Basically Illfonic.
I’ll expand on this by giving an example.
Custom crosshair in PHG
It’s not cheating, for all the “experts” here who said it is cheating.
I’ll explain.
First of all, Illfonic as a whole has zero experience when it comes to PvP FPS gameplay and it shows in PHG. Meaning, none of them ever played any competitive PvP First Person Shooter.
A simple, dumb (one of) examples are scopes in this game. You can attach any scope to any type of weapon in PHG. What I mean when I say this, back in a day when we could access the hidden menu in the game, you could put 10x scope on a pistol, LMG etc.
The fact that they actually enabled this when they made the game, tells how clueless these people are. I guess at some point, someone over there said, “10x on a Grimtech or LMG kinda looks dumb, let’s not do that” so they locked certain scopes on certain weapons, but if you access that hidden menu, you could still put 10x scope (or whatever scope you want) on whatever weapon.
Now, why some people use custom crosshair for SAWZ (I know several players that use it, me included), it’s because in any other relevant FPS PvP game, all the weapons have it out of the box but not PHG, 'cause Illfonic right?
Here’s the example in Valorant, which is one of the most popular PvP games out there.
What Valorant enables you, there’s a system in the game which allows you to make your own crosshair, shape, size, color, you can go crazy with it.
In the video below, you can see that crosshair stays on your screen at all times, no matter what weapon you have in your hands, even when you pull out the knife.
Same goes for Bloodhunt which is PvP BR game.
Well that’s a dumb thing to say, conisdering that GOG modded older games so they could actually work on modern systems and they sell them modded. Steam doesn’t care about that and Steam still sells older games that don’t even work on Windows 10/11.
That’s PHG mentality, I DoNt KnOw WhAt tHaT iS bUt sOuNds LiKe ChEaTz
I never used reshade but few years back @Scarface_1983 told me he uses Nvidia filters to make the game look better, like colors popping a bit more and stuff like that.
I tried it so see the difference, but I was playing on a laptop and that shit dropped a lot of FPS for me for almost no visual difference, so I never used it in any games.
Fast forward a few years, I’ve built a new PC for myself and bought two HDR monitors, one with 165Hz refresh rate and the other one 360Hz. HDR looks really nice in games that support it, like Tomb Raider games for example.
Even on my laptop I have 2560x1600p OLED glossy 10 bit screen with 165Hz which supports HDR out of the box and watching HDR content or playing games in HDR (even old one’s) is a whole new experience compared to, let’s say a washed out IPS 60 Hz screen, which I had in my old Alienware laptop.
Even Windows Defender flags some cracks as viruses, even tho they are harmless.
Also, about the actual cheating, you should check out the upcoming AI monitors.
On this years CES, MSI presented a monitor with some crazy AI functions.
Two functions caught my eye.
First one, when an enemy pops on your screen (it doesn’t matter if you actually see that person or not) the monitor will automatically highlight that player, literally telling you “there he is”, which gives you an advantage over players that don’t have that monitor. This is a function on HW level, so good luck getting banned.
Second function is, I call it anti-flashbang. What this thing does is, when you get flashed, your screen goes white and let’s say the duration of the flash is 3 seconds. Well the monitor can recognize that and it almost nullifies the flash completely, so you’re not gonna be blind for the next three seconds, you’ll be out of it in a second, giving you 2 seconds advantage, which is huge in competitive games like CS and Valorant.
The way I see it, as the technology develops further, in a few years the skill won’t matter much, what will matter and what will make the difference is, who has the better hardware.
Even now if you have latest and greatest, you do have a tiny advantage over those who don’t.
A 20-50$ mouse can’t perform as well as 200$ mouse.
360/480/500Hz monitors outperform the 120/144/165Hz monitors in terms of clarity and response. That’s why I ended up selling my 165Hz monitor and I kept my 360Hz one, like you feel the difference in response and smoothnes right away. When I got used to my 360Hz monitor, every time I went back to my 165Hz one (same games and all that) it just felt slower and not as smooth.
