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Improved Subtitles (For the deaf or hard of hearing)

Hey! Im Coda and I'm a Deaf + Mute gamer, I've thought of an idea to help me and a part of the community with improving the subtitles of the game as they're quite primitive :P 

I want to suggest adding colours to the mobs, allowing the player to choose what colours are assigned to each mob or entity; Heres something I made to show how it'd look ^^ 

Another thing I would love to see added is the ability to choose what the subtitles show, to turn off block breaking, limit it to just things the player would like to know :)

 

Hope you guys like this idea, even if you aren't in need of this it would mean so much if you could help me out and support the idea! :)) 

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    Just for context!

    The colours for the mobs would be so its easier for me and other hard of hearing/deaf players would be able to recognise what's happening, with it being the same colour as some unwanted information its really hard to pay attention to what's going on ^^ 

     

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    voted!

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    voted!

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    This would be so helpful especially when caving, course I ain't going to see a single 'creeper hisses' when the subtitles reach to the top of my screen, but ill see a bright cyan or magenta and know to get the hell out of dodge. Especially agree with the ability to turn off some subtitles, or being able to turn off 'block breaking, block broken, block placed and footsteps' for your own player cause its really unnecessary as the visual information for that is happening right behind the cursor i.e. where your looking like 75% of the time. 

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    This is great! Really like to mockups you shared :]

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    Hi there Coda! I absolutely love this idea of colored mob tags in the subtitles section of the game, I often find myself struggling to read the stack of text to find the mob names and while simultaneously trying to pay attention to the screen! I'm sure you can relate when I say how stressful and scary this is on hardcore worlds and I think this change would be an easy, yet effective solution to that problem! :)

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    I'm not deaf, but I have sensitive hearing so like having most sounds turned off, I agree that MC could use better subtitles.