Overwatch Mistakes concerning ultra-wide monitor setups

[♕ Xunie ♡]

I've been using my AMD Eyefinity setup for quite a while now, even in competitive.
If you don't know what AMD Eyefinity, NVidia Surround and SoftTH are? I recommend you take a gander at these screenshots and think of being able to see that on two, three, four or even more monitors.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=673896546

You can argue that this gives me and others a competitive advantage, and yes it does.
But I'm not here to argue the decision that Valve has taken to support custom display resolutions.
CS:GO detects a single monitor the size of all your screens 'combined' in whatever configuration you've got. When it draws to that 'virtual monitor'? It could be drawing on any of my three monitors, depending if it's left, in the middle, or on the right of the image. Then my driver 'slices' up the image and gives each monitor a separate image. Now you know how it works!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=668177793
What I'm personally worried about is Overwatchers falsely convicting me of cheating because I'm able to see what they can not. This isn't some tiny difference either. I'm talking going through doors, spotting people in the corner of your eye and getting lucky by winning the fight. This happens ALL THE TIME! and this screenshot is people getting mad at me. I always refer them to my steam profile and to look at my screenshots. I just hope that people don't report me in the first place, because an overwatcher does NOT have that kind of information, neither can I tell the overwatcher that I'm using a triple-head monitor setup.

Yes, I can turn it off and quit being called a cheater. But gaming with only a single monitor feels like playing with blinders or tunnel vision.
I've asked Valve about this but their response was the regular pre-formatted messages referring me to the Overwatch FAQ and not, and as usual Valve support is very non-helpful and won't even acknowledge that this is a problem.

I think it's hard for me to convince Valve on my own to change the rendering so that during overwatch the game is drawn with the correct aspect-ratio that The Suspect sees. So I hope to at least help spread the word amongst Overwatch participants to acknowledge that yes, people may look very shady and might actually be 100% legit.

So far? I have not had a VAC ban and I hope to keep it that way. I take sportsmanship rather seriously and it pains me to see that others don't. I just hope people can see the light before my steam account ends up like this: (please note the horizontal streching going on with the T all the way on the right side of the screenshot)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=384665199

[DocCovington]

Well, I believe that Overwatch is not as good of an institution as people insist. There is way too much room for error and even for abuse of the system. It was only introduced because Valve does not have the capacity to keep up with the sheer volume of cheaters in this game.

Good luck.

[did he dead?]

DocCovington eredeti hozzászólása:

Well, I believe that Overwatch is not as good of an institution as people insist. There is way too much room for error and even for abuse of the system. It was only introduced because Valve does not have the capacity to keep up with the sheer volume of cheaters in this game.

Good luck.

abused? lol how...

[♕ Xunie ♡]

Here are a few good images that might explain just how much of an advantage we're talking about here. Mind you that because of the distortion and stretching going on? Things are almost zoomed in along the horizon. Like people becoming extremely fat on the edges of my monitor, only adding to the ease of spotting people. Because bigger splotches of black moving are easier to spot than smaller splotches of black moving!

Example 1: (Here I can look down and see things happening outside all the way over at secret!)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678696946

Example 2: (Same thing: I can spot things like a T jumping down the stairs all the way on the right)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678697493

Example 3: (Here I can lock down long, CT AND short all in one view. Obviously, you don't want to be standing out there in the open, doing so is suicide for when they do even a 2-man rush.)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678696377

[D-Bag Johnson]

An overwatch ban isnt a vac ban, if you are overwatched banned, you cant play comp for a set amount of time, usualy 30 days. If you were convicted of cheater by overwatch then vac would scan your machine looking for hacks and other abnormalities in the game files. That would eventauly become a vac ban. Im assuming there was no file changing of any kind here.

[DocCovington]

rand0m.sh0ts eredeti hozzászólása:

abused? lol how...

I read about groups of trolls forming up to convict obvious non-cheaters. Pretty sad.

