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BUSTED! The greatest cheat of all time is actually playing the game - knowing all those workarounds for all the bugs is the greatest exploit of all.

It is absolutely beyond understanding that a game that takes place so many years in the future basically depicts world where the engineers basically forgot the very basics of flight avionics, instrumentation and like GPWS, artificial horizon, GPS, linear micro quantum jumps allowing to perform a quantum travel jump in a straight line of predefined distance or jump in direction of a beacon but let the autopilot exit the jump at pilot-selectable distance from target beacon etc. Hell... even as simple thing as a compass in the flightsuit/helmet when walking on foot is missing a thing we these days have in pretty much every smartphone... As far as the night vision goes, I would much more like to see a thermal vision and synthetic aperture AR view instead of actual night vision (basically a persistent terrain overlay, same as we get for a brief moment now when pinging). Also, both ship and suit scanners should be able to detect EM emissions from electronic devices making looking for lost crewmembers easier as long as they are still wearing their flightsuits and armor that do contain electronic devices... So... yeah... When one thinks about it the universe and technology as modeled by CIG in SC does not make sense as it is, in many fields, basically stuck in the stone age... As far as for reshade being cheating... Nope... It is a supported tool and if someone chooses to use it then it is fine with me. I personally don't use it and I still don't mind if others do. Though I'd definitely prefer to have some kind of augmented vision system in game by default. Well... Maybe one day... Children of children of our children may live to the day when such feature reaches at least alpha... :)

There will always be a dividing line between those that complain and those that act.

I tried the night vision you made, it's really cool and adds something that should be into the game by default, either as something built into the helmets/ships or something you can buy that attaches to the helmets. I'm still trying to tweak the colors tho to try and get that more phosphorous blue color the newer NVGs have, but I haven't made anything that provides the same level of or better visibility yours provides.

One of the best gfy videos I've seen in quite a while. Well done

I recall one of those people calling you out for cheating with reshade has top of the range virpil sticks and a custom desk

I posted this on the SC_subreddit about four years ago, I called it HOLLYWOOD DARK... you know where (when you turn off the bedside light) another set of blue lights come on and it's kinda as bright as it was before. Anyway, THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO man.

Man i hope CIG sees this and acts. Love that y'all are working on solutions instead of complaining the loudest.

I feel like there might be a touch of sarcasm in your list of other cheats :D. Great video!!!

2:24 *laughs in penguin* caught me :P

I think CIG just needs to implement a "tier 0" version of night vision at the very least before making any decisions on any reshade night vision. Hopefully with the new UI cards, should they work at least 90% of the time, it'd go some way toward implementing a "night vision/vision enhancer" even if it's just a UI card overlay over a ship's cockpit window to add a bit more grounded realism

I tried the reshade app with the configuration file and it appeared to not make much difference. Possibly my graphics settings. In any case, my biggest gripe, is that 900 years into the future, you would have thought that the space stations would have appropriate lighting when on the dark side... As it is, I usually have to jump into 3rd person view to mske sure im correctly positioned for landing and hopefully not bump into anything on the way in...😁

The subtle shade with the RSI camera - love it

I was grinning/almost laughing so much that my face muscles were sore by the end of the video.

"Finish him!" absolutely beautifully done sir!🤣

solid video.. very educational! ...hacker! Kappa

The most effective exploits are the friends we made along the way.

Bro how long did this take you to produce? It's like a gota-get-list lol. Best SC on youtube. Good job!

When you started listing all the other "ways of cheating" like the monitors, computers, keypad with thumbstick, etc, I felt so under attack because I use ALL that stuff besides actual joysticks because of how my desk is set up lmao I was dying

That fucking response curve made me piss myself. The man's a genius.

Should be a feature on some ships, you cant tell me there isn't night vision 900 years in the future.

I lost my shit at Gilmore girls 🤣

That was hilariously entertaining! I use Virpil sticks. I guess night vision will show up down the line.

