Helldivers 2 accessibility!

silver tongue games here or games with chin formerly known as I am here to do an accessibility review for hell divers 2 which is on PlayStation 5 and PC I am playing it on the PlayStation 5 so let's get into it so you go down here to controller and I will say the accessibility on this game is absolutely amazing it's probably the best game I've ever seen in terms of accessibility you can customize quite literally everything from the D what buttons do your movement you can set your movement to any button as far as I'm aware uh I have it set to Legacy sticks which Norm normally games do not allow you to create Legacy sticks in game this game does however for those who are not aware of what Legacy sticks are it's where one analog stick moves you forward and backwards and it turns your character on the same analog stick and the other analog stick is up and down looks up and down and left and right would strafe so instead of the analog sticks moving like your camera up down left right it makes it for people with disabilities it makes it where you can have your character run forward backwards and turn so you don't have to navigate two analog sticks as much as you would in most shooter games and I'll say that is so impressive because most games do not give you the customization options to customize moving and looking up and down and that to me was a massive massive Improvement and so we also got over here you go so like for instance Crouch so one of the things that hell divers 2 has done on many many options is if you look on my screen you can see that I have Crouch and prone as the same button well you can go over here to the side and you can set it to do many different options and a lot of buttons allow you to do this so you can have one button have three four maybe even more different things they can do you can like tap it double tap it hold it long hold hold it you can have one button do three or four different Fe different functions as someone who plays with his chin quite literally this is absolutely huge because it allows one button to have several different functions and I I wish more games would think about that I wish more companies would think about that for someone that has range of issues like I do uh that's just that's massive I mean I don't know what else to say that's just incredibly massive that it can do so much and it allows you to have more functionability with less amount of I guess you could say strain because you don't have to use as much of the controller as you would in most games and for this this game this game is pretty challenging so the fact that you can have that amount of customization it really makes the game a lot more I don't want to say easy because the game is a challenging game but it doesn't hold you back in terms of you can't reach a button because you can customize every single thing in the game and that's something that I just I really wish more companies would do and they would get behind and like one of the things that I had to learn uh quickly was so down here you have your strategy list so normally your strategems that's how you call down your air strikes your resupplies um many different things that's how you call it down and one of the things that I really really like is you can set your strategy to be a long press now if you hold it down too long it'll bring up your chat as well as your strategy you can just back out but once you kind of get the timing down you can just press it for a brief second longer than you would to bring up your map and it'll bring up your strategy list normally it uses the d-pad where as you can see it' be up down left right I have a problem using the d-pad since it's a little further away on the controller so I mapped it to the face buttons which up is triangle down is X left is square and right is circle but you you could map it to the analog stick uh but I've kind of discovered that it's a little harder to map it to either one of the analog sticks because it kind of interferes with some of the other input options and even the face buttons kind of do to an extent as well but you kind of go in and Tinker some of the options to where it won't interfere but that's just uh you just kind of have to play around with it and figure out what works best for you because the options are just they're crazy that's how many options there are it's hard for me to really pinpoint one option that would work best for any one person because everyone's range of motion is different you know and I have arthog gripos Multiplex congenita so and I have more of the severe forms so the options that I have have worked out really well for me but everyone is different and then you go over here and I have Sprint to just tap you just tap L3 he'll run uh but I also have double tap to aim instead of L2 and that's been a a Lifesaver in this game and then you can have I have long hold as my melee so that's one button again with three different functions and it it really makes a big difference it it it leaves other buttons open that you can change to do other functions to make the game again not easier but easier accessible wise um let's see I'm trying to think what else I could really say the game is just it's just so good the accessibility is so so amazing on everything that you can do I've just been so impressed with it and I I had to do a bit of tweaking at first but once you you get the hang of it it's it's just it's not hard honestly you know I guess if I had to um I I guess if I had to say anything about the game that I wish was different was the ability to have an analog stick control all of the menus like right now uh in the menu I have to use the d-pad that's why I've been a little slower on some of the things that you've probably noticed because you can't use the analog stick to go down to different things you have to use the d-pad I kind of wish they could do something with that allow you to choose the uh the d-pad or not the d-pad the the analog stick I think that would make it a lot easier but it's not necessarily a deal breaker you know and it's probably something down the road that if this video ever gets to them it's probably something that they could do uh but you know again it's it's not like a it's not a big deal overall you know and maybe some of the menus when you get brought up like your emote I don't think it's a toggle so okay well that didn't okay so it might be a toggle feature the emotes didn't pop up like I had it set so I'm not quite sure but for someone who plays with his chin emotes are not to me the biggest most important thing and you can kind of set your buttons to many different features I haven't really tinkered with the emotes part because it's just not that important I I like more of the gameplay elements and things like that and you can just I'll go back to it but as oh hold on one second there we go and you as you can see here there's just anything that says like double tap long press long hold press double tap you can just go over there and change the option to one of many you know tap press long well I'll show you so you got double tap obviously you just press the button twice triggers as soon as the button isn't pushed triggers after a button has been pushed down for a set amount of time triggers continuously while a button is being held long hold after button has been pushed down and it it just allows for there's just so many options that you can do it it's just it's crazy I don't know what what else to say it's crazy in a good way and I I commend I commend the dev team because they did an amazing job on that and I hope I really hope other game companies will take notes from Hell divers 2 the only other accessibility was God of War Ragnarok they their accessibility was also really good but otherwise yeah yeah I mean as you see there's just everything is just like hey double tap tap press so I'm I'm just impressed that's all I can say I've already said it and I'll keep saying it they they've they've did such a good job and I'm so happy I guess is the word I'm looking for because a lot of games are just so hard to play because you can't they're not accessible or you can play them but you can't keep up with all the players because some functions of the game are just not available to me and so I can play it but I'm not as good and with this game while I'm not as good as some players I feel I can keep up for the most part and that's saying something because this game is incredibly challenging and I love it it's become probably my new favorite multiplayer game and so I just want to give a massive shout out to Hell divers to for doing just a phenomenal job with accessibility and I just I can't give them enough love and praise not just for accessibility but for also uh the just the game itself the game play is smooth the game is is great it's such a wonderful time time especially when you have friends and you're playing in a whole crew there's so many laughs and even when you get team killed it's really not frustrating like you would think it would be it's just a good time and you can pick up and play it with EAS the game has over-the-top humor and is funny I just can't commend it enough if if you got a PC or a PlayStation 5 I highly recommend this game I mean absolutely highly recommend this game and I think that's it so I appreciate anyone who watches this I hope this accessibility review has helped you or will help you and with that being said in the immortal words of Bill and Ted please be excellent to each other

Channel: GamesWithChin

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Keywords: Accessibility, Helldivers 2, PlayStation, Sony, games, twitch

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Length: 14min 3sec (843 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 04 2024