conquer. I thought it was my choice to play a black mage or an external distraction that was the issue. However, a friend of mine is colorblind (tritanopia/ blue-yellow) and played with me later on, and they could not see many of the mechanics, thus following my lead as I still struggled.
We then realized that the issue was an inability to distinguish the yellow of the AoE to the saturated color of the ground, meaning that adjusting color in settings would not fix it. This was odd, as the middle boss was perfectly visible to both of us, so it was a jarring shift to the wrong direction. I enjoy the stylized world, but there has to be more care in this matter.
A similar issue occurred in a trial previously and had to be patched because even people without visual impairments were having a hard time. I have few issues in content normally, even less so once I learn mechanics and cast names, but it isn't right that there is no way around something like this. I do hope that this is adjusted and that designs and settings will be made and/or repaired with greater care.
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While I was playing the new variant dungeon for the first time, I went to the middle path and got to the boss "The Lone Swordsmaster," and it was a very tough fight to conquer. I thought it was my choice to play a black mage or an external distraction that was the issue. However, a friend of mine is colorblind (tritanopia/ blue-yellow) and played with me later on, and they could not see many of the mechanics, thus following my lead as I still struggled.
We then realized that the issue was an inability to distinguish the yellow of the AoE to the saturated color of the ground, meaning that adjusting color in settings would not fix it. This was odd, as the middle boss was perfectly visible to both of us, so it was a jarring shift to the wrong direction. I enjoy the stylized world, but there has to be more care in this matter.
A similar issue occurred in a trial previously and had to be patched because even people without visual impairments were having a hard time. I have few issues in content normally, even less so once I learn mechanics and cast names, but it isn't right that there is no way around something like this. I do hope that this is adjusted and that designs and settings will be made and/or repaired with greater care.
Apologies if this is not the correct forum section for this. Please redirect me if it needs to be moved elsewhere.
Continue reading...