Gonna stream the game in a few minutes if y’all would like to join in. ;)
schurem
1784
I’d love to but my copy still remains locked.
I bailed early in Tom’s stream last night when the realization hit me that I wanted to discover all this stuff for myself.
Reemul
1786
Well I pre Purchased, really looking forward to this
You will see the bracket before the ship in many cases. Yes, it is red for enemies, blue for friendlies so that could be an issue for you but you should be able to see the bracket regardless of color or lack thereof, right?
If they’re hostile, even if there’s no color, you can see their faction on the MFD (Pirate), and all autotargeting prioritizes hostiles first in a firefight.
Took me a while to notice but the MFD is super useful for all sorts of information.
One thing that doesn’t seem to work for me is switching targets with keyboard, which I believe is R and T keys? Nothing seems to happen when I hit them… could just be something I’m doing wrong, which is usually the case!
Hm. I just tried it and it seems to be working? it cycles targets left and right - they have to be close enough to be targetable of course, but it seems to do what is expected. ANy chance those keys got remapped?
Tman
1791
Ugh Red on Black is like invisible to me.
What is MFD?
What is MFD?
MultiFunctionDisplay.
If you can’t see red on black, you may want to stick with a non-color-coded radar.
They’re cheaper anyway!
Tman
1793
or you might be able to go to your backlog and type in “color blindness settings” and label the priority TBD ;-) You know, at least get it on there.
Did you have anyone with colorblindness playtest this?
I have a note from grade school back in 1992 that says I am red/green colorblind.
I am willing to offer my services for free.
RichVR
1795
I have a note from HS that says I should play RGO right now. :)
We had like 6 people playtest this. I don’t think any of them were colorblind though.
If there are elements that can’t be distinguished then I’ll try to address them, but I don’t even know how to tell what is a problem.
Mostly I’ve been in a dead sprint to just finish the damn thing so I can turn my paychecks back on.
rei
1797
What is the gamepad equivalent of this?
About one in twelve men are colourblind. It’s very common amongst (what I imagine is) your demographic!
There are some online tools where you can upload screenshots and play with the different types of colour blindness. Also some apps do a camera view in realtime.
It’s basically stripping away one or more RGB channels to various degrees (most commonly R and/or G), so you could even do a simulation using post-processing in-game I suppose.
The full solution would be to have preset HUD colour schemes for each type of blindness, like some other games do. I think the quickest/easiest approach is to stick to blue/red for differentiating good/bad things, as the most common colour blindness is red/green.
Red/Blue are already the color differentiators.
Every hud for every ship is custom with a different color scheme (outside of targeting), and happens independently of color grading-
stusser
1802
There’s a fair amount on the internet about making your media or game colorblind accessible, but to do it properly requires changing iconography rather than just colors as there are a bunch of different types of colorblindness and it can be pretty challenging to make it work for everybody. A quick workaround to save yourself work might be to just let users define their own colors in RGB for important stuff like targeting reticules to fix the problem themselves. I don’t think most people would go batshit crazy if this wasn’t in the initial release. Then again it is the internet.
