Hydrodictyon
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@Reinami said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3787505#Comment_3787505
Fair enough, but you are the first person in this thread who has countered it by saying "filters are not cheats"
Can you explain to me how filters are not cheats when:
- They can provide an advantage over players who are not using them
- They are only accessible via downloading a 3rd party program that runs while your game runs
- They are not accessible to console players at all, and thus are only available to a fraction the player base
Hey, hello.
I am actually surprised that more people don’t talk about the fact that filters aren’t cheats, and I’ll go into a few details as to why that is so.
The most important part about cheats is that they always interact with the game’s data to gain advantage. You remember GTA cheat codes? Yep, that’s exactly what they did: you typed in a code, which was, in fact, a command to change a set of your character’s values, or spawn a tank, or stuff like that.
That is something that official NVIDIA filters or ReShade do not do. They don’t touch the game, but modify the output on your monitor. Fun fact: some monitors (for example, several AOC models) also have in-built filters of similar quality. Hence, not cheats, and that’s why they are whitelisted by most developers.
————That said, does it mean that filters don’t provide advantage? Nah, they do. That’s why some developers blacklisted them with EAC (see Hunt: Showdown) or disallowed in the first place (see Destiny 2).
But that is the same advantage that better hardware, 32-inch monitor and a 12-button mouse give me against any low-end PC or any console player, for that matter. Should different hardware be banned as well then?
And do keep in mind that NVIDIA Freestyle is something all 20-series+ NVIDIA cards support.