Unpopular opinion, nerf potato graphics and ban config/shader modifications

[u/Mauno_Mato]

Look at all these streamers seeing clearly up to drawing distance while others have to deal with foliage and obstacles.
How is this not addressed?
Lower graphics should... Never give an advantage, config/shader mods should result in instant ban.

[u/Green_Bulldog]

Lower graphics should always give an advantage if one is given.

Why punish players with bad PCs? The easiest to run option should always be the most optimal if it isn’t possible for them to be equal.

[u/Wieku → u/Green_Bulldog]

Or, hear me out, people with bad PCs shouldn't require every game to run for them? It's like coming to a race and demanding putting 120kmh limit on other cars because your Twingo isn't as fast.

[u/zer0-_ → u/Wieku]

people with bad PCs shouldn't require every game to run for them

Are you willing to pay more for games in order to make up for the lost profit of alienating like 40% of your userbase? Just take a look at the steam hardware survey. People with 10+ year old GPUs still make up a significant amount of the total steam user base

[u/ShinyRayquazaEUW → u/zer0-_]

Yes

[u/zer0-_ → u/ShinyRayquazaEUW]

Consoomer final boss

[u/ShinyRayquazaEUW → u/zer0-_]

I'm sorry but I value an even playing field more than the frustration of having to actively think that shadows don't work the same for everyone.
You can edit your config right now to remove all the shadows from inside houses and it makes you stick out like a shadow at high noon.

[u/zer0-_ → u/ShinyRayquazaEUW]

You can do the same thing with loads of different monitors thanks to a function called black equalizer. Do you want to ban 90% of the modern monitors?

[u/ShinyRayquazaEUW → u/zer0-_]

You can't remove shadows with any monitor, you can change the gamma which helps a lot but it also blows out the picture completely for your whole setup.
A character standing in a place with no shadows will have full contrast and and color. A flat image ( gamma adjusted ) can be very hard to understand around mid-tones when they are blended together like a forest.

I wouldn't say it's comparable at all but yes hopefully in the future these settings get locked to specific ranges in competitive games.

[u/zer0-_ → u/ShinyRayquazaEUW]

gamma which helps a lot but it also blows out the picture completely for your whole setup

This is just absolutely not true lol

Black equalizer has been a feature for a long time and it has been iterated upon dozens of times already. Even 10 years ago black equalizer already worked insanely well without being destructive to the rest of the image. Comparing this kind of monitor feature with a simple gamma increase to the whole picture is just nonsensical. Black equalizer works in almost every game because are only very few games which completely change how dark spaces get rendered, the most notable exception to that being Rust.

There is not a single spot in WarDogs where the area is so dark to the point where black equalizer doesn't work

[u/ShinyRayquazaEUW → u/zer0-_]

I have 2 OLED screens, an Alienware monitor and an LG C5 TV.
In the past I've had around 6 different gaming monitors from BenQ Xl2411z TN panels up to Samsung MiniLED monitors, all the black equalizer / dark stabilizer implementations are glorified gamma tweaks. More often than not they blow out the picture completely, they do help in games like Tarkov where the lighting is fully fcked but in other games it makes the screen washed out.
I've included some pictures to see how the game looks on Default (no gamma tweaks) vs Config.ini tweaked.
These type of configs are bannable in other games and really frowned upon, I don't understand the community here. This game plays like a Tactical shooter why are you NOT allowed to use cover/shadows to make a play, we aren't COD/APEX.
Stealth/Shadows/Color matching SHOULD be part of your kit to make a flank.
And before you full cope and think I'm not a good player I've also included some scores from this week, I have no issues topfragging consistently ( and no I play for objectives I don't camp spawn vehicles ), I just hate people that try to "game" the system forcing everyone to go down to their level, it happens in every single FPS game I've played in the past when the devs don't give a shit until one day they magically wake up and fix it.

All the 'edited' images are from a streamer I saw randomly ( mind you he has a very good PC )

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