Alan

This will be long tweet. (RT for awareness) Plese leave your thoughts regarding this topic. From birth i born as deaf. Started using hear-aids at 3 I got my first computer at age 10 and my first game was Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. After years of playing singleplayer games when i got faster internet started play mmorpgs. My first mmorpg was Metin2 which released in 2007 but i started at 2009 Then i hopped every mmorpg and had fun. Then year 2012 CSGO released, everyone were talking about new FPS game. People enjoying 1.6 then CSGO was huge in their eyes. I started CSGO in 2014 played a while. But somehow i couldn't find a joy. I couldn't frag at all. Since i am deaf i couldn't hear footsteps, sound of direction. I got so mad and dropped CSGO in 2015 mid summer. Year 2022 December i came back to CSGO, 2 months later CS2 released. I fall love CS2 again. Started playing only casual gamemodes. Then i found something interesting. Now Radar shows enemy icons (red dots) when they found or make sounds like shooting, jumping. Surprisely i could hear footsteps when they close to me. (still can't figure which direction are they coming.) Game changed? or my new hear-aids better? (since kid i changed a lot hear-aids when new models came out) So far i am enjoying game, still no Competive or Premier. After a while i decide to play Competive or Premier, but most of time i get kicked. Why? Well.... Because i don't hear and listen comms. They thought i am trolling so decide to kick me. That's why i make my steam name as "Chizuru The Deaf Gamer" hoping they will understand. Well nothing changed but i am not mad. I enjoy playing casual gamemodes ^^ After while i started follow some CS2 twitch streamers like @superfkr @ohnePixel @zipelCS Thanks to them i were able to learn CS2 skin marketplace and skin types. Also i want give shoutout to cs2 community who helped me to get enjoy game and get my twitch channel get affilate! @getraqd @R20_cs and more! Anways, Now why i am writing this? Let's talk the main topic. Fortnite introduced "Visualize Sound Effects" feature. Which shows sounds arround on you as "icon" on middle of screen. Fortnite is competive Battle Royale game. There even huge Tournaments. Few months ago i debated with few people about Visualize Sound Effects feature in CS2 and most people thought it will broke balance. They thought it's not fair for FPS game which requires hearing focused. I understand, but if Fortnite have why CS2 can't have? Valve can adjust to make fair everyone. Example if you enable visualize sound feature that will make game sound fully mute. So your options: Have sound but no visualize feature. Have visualize feature but no sound at all. I want get attention of @valvesoftware @CounterStrike regarding "Visualize Sound Effects" for deaf players. CS2 have deaf player base too! We need help! Hear us! Thank you for reading my long yapping. (note i for below screenshoot it was 0-0 and i was afk only 10 seconds all teammates were alive. They kicked me from premier after this round)