![]() ![]() I use the Tritanopia one because I really like how it makes the enemies green and purple. So I was messing around with the filters and I found out you can change the strength of them, like how powerful the filter is. I figured maybe I could get used to it, but I could not do it. So I tried to play the game just without a filter for a while. ![]() And then I get to the Tritanopia filter, and I’m like, what is this? I turn it on and it was really different and I go to the menu and see that the humans, the characters have purple skin, like what? What is going on? And my siblings were like, “oh that’s the Tritanopia filter, don’t use that one.” So I opened it up and I go through the Protanopia and the Deuteranopia filters and I’m like man, these are kind of cool, they don’t change the game that much. So I was like, “does the game have a colorblind mode or anything?” My brother was like, “well, it has one, it’s not very good though, you can go take a look at it”. I couldn’t see the enemies, I couldn’t see their health bars, there was just a lot of red going on my head and I had trouble with that. But I’m just getting my ass handed to me, and I’m like, “guys, this game is really hard to play”, because all my siblings are colorblind too, and they were like, “yeah, it’s pretty rough”. I go out there and I’m starting to fight, and I’m pretty good at shooters. And I boot up the game with them, and I remember my first match ever was Quick Play on Kings Row, and Bastion was the first hero I played, of course.Īt the time I didn’t even know the game had a colorblind mode, so I was playing it normally. And I was like, “dude, this looks like the coolest game ever! Like, I want to play the robot with the big gun!” I was watching them play, and then the open beta finally came out so I got to try it out for myself. And I didn’t get in the closed beta, so I just had to watch them. I’ve got a bunch of older siblings, and they all are super into video games, so when the game first came out, they were all playing the closed beta for Overwatch. What were your first reactions to Overwatch’s colorblind filters? Did that impact how much you played the game? So two years went by of that just kinda going back and forth, and now Blizzard finally did. It’s pretty bad, isn’t it?” And people saw that it was really bad, and I was like, “yeah, Blizzard should make a new one”. So I always tell people that go, “why are these colors so messed up?”, and I’d be like, “well, this is the colorblind mode in the game. And then as it went up, obviously people saw me not only playing Bastion, but clips and stuff were going around, and it would always have my game looking really really odd, you know, with the crazy colors. So about 6 months after the game came out roughly is when I started getting a boost in popularity and that just kept going up. I was doing YouTube a lot earlier before I was doing streaming, but eventually they just kind of came like one thing. So I got pretty popular just because of that alone like on Reddit and Twitter, mostly YouTube, honestly is where I got a lot of my viewers. It was when comp was still a new mode, the whole one-tricking heroes thing was a pretty big deal. I got to the top 500 for the first time by playing only Bastion, which back then was a big deal. But after about a couple months of that really small viewer count, I eventually made a big accomplishment in Overwatch. That was crazy, like dang, five people are watching me play this video game. Image courtesy of I would stream and get maybe five or six viewers, which was just totally mind blowing to me. I wonder if I stream this maybe people be interested. ![]() But that’s when I started playing a lot more Bastion in competitive and that’s when I started realizing, dang, I’m actually kind of good at this. But once I started really getting into streaming, I was playing Overwatch I wanna say around Season 3, it was a while after launch. I think maybe I had like one or two viewers, and I used that every now and then. ![]() I’d be like, “hey look, watch me play this new war game.” It wasn’t really a big stream. It wasn’t really on Twitch much, but I would mainly just do it to get a couple friends watching me. When I first started streaming I was actually still playing Team Fortress 2, which is what I was playing before Overwatch but back then Steam had some kind of built-in streaming software that I was trying. How did you get started with streaming? Was there a certain game that made you want to pursue it? In this two-part series, Kolorblind shares her introduction to streaming, Overwatch and discusses playing at the highest level while colorblind. We sat down with streamer Kolorblind, who has amazed viewers not only with her #1 Bastion play, but also started conversations regarding Blizzard’s colorblind features. ![]()
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