Will streched res ever be bannable?

It only increases the vertical FOV, you can only see more from the top and bottom of the screen. You can't see more from the sides. Which is what's important really.

Exploit? It's literally just changing your resolution.

I don't need to see the pictures, I also play with stretched res. Yes, it does give a bit of an advantage on certain loops but it's really not that big of a deal. You can run the killer around just as well with the regular res.

And seriously, where do you draw the line with this? Increasing your brightness and sharpness through Nvidia Freestyle or Reshade also give you an advantage, should those not be allowed as well then?

It's like you can get a 5th perk for free - Shadow Born for survivors.

The vertical FOV increase lets you see VERY far across the map in most cases. I think what @Quol is trying to say, is that increase gives you an unfair advantage being able to see further away from you in most areas of the map.

I agree that on a map like Meat Plant it doesn't matter, or any enclosed space. But a lot of maps are open, and being able to see the killer coming from further away sometimes even before you hear the TR can be considered unfair.

While I don't believe it's ban worthy, if it was intended to be like that the Devs would have put the option into the game. I'll probably try it myself just to see if it doesn't give an advantage like you say, but I find it hard to believe people aren't using it for that purpose. Simply considering that until it showed up, people were fine with the FOV.

Edit: And in response to what you told me, the fact you can turn your camera makes your point pretty irrelevant.

No, it doesn't increase the horizontal FOV, I tested it myself. It only increases the vertical FOV, you can't see more from the sides, only from the top and bottom.

You're missing the point of the conversation. It's more about the tactical advantage it can give in open maps. Since it lets you see further than you normally would, by quite a large margin.

Agreed, but it wouldn't necessarily give the same advantage on closed maps like Meat Plant or Lery's. But getting those randomly is uncommon.

'It does give a bit of an advantage on certain loops.'

I ran one red light, it wasn't that big a deal. Really, a 'bit of an advantage' is still an advantage.

Some people will do anything to have a edge, let them do it if they want, most pro player in CS:GO play the game in stretched 4:3 like this because it make the character bigger, they also play the game on low setting etc etc, I mean if they like the game to look like ######### let them do it, I enjoy the FOV the way it is because it just fit the game better, it's intended to be limited, also why I can't use my 21:9 monitor on this game and play with black bars.

People defending this crap is just mind blowing!

Yes it does give a massive advantage, you're basically by-passing mind games, a very important component of this game!

"oh but it's ok, the game is not competitive derp derp" well if it isn't why go out of your way to give you such a big advantage?

"oh but i like the way it looks" well I'm sure you do.... But we all know why, it has nothing to do with looks.

You can see the killer over most loops without stretched res anyway. Stretched res doesn't suddenly allow you to see the killer over the walls of a jungle gym or something.

That might explain why some people seem to always predict how im running around these rocks on shelter woods as killer, while i have a hard time as survivor to keep track of them when they hide their red stain :/

There are no black bars on the sides of the screen when you play with stretched res. Everything looks shorter, it makes the game look extremely blurry and visually it looks pretty terrible.

I use it because I hate how the game is with the default FOV. After getting used to playing with stretched res, returning to the default res makes me almost sick. You can't even see your character's entire body on the screen. It doesn't bother me as much on killer but I still think it should have been slightly bigger by default.

I don't get the singleplayer argument. A lot of multiplayer games, including actual competitive games, already have FOV sliders and when they don't, the default FOV is usually good enough to not bother anyone. I don't think it would mess up the balance at all if they FOV was slightly bigger on both sides.

Umm, no? I said I started using it because I liked how it looked. I didn't start using it with the intention of " I want to see the killer over loops" or something like that. I tried using it, I liked how it looked, tried returning to normal and hated how it looked(everyone looks super tall and I don't like that you can't see your character's entire body, like I said) so I stuck with stretched. It's a matter of personal preference. I also never said stretched doesn't give you an advantage, it definitely does, on both sides in fact.

I personally don't think this matters that much in a casual game like DBD since the advantage it gives isn't big enough to cause any issues in my opinion. If you think it does, or if the devs think it does, then that's fine, I get why people would think that.

Also, I did look it up online and it looks like it is possible to remove the additional fov you get while using it so the devs can do it if they really want to. In my opinion, there are other more important things to fix first in terms of "unfair advantages", such as using a VPN to play on other regions so if the devs really want to get rid of stuff like this, they should start with that first.