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Looks like someone rubbed you the wrong way.
Sure, maybe Spanky shouldn't be saying that, but you seem to care way too much about the opinion of one person, despite who he may be.

What ever happened to just ignoring people? Instead you made a big post about an admin who's opinion is different than yours?
I don't like how you can change your gamma, contrast, and brightness settings to make a night map look like day time either. I'm just not as vocal about it. I don't like it and I don't like people that take advantage of it. It would be disabled if we could get away with it without losing all the comp weenies that would cry about having to actually use night vision on maps.
This is MY opinion. Be offended all you want, but it's not going to change anything. We don't agree, that happens. There's no need to start making threads about it.

Also, slander? Get the fuck out of here. Spanky's comments really hurt your character or your credibility in the eyes of others? Your reputation has been damaged? Come on.

You're really stretching here to make this bigger than it really is. This warranted a shoutbox response, not a damn forum thread.

An opinion? A shoutbox comment for everyone to read, from an assist admin, stating I am basically cheating...you don't see that as a problem? Then again, you're an admin as well and probably don't like the idea of actually behaving professionally.

Anyway, in-game video settings do not adversely affect a map. A few feet visibility further but that's about it. Point is it's part of the game and working as intended. Not a bug, not something no one else can do. Chill.

Chill? You're the one that got so worked up you made a forum thread about pretty much nothing noteworthy.

Then again, you're an admin as well and probably don't like the idea of actually behaving professionally.

Quite a childish jab from the person trying to claim moral superiority here. You have no idea how I act when it comes to serious matters of Assist. I break no rules and I don't let anyone else break rules, regardless of who it is.
No rules were broken here. At worst this is a player disagreement, and one of the lightest ones I've ever seen.

The bottom line is that he thinks altering the settings gives you an advantage. You ever said it yourself, you can see further. How much doesn't even matter, there is an advantage to it.
THAT IS AN OPINION. It is not currently considered cheating as you are not banned for doing it.
Messing with the gamma/brightness/contrast settings can break the balance of some maps. For instance, take swamp raid and HQ raid. Assault is given NVGs to compensate for Defense having the easier side. When you can adjust your settings to see clearly without NVG it compromises the balance of the map.

I realize that being an ex comp player you're used to everyone using every trick available, but this isn't competition. Just because everyone CAN do it doesn't mean everyone knows that they can or even how to do it for each map.

I know, as a player admin, if I saw a dev state someone is cheating I'd be all about banning them and I'm pretty sure that was Spanky's intent - to stir up the community.

Where exactly did he say you were cheating again? I must have missed it.

I don't know what else to tell you. Like I said, Spanky probably shouldn't have said it, but you're really reaching for a problem to complain about here.

A player disagreement would be between another player and myself. As an assist admin, you have to understand others may view your opinion more highly and publicly expressing that is slander against me. That is the main point I am trying to make and why it's in this forum topic.

And again regarding the binds, anyone can type into console "bind end gamma 1.2 | brightness 0.1 | contrast 1.0" or whatever key they desire. This is not a secret. Nightvision still provides an advantage on those maps by far, I have tested numerous times. These binds do not give an advantage over nightvision. It's mostly for cosmetic reasons, for me. Some maps look too bright, like urban, so I darken it a bit to be easier on the eyes.

I wouldn't automatically claim that saying something gives you an advantage is an accusation of cheating. Better headphones gives you an advantage but nobody considers it cheating.

So by that, players that use headphones or sound cards also ruin the game? I see it as him saying I cheat and slander because he said I am ruining this game, which is ridiculous.

Well, regardless, the only map I actively even use the bind is on urban which provides no benefit - simply cosmetic. Other maps such as HQ or Swamp raid they help slightly I suppose, but no one plays those maps and night vision is far better. So, to suggest I am ruining the game is ridiculous and rude.

I don't see any real slander here either, he just stated what he thought as have done many before him and will do many after him.

As an assist admin, you have to understand others may view your opinion more highly and publicly expressing that is slander against me.

Feels like you're saying we shouldn't publicly express our opinions because someone might find it offensive. I do believe everyone is allowed to express their opinion in most of the world, though.


Furthermore, if you read this forum more, it would be quite clear that Spanky doesn't like multiple accounts. Doesn't mean he will start banning the ones you had before we introduced the one account per PC rule.


And unless you know Spanky is a developer here beforehand (which most players probably don't), you won't really even know to give his opinion a higher value.

If we're not allowed to have multiple accounts (which I have 3 and don't see why as it has no affect on anyone or anything) then my fault, I wasn't aware.

You have 6;
.neXus[banana^gun..] used on June 6th 2015
.neXus[hyPe] used on July 5th 2015
.neXus[KeviN] used on February 25th 2015
2+2=5 used on July 1st 2015
hype.ki^ used on April 16th 2015
nsd[hype] used on February 20th 2015

Sure, accounts before Assist existed are allowed. That doesn't escape the fact that there's no valid reason.

However, despite your unpopular and personal belief, using in-game binds for video settings have been used for a very long time by many people especially in the competitive community back in the day. The settings are there for players to use at their own discretion. No, it doesn't give me an unfair advantage over anyone; as you say it does. If no one else was able to do this or if it was a bug that I was abusing, then that would give me an unfair advantage

If they don't give you an advantage, why do you use them?

Alternatively, he could have just sent a PM with his opinion and we could discuss it.

I didn't remember that you had an account on here. Plus, it's better that the community knows what kinds of players are out there. Now that I know, I'll avoid playing with you in the future.

Point is it's part of the game and working as intended. Not a bug, not something no one else can do. Chill.

You need to remember that this engine is OLD. When I first started playing it, I was using some shitty CRT screens. Even with the monitor's built-in brightness maxed out, McKenna looked like Insurgent Camp. This is what those settings are for, to compensate for shitty hardware. Modern LCDs, even 8 year old LCDs don't need these adjustments. Most are pretty good out of the box and those that aren't should be adjusted on the panel itself so everything is constant. These in-game settings are not so you can make maps brighter and see things easier. You think the AA devs didn't test that? You think you know better than a paid level designer with a team of beta players?

Spanky might have been a little hard saying it's people like you who ruin this game, but I don't think it was worth making a forum post about it.

I don't feel I was overly hard on him. It's a fact. For whatever reason, this game really draws out those players that like to seek an advantage and push the limits of what's acceptable. Always trying to tweak, always blasting their ear drums to hear players across the map. It's the same old shit. Assist detects more things but it isn't a perfect system and I realize that. Personally, I feel we should ban for that and ban secondary accounts as well. But if we did, we'd basically kill the game since the majority of players share this mentality. It's always what's ruined this game and makes it difficult for new players to join in.