Guild Wars 2

JustTrogdor.7892:

I’m for anything that might make things a bit better for us color blind players. However I’m not sure how they could implement it as I think it would be a bit complex. I have a more severe form of color blindness where I not only struggle with red-green (the most common type of color blindness) but I also have a difficult time distinguishing green from brown, distinguishing certain shades of grey green brown and a few others. When I take the The Ishihara Color Test I think I get about 3 of them right, haha

Trying to see plant and tree resource nodes on the mini map is almost impossible for me. If you want a good laugh watch me try to dye my armor. In my case there is probably not much that could help. The only way I can see doing this to help others would be to let players select the colors they want for certain things like AOE circles. As I said I think it may be very complex to add to the game but I’d be happy if they did.

I really like your idea of being able to change colors for individual things, but that might be a bit complicated than simply changing colors to contrast more for specific weaknesses.

Hi, I’m almost completely colorblind (monochrome). I can’t see red circles 90% of the time, unless I adjust my monitor color output which ruins the game for me. I also have a very hard time seeing many of the floating platforms that have faint color to them, because they are usually just a light grey to me and blend in with the background quite a bit. Most of the time being colorblind isn’t an issue, but there are definitely a few situations that apply greatly.

I’ve forced myself to memorize enemy animations in order to get by some of the more challenging content, but going at it for the first time can be very frustrating for me until I figure out the fight. I’ve had to rely on heavy communication with people that I play with in order to get by a lot of the content that I enjoy playing. I’ve obviously dealt with it since release, but it is getting old.

I would very much like to see a colorblind mode implemented into the game. I don’t think that it would be very hard to do so by simply adding a feature that players could check in options that would change some of the colors. I would suggest something that applies to some of the more common forms of colorblind. For someone like myself a colorblind mode would only very slightly help and that’s just something I have to put up with, but I have a few friends who have specific weaknesses that I do think it would help.

Nretep.2564:

@JustTrogdor
And then, I don’t know howto realize the AoE circles with actual color blindness (monochrome). That’s basically my original question. As a person without those weaknesses, I don’t know what the problem is or howto solve them correctly.

To answer your question, there isn’t really much of a solution. But sometimes different colors can darken or change the shade of things like the AoE circles and make it a little more visible to someone who can’t see the colors at all. What would be ideal would actually be black or white. It would stand out against most textures. Spare a few here and there.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Being very color blind I have many problems, especially seeing plant and tree resource nodes on the mini map. That being said you may consider joining this conversation from yesterday/earlier today.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Color-Blind-mode-PLEASE/

Oh sweet, glad to see an active thread already ;D I’m not usually very active on the forums. Thank you.

I’m sure this has been brought up in the past, but I’m bringing it up again anyways, because I’m very frustrated.

I am very colorblind and I also know several people who are colorblind as well, especially red/blue colorblind. I personally have found some areas of the game very difficult or nearly impossible because of not being able to see certain things like red circles or platforms that hover in the air only distinguished by a faint color, usually one that I can’t see very well. I’ve struggled with memorizing enemy animations and such in order to make it by in difficult dungeons.

I’ve played around with many other temporary fixes like changing my monitor’s color output. I’ve been able to deal with a lot of it, but I feel like I’m dragging my friends down when they have to carry me through certain dungeons, just because I have difficulty seeing certain visual ques.

I would personally like to see a Colorblind Mode added to the game and I’m sure many other players who are colorblind would like to see this as well. I enjoy the game and it sucks when something out of my control is preventing me from enjoying the game as much as other players. I truly believe would make the game more enjoyable for many people.

Please consider this suggestion. Thank you for your time.