The irony is strong with this one :D Loved it! And i started to use you reshade preset; it's awesome ;)

Do these tools ( so many of them ... and I had to laugh at it all ) give unfair advantages? heck yes! But you know what? I think all of these tools are just things that diversify the player base - which is a good thing. This creates the opportunity for players to customize their own rig as far as they want, or not at all. For those of us who want to dive all in and have a dedicated room in the basement that simply houses our SpaceSimPit, we can! For others, like my kids, who are just thrilled to play a game with dad with their mouse and keyboard, they can! This is a super smart way of allowing more types of players to congregate together. Less invested players can hang out in lower risk areas, participate in lower risk activities, or have fun fighting with more invested players to raise their innate abilities and skill to conquer all for less money. Tools obviously make things easier, but skill, experience, and tactics play such a strong part that it can still be fun for anyone. There will always be others better than you and worse than you. We just all have to find what part of the universe we enjoy the most.

That Thumbnail: Chef's Kiss WEEOO!

That escalated quickly lmao. Love it!

Lol, this was fun 😂 As long as I can keep voiceattack i will be happy as a kb/mouse player. Otherwise i will eject when i need my landing gear, turn on my lights when i need countermeasures and probably will often switch from wsad to esdf

I did not think you can stretch the madness for as long as you did ^^ cudos!

I've still got 2 minutes left of this video and it's the best gaming related video I've ever watched.

OMG this is your best piece of art yet!!

Should see how I have cup holder set up

Seriously, what planet or plugins provides the aurora effect on the planets!? It looks so cool! and I wanna have it!

And another incredibly well done video, I'm curious to see if you can top this one. WEEOO!!

I typically do not mod games as it almost always leads to issues during updates and patches. Reshade does not seem like a game mod, but have never tried it. I saw you mentioned changing the display settings in game. That is great for night time activities but the moment you fly to the light, you are blinded. Does reshade automatically adjust settings depending on the light levels in a scene or is it also completely manual? I would love to see better in the night so I stop running into space stations and asteroids. Also dislike having to constantly ping to see anything. Maybe they can give us a keybind for repeated ping. Press to start the ping, press to stop the ping. You get a ping every second or 2. So it is not constant vision to make night time a little harder as it should be, but also you do not have to keep pressing the ping button.

Yes I made the video!

Oh man! This was hilarious! Well done! I use voice attack and thoroughly irritate members of the org when playing together on discord!

🤣 nightrider called out. Of course people gonna complain! They really need to rename Spectrum to something more appropriate. “Complaint-HUB” or something like that. 🤦‍♂️ Night vision is one of the most desired things I want in this game. It gets so dark in this game that relies a lot on visual pilot skills. 😒 on that note, functional Sunglasses in game SoonTM?

The idea that people should pilot multi million aUEC star ships over moons, in the dark with a broken altimeter is, frankly, nuts. Anything we can do to help ourselves should be applauded.

Interesting. Never heard of it. Saw the reaction from Salty-Mike.😊

They just need to have a clear list of approved tools/software so everyone can choose what they want for their playing field.

Feel free to use reshade against me all you want. Play the game how you choose. Never used it and I don't care if any one else uses it. Just have fun and enjoy your experience.

Thank you for making this. Sincerely, Someone sick of people complaining about things they too can use.

As a min-maxer, I'm beginning to feel like this is a personal attack against me as I'm halfway through this video lol - you're mentioning all the shit I do and devices I paid extra money for :D #GamersRise

2952, time where we have alien grav lev technology, but we still have no night vision.

Lol...wow. just went down a rabbit hole on that one. Don't ban my energy drinks or my luck fuzzy dice hanging from my monitor.

I definitely use all the cheats to watch the Gilmore Girls obviously.

it would be gound(i meant good) if they would had in game night vision with a special mod with certain headgear

I use Joy-to-key to add a modifier button to my joystick other than that I want to try voiceattack to make a macro for the inventory problem, I just learned about voiceattack can someone let me know if it works well and is consistent?

