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Is hot keying your flash light to the mouse wheel bannable?

th3beardedbaron th3beardedbaron
in General Discussions
I'm a twitch streamer and had a match as killer where I was hearing a really weird noise throughout the match. I asked my chat about it and someone said that one survivor had their flashlight click hot keyed to their mouse wheel. 

I was told this could cause lag enough to dc people out of the match. (It didn't in that match) but later on, I played with that viewer and he used the same hot key. One of the survivors dc'd and I immediately told him until I could find evidence either proving this was bannable or not, that they don't use it.

I don't encourage cheats or hacks ever and don't want to be associated with such behavior. Just trying to find actual documentation somewhere that states whether or not this is a bannable offense.

Thanks for your time.
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  • MojoTheFabulous MojoTheFabulous

    Pretty sure it isn't bannable as i've seen some streamers do it (including some very well known ones) but I imagine doing it to the point it causes people to crash or whatever would be ban worthy.

  • th3beardedbaron th3beardedbaron
    Lol that's why I'm asking because nothing in the rules specifically says mouse wheel but if you gain an unfair advantage because of it, one would think it would be. 
  • Peanits Peanits
    Binding it to your mouse wheel is not bannable. If it was, you just wouldn't be able to bind it in the first place. Clicking it with your mouse wheel doesn't really do anything except make noise.

    There used to be an exploit people could do by using a macro that would click it so fast that it would break the game. That has been fixed (some say it can still happen, but I have not received any reports of it recently and I used to see them all the time). Also, in order to do it that way, you would literally have to click it a thousand times per second, so call me a pessimist but I don't think you'd be able to pull that off with the scroll wheel.

    If someone does actually manage to DC everyone with it these days, it is an exploit and it is bannable.
  • th3beardedbaron th3beardedbaron
    Peanits said:
    Binding it to your mouse wheel is not bannable. If it was, you just wouldn't be able to bind it in the first place. Clicking it with your mouse wheel doesn't really do anything except make noise.

    There used to be an exploit people could do by using a macro that would click it so fast that it would break the game. That has been fixed (some say it can still happen, but I have not received any reports of it recently and I used to see them all the time). Also, in order to do it that way, you would literally have to click it a thousand times per second, so call me a pessimist but I don't think you'd be able to pull that off with the scroll wheel.

    If someone does actually manage to DC everyone with it these days, it is an exploit and it is bannable.
    Ok so if someone bound it to their mouse wheel, then spun the wheel to make it click very fast, that's not bannable correct? Unless it actually caused the game to crash.

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