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felker_s
8 years ago

Colourblind Options need to be reworked

Hey, I'm just your friendly neighbourhood colourblind man, and your options are absolutely no help at all, for me, they mostly make things worse. The squad and the enemy colours are always too simila...
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EA_Roger
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8 years ago

Hey @felker_s,

I'm sorry to hear about that, there is nothing worse than not being able to play a game you love. We've made progress on this front on some of our games but I agree with you that it's not where it should be for everyone. One of our heroes @Freggi-Liz did some amazing work on this actually and even put together an entire article on this: 

http://www.alien-bommel.com/wordpress/2017/05/25/colorblindness-mode-for-battlefield-1/

Although it's for Battlefield 1 it should be just as useful for you. It's a quick guide on how to optimize your color settings for Nvidia.

Let us know how you get on and if this helps and once again I'd like to apologize for the inconvenience caused by this. 

Thanks,

Roger. 

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felker_s
8 years ago

Sorry for not specifying, I'm an XOne player, so these don't really help me. But thank you for the responses anyway! They might help those who have the same problems on the PC version.

Things are not that bad on the default mode, but on many occasions it is really hard for me to see the red colour on the minimap radar. This is mostly on maps that have bright spots on the ground (Kamino, Tatooine), so it may be difficult even for those who see colours normally.

It is also a bit difficult to notice the little red arrows in starfighter assault, but I conditioned myself more or less to focus on them.

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      felker_s
      8 years ago

      @Freggi-Liz
      Thank you for the suggestion, but I've already looked at my options there, no tweaking seems to help in this case.

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        Freggi-Liz
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        8 years ago

        @felker_s

        I'm sorry to hear that. What do you think of an external visual aid, which was specially designed for colorblind people?

        The manufacturer Enchroma developed special glasses for people who are colorblind. Some players in my community work with it, especially the console area. The glasses are a bit expensive, but they are a fine support for everyday life indoors and outdoors area

        EnChroma have different types of colorblind, whether red, green or lighter area.

        I'll share some links here
        Review of the glasses
        Manufacturer

        The colorblind glasses are also available at amazon 🙂

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