Problem with Garuda (Hard) for the Color Impaired

[Arlen]

Development staff, I have an issue with fighting Garuda on hard mode. I know I'm not the only one but when it comes to Garuda's sisters, I can't tell between which one is red and which one is green. Like many games, they add a "colorblind" mode that changes colors to red and blue instead. It's one reason why I can't tank for Garuda.

Also colorblind, in DF I've asked someone to mark them because I'm red/green colorblind. (the most common) I've never had a problem. Games consistently use red/green.

[Harvestbuddy]

Yeah it's true games consistently use red/green. Even League of Legends has a Colorblind mode that turns green to a baby blue.

[Zumi]

The way my FC does this fight is we kill the one that spawns closest to the tank first doesn't matter if it is red or green, it will be dead before the far one even gets to the party. We also 1 tank it because we found it pointless to bring an offtank to tank an add that hardly hits for much damage at off. 1 tank 5 dps 2 healers is the best set up for the fight. Now then for the center adds we aoe LB they are dead. We usually don't get a 3rd set but if we did we still kill the one by the tank first. This fight color doesn't really matter at all.

[Harvestbuddy]

The way my FC does this fight is we kill the one that spawns closest to the tank first doesn't matter if it is red or green, it will be dead before the far one even gets to the party. We also 1 tank it because we found it pointless to bring an offtank to tank an add that hardly hits for much damage at off. 1 tank 5 dps 2 healers is the best set up for the fight. Now then for the center adds we aoe LB they are dead. We usually don't get a 3rd set but if we did we still kill the one by the tank first. This fight color doesn't really matter at all.

So I told my groups about my issue and they just told me to off tank the farthest from the group which worked out alright. Ore than that I have no trouble main tanking her. But I just hope in the future they'll be more aware that there are people like me who has problems with these.

[altered_juice]

well, i know the names swap every match so you're out of luck on that one.

[Wiggles]

I usually just mark green as "1" and red as "2". Perhaps ask the party if someone can do this for you.

[Razor]

I know a lot of modern games have started to include a color blind mode. Alternatively, SE could just do what the government has done with traffic lights. Make "green" a bluish green teal and "red" a yellowish red orange. Teal/Orange would look cooler anyway ;P But yeah, other than that like many others have already said, a lot of parties now prefer to burn down the closest sister regardless of color. It's a really good point to raise for future content development though.

[Balaur]

I know a lot of modern games have started to include a color blind mode. Alternatively, SE could just do what the government has done with traffic lights. Make "green" a bluish green teal and "red" a yellowish red orange. Teal/Orange would look cooler anyway ;P But yeah, other than that like many others have already said, a lot of parties now prefer to burn down the closest sister regardless of color. It's a really good point to raise for future content development though.

The reason Red/Green colorblindness and even total colorblindness don't work well with game systems is because the two colors typically have the same values. Take away color, and the two lines appear the same. This is how people with RG colorblindess see it. If the Green line is changed to Blue, the value of the line lightens, making the two lines much more distinct even with total colorblindness. This isn't a minor issue, but the proportion of the human population with even partial to total colorblindness is less than 10%, such that the impact of a change for such a small segment seems non-viable. I am not familiar with statistics on gamers with partial to total colorblindness, but it is enough that many large gaming franchises DO incorporate such features, that they recognize the problems.

Which is odd. Sexism is more rampant in gaming than colorblind-safe features, but that may also be due to the fact that colorblindness is much, MUCH more common in males than females, so the impact of male to female players is more felt. Only recent accommodation to female gamers stresses any concern.

[AzNheadbanger]

My friend is colorblind and uses SweetFX to alter the colors

[Bashkarthegreat]

even better idea, just MT Garuda and dont do off tank add duty, problem solved