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76561198278930416 May 25, 2020 @ 1:21pm
Is playing stretched screen cheating?
For people who dunno what i'm talkin about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CYOAWnUXfA.
I don't play stretched but i was thinking about starting to.
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Basil May 25, 2020 @ 1:23pm 
Originally posted by .:
For people who dunno what i'm talkin about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CYOAWnUXfA.
I don't play stretched but i was thinking about starting to.
Yes, it is.
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Hex: Onii-Chan (Banned) May 25, 2020 @ 1:30pm 
It's totally fair, because it gives survivors an advantage, and we all know that requiring to down all of them 3 times and them having voicechat and 3rd person view ain't advantage enough.
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Sir Tontonolous May 25, 2020 @ 1:30pm 
I haven't heard any of the devs say anything against using stretched screens, nor have I found any major advantage for using it except for mildly better vertical fov.

Edit: Watched the video. Never really played anything higher than 16:10, but I didn't realize the advantage you got with a 1:1 resolution. That's certainly a bit iffy, but I don't see how the devs can prevent it.
Last edited by Sir Tontonolous; May 25, 2020 @ 1:34pm
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Basil May 25, 2020 @ 1:36pm 
Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:
It's totally fair, because it gives survivors an advantage, and we all know that requiring to down all of them 3 times and them having voicechat and 3rd person view ain't advantage enough.
Because in a 4v1, the 1 shouldn't have any advantage at all duh.
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Wjoming May 25, 2020 @ 1:47pm 
Originally posted by Basil:
Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:
It's totally fair, because it gives survivors an advantage, and we all know that requiring to down all of them 3 times and them having voicechat and 3rd person view ain't advantage enough.
Because in a 4v1, the 1 shouldn't have any advantage at all duh.
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Lint Licker May 25, 2020 @ 1:49pm 
You're going to get such a wide variety of answers about this depending on how competitive the person is responding. In the strictest sense, yeah it is. You're unfairly gaining an advantage and that's the definition of cheating. How big or small that advantage is is debatable, I've only seen pictures so I don't know. If you're asking if it's bannable then no, I don't think it is. As a killer, do I care? No, because I'm not competitive, I go into games as friggin Bubba and just chase and chainsaw for fun. If someone wants to make their game look like absolute garbage just to gain a bit of an advantage at some tiles then that's up to them. But I sympathize with the competitive ones and see why it frustrates them. Also, I've seen that some people need to stretch their screens for various reasons, so whether believable or not, whatever.
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Old Habits Die Hard May 25, 2020 @ 1:53pm 
If those screenshots were real then yeah that'd be pretty unfair, however since they're HILARIOUSLY AND CLEARLY FAKE, nope.

That streamer is a moron that is a compulsive complainer and couldn't be bothered to test it first. I mean c'mon we're talking about less than 90 seconds total including changing resolutions, starting game to check, closing game, changing resolutions, starting game to check.

Imagine being so dumb you don't even understand that 1920x1080 and 1280x720 are the same aspect ratio so they wouldn't even need to be stretched in the first place never mind look like that. Even using a different aspect ratio such as 4:3 (1440x1080) or 3:2 (1620x1080) and stretching them doesn't show you anything more than you'd see if your monitor had that for a native resolution and THEY ABSOLUTELY DO NOT APPEAR ANYTHING LIKE THOSE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SCREENSHOTS HE SHOWED ON SCREEN.
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Sir Tontonolous May 25, 2020 @ 1:55pm 
Originally posted by Jakeutler:
If someone wants to make their game look like absolute garbage just to gain a bit of an advantage at some tiles then that's up to them.
Honestly, I didn't even consider the advantage it brought. I just play at 1600x1080 because I like seeing more of my survivor instead of just the top part of the model. Helps my motion sickness a bit as well. Stretching the resolution further than 40:27 starts to look plain disgusting and then it's just providing a crazy advantage at certain loops.

