Is this kind of visual modification allowed?
Hey, I recently played a match against a Blight (of course, p100), and after the match I noticed he had "TTV" in his name. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see how the match looked from his perspective – but unfortunately, he had no
VODs available.
He was live at the time, so I waited for his next match. When it started, I noticed he enabled some kind of graphical change – here's a screenshot of what it looked like.
The thing is, survivor scratch marks and blood trails were way more visible than in the normal game. For me, as someone returning to the game after a break, this felt like a different level of tryharding – especially considering console players don't really have access to things like this.
So my question is: Is this kind of visual modification allowed?
Also, do you know if people use this kind of thing often? And are there other tricks like this – for example, removing grass, cornfields, etc.?
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Yeah, it's a (very heavily tweaked) ReShade setup. It's allowed.
Most people use it to increase brightness/tweak the colour balancing on certain maps but there's a minority of players who will crank down literally every colour and crank the red alllllllll the way up.
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Is it allowed? Yes.
Should it be? Well, that's a fair discussion to have.
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Yes, using Reshade and Nvidia filters are currently allowed. I don't think they'll ever say Nvidia filters cannot be used, as it comes with your graphics card, but I cannot say the same for Reshade, as that would be a issue with EAC and not the game itself.
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Reshade setups are allowed, stuff like removing grass and the even more extreme """tweaks""" like that require straight up cheat software to even use as far as I'm aware.
Reshade can be blocked whenever a developer want. It's not a sneaky program that wants to be used when devs don't want it to work, and many games have had no issues putting out patches where one day it works, and the next day users are hit with a simple "Hey! Please disable Reshade to make the game launch again." message. PUBG did it at one point, Escape from Tarkov did it when they added their own sliders in game for people to use, I'm sure others did it. NVIDIA filters I'm pretty sure devs can opt out of by contacting NVIDIA in some way.
So it's not a matter of the software making them impossible to block. BHVR could do so whenever they want, but they don't. So they're completely allowed, Reshade suddenly not working in DBD after some update to it or EAC was rapidly acknowledged as a bug and fixed at least once in fact (not by BHVR, but by EAC or Reshade themselves I think?)
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Sadly they allow stuff like this.
But realistically there is not really any way to prohibit it, since they would only be able to ban Software, but no Hardware, so if there is a Monitor which can do that, there is nothing which can be done about that.
But hey, people only use Reshade to make the game brighter. (: A Gamma Setting will totally fix that!
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