Aug 05, 2008, 10:33 AM
My opinion is that the video is fairly inconclusive. The judicial system, while not perfect, only allows for concrete evidence. No assumptions, feelings, what have you are conclusive. All I can tell from this video is that it was a one-in-a-million lucky shot that has the POTENTIAL to be a cheat. Now, Pineapple has stated that this occured a few times throughout the session but there is no supporting evidence. I'm inclined to believe Pineapple but I also understand that luck is the most abominable trickster in the world. I dont think you cheat... I specc'ed you on biggs and my server for a good 15 minutes and couldn't see any obvious signs of cheating during that particular gaming session. I think you may just be a good sniper. As far as hitting the cloaked spy through the eye at 1000 paces... well... I'm going to put that down as the shot of a lifetime.
We have discussed hardware advantages and I agree with Asai on his points. A hardware advantage is just that, an advantage. I dont believe it to be an exploit because valve has stated numerous times on the valve forums that spies are simply NOT rendered. They dont use an alpha shader or anything like that (while fully cloaked), they shade the model until its invisible and then DO NOT render it. No amount of contrasting or Hz tweaking is going to effect the outline of a spy. This leads to the arguement against oxide. Since its hardware impossible to see cloaked spies then his statement about tweaking his monitor and whatnot is false. \0=
What do you do? In my opinion, an unban followed by a HEAVY probation. (although you will probably remain banned on biggs and my server because I'm about a 15% opinion on there. d0=)
We have discussed hardware advantages and I agree with Asai on his points. A hardware advantage is just that, an advantage. I dont believe it to be an exploit because valve has stated numerous times on the valve forums that spies are simply NOT rendered. They dont use an alpha shader or anything like that (while fully cloaked), they shade the model until its invisible and then DO NOT render it. No amount of contrasting or Hz tweaking is going to effect the outline of a spy. This leads to the arguement against oxide. Since its hardware impossible to see cloaked spies then his statement about tweaking his monitor and whatnot is false. \0=
What do you do? In my opinion, an unban followed by a HEAVY probation. (although you will probably remain banned on biggs and my server because I'm about a 15% opinion on there. d0=)