Also, eyy, a fellow Bubba main.
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Powellinho.72 (Banned) May 25, 2020 @ 1:55pm 
i havent seen anybody go in depth in every map to see how much or if it gives any advantage. at some loops it probably dosent do anything but at some it may allow you to see more than you should.hopefully somebody gets a bunch a friends together and messes around with the maps for a few hours to see.

whats funny is one of the streamers said they asked the devs if they could use stretch res and he said the answer he got back was " were not sure, we dont know what we are gonna do atm" so even the devs are looking into it as it could give unfair advantages not meant to have.
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Old Habits Die Hard May 25, 2020 @ 2:01pm 
Originally posted by Salt collecting champion:
i havent seen anybody go in depth in every map to see how much or if it gives any advantage. at some loops it probably dosent do anything but at some it may allow you to see more than you should.hopefully somebody gets a bunch a friends together and messes around with the maps for a few hours to see.

whats funny is one of the streamers said they asked the devs if they could use stretch res and he said the answer he got back was " were not sure, we dont know what we are gonna do atm" so even the devs are looking into it as it could give unfair advantages not meant to have.

Only really need two people to do it in a custom game and wouldn't take more than a few minutes to record. I find it hard to believe nobody has bothered to do it yet either.

I'm willing to do it if someone wants to add me and spend 10 minutes or whatever while I switch to a few different aspect ratios and record each one. I've got about 45 minutes to kill right now then I'll be tied up for an hour or two but then I'll be around for the rest of the day so if anyone is bored enough let me know!
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Old Habits Die Hard May 25, 2020 @ 2:04pm 
Originally posted by Jakeutler:
You're going to get such a wide variety of answers about this depending on how competitive the person is responding. In the strictest sense, yeah it is. You're unfairly gaining an advantage and that's the definition of cheating. How big or small that advantage is is debatable, I've only seen pictures so I don't know. If you're asking if it's bannable then no, I don't think it is. As a killer, do I care? No, because I'm not competitive, I go into games as friggin Bubba and just chase and chainsaw for fun. If someone wants to make their game look like absolute garbage just to gain a bit of an advantage at some tiles then that's up to them. But I sympathize with the competitive ones and see why it frustrates them. Also, I've seen that some people need to stretch their screens for various reasons, so whether believable or not, whatever.

Should be worth noting that in actual competitive games with actual big cash prizes on the line that using a stretched resolution is allowed, and most of the top players include the aspect ratio that they use in their bio.
Last edited by Old Habits Die Hard; May 25, 2020 @ 2:04pm
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Lint Licker May 25, 2020 @ 2:07pm 
Originally posted by Sir Tontonolous Macöuten™:
Honestly, I didn't even consider the advantage it brought. I just play at 1600x1080 because I like seeing more of my survivor instead of just the top part of the model. Helps my motion sickness a bit as well. Stretching the resolution further than 40:27 starts to look plain disgusting and then it's just providing a crazy advantage at certain loops.

Also, eyy, a fellow Bubba main.

Yeah that motion sickness part you brought up was one of the things I was referring to when talking about some people having legitimate reasons so more power to you. Like I said, some people legitimately need it, some do it for the assumed advantage it gives, however big or small. Again, I have no idea how big or small it is because I've never tried it so I'm not going to even begin to get into that debate. I'll leave that to the competitive folk.

P.S. If we could high five with our chainsaws I would totally do it.
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Frank West May 25, 2020 @ 2:08pm 
https://clips.twitch.tv/KathishFragileHyenaCeilingCat
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Powellinho.72 (Banned) May 25, 2020 @ 2:11pm 
Originally posted by Frank West:
https://clips.twitch.tv/KathishFragileHyenaCeilingCat

the problem is that hes only looking at one little part of one map. he hasnt proven anything. i was there when this happened. unless hes made a video of every map? i would like to see
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:) (Banned) May 25, 2020 @ 2:12pm 
its not.
im playing on a 1920x1080 monitor and i tried every single res out.
1080x1080
1280x720
1152x952
1270x1080
1440x1080
and so on. and not a single resoulution gave me a big advantage.

Mr. Tru3talent showed in his videos some screenshot how you can see over a rock but i was wondering how didnt it work on my screen? why didnt i get these advantages?
well.. maybe you get an advantage when you play on 1080x1080 on a 4K monitor with a res of 3200x1200 or something but that isnt a case on my monitor.

playing stretched isnt cheating as long you dont play on a ultra big monitor.
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