Are game filters cheating/unfair advantage?

First of all: I don't think there's a black and white answer to this since "Filter" isn't one thing but can be all kinds of things. I for one like a Luma Sharpen because I can't stand the blurriness of the regular settings and neitehr can I stand the pixelated half-tone effect of anti aliasing off; with Luma I get the sharpness of AA off but keep the transparency for vfx and haircards.

When we get into map specific presets and all that it gets kinda ridiculous and personally I think it's unncecessarily sweaty and tryhard and people taking a game just waaay too seriously.

- But there are two important questions: how does using a filter to change how your screen displays colours differ from using the hardware settings to calibrate your screen in a certain way? - Time spent to achieve the result aside. There isn't really one. You get more knobs to turn with filters but the principle is the same. Different displays, by default, display colors differently.

The other question is, do you actually see information with a filter that isn't there otherwise. Yes, it is easier to see e.g. the red stain or to see scratch marks - but were they invisible before? No. Something different would be, e.g. stretched res where you could see things that were actually not visible without stretched res.

If anything, I would prefer if similar to AA being in the game settings, color filters also became part of the default game settings.

While the community is at it and optimises the fun out of the game, why not at least give everyone the same tools and access to them?

If the developers of a game allow something then it really isn't cheating. That's taking the definition too literally and not allowing any room for pragmatism.

This.

CCause If we only look at the definition then using ts is cheating to

Your logic here is basically: The devs cannot prevent you from using filters so they cannot forbid it, therefore it is allowed and not an unfair advantage.
This doesn not make much sense to me. You also could argue using macros which always rotate you towards a survivor, or perfomrs the blight S swing for you would not be cheating. Personally I think everything that you do manually outside the game to gain an ingame advantage is essentially cheating.
If you are having trouble seeing something because you are playin on tv or have a lot of sunlight thats a different story. But every change activly done outside ingame settings are not in the sense of sportmanship to me

Because "by definition" it is. We can all "feel" a certain way about the word "cheating" but by definition that is technically cheating. We can argue whether it's an issue or not, that's subjective, but the definition of the word is objective.

Gotcha.
Thanks for the clarification.

I think people still bring it up because they hope the devs would say something about it even though there is nothing they can do (besides doing some crazy kernel based stuff to bypass nvidia).
In the end people just want to be heard so they let of some steam by talking about why they think it is problematic and the reassurance from other players help them mend the negative mental effect i think.

Tbh I think this game will not survive the next 15 months at the state it is right now.

And the definition has not been changed yet so until it is, that's the definition.

Most people don't know the correct forms of "there" or "to". That's "most" people. Do we now just get rid of all the other forms since most people use it incorrectly?

I could see an argument for saying it "should" be changed to include these further instances, but to argue the objective definition is wrong because most people are using it wrong and the definition just hasn't been changed yet would be a logical fallacy.

They will use any means if in situation that it is more advantageous than others

there’s color blind options in game what they do is make the game completely unfair for players not using it

Usually cheating involves breaking the rules, if the devs white-list something how can it be cheating? How would you even define cheating if not as doing something that is not allowed within the rules of the game?

That does not really apply in video games though, that is more the definition when it comes to fraud or when you are trying to decepr someone... But when it comes to games, be it board games or video games there has to be some form of violation of the rules. Because if something is allowed and available for both sides it cannot be unfair, as both sides can use it, allowing for an equalibrium again.

I think if they were problematic, BHVR would at least try to enforce some restrictions on them.

Also filters do have accessibility usage, I.e. helping with color blindness. For me personally, the colorblind filters that DBD uses are not the best with helping, and can often lead to situations where they are detrimental (Coldwind is a prime example). I’ve been using them for years now and while they help a bit, they just don’t really help enough, so I use filters to help a bit.

Not really... It increases better vision for both... And it does not really change the definition because of the specifics of the game, it just does not mean that the advantage is the same for both sides. However when it comes to filters, as we for example know from the colorblind filters it is still basically the same.

And even if it was you would still need to reason why the advantage for both sides is not the same or similar...

What has swf to do with anything here?

Was not with me...

Technically it wouldn't... Because you don't gain an advantage over your opponent... Nobody keeps your opponent from being in a voice chat... That it gives you an advantage compared to a different group of survivors does not really matter because you don't compare them, but the two groups actually playing against each other.

And going back to the requirement of a rule violation to have an unfair advantage I would say you don't have that here either.

Fully depends on how you define unfair... And I would more often than not only assume an unfair advantage when you have a rule violation, everything else is blurry.

Because otherwise with that wide definition you would also need to call it cheating to be on a phone call, in the same room or what not and that is ridiculous... Aside from that give that the game has the feature to play together with friends it is ridiculous to assume that the devs don't take into account that people are in voice when playing together... And given their data on the amount of players in swf it would be even more questionable.

If you only go by unfair and not by rule violation everything is cheating... Got a better monitor with more fps cheating, got a mouse that can change the sensitivity via a button cheating, you have a monitor that allows for higher brightness or what not cheating, you play on PC and not console where you have more ways to customize settings cheating, you play on keyboard and mouse and not controller and therefore don't have healing and dropping pallet on the same button cheating... Everything is cheating then, but who cares. Trying to shame players for doing things that are obviously and explicitly not breaking any rules by calling their Behaviour cheating is ridiculous... Because that is basically what this whole thing is, calling something or someone cheating always has a negative connotation, and that is fair for when the person actually uses cheats or breaks game rules in other forms... But for this stuff mentioned before it would be ridiculous.