Death by daily developer Behavior Interactive has announced a new feature following screams from the gaming community. Color blind mode will follow Death by daily, with settings for the different types of color blindness: deuteranope (inability to detect green light,) protanope (inability to detect red light,) and tritanope (inability to see blue light. There is no release date, but it will be soon said the developer in a tweet.
The controversy started when a new test empire was introduced Death by daily, which included a new HUD update. Patch 4.5.0, which did not arrive on live servers, comes with patch notes explaining the change.
The player status widget (player names, health conditions, etc.) has been redesigned. Along with a number of graphical enhancements to animations, the player status widget is now placed on the left side of the screen. Although this change was not made lightly, it was necessary to make the players’ names legible on all platforms and resolutions, as well as to make room for new HUD elements such as the Hook Count.
Fans immediately noticed that the new user interface was very difficult to compare for color-blind players. Death by daily is a competitive game where four survivors try to escape from one powerful killer. Survivors leave red “scratch marks” in the area showing their activity, and the killer’s sight cone is represented by a red light.
This is not a new complaint; fans have been calling for behavior for these changes for some time, with one player going so far as to post a weekly jaw-dropping post about the lack of color-blind settings for Death by dailyâ- and kept it going for 70 weeks.
Things got hotter then a developer said going ‘It’s getting really boring to just bark all the time about color blind mode, we’ve heard it a million times already. We know. To keep bathing us about it is not going to change anything. â
The controversy was highlighted by Steven Spohn, the COO of Able Gamers and a longtime advocate for gamers with disabilities.
it makes me sad to hear it comes from a developer who “gets bored” of people “blabbering on about color blind mode”
But @DeadByBHVR, if you’re tired of ‘bad saying’ about it, imagine how tired people are of not being able to play your game because it is inaccessible to them
– Steven Spohn (Spawn) (@stevenspohn) 21 January 2021
Two hours after Spohn’s retweet, Behavior Interactive responded with a series of tweets that read in part: ‘This is not an indication of the team’s opinions, and we apologize for the frustration or damage it caused. […] We’re been working on a color blind mode for some time and we plan to release it soon. â
This is not how we wanted to reveal it, but we feel it’s the right time … we’re been working on a color blind mode for some time and plan to release soon.
– Dead by Daylight (@DeadByBHVR) 21 January 2021
It looks like color blind mode will not be in 4.5.0, which includes the new user interface and a remake for one of the game’s killers, The Clown.
“We want to make sure it’s done the right way, so while we’re hoping to get it in the next major release, we can not yet commit to the release date,” Behavior wrote on Twitter.