[2020] In plat solo queue I had a teammate who was deaf

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The first few seconds after we all picked our agents the omen said “hello everyone! :) I am a deaf player so please use pings and typing to communicate with me”.

Now I felt really bad because I expected this guy to get flamed by the other randoms, however everyone in the entire game was very helpful pinging and typing to support this omen. The omen ended up top fragging and we did a 13-0 which I had never done before.

Not much point in this story but I just wanted to tell it so we’d have examples of the valorant community coming together and not being toxic but being supportive.

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over 4 years ago - /u/ProgRocktopus - Direct link

Originally posted by DistortionGG

Supposedly they're working on a better "ping" system. We'll see how it turns out!

Not a "better system", but an expansion of the current one into a few places, like ability intention.

over 4 years ago - /u/ProgRocktopus - Direct link

Originally posted by Hypern1ke

My instinct was to ask for the source.... but then I saw the flair

Happy to discuss non-verbal communication any time!

over 4 years ago - /u/ProgRocktopus - Direct link

Originally posted by Slowpoke_Fieri

any plans for visualized audio options? i can understand why this could lead to issues but it would be great for the hearing impaired

Definitely, yes. We launched with a pretty basic set of accessibility features and we want to do a lot more in the space. Sound visualization is on the list and we have a specification written (that works for our kind of game). All that's left is to figure out timing/priority and do the work.

over 4 years ago - /u/theboomBEAR - Direct link

This warms my heart. I've got moderate-to-severe hearing loss, so I have a lot of trouble with game-relevant sounds in nearly every game I play. After well over a thousand of hours of asking friends to tell me where footsteps are coming from or when someone taps the defuse in CS and VAL, it's awesome to see that same level of support here too.

Thanks for sharing and making my day.

over 4 years ago - /u/ProgRocktopus - Direct link

Originally posted by ambivalent_teapot

Hey if I could make a suggestion, it would be really nice to be able to turn down just the gunfire sound but keep other audio cues. I have sound sensitivity meaning I can only tolerate quiet sounds, anything remotely loud causes quite a bit of pain. Intense piercing sounds like gunfire are especially bad. Right now I'm having to turn all sfx way down when playing which means I can't hear footsteps. Btw Guardian is by far the worst gunfire for me, the sound is very piercing and irritating.

Just a suggestion. There are quite a bit of people with sound sensitivity, it's part of multiple diseases.

Noted! I'll add it to the plans. Thanks for explaining it to me.

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