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If a color blind mode was added, would it really be cheating if a normal person changed it?

Yords
Yords Member Posts: 5,800
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From what I have heard, the only reason a color blind mode has not been added is because people with normal vision could use it to gain an advantage by being able to see it more clearly. At least I think, someone please explain to me how a color blind mode would be unfair because would it really have such a big impact? I just feel bad for people who are color blind because they can't play the game normally and the devs won't add a color blind mode.

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  • bm33
    bm33 Member Posts: 8,495

    PC has advantage over console with performance and that didn't stop them from introducing crossplay. I don't see how it's OK to allow advantage based of platform used but not OK when adding accessibility options would help someone with a disability play normal. If you're going to allow platform performance disadvantages then you can't use the excuse of giving those without disabilities an advantage when helping someone with disability be able to play normal. The ones without disabilities already have an advantage over those with disabilities since they don't even have an option to play normal.

  • MeltingPenguins
    MeltingPenguins Member Posts: 3,742

    Also, people who insist non-colorblind people would use it to cheat never tell you 'how'.


    Let's break things down:

    Main issue are the auras and scratchmarks (and blood trails): If they would be changed to a different color in CBmode, no difference would come to it.

    I don't know if people imagine a colorblind mode would me there'd be arrows popping up telling someone where a survivor ran etc or a voiceover telling you where what is....

  • oxygen
    oxygen Member Posts: 3,387

    Modes like that can certainly end up offering some sort of advantage. Even "censorship" can, I remember quite a few people used launch options to launch PUBG with the Korean censorship mode activated, which turned the blood effects blue instead of red which many found easier to see.

    But at the same time I wouldn't call any of that an actual arguement against colourblind modes in games. People can do wayyyy more "cheaty" stuff through things like Nvidia filters, reshade and so on if they really want to. And actual good colourblind modes are obviously fantastic to colourblind people.

  • Pennywise
    Pennywise Member Posts: 258
    edited November 2020

    It is happening anyway with players using reshade, even streamers (and fog whisperers) use it openly. Their rationale maybe that it makes the game look better but it also makes stratch marks and blood more pronounced, survivors trying to hide easier to spot and the killers red stain is more visible. If the ambassadors of DBD can do it and BHVr tolerate that, then I say an official mode would be fine.