Hi I’m Sara, and I am legally blind, and I love FFXIV! Let’s go through Snowcloak and listen to how I, a visually imapired person, can determine how to navigate the dungeons of FFXIV by sound.
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Hi I’m Sara, and I am legally blind, and I love FFXIV! Let’s go through Snowcloak and listen to how I, a visually imapired person, can determine how to navigate the dungeons of FFXIV by sound.
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Something I was wondering that wasnt covered in the video, are there any sounds that help with the dancer's dance? Like knowing which of the 4 buttons to push for the damage boost, or even knowing when you've gotten the flourishing skill procs?
If you want to quickly take out your weapon or sheathe it, you can press R1 and L1 🙂
I am also a person who plays heavily if not majority wise by sound.
I am a tank main and really enjoy raiding I've touched some of a an ultamite and fought almost all of eden savage at this point. Still trying to clear older content Ive missed.
I think you explain this really well, the sound effects are so good and as you said it's all directional if you have surround sound it's the best.
I'm not blind at all, apparently my last eye test said I have excellent vision , but the problem is, my brain processes things slower than others I would say. Especially colors as I've found found from e7s and delebrium. But it's alot of things to be honest (am also bad with some types of motion). I greatly enjoy how accessible the game is.
Thank you for making this really good teaching video
Really nice to see visually impaired get some love from the developers!
I'm not visually impaired (well aside from being averagely near-sighted), but I also use audio cues from other people's jobs' skills/spells to know when to pop buffs. It's come in handy during savage content when I'm doing tons of things at once as a healer.
So for example, I'm familiar with the level 80 samurai opener (I also play samurai) and can put up chain strategem as scholar before the samurai reaches the end of their opener based purely on the skill sounds.
My friends are always surprised when I make a comment like "why am I hearing astrologian sounds?" or "did I just hear succor?" while in town or the overworld.
This game has such an amazing soundscape.
Would this be possible to a similar level if you were 100% blind?
aaaa, this is such a cool video. 😀 I've been in awe of the sound design in this game since the release, and the devs have talked about the accessibility work they've done over the years, but I've been playing since release and /today I learned/ that marking a target prioritises a target in tab-targeting 😀
Thank you for the video. How do you know the ability placement on your hotbar?
I really enjoyed the video. It called a lot of attention to details that I rook for granted in the sound design.
This is amazing!!! You're amazing!! So so so cool. I recently started playing again. It makes me happy to know even someone who is visually impaired can enjoy this amazing game 🙂
Thanks for this. Very interested to hear your experience! It really highlights how much information is conveyed by sound that, I suspect, most of us miss.
You said you chose Snowcloak because it was a good example. How variable are the different dungeons in terms of accessible sound design?
I'm so glad I was recommended this video. I want to notice more detail work like this in games I love. Maining healing classes I know most of the different spell sounds to catch what my partner has just cast, but I haven't acknowledged how things like the AoE sounds change on proximity. I didn't even realize how much louder tank sounds are and that it's probably intentional. Thank you
Yoshida P talked about this video on PLL before patch5.5.
And he said thank you for playing FF14.
great video! I learned a lot
I gotta ask how do you navigate the dungeon paths though? Like how do you know when to stop from the point you killed the last mob before the boss to the point where you need to stop before the boss?
This is so cool! I can see perfectly fine with glasses, but my unassisted vision is on par with that of someone who is legally blind, so I decided to try watching the video without my glasses on and I was amazed at how much I could still tell what was going on by the sounds you pointed out, and how many of them I recognized without remembering consciously noticing them before even before you pointed them out, haha. (apparently even though i never really consciously noticed it before, my brain immediately reacts to the "you've been targeted" sound, my fingers went to my hotbar keys when i heard it lol.) I do have one question, when you are healing, how do you know when a party member's health is low? I noticed I couldn't really see anything about the hp bars of party members without my glasses except There Is A Blur There, so I imagine you probably can't see the levels on those bars either.
Cool! You have my Respekt i hope we meet us in a Dungeon. The Name is Soma Kaien Playing on Shiva:)
Wow thats awesome how people can play together.
I'm pretty sure I remember that DNC has different sounds for each of the technical step/standard step abilities on use but are they any cues for you to know which ones to use?
I’m also visually impaired and this was incredibly helpful
I LOVE THIS!! I work with visually impaired folks and I always get excited when I can assist them with gaming tasks. This is super helpful to know!!
This is amazing! Honestly can't feel nothing but respect and appreciation at the intellectuality of a lot of players. Things that I wouldn't really think about playing. If you have a twitch please let me follow you I would love to see your game play! I love knowing that our fellow warriors of light are so diverse!