Playing Deaf

You see the bomb in full colour, the timer, the mistake counter and both teammates' gestures. You can talk. What you cannot do is hear: the game silences voice chat for your role, so nothing anyone says reaches you.

What you can do

• See every module, light, colour and number that is printed on the bomb.
• Speak. Both the blind and the mute player hear you.
• Watch the mute player's emotes and gestures and turn them into words.

What you cannot do

• Hear. Questions, confirmations and warnings from the blind player never reach you directly.
• Touch the bomb or read the manual.
• Read Braille. The dot clusters only resolve to a number for the blind player.

How to work

You are the team's sensor and its narrator. Describe, do not interpret: say what is there in the order the manual needs it, and let the mute player do the lookup. For most modules that is name the module, then the state as one packet: "Cable: four cables, light blue, red green yellow blue."

Because you cannot hear, you never know whether the blind player understood. Build the check into your own loop: give the instruction, watch the hand, confirm what you see ("cutting three, good"), then move on.

Working with the others