Overhead chat should appear ABOVE the blindness/half-blind filters.

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I like the idea of chat popping up above the filters, that's nice, though I think there are some filters where it probably shouldn't, like certain spooky filters.

I get what the missing eye filter is trying to do but when I close one of my eyes that doesn't mean that I can't see 50% of the things around me no matter where I turn my head. Trying to represent the larger blind spot you'd have with just 1 working eye is just too difficult or annoying to represent in a top-down 2d game. Just remove it entirely and make it reduce accuracy of your guns, IMO.

I remember mentioning this and most people saying I wasn't right and the MGS picture being used as proof against me and I'm still confused by that.

On topic, yes, text should be above the blindness filter.  Just cause you don't see people doesn't mean you don't hear them.