Battlegrounds Colors

attrielub17_ESO · December 15

Hey does anyone know if there's a way to change the colors in battlegrounds? When we had 3 i just hoped to be on blue, but now there's two teams and (colorblind issues) they're both the same shade of red.

Like i know there's the symbol but looking at the map to see who owns what doesn't show me the symbols (or at least not large enough to see fast)

I can't find a setting in gameplay or video or interface

I don't generally do pvp but i'd like to know who to help !!

Treeshka · December 15

This game has no colorblind mode as far as i know. Maybe addons can add custom colors but i have heard nothing about that.

tomofhyrule · December 15

The new two-team mode only has the green and orange teams, so the purple is gone unless they bring back a 3-team weekend event or something.

There is currently no way to change the colors, but you can submit a /feedback in game to let the team know that this is an issue. Failing that, I don't think there's anything yet. Maybe an addon author can write something to display it? I know there are addons that will add a numerical display for item quality so you can see the difference between e.g. blue and purple or green and gold quality items.

Minnesinger · December 15

The best option to check that your combat colors are optimized ("Settings "- "Gameplay" - "Combat" ) You propably have them already but that is the one I myself use to set them clearly visible.

Minnesinger · December 15

tomofhyrule wrote: »

The new two-team mode only has the green and orange teams, so the purple is gone unless they bring back a 3-team weekend event or something.

There is currently no way to change the colors, but you can submit a /feedback in game to let the team know that this is an issue. Failing that, I don't think there's anything yet. Maybe an addon author can write something to display it? I know there are addons that will add a numerical display for item quality so you can see the difference between e.g. blue and purple or green and gold quality items.

There are also addons that can mark your group members.

attrielub17_ESO · December 15

OK the combat settings don't distinguish the teams/objectvies. the "show my team" works for team but not objectives. I authored one of the item rarity->number mods for this same reason

I submitted a feedback. hopefully i get told that its IN the exposed api but my guess is i continue guessing as none of the UI devs have an issue (I also suggested running it through the backend devs to help catch in the future

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katanagirl1 · December 15

There really should be colorblind options in this game, there are in many others. That is a genuine accessibility need. My hubby can’t tell the difference between enemies with red outlines(hostile) and those with yellow outlines(non-hostile but will defend if attacked). Many cues in the game are color coded, like siege going from green to red after firing.

I am guessing they don’t want to use the color option from Cyrodiil and chose complementary colors instead, but for colorblind players there should be a way to choose colors that can be discriminated from each other.

LunaFlora · December 15

yes there should be more colourblindness accessibility, it's sad there isn't

Thumbless_Bot · December 15

Maybe they could use different shapes over the heads of teams? Also, I think you can disable markers over your own teams heads if I am not mistaken.

Circuitous · December 15

Actually, an acquaintance of mine brought up this same problem, and I got curious, so I used a colorblindness simulator to try and see what they saw. Here's the result I got.

Some colorblind options are about 10 years overdue, to be honest.

attrielub17_ESO · December 16

katanagirl1 wrote: »

My hubby can’t tell the difference between enemies with red outlines(hostile) and those with yellow outlines(non-hostile but will defend if attacked)

wait what? THOSE ARE DIFFERENT COLORS??? I just sorta guess "that looks like someone who's gonna attack" or "that namesounds like an npc not a mob"

katanagirl1 · December 16

attrielub17_ESO wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

My hubby can’t tell the difference between enemies with red outlines(hostile) and those with yellow outlines(non-hostile but will defend if attacked)

wait what? THOSE ARE DIFFERENT COLORS??? I just sorta guess "that looks like someone who's gonna attack" or "that namesounds like an npc not a mob"

Yep. ESO really needs a colorblind guy to do some playtesting for them. It’s all this stuff we take for granted that is essential to being able to play the game effectively.

attrielub17_ESO · December 19

Circuitous wrote: »

Actually, an acquaintance of mine brought up this same problem, and I got curious, so I used a colorblindness simulator to try and see what they saw. Here's the result I got.

Some colorblind options are about 10 years overdue, to be honest.

i can actually see all 3 colors there which is more than i can do in game. red and green (yellow? skulls) are the same to me in game, this ended up way better distinguished

which is the problem with the simulators they do best estimate on most common and i'm definitely more broken than that

katanagirl1 · December 19

attrielub17_ESO wrote: »

Circuitous wrote: »

Actually, an acquaintance of mine brought up this same problem, and I got curious, so I used a colorblindness simulator to try and see what they saw. Here's the result I got.

Some colorblind options are about 10 years overdue, to be honest.

i can actually see all 3 colors there which is more than i can do in game. red and green (yellow? skulls) are the same to me in game, this ended up way better distinguished

which is the problem with the simulators they do best estimate on most common and i'm definitely more broken than that

There are different types of color blindness and different levels of severity, for lack of a better word. Sorry I don’t mean to sound mean, especially since I completely understand. That’s why accessibility options should be included. Red, green, and orange will be problematic, colors like blue and yellow would work better.