AoW: Planetfall - No Accessibility/Colorblind Options

[bos_turakh]

One line summary of your issue
No Accessibility/Colorblind Options

What platform are you running the game on?

Steam

What operating system do you use?
Win 10 Redstone 3
Which version of the game are you running?
Velociraptor

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
This is not a "bug" as accessibility options are standard on games of all kinds at this point, but your game lacks any options for the ~4.6% of the global population -- 3 million people -- who are colorblind. A lack of colorblind options is evidence of a fundamental indifference to those of us whose needs are non-standard.
Have you tried verifying your files?
Yes

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[AndrewT]

Open up:
C:/users/<UserName>/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Age of Wonders Planetfall/Config/settings.cfg
in Notepad.

Change Video.ColorBlindEnabled=false to true.

Note I have not tested it myself but it's there!

 

[bos_turakh]

Has anyone tested this? I returned the game before I could try it, but if it works I may repurchase it.

 

[Triumph Jordi]

That setting is just a hold over from AoW3, currently there are no colorblind or visually impaired accessibility options.

 

[bos_turakh]

That setting is just a hold over from AoW3, currently there are no colorblind or visually impaired accessibility options.

Thanks for the update. Will definitely re-buy once this is remedied, as I cannot imagine a serious game developer not implementing some kind of accessibility options and allowing their product to go to sale.

 

[Citillara]

As a colorblind myself, I have a huge issue finding my armies on the map. The low saturation level combined to a low color contrast doesn't help.
And please also remove the transparency on the army icon

Tell me in this screenshot how much time do you need to find where's my main army
https://gyazo.com/ac1d20a4f40f07f987ac04397682b77a

One thing I would definitely enable even if it breaks the nice graphics would be a thick hex underline

On the map another change could be to change the army cursor shape depending on whether the army is ally/neutral/war. The shapes solves the problems of choosing colors

Another would be in the global settings an override of player colors (optional) so only on that client we could choose for example to always color ourselves this color, player 2 this color and so on