Blind Deaf and Mute Challenge

Blind, Deaf & Mute Challenge

You and your friends can now take on the challenge to work together and make the Scoutmaster proud that you did not let your disabilities hold you back!

• There are powers for each role that can be used to balance the difficulty or turned off to make things REALLY tough
• Each player gets a buff separate from the role powers
• Host Handshake and Config sync so host controls game rules
• Mute player can communicate via Emoji Menu with gestures or expressions
• Roles can be randomly given or host can manually assign Blind, Deaf and Mute to players in a menu
• Find the mod in the Peak Modding Discord under #mod-releases to discuss mod related topics like issues/reports/appreciation
• Use ModConfig mod to update configs mid-game to either set up the lobby rules as host or customize your hotkeys and UI as clients!

Features

Roles

• Blind - full blackout vision. Optional inventory / stamina / prompt overlays, silhouette or name-only inventory icons
• Deaf - no game audio (mixer forced quiet while Deaf is active)
• Mute - no voice. Uses the emoji menu instead

Blind power: Sonar

• Temporary vision pings through the blackout (HUD ring)
• Configurable ping count, vision time, fade-in, fade-out, delay between pings, and cooldown
• Hotkey is client-local (default X)

Blind passive: Mobility

• Faster ground run / sprint
• Faster wall / rope / vine climb
• Can be disabled for hard-mode

Deaf power: Detection

• Luggage outlines through walls for a short window (HUD ring)
• Client-local outline color + thickness; far luggage stay readable with distance scaling
• Hotkey is client-local (default X)

Deaf passive: Bonus loot

• Chance for extra luggage items from a host-configured ItemID pool

Mute power: Lifeline

• Temporary Infinite Rescue Hook (default ItemID 167)
• Duration + cooldown; Ability HUD shows Lifeline
• Hotkey is client-local (default X)

Mute passive: Athletics

• Higher jump
• Reduced carried item weight
• Can be disabled for hard-mode

Mute: Emoji menu

• Peak-styled emoji picker, favorites, recents, quick-send hotkeys
• Hotkey opens the menu; close with the Close button (search typing won't close it)
• Optional reacting cue above your head while the menu is open
• Host can limit string length, block alphabet tiles, hide skin-tone variants

Ability HUD

• Dual cooldown / use rings for Sonar, Detection, and Lifeline
• Client-local position and colors

Multiplayer

• Host must have this mod (PEAKLib handshake)
• Host gameplay configs sync to clients
• Clients cannot run challenge gameplay if the host lacks the mod
• Random assignment: 1 player = none; 2 = Blind + Deaf; 3+ = even Blind / Deaf / Mute split (shuffled)

Config Options

You can change these in the mod's config file at:

BepInEx/config/tony4twentys.BlindDeafMuteChallenge.cfg

Host-synced = host's value is authoritative in multiplayer.

Client-local = each player keeps their own (hotkeys, UI, outline look).

Assignment

| Setting | Default | Sync | Description |

|---------|---------|------|-------------|

| ManualRoleAssignment | false | Host-only | When ON, skip auto-randomize; assign via role menu |

| RoleMenuHotkey | F8 | Client-local | Host-only hotkey to open the role menu |

| RoleMenuBackgroundHex | 15511A | Client-local | Role menu panel color |

| RoleMenuOpacity | 0.94 | Client-local | Role menu opacity (0-1) |

Blind

| Setting | Default | Sync | Description |

|---------|---------|------|-------------|

| AllowInventory | true | Host | Keep inventory / backpack visible over blackout |

| AllowStamina | true | Host | Keep stamina / affliction bars visible |

| AllowItemPrompt | true | Host | Keep pickup / interact / use prompts visible |

| InventoryIconMode | Silhouette | Host | Normal / Silhouette / NameOnly |

| SonarHotkey | X | Client-local | Activate Sonar |

| EnableSonar | true | Host | Sonar power on/off |

| SonarPingCount | 3 | Host | Pings per activation (1-10) |

| SonarVisionSeconds | 5 | Host | Full vision per ping (0.1-60) |

| SonarFa