Colorblind Mode

[Shatter]

Hello, I was watching a couple of streams of this game and I think this would be a perfect game for me, however: there's currently no Colorblind Mode in the game. This will make the game VERY hard to play for me as I can't see the building placement and other certain other UI elements.

I'd love it if you guys would either add some colorblind modes or let us edit the UI colors.

Please let me know if you are thinking about adding some colorblind mode, as it would make me buy the game instantly!

[Andrewbh2003]

yeah a colorblind mode not in game is something seriously lacking especially for a rts HOWEVER plz remember the game is early acess and im certain the devs will add stuff like that to the game when its finished especially since it will increase playerbase so keep an eye out for that

[Shatter]

Yeah it's in Early Access, I'm just really hoping for a response or news regarding this issue, because for me it's the turning point for either Buying the game or letting it slide sadly :(

[TheWashableBomb]

I have moderate deuteranopia. I don't have any problems. Color isn't a huge factor in this game.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be colorblind modes developed; I'm saying it won't "make the game VERY hard to play" and you'll see "the building placement and other certain other UI elements" just fine. If you're interested in the game now, you should just go ahead and get it.

I'm talking about just my experience. I'm not sure about the other colorblind catagories. Your milage may vary.

I think having complete color blindness (monocromantic) wouldn't even effect much. Colors aren't a big deal in this game like other RTS.

[Shatter]

@TheWashableBomb,

I also have deuteranopia, and on streams I just CANNOT see the Building Placement UI properly, it's Red/Green just like the Minimap colors are Red/Green. I just can't see a difference. I'd say it gets quite hard to play the game properly when nearly the entire game is based around placing buildings :P

[Andrewbh2003]

Originally posted by ShatterNL:

@TheWashableBomb,

I also have deuteranopia, and on streams I just CANNOT see the Building Placement UI properly, it's Red/Green just like the Minimap colors are Red/Green. I just can't see a difference. I'd say it gets quite hard to play the game properly when nearly the entire game is based around placing buildings :P

its not really the minimap is there for the map layout not for building or where zombs are you should be fine if you wanna buy it now

[chicano32]

I hope they put something like that in for you or atleast allow you to adjust contrast and such to the point where you can get by. I bet you could still manage but yea I see how it would be harder on you

[Gomez]

Originally posted by ShatterNL:

Hello, I was watching a couple of streams of this game and I think this would be a perfect game for me, however: there's currently no Colorblind Mode in the game. This will make the game VERY hard to play for me as I can't see the building placement and other certain other UI elements.

I'd love it if you guys would either add some colorblind modes or let us edit the UI colors.

Please let me know if you are thinking about adding some colorblind mode, as it would make me buy the game instantly!

Hello,

We take note of your suggestion. Our dev team will be its viability.

Thanks for your idea.




EDIT: Our Develop Team has communicated to me that they will implement this option for the next game update. But please, we need you help us telling what colours we have to change into others.




Kind Regards.

[Shatter]

@Gomez,

That's amazing news!

I've already bought the game anyways since it's just so much fun.

I have moderate to severe deuteranopia, so that means that I'm missing a few cones I believe in my eye that normal people have to be able to distinguish the colors Red and Green.

The problem for me is mostly that the game (lots of other games as well) works with Green = Positive, and Red = Negative. So when watching the minimap, or placing buildings. It's very hard to see when I can actually place a building instead of it being in an incorrect location.

So for me a possible fix would be for all the Positive elements (like when you can place a building or your own buildings/units on the minimap) to be Blue, but since I can imagine more colorblind people will play your game with different types the best would be an option to customize this to your own liking.

Thanks for hearing me out and can't wait for the update!

[herrerik]

Also i would suggest letting the player choose a few vital color themselves (RGB) instead of packing them into "useful" groups such as deatr/triopia etc. Several games do this (battlefield, fortnite) and end up with a complicated system which offer "color-groups" which are ALL worse for the colorblind than the standard setting (i know this from first hand)

Let the player pick color = make everyone happy (and actually less work for the devs...)

[Wei Ken]

Hi, i hope this will help.

https://usabilla.com/blog/how-to-design-for-color-blindness/

[Gomez]

Hi again,

Thanks for the information. I'll bring it to our dev team.

Kind Regards.

[herrerik]

But again, many dive deep into the theoretics and still get it dead wrong (like battlefield, and they have lots of resources). Easiest for both users and dev to let us pick our own colors (for the few things that its needed for (such as the minimap).

Another very simple fix is to always have a black border around icons like the arrow. Single color icon on top of more or less single-color background is asking for trouble (unless you use black or white border).

[Lynn]

Sorry about necroing this old thread, but I think this is relevant here. I have protanomaly and it is very hard for me to see the enemy red dots on the minimap, especially when playing on a green/brown map and/or when I play the game late at night when my f.lux red-shifts the whole screen.

It is awesome that there is a color-blind option in the menu, kudos for that! Unfortunately it does not help with my kind of color-blindness.

From screenshot experiments I gathered that the minimap colors are currently:

Color-blind mode OFF:
#00C800 for own stuff (0,200,0)
#FFD700 for resource items (255,215,0)
#B4141E for enemies (180,20,30)

Color-blind mode ON:
#0080FF for own stuff (0,128,255)
#FFD700 for resource items (255,215,0)
#B4141E for enemies (180,20,30)

So for my problem of not seeing the enemies on the minimap, the color-blind mode does not help, because the enemy color does not change at all :D

Is there a chance to get an additional option to change the enemy color as well? I mean, the best solution would be to let players pick their own colors in the options menu, but I know that this can be much work, depending on the architecture of the game...

Alternatively, is there maybe a way to mod the game so I can replace the minimap colors with my own? I mean, this should just be 3 bytes somewhere in the game files, right? I just heard my inner naive modder say "How hard can it be, really?" xDD

Edit:
Well, my naive modding approach did not work. I found the bytes that need to be changed (they are hard coded in the exe) but the game won't start when I change them. Back to square one, I guess *cry*

[9136]

Hello! Devs, please make the colorblind mode for different variations of color blindness. The current mode is, frankly, useless. It's very important to distinguish colors for games like yours. <3

[QWEEDDY2]

Originally posted by G:

Hello! Devs, please make the colorblind mode for different variations of color blindness. The current mode is, frankly, useless. It's very important to distinguish colors for games like yours. <3

Maybe can help few mods change mini-map colors as addition to color blind mode.

Maybe you can find more general workarounds here:
http://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/They_Are_Billions (no additional info here, click on term article link for more info)
or on some else websites about general color blind gaming.