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Re: Config Rules are Unclear, EA Staff Refuses Responses and Abuses Power When I Ask

That would be the case, but they already state that using config files is cheating. Yes, it is a double standard, but I can't control what they enforce, so I want to ask them about it.

8 Replies

  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @Ryan_Morford As far as I'm aware of, you cannot and should not modify the game files, yet "pro" players seemed to be the only ones allowed to not only do that, but blantly use cheats on stream. I personally do not get how that's okay.
  • mkdninja's avatar
    mkdninja
    2 years ago

    Cheating includes:

    • Performing in-game exploits and abusing glitches or bugs.
    • Stat padding (abusing game features the way they aren’t supposed to be used to artificially stack scores). 
    • Using software or cheat tools that disconnect other players from the EA servers.
    • Teaming up and playing with other players who are using cheats.

    Nothing here about editing your config file. Only mentions in-game exploits. No wonder so many cheaters in this game are never banned for any exploits like bunny hopping and stuff.

    What do we expect from a company that doesn't even have their own anticheat after being in the business for so long.

  • It is considered exploiting glitches and bugs when you edit config files because the movements you make using them cannot occur without glitches. The config files simply enable a player to consistently achieve glitched movement. This is not just my opinion, but a fact confirmed by all EA staff I spoke with.

  • Midnight9746's avatar
    Midnight9746
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @mkdninja Back in season 2, (I think), players were able to edit the config files to a point where Bangalore's smoke was rendered useless. This also removed the flashes from weapons and the effects from grenades. However, this was a bannable offense, and those who modified the game files got banned.

    Afterwards, Respawn patched it out, (that I know of), where if you edit that part of the files again, it wouldn't work anymore.
  • Ryan_Morford's avatar
    Ryan_Morford
    2 years ago

    Yes, but following that, they still say you are not allowed to use config files. Every staff member I have spoken to, those willing to answer me, has said that your account will be banned if you modify config files

  • well the didn't state that all configs were cheating they stated that visual configs were considered cheating. Thus making movement configs allowed like a neo or super glide config file. Correct me if I'm wrong but that is what i read in my digging.

  • Hakreesh's avatar
    Hakreesh
    2 years ago

    "As a general rule of thumb, if you're not able to achieve the same thing by changing settings in-game, I would avoid it."

    Any adjustment you could change in those config files could potentially give you an affect in game that could not be achieved in game settings...

    Maybe the EA agent's instructions on this manner here are not clear enough for you, but I can articulate into layman's terms after reading this official response they are clearly saying that you may adjust the config menu WITHIN THE PARAMETERS of the in game menu.... so you may use to "copy and paste" settings profiles, and quickly change your whole menu top to bottom with one file, but YOU MAY NOT adjust ANY value that is not found WITHIN the game's menu, and you ALSO MAY NOT adjust the values to anything outside the game menus parameters (which is SUPER confusing because most of us do not read computer code language and do not even know what most these adjustment values are in the game code, since it is not all just "1" for on and "0" for off, some of them go into the THOUSAND values and some of them have 6 digits after their decimal, so then, Micro adjusting your yaw speed from 250.000000 to 250.000001 would be BANNABLE since you cannot achieve that same affect in game.)

    I hope this helps for anyone genuinely struggling with comprehending the difficult words from the people in power here Bless Up Brothers @Ryan_Morford @everyone

    -KunaiMelee (15k kill caustic by season 5 or 6)

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