BioShock 2 Hacking Sucks for Colorblind Folks - briefly
(hx) 10:52 PM CET - Feb,11 2010
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on the official Bioshock 2 forums reveals that hacking in the
game is almost impossible for colour blind gamers:
This is really disappointing. It's an integral part of the game, and I
can't use it. Please, please provide a patch for this. I propose a
quick color selector for the various existing color levels; this is
because "color blindness" isn't necessarily the same between two color
blind people. There are some who can see the shades of red and green
used in the hack tool just fine, and there are others (like me) that
can't. If you just change it arbitrarily then you may fix it for me and
break it for someone else. For the record, I'm playing on the PS3. I
also tried to search the forums to see if anyone already posted about
this, but the search keeps giving me a database error.
In addition Negative Gamer informed us that
they have posted an article up right now about
this, including samples of what people with color blindness see.
When hacking, the needle moves across the dial. Pressing A on a green
hacks, blue gives you a bonus (blue areas are not found on most hacking
displays), white gives you an electric shock and red triggers the
alarm. For those 6% of male gamers (only 0.1% of female gamers) who
suffer from deuteranopia (a form of red-green colour blindness) this image shows what
hacking looks like.
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