DICE threatens to ban BF3 users who use color-correction
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[url]http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/03/dice-hints-bans-color-correcting-battlefield-3-mo/[/url]
[quote]Tinkering Battlefield 3 soldiers released a mod today [URL="http://bf3.realmware.co.uk/colour-tweaker/"]allowing tweaks to the displayed color levels[/URL], with the most dramatic result involving the suffusion of the pervasive blue-tinged gradient into supposedly more natural colors. The [URL="http://imgur.com/a/wtwuu"]sample photo album[/URL] and [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJU-JKFPsTo"]comparison video[/URL] definitely show a stark difference between stock and modified visuals, but when asked for his input on the mod, Battlefield 3 gameplay designer Gustav Halling said it was “[URL="https://twitter.com/gustavhalling/status/253005004288446464"]too colorful[/URL]” and warned of possible permanent bans for users.“[It's] too colorful,” Halling tweeted. “Also, I wouldn’t use those hacks if you don’t want a permanent ban on your account. FYI warning.”[/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJU-JKFPsTo[/media]
yeah fuck off DICE kthx.
What an asshole.
Too colourful resulting in permanent bans
That's the biggest overreaction I have seen in a good while.
It does look kinda bad tbh, but banning them for it is fucking stupid.
What the fuck is their problem?
"Too colorful."
Ahahahah, really?
Also, you probably shouldn't use those leet hax, or else dice will ban your account.
Sad, the game looks loads better.
That mod looks amazing.
Geez. After watching the comparison video, Vanilla BF3 might as well be black and white.
Yeah fuck the people from wanting to partially fix the game looking like shit.
yes because using color correction is clearly a game breaking feature that ruins the some MP round for everyone
And this is why I am not gonna play BF3 anymore.
Fuck this, its developers and its publisher.
It's being banned because the same hack that's used to actually turn the filters off can also do stuff like make walls invisible. I hate DICE for how they've handled it but there's more to this than DICE being shit because they felt like it.
[QUOTE=usaokay;37899679]Using color filter and lens flare in the base game were bad ideas in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention the ugly fucking dirt spots on the eyes
and every light ever being its own goddamn sun
Depends on what exactly the mod is accessing. If there, on a technological side, is no way to tell someone who "hacks" for colour grading and someone who hacks for real hacking reasons, there is only oh so much they can do until the problem is fixed.
battlegrey: grey
What these guys are doing is extremely risky though, they are going into the game's code, disabling the filter, and injecting their own. This isn't some simple tweak they are by definition "hacking" the game. Now this I normally don't have a problem with as the game looks 10x better without that damn blue filter, but these guys have gone as far as removing the sun glare and the fog, which is great and all, but they may be going a bit too far by doing so.
He doesn't appear to be specifically threatening anyone. He is likely worried that the cheat detection system will catch it and ban folks.
Using it until I get banned, fuck them.
[QUOTE=Ittla;37899667]"Too colorful."
Ahahahah, really?
Also, you probably shouldn't use those leet hax, or else dice will ban your account.[/QUOTE]
I think it's because the game looks so monochromatic that enemy soldiers would be dull and contrast against the colours, making them easily visible.
Of course, that's a BS reason anyhow, because the game should have some fucking colour in it.
I can't see anyone with color correction on because all the uniforms are blue... Didn't get my battlelog banned though... Yet
[QUOTE=usaokay;37899679]Using color grading and lens flare in the base game were bad ideas in the first place.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ItOBu.jpg[/IMG]
ffs[/QUOTE]
Wow it really does look significantly better at step 15.
Wouldn't want to use those hacks guys.
I think the "colorful" version looks better.
[QUOTE=Linkmister;37899715]What these guys are doing is extremely risky though, they are going into the game's code, disabling the filter, and injecting their own. This isn't some simple tweak they are by definition "hacking" the game. Now this I normally don't have a problem with as the game looks 10x better without that damn blue filter, but these guys have gone as far as removing the sun glare and the fog, which is great and all, but they may be going a bit too far by doing so.[/QUOTE]
You're right about removing sun glare and fog (as well as suppression blur), but I don't think they're injecting anything when they remove the color grading. Based off the thread in a different forum that was created for the mod, the instructions pretty much told people to set "Color_Grading" to 0.
I think the bannable part comes from the fact that the color fixing is ALSO part of a mod that lets you set the client side damage variables for your weapons too.
Well I guess maybe it could be argued that the colour correction provides a microscopic advantage to players because other players stick out more? I dunno...
I never really liked the BF3 tint anyway..
Not too long ago Chet said something about skins in L4D2 being VAC bannable.
Never happened but still, this made me think of that incident.
Fuck it...im using it. If they ban me ill take them to court.... or just send an angry letter to EA. Looks ten times better. Sick of the desaturated look of every single map.
Wake Island looks far better recolored.
Probably jelous
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