Guild Wars 2

I have not seen any response to previously mentioned requests for vision difficulties assistance that has been posted periodically in this forum. It is extremely difficult for folks who have vision limitations to interact most of the time to things in the game because of poor setup in the looting system.

I ran across this post and feel it points out a problem that NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED for those who have no other option.

Egon Vidar.9125:

I’m visually impaired (blind in one eye, poor vision in the other) which makes the game difficult enough for me as it is, I’m already at a disadvantage.. most of it because of how dark a large portion of the game is. Now I can’t even see some of my loot.. seriously. If the chests are sitting on a ground texture that isn’t really brightly or vibrantly colored, they aren’t visible to me at all unless I crank my gamma way up and that makes the rest of the game incredibly ugly. Not to mention, I prefer to play in windowed mode so it isn’t even possible most of the time.

I just can’t see them unless I stand there for a few minutes carefully combing over the ground like I’m looking for a needle in a haystack. It’s barely even worth it because I’ve never had one of the chests contain anything but blues and whites. Could you please change the chest color? Or get rid of them entirely? I’m not even sure why this change was made. I have the same problem with wvw bags, but even those are more visible than the chests.
I really hope this gets fixed and people with below-average vision don’t get shafted the way the color-blind did. They begged for changes, too, just so they could play the game like everyone else. Just a UI color changer, or AOE ground circles in a more visible color. They got nothing.

Also, folks who can see them just fine? Good for you. But not everyone can see so well.

lynspottery.6529:

I have not seen any response to previously mentioned requests for vision difficulties assistance that has been posted periodically in this forum. It is extremely difficult for folks who have vision limitations to interact most of the time to things in the game because of poor setup in the looting system.

I ran across this post and feel it points out a problem that NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED for those who have no other option.

Egon Vidar.9125:

I’m visually impaired (blind in one eye, poor vision in the other) which makes the game difficult enough for me as it is, I’m already at a disadvantage.. most of it because of how dark a large portion of the game is. Now I can’t even see some of my loot.. seriously. If the chests are sitting on a ground texture that isn’t really brightly or vibrantly colored, they aren’t visible to me at all unless I crank my gamma way up and that makes the rest of the game incredibly ugly. Not to mention, I prefer to play in windowed mode so it isn’t even possible most of the time.

I just can’t see them unless I stand there for a few minutes carefully combing over the ground like I’m looking for a needle in a haystack. It’s barely even worth it because I’ve never had one of the chests contain anything but blues and whites. Could you please change the chest color? Or get rid of them entirely? I’m not even sure why this change was made. I have the same problem with wvw bags, but even those are more visible than the chests.
I really hope this gets fixed and people with below-average vision don’t get shafted the way the color-blind did. They begged for changes, too, just so they could play the game like everyone else. Just a UI color changer, or AOE ground circles in a more visible color. They got nothing.

Also, folks who can see them just fine? Good for you. But not everyone can see so well.

I support this thread.
As a temporary and possible work around for this person. When you hold the ALT key descriptive text hovers over items that you can interact with. They should add some options to change the color of that text as well for people can’t see those specific colors either.

I have problems distinguishing detail with the default gamma setting. I was pretty happy when I found in Graphic Options that you can edit the gamma level (not the prettiest solution, but it works for me).

The problem is that my custom gamma setting does not stick. Whenever I transit a gate/waypoint/cut-scene/what-have-you, as soon as the game recycles and opens whatever new environment, the default setting resumes, and I have to open Options to adjust it again. Is there a way of making sure the custom gamma setting always sticks?

I concur with previous posters – it would be great if Egon could check a setting that allowed more highlights to be turned on or something like that for viewing loot/paths/doorways.

Amuhasi.8240:

I have problems distinguishing detail with the default gamma setting. I was pretty happy when I found in Graphic Options that you can edit the gamma level (not the prettiest solution, but it works for me).

The problem is that my custom gamma setting does not stick. Whenever I transit a gate/waypoint/cut-scene/what-have-you, as soon as the game recycles and opens whatever new environment, the default setting resumes, and I have to open Options to adjust it again. Is there a way of making sure the custom gamma setting always sticks?

I concur with previous posters – it would be great if Egon could check a setting that allowed more highlights to be turned on or something like that for viewing loot/paths/doorways.

Try playing in Windowd fullscreen,this way the adjustments made to gamma etc stick.

ALso,you could try to use SweetFx to enhance Colours,gamma,contrast..basically everything and more you cannot do with your standard windows/nvcpl settings.

btw +1,i think Every game needs to support this for color/vision impared people.

Edit:I just found this thread a bit lower https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Color-blind-gamer-Issues-seeing-red-circles/page/3#post1495315

So i think this one will be closed soon…Mods atleast merge it to the thread above instead of a lock pls.

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