Handicapped Players

I'm confused, what are you talkin about?

Just FYI the ADA doesn’t apply in general to video games, it applies more to employment and public accommodations and facilities and communications. The closest thing that appears to apply to video games is the Communications Act which the FCC has ruled means that if a game provides communications like ingame chat or messaging then it needs to have appropriate accommodations for the disabled to be able to use those features.

That’s not to say providing support to the disabled isn’t a good thing to do of course. I’m just saying the ADA itself doesn’t have legal requirements for video games from what I can tell.

I clearly need to do more research on what Autism does.

Executive function basically affects planning, organisation and time management. It makes the simplest of tasks sometimes feel like quantum physics, so in terms of the perks mentioned it may help plan how to escape and also where to go.

Not all autistic people have this, but according to a study in 2018 it's estimated 80% of people with autism live with this. Being on the spectrum myself, I can say this can be extremely frustrating.

I must admit I’m guilty of telling one or two killers they “play strange”. If that was you, I’m terribly sorry, that was idiotic of me.

On the topic, with all due tespect, but I have to wonder what BHVR can even do here? A quickbind to look behind you? I’m struggling with ideas here, because they’re rather limited by the typical player’s hardware.

If you have ideas, by all means speak up.

Off of the top of my head, Sony games are usually very good at this, with Ratchet + Clank: Rift Apart being very good, and I think TLOU:2 won The Game Award for best accessability. Spider-Man also has some pretty good options. Sony itself announced a website on the 16th December which explains which of it's games have which accessability features and pledged to include as many as possible.

Celeste is an indie game with some of the best accessability, too, even if it isn't immidiately obvious (the way it works here is that dying enough times will then give you the options for the features, with the accessability allowing players to adjust the difficulty as much as they need to).

WOW has amazing accessability for visually impaired players, with subtitled, Colourblind settings, HUD scaling, and the like. Maybe not for people with auditory disabilities/motor disabilities, but still.

Any game which features an extensive control remapping system (like AC: Valhalla) technically has good accessability features, as that (along with some gameplay changes, like the struggle change + soon to happen toggleable interactions + wiggle change) enables people with motor disabilities to play however is easiest for them.

Any game that has subtitles, a scalable HUD, vibration, Colourblind settings, and remappable controls is already doing pretty damn well in terms of accessability settings, and a lot of major games have them. It's something that a lot of people take for granted but can be really helpful to others.

I uh, dude, im sorry, but if you haveva serious hearing impairnent and you are trying to play a game that relies on audio for the most part, you might have to think about yourself for a minute.

Im pretty sure every single game tells you in the safety measures before the game even lets you in that it contains flashing lights and so.

I'm sorry not to contribute to the discussion but I wanted to share a video I've watched a while ago for people with difficulties to hear.

There are actually a playlist as well with three other videos, so I let the link to the playlist. In case it could help someone reading the thread.

I have problems with motion sickness in this game and agree that FOV should be adjustable through the menus like a majority of games and not locked behind a perk. With shadowborn I am able to play Nurse and Blight, my two favorite killers to play but also the ones who bother me the most due to their motion/zooms/camera shakes, but without it I get queasy and dizzy very quickly. I can imagine people who have more severe motion sickness couldn't play killer at all.

I know the game has a ways to go in some regards but I feel they've actually tried when it comes to accessibility.

I remember an amazing Hag that turned out to be 100% deaf. She used perks and notifications to help her dominate (can't think of her name at the moment unfortunately).

I know colour blind settings are a bit lacking but they have made attempts (though not of their own accord) but its better than nothing....

Edit: Not to mention struggle and wiggle changes!

Is it perfect? No. But they're not ignoring these players either

Jokes on you, the colorblind options don't even help with the problems that colorblind players have :)

BHVR are taking steps towards more inclusivity, which I applaud. There will be things that may be hard for them to totally help:

An example is that I have Tourette's as part of my diagnosis; one symptom are twitches in my fingers. I Sometimes end up twitches on the joystick, which can be problematic in chases. I've tried hard to learn to play with it and for the most part I've evolved my playstyle, but I'm not sure of there is anything they can do with this.

The devs will find it a ginormous task to include all disabilities, but I don't doubt they are trying. It's just that there's more involved to disabilities than just colour-blindness and such. Feedback will help, as it's one of many things they'll need to deal with.