Is GShade allowed?

[Padudu]

I guess it's changed. If I'm wrong, show me some proof.

It hasn't really changed. It's never worked the way you are implying lol. You're thinking of another forbidden third party tool.

[Deveryn]

lol. must be.

[kaynide]

That's all well and good until you see the massive discrepancy: why would they host screenshot contests where they feature GShade screenshots? Why does the official Twitter retweet GShade screenshots on occasion? They're not keeping their own guidelines consistent even on their own website and Twitter.

I would honestly be surprised if the intern/social media guy/ whoever was picking the screenshots even knew they had gshade. And because of this blowup I imagine his job just got more troublesome because now he has to waste time filtering/trying to discern/sorting through screenshots to try to remove the Gshade ones (assuming they would disqualify them), or decide gshade is fine to use, which would be unfair to people who can’t or don’t use it with “less pretty” shots.

End result, they just stop having screenshot contests entirely or just decide shaders in general are fine because I can’t imagine they want to waste time trying to figure out if a shot is doctored or not.

Personally, I think they should just allow shaders/stuff tied to your video card, because a lot of people have things like the GeForce experience or Gshade or whatever. Like people said it’s similar to adjusting a monitor.


Clarity would be appreciated; even something like “any software that modifies, reads or interacts with game files is against ToS. We don’t care if your video card is altering colors, or if you have other software you use to play as long as it doesn’t modify the actual game.” Aka Discord is fine if you are just doing voice chat.

The problem comes in that people simply don’t read. If anything this past week has shown me people are incredibly ignorant of the ToS/prohibited actions despite screaming how unfair they are. Any inch the devs give would become feet upon feet of “well they said discord was fine, so every function it can do is fine”.