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.