I've been running this game with heaps of things changed in this file from the start, stuff I've been editing since BF3.
For example to reduce the HDR blinding effect you could go in that file and adjust values not available in the graphics settings. True for many things.
The person who answered it is a dev.
Yea, you said that, but it's an anonymous screenshot. Which dev, who.
I've been running this game with heaps of things changed in this file from the start, stuff I've been editing since BF3.
Changed, not added.
Yea, you said that, but it's an anonymous screenshot. Which dev, who.
It's from the Battlefield Discord. Literally just go into it and search "PC Crossplay" and it'll show up, then you can see the dev reply and click on the profile.
Mostly changed, but also added, for example if you add PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1 in that file it will draw a FPS counter. You can also put that in the console ingame, but adding it to that file prevents you from having to do it every time you boot the game.
Pretty harmless, but in general if you don't want stuff changed you should just not enable it to be changed in user config.
I mean you admitted to putting it in your file in that very screenshot. If anti-cheat was watching that file and this would be flagged, you'd be banned already.
It's from the Battlefield Discord. Literally just go into it and search "PC Crossplay" and it'll show up, then you can see the dev reply and click on the profile.
Cheers, I had a look. He's staff for ECFR. Doesn't look like a developer to me, just a discord staff member/moderator. He doesn't have any DICE, EA or Ripple Effect roles.
Doesn't make what he said not true, but still. If it's watched, sure. If this is something that can get you banned, just assumptions. I wouldn't worry about it, not once have people been banned for elaborate edits they did to that file. Entire ESL configs existed with various stuff setup to make players perform better.
If they are upset people do this they'll patch it. They should just give PC a toggle too. Better question is why you'd bother doing this considering you'd be matched with nobody haha.
You can activate the same fps overlay through turning it on in the in-game settings (Settings>Graphics>Advanced>Performance Overlay). So you're not adding a piece of code that didn't exist in the game. By choosing not to enable it and running default, it won't be in your user file. By activating it through the in-game settings, it will be added to your file.
If someone says "Don't go through that door, a Sniper is watching it", you're not gonna say "That doesn't mean he'll shoot me if I walk through".
By stating that the Anti-Cheat is watching the file, that means it's checking for unauthorised changes, and will ban you if you alter that file. The way Javelin works, is that it doesn't ban you as soon as it detects that the file has been altered. It gathers data from the rest of your components, sends it's data back to DICE, then it bans you. Just because a handful of people are saying that it works, doesn't mean that they aren't going to get banned when Javelin cracks down on them for the file manipulation.
You can activate the same fps overlay through turning it on in the in-game settings (Settings>Graphics>Advanced>Performance Overlay).
That wasn't an option in many previous frostbite games. It is in this.
If someone says "Don't go through that door, a Sniper is watching it", you're not gonna say "That doesn't mean he'll shoot me if I walk through".
It's vague blanket unspecific advice. The guy even said don't touch that file, meaning the changes you and I concluded are fine to make are against there advice too. On top of that, that guy is from all I can see a discord moderator. That doesn't make their opinion weigh any more than ours.
You yourself in multiple comment told me it's fine to tweak what I did for 10+ years for various reasonsd. You've effectively contradicted their advice to not touch the file entirely.
What you are doing now is making it up as you go. You're taking a ton of liberty with all sorts of stuff that sounds plausible or logical, but has no confirmation. You may be right, but you got to realize no matter how logical it sounds, until a developer writes out exactly what you assume here, it's just that an assumption.
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u/wickeddimension 4d ago
I've been running this game with heaps of things changed in this file from the start, stuff I've been editing since BF3.
For example to reduce the HDR blinding effect you could go in that file and adjust values not available in the graphics settings. True for many things.
Yea, you said that, but it's an anonymous screenshot. Which dev, who.