BHVR’s selective accessibility

I am sensitive to light so when someone uses a flashlight it hurts my eyes and dims my vision. I still play and one of the main reasons I use lightborn. I wouldn’t expect them to cater to a weird eye issue.

Accessibility features in videogames are always selective.. and they didnt specify this was only related tonarachnophobia

Is it possible to have an accessibility discussion without slippery slope fallacies? Asking for a friend.

As someone who is directly impacted by my colorblindness with this game, you're both right yet rude about it. Colorblindness affects every person differently, so issues for one might not be an issue for another. That said, the colorblind mode in the game provides a bare minimum accommodation without sacrificing potential advantages. Personally I think things like selecting the base colors for various auras and blood pools would help someone like myself specifically, but if you started getting into things like luminosity (which objectively helps introduce contrast in many situations where hue is the primary difference) would start to get into an advantage gaining issue. That said, the rarity thing was absolutely stupid and they were warned constantly the moment players found out it was going to be a thing, but they refused to scrap the change and further refuse to give an option to revert them to the previous colors, which comes off as extremely tonedeaf and dismissive about the issue.

this is a sound based game and sound is super important if someone is hard of hearing they might need to play a different game since the heartbeat meter is already really good if they add something that counters spirit phase might be game breaking

This is incorrect or at least poorly worded from OPs side. BHVR only confirmed that no Spider-Killer is planned for the foreseeable future, but not because of accessibility. They mentioined accessibility since it came into discussion with a spider killer and arachnophobia, but this is not the reason why there is no Spider-Killer.

I have chronic migraines but I have always been sensitive to light. I have zero depth perception and can’t see 3D. I also can’t watch people playing video games or I get sick but playing is ok.

My son is autistic and he can’t play the game as survivor because of all the tunneling and camping.

As long as they don't trigger anyone's anatideaphobia, I think it'll be fine. Could you imagine?

Fear of spiders is something that just locks some people up. Not surprising they won't do it.

W Ryan as always

Never has been, they just stated its not currently in the plans - which includes the planned chapters up until next anniversary chapter.

I guess theoretically that Community vote chapter may lead to a Spider still

Survivors were given a visual terror radius, but killers still have a sound occlusion system that purposely hides survivor noises when there isn’t any line of sight.

The Sound occlusion also affects survivors and iirc doesnt affect the audio of the terror radius either

Some feedback that is on my mind. Thanks.

The item and perk colour change is bad. Adds nothing to the game and makes it worse. A toggle would be fine if you don´t want to change it completely back.

Chase music is to loud. Especially since for whatever reason almost all of them now have a very short hammering drum- oder percussion-loop. A slider to make it even a little less loud would be great.

Why the heck can´t we get our NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons back to cycle through chars in the menu. You need much more clicks than before to go through them now. Still feels clunky.

Please consider something different than "Quests". This is so incredible generic and boring. DbD don´t need to copy every other game. Why take some cool mystery out of the game?

Sound occlusion affects survivors way less than it affects killers, because if a noise is important to survivors, the game makes sure the survivors can hear those noises.

Did you know Spirit's directional phasing audio used to respect audio occlusion? But people complained that it was unfair they couldn't always hear the audio, so the directional phasing audio was buffed so that it could be easily heard through walls?

And yes, the terror radius noises are another perfect example, where the audio works perfectly through walls, because it's important for survivors to be able to hear important noises.

I can agree with this. While I feel survivor side has been more accommodated in regards to hearing issues (big part of why I play majority survivor,) there are still multiple issue on their side as well. Accessibility especially shouldn't be an us vs them topic, its not about pulling each other down as much as it is making sure everyone is taken care of.

Regarding phobias, the issue is in psychosomatic responses, which often come hand in hand with many phobias. Its not as much about fear as your body literally tricking you into believing involuntary sensations. There's a very big difference between even deep psychological horror and physically getting ill, or even true Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn responses. Few people who advocate for further phobias being excluded from the game think that the ones already there should be ignored, in fact they could (and should) be fixed the same as other accessibility issues.

Since it is too late as they are already in the game, accommodations would have to involve removing/swapping assets in a voluntary (specifically end user focused) censorship fashion (A setting to force the clown to use an appearance that does not represent a clown specifically, muting vomiting/giving it disassociated visual representation with an unnatural appearance like rainbow vomit, etc.) If you add another common phobia to the mix just because the other mistakes were made in the past, you're putting preference and/or spite before accessibility. There is far more feedback about how phobias do/have affect(ed) players in the community, so we have more data on the subject than we did when Clown was released. Obviously its mostly anecdotal feedback, but people have voiced their difficulties on these topics compared to before they were implemented.

The most important thing that a lot of people need to understand about how a lot of these issues affect players isn't about fear specifically, its about everything that comes with it turning it into a disproportionately negative experience, as opposed to being a "thrill" with no direct consequence. One of the most important aspects of appreciating horror is that it is always in a safe environment, thats why even cortisol can be welcomed in the right circumstances. Thats something that people should always be able to expect from their games, and a complaint that shouldn't really be ignored.