I'm totally on board with Bungie's idea that legendary drops should be exciting and celebrated events.
I find it absolutely impossible to distinguish between a Rare Engram drop and a Legendary Engram drop. I'm colourblind - and have protanopia (basically, no red cones in my eyes) - so blue and purple are indistinguishable to me for similar intensities of colour.
While it does announce the Legendary Engram once it's picked up, I've been excited inappropriately or blasé about a drop at least three times a play session.
It'd be really great to not have to play the weird guessing game that colourblindness pushes on me, even if it is a relatively minor thing. I am sure that the other colourblindos feel the same. Usually we're forgotten in games and it's too minor an issue to release a patch for but given the aggressive update and fix schedule Bungie's been undertaking hopefully you could fit something in?
Tl;dr - colourblindness makes it next to impossible to differentiate blue vs purple for the Engram colours. Please change the shades to make them more dissimilar, add a differentiating effect or change the colours entirely.
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Not just for the colorblind, the shades on engrams and lighting combination can make them really hard to differentiate in bright areas. And they are very similar to the green and purple ammo drops as well, I've seen purple lighting from a far off engram after sniping and rushed forward only to find a heavy weapon ammo next to a green engram.