14 DAY TRIAL // Gearbox Software has recently revealed that Borderlands 2 will soon receive an update introducing a colorblind mode to all version of the game, in order to accommodate players with color vision deficiency.
In the latest Inside the Box blog post, Jeffrey Broome, one of the game's programmers, details the upcoming changes.
The colorblind mode will add a new line to object item cards, showing their rarity color name in text.
The change will affect all weapons, shield, class and grenade mods, relics, and will apply to all items found in wild, in chests, vending machines and player inventory.
"For Borderlands 2, it would be difficult to add anything to the existing loot beam displayed in the world since it's not easy to modify the existing particle effects after the game has shipped. But we can add text to the item card to display the color of the item when you get close enough to see the item card with the stats on it," Broome explains.
The update will introduce three different colorblind options to the video options menu, relating to three types of color vision deficiency, deuteranopia, protanopia or tritanopia.
Broome also mentions that due to a bug detected at the last minute, the wrong color values were used for the protanomaly setting, and players with protanopia should use the deuteranopia setting, until a fix will be made in a later patch.
The blog post contains much additional information regarding color vision deficiencies, complete with links to additional sources for interested readers, and even a YouTube video describing what's it like to be colorblind.
A release date or window for the patch has not been yet announced.