Alright I'm deaf and I use Cochlear Implants to hear sounds, but it is NOT perfect.

Since there is NO Cochlear equipment that's main purpose is to FULLY SUPPORT the computer/laptop audio, we use something called MiniMic to connect to our computer/laptop. The main purpose of this device is for us to use in a GROUP CONVERSATION to help us hear better because we often get very lost and confused once more than one person is talking.

It obviously does not support directional hearing, all of my sounds are mono. Plus I barely hear footsteps unless the game surrounding is VERY quiet, like no gun, no skill, NO sound (don't tell me to increase the volume, it feels like its buzzing my every brain cell when it's louder, I'm already playing at the max volume I can bare with).

I understand that sound plays are very obvious for 'normal hearing people' with decent audio gears. I also understand that I am playing an FPS game that is somewhat heavily dependent on sound information, and the fact that I can't make normal plays like other people makes me sad, but oh well I also realize that there are not many deaf people who go "oh yea let's go play this heavily sound information dependent game that you can't hear and wait for people to yell at us why we play like this". We wish that we could hear too, thousands times more than your frustration of watching our confused gameplay.

So when I comms and don't understand something, or if teammates ask me 'BRO ARE YOU FUCKING DEAF' whenever others get to spectate me, I do answer, yes I'm deaf and don't hear directional sound but I can hear you still, so callouts such as 'left' or 'right' or 'flank' will be nice. I heard this way too many times that someone even said 'get better at hearing' when I explained 3 times already so I'm used to it but it still tilts me that people speak so lightly.

However, I'm wondering if it's impossible for Riot to implement a system that could help people with audio/hearing problems, maybe something like a system that 'colours' the direction (left, right, behind, above) of the 'noise' or something else? For example, I would hear Jett updraft but I don't know where it's from, I start checking every angle possible, turning right and left, up and behind in like 2 seconds. And you know, a lot of things can happen in 2 seconds in Valorant - you could die, you could miss the opportunity to kill, you could miss the chance to trade your teammates, etc.

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ps. what's wrong with people sexualizing my 'boyish girl voice' and my 'Asian accent' whenever I'm trying to point out why our defense/attack aren't working and we should try this tactic just because they don't like to admit that our game strategies are simply not working? Is this reportable? Like, saying 'whoa what accent is that? it sounds cute and unique' may be alright as it's a normal compliment. But not when they say 'omg keep speaking it's so sexy I'm gonna fuck myself to your voice'