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Apex Legends

A free battle royale shooter from Respawn with a ping system.

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Gcreator of Game Maker's Toolkit testHow Accessible Were 2019’s Biggest Games?
In short

Apex Legends built accessibility into core play. Its ping system pairs a subtitled voice line with a visual marker, so deaf players can communicate without audio. It adds three colourblind palettes with live preview, voice-to-text chat, and aim assist and dead zone options. Lesson: give players non-voice ways to coordinate and real settings, not blunt filters. The sources give no numbers on results.

At a glanceApex pings let deaf players share info without voice
  1. 1Player pingsMarks an area, enemy or object
  2. 2Ping reaches teammatesSubtitled voice line plus visual indicator
  3. 3Teammates read itNo hearing or speaking needed

From Apex Legends accessibility review

What was said about Apex Legends

  • Apex Legends pings let deaf players communicate without voice or audio. Each ping marks an area, enemy or object for teammates with both a subtitled voice line and a visual indicator. Players can share key information without hearing or speaking.

    Apex can also turn voice chat into text and text chat into voice. The source praises the ping system for "allowing players to communicate important info in a multiplayer game, but without audio".

  • Apex Legends gives colourblind players three real palettes with an in-menu preview. The game offers three distinct palettes and shows what the new colours will look like right in the menu. The source calls it one of the better colourblind features among 2019's big games.

    The contrast is with full-screen filters, which often don't work as intended and mostly make the game look ugly. Modern Warfare's Protanopia filter, for example, doesn't stop red enemy names from blending into the background.

  • Apex Legends adds camera sensitivity and dead zone controls for players with motor needs. These options sit alongside control remapping as ways to adapt the game to a player's physical abilities. The source also lists aim assist options for Apex.

    Borderlands 3 is named alongside Apex for camera sensitivity and dead zone control. The source argues remapping and control options should be built at the game level, not left to system-level remapping.

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