More Colorblind Settings Especially for Farm Maps

Hi hi I am one of the colorblind participants (EmberlyTV) from Syth202's video that was shared. I have Deuteranopia (Full red/green blindness) and struggle greatly with many of the maps and the scratch marks and radius often gets lost to me. As stated in the video, the colorblind settings is more of a filter rather than a true setting that I and others can rely on to fully enjoy the game. The only way the colorblind settings can somewhat help is when as a killer I want to see the hook states. With the settings it's bright enough that it stands out. However, that's the only praise I can give the settings. The fix that I, along with many of the colorblind community would appreciate, is if we could select the colors of our radius and scratch marks, etc. Objects in the map such as barrels, and some lighting often gets mistaken as the killer radius, so personally I end up running away from the barrel before realizing it's literally just a barrel. I sympathize that making the colors editable would be something that would require a lot of work, but it's the only fix I can see truly helping. Coldwind and other yellow like maps (along with of course Borgo) is the most difficult and painful map to play on. I understand that everyone's colorblindness is different, and while using the percent slider can help with people with a smaller deficiency, someone such as myself cannot properly function, and bringing map offerings helps only some of the time. On top of that, sticking to offerings prevents people with Colorblindness to truly enjoy the game. I could go on and on but the video has summed up many of our complaints and what we struggle with. However, if there is something more I could explain in better detail I would truly appreciate the time to discuss this matter further.

(Also I read that you are also colorblind and was curious as to which colorblindess/deficiency you have) 

I have Protanomaly, which is a mild type of red/green colorblindness. For me, what this means is that I can perceive these colors, but poorly. I tend to confuse pinks, oranges, reds and even some browns. I also struggle with getting greens mixed up, as well as "green adjacent" colors like teal, and even some blues on occasion.

The current filters in the game are not strong enough, even for me with a relatively mild case of colorblindness.

I have always struggled in DBD while playing Killer on certain maps; notably the Cornfield, Shattered Square and any "green saturated" map, like Red Forest, Autohaven, McMillian Estate, etc. That's at least 5 "domains" that I struggle with terribly as a Killer.

On the Survivor side, these are not nearly as bad, since I don't have to rely on Scratch Marks to find players. This has directly led to me playing more Survivor because I find it significantly easier with my colorblindness to play and do well vs. when I play Killer.

The two biggest things that would help me enormously would be: Being allowed to change the auras of things. By default, most auras are red for the Killer, and those are outright impossible for me to see on many maps. They simply vanish for me most of the time. In the worst cases,

Perks that "change the intensity of the color" based on an action are useless to me, as I cannot discern between the subtleties of a "slightly lighter red" and "now that red is darker".

Increasing the contrast: The thing that helps the most with colorblindness for a lot of us is more contrast, not different colors. By this I mean, including patterns/shapes and making things outright have stark contrast to anything that might be around it as well. There is a BIT of this in the auras, but not nearly enough. The undulating "meat" veins that appear in auras when you get close enough actually do help them become a bit more noticeable but this needs to be starker. A simple texture pattern of dots, triangles or jagged lines etc that slowly move could help a ton.

Here's an example from one of the game's Wiki pages talking about auras:

Killer's POV:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/deadbydaylight_gamepedia_en/images/e/eb/KillerAuraReading.png

Survivor's POV:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/deadbydaylight_gamepedia_en/images/0/0d/SurvivorAuraReading.jpg

Now I know that's an older version of that map from the "Killer POV" one, but the problem is still present in updated maps. You can see how the red aura color is difficult to see, versus the types and variety of auras Survivors get. The funny thing is, the very red generators and hooks are the hardest to see, with generators being the hardest for some reason. They don't seem to be coded to be as vibrant as other types of auras, and that's actually a problem. The easier auras to read are the more saturated ones like the Killer's aura and the Windows.

But this all comes back to my first point: If we could choose what color the auras are, we would not be so disadvantaged playing, and for Killer especially, the inability to know where my gens and hooks are directly impedes my ability to play the game. If I could make my auras yellow on most maps, I wouldn't struggle nearly as much (Obviously the Cornfield might still be a challenge there, but I'd be down from 5 realms being unplayable to only 1, which is quite nice).

Forcing colorblind players to only work with the predetermined colors we can't change and applying filters to it is a band-aid at best for most of us. The easiest solution is letting us change the colors of things we need to get information from. And we can sort of do that with the filter, but the problem is, we are only really changing the intensity of a problematic color and not getting rid of it altogether. The filters also effect everything, so even on areas where a color might not be a problem, you're still forced to change it too and hope it works out.

Dealing with colorblindness is often a dance of compromise and none of the results are ideal, only "less bad" than before.

I love playing Killer, but am at this point largely a Survivor player just because Survivor is so much easier for me due to my disability.

Oh this would be SO amazing tbh. Because there's not really a "one size fits all" answer for colorblindness; there are several types of it, and different degrees of severity. So what may help one colorblind person may make it worse for another.

This even translates to the same person on different maps. Because Dead by Daylight "color codes" it's maps with "theme colors", but these are all different, the settings that help me on Coldwind won't be the same settings that would help me on Red Forest or Autohaven.

Being able to change auras and scratch marks would absolutely be the biggest help to me, personally.

I am reminded of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Released in 1999, it had extensive color blind options from the start, and I remember my best friend who is red/green colorblind loved that game. When i, as a non-colorblind person tried the settings she played with, it looked terrible to me and all washed out and drab, and so I asked her about it and she said it was one of the best games she'd ever played. Like, they had actually someone like her work on and test the colorblind mode to make sure it looked great. This was in NINETEEN-NIGHTY-NINE. Why can't companies do this today?