XanderS (DayZ)

I was going to start a new topic on this, but found this thread when I searched :D Now I'll start off by saying I am totally colour blind and as such I see no colours or in military terms its classed as CP3 (the majority of people that suffer colour blindness are CP2 and can't see reds/oranges/greens, only a very very small percentage are CP3/totally colour blind). I don't have trouble distinguishing players in the environment, but maybe that is because I will sit in hidden for a fair amount of time just watching where I am about to run to or maybe I have just been lucky. The only thing I have trouble with is the ui in the inventory screen. Where it says what effects your character is suffering from (eg. hungry, thirsty etc.). I didn't even realise that there where differing colours until I watched a Youtube clip in the main forum. I just ask my wife now or if she isn't around (or can't be bothered worrying about my character in a computer game which is more likely), I'll just eat and drink as much as possible. Meh you just have to live with it I suppose. In my opinion it isn't something to spend vast amounts of time on coming up with a work around or implementing, as it effects so few people, but maybe it could be worked on in a future patch after the game goes gold. One possible solution I thought of is just to put a border around the ui notification box. The thicker the outline would mean the worse your condition would be. Or even a single outline for the mildest of symptoms to a double thin line for medium effects and finally a thick outline for the worst of the effects. As I said, its not something that effects normal play (for me that is, others may find it harder) and it really doesn't need that much dev time spent on it (if any at all ofc). But it would be nice to have something like this in the future. Anyway I still love the game and will keep playing it regardless of any ui changes. This is really the only thing I have found (that hasn't already had a million threads on it), that I could think of as a suggestion. Keep up the good work.