Roasty My Toasty eredeti hozzászólása:

An overwatch ban isnt a vac ban, if you are overwatched banned, you cant play comp for a set amount of time, usualy 30 days.

That's only for "minor disruptive" convictions. Major ones are permanent and usually turn into a VAC ban soon.

[AnnieO]

Roasty My Toasty eredeti hozzászólása:

An overwatch ban isnt a vac ban, if you are overwatched banned, you cant play comp for a set amount of time, usualy 30 days. If you were convicted of cheater by overwatch then vac would scan your machine looking for hacks and other abnormalities in the game files. That would eventauly become a vac ban. Im assuming there was no file changing of any kind here.

You are wrong on so many levels. There are two types of overwatch. Minorly and Majorly. Minorly is for griefing and Majorly is for cheating. VaC only scans for known cheat signatures and if found will get you a VaC ban. All bans are delayed for a reason so you have no clue what caused the ban so the cheat makers have to work that much harder when programming the cheats.

[Flying Narwhal]

That's not how OW works. Overwatches is a filter to Valve. The final decision is made by Valve. The system is solid.

[Not an Orphan]

Flying Narwhal eredeti hozzászólása:

That's not how OW works. Overwatches is a filter to Valve. The final decision is made by Valve. The system is solid.

no it's not , that was a beta thing. they tested it and when it look like it was working completely fine they gave full control to the people.

[Ninja Otter ™]

I Received an Overwatch Ban when playing on 3 Monitors. The only possibly "un-legit" thing I did was run a console command to sort out the HUD scaling (which stretched over 3 Monitors by default, made to sit only on central monitor through console command). Once again, these were all possible from within the game, If Valve did not want people changing the HUD scaling, why even made the console command possible.

Anyways, received the Ban, tried appealing it, tried posting screenshots, threatened, and it's all basically like P!ss%ng into the wind. Eventually just spent the $ and got myself another account, which I only play on a single screen on now. No Ban since then.

As for the BAN's, you get 3 types, Overwatch Minor, Overwatch Major and VAC. Don't have a VAC ban on my account, just a Overwatch Major ban. If I had some sort of map hack or head-shotting software installed I would have received a VAC ban, but due to the opinion of someone who did not consider I might be playing with 3 Screens, or Considered playing on 3 Screens cheating, I had to re-purchase the game.

BS system if you ask me, but must admit it's probably the best AC system in terms of keeping the playing field level and fair, would just wished they had the option to appeal a ban.

[♕ Xunie ♡]

Ninja Otter ™ eredeti hozzászólása:

BS system if you ask me, but must admit it's probably the best AC system in terms of keeping the playing field level and fair

Overwatch can be fixed if the aspect ratio of the player's monitor is taken into account. Why not draw the view as the player would've seen but with black bars at the top/bottom of the overwatcher's screen? Or at the sides, if you're overwatching on a widescreen and someone's playing on a regular 4:3 monitor.

I've sent Valve a feature request for this, but I only got some pre-formatted corporate bullspeak for here's some webpages with info about overwatch, go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.

[Bulleta©™®]

External assistance, imo. I wouldn't use it if you want to be safe.

[gasi]

If u are so concern and know 100 percent it gives u a edge. Then why not turn it off and just play fair. Very simple answer. .

[Ninja Otter ™]

Because Gaming on 3 Monitors is more fun than gaming on 1 Monitor. It's more immersive. Playing with Higher Res, on 4 K Monitor also gives an Edge. Playing with a Mechanical Keyboard and gaming Mouse also gives you an Edge, why not just block all of that then? If that's the argument, then they need to put players with similar hardware into specific brackets. The point is, nowhere when I bought the game did they state I might lose the game If I Play it on 3 Monitors. Take Overwatch as an example, you cannot play on 3 Monitors, the function is not available in game, so why could they just not do that with CSGO? ANyways, I'm pissing in the wind again, to be safe just play on 1.