Maybe players wouldn't need something like reshade if CIG hadn't broken in game lighting so much.

Gilmore Girls is 8k !

Regards nightvision.....in ships or on ground. I think CIG should when they add scanning to the game, at that point add EM/THERMAL vision modes to ships HUDS. We dont need traditional green fuzzy real life right now nightvision. We should have a new way to see. Seeing the thermal emissions from ships, vehicles and troops(using high tech weapons and active armour suits). Even electromagnetic emission from tech foot troops are carrying. The electronic systems on vehicles and ships. We have missiles in game that track targets using that concept.

Well done mate fantastic vid very well said

I use a eye tracker and voice attack with dual joysticks and a flight pedals oh and game glass .

Amazing rhetoric! You sir, are a poet.

What are the brightness+gamma+contrast settings to get similar results as reshade?

I think one of the reasons why cig did not yet implement nightvision is that they may want to emulate what night vision goggles really do. Real night vision goggles enhanceof the infrared spectrum which is hidden to the human eye. This kind of information is not stored in texture data and so it would be quiet the feat to generate immersive IR data on the fly. I guess ships, vehicles and players/npc would be easy to implement but how to handle static entities like rocks, ground, trees etc ? It's cig's strive for realism and believability which slows everything down. But then again, that is why we still want SC to prosper :S

Dude, just gonna say, THANKS for sharing, your original video! Been using reshade since and it was A GAME CHANGER. I enjoy it way more, it's more colorful & bright... Overall, WAY more beautifull. Don't care for those lamerz that only know how to complain. It's called, nothing else to do... Keep up with the good work.

dumbbells to prevents sliding lol

even thermal vision would be useful, as would nav aids / beacons. Standard tools really. available to everyone. unlike $2000 rigs available to a select few.

I agree, that these should be in game. But they really don't give that much of an advantage. A skilled player with none of these will still dominate a noob with all of them. That being said I personally have better than most natural night vision in r/l so when I play SC and can't see what I normally can then it feels off. Because of this I have a bit of day blindness as well. So, do I get to call cheats on you when the sun is up and I get blinded by the surface of a moon? Reshade helps balance much of this, and can make for a more comfortable experience. Though I agree, these settings should be in game. It doesn't feel right using 3rd party tools for this.

You think it being a future space game that night vision would be standard…

dude I'm rolling this is hilarious

monitor advantage is very limited because you cant scale up fov.

im still laughing......

Brilliant response! Totally agree!

n my opinion, at least when the game reaches its GOLD version, they should not allow filters or reshades like these and, I go further, they should disable or limit the third person view, since used in various unintentional ways they can be exploited, especially considering the penalties discussed in "Death of a Spaceman".

So is Voice Attack an unfair hack or simple convenience?

Weeoo! (I Even Watched The Ads)

So we’ll played. Love the Reshade. Thanks!

was game glass in there?

I thank you sir for making this easy and comprehensive video about why Star Citizen will never be your esport. And competitive PVP is just a meme. SoonTm

I bet people would argue that using autohotkey for moving things from one inventory to another is a cheat/exploit. It's made the cumbersome and horribly unoptimized inventory system more manageable while saving my wrist and sanity. It's free, extremely easy to set up, and in no way gives me a competitive advantage in any scenario. I tell everyone I can about it. It's a nice QoL feature CIG should've added to the game long ago IMO.

If Star Citizen is a game based on the idea of a realistic space sim/fantasy world, then it would also be based on the idea that life as we know it isn't fair in the real world. Thank you so much, RedLir, I genuinely appreciate the information you gave us on Reshade. It was a big help and a positive game-changer for me. Awsome work!

Way to deflect, rabble-rouser!! Kappa

I myself like to remove all of my clothing so that my body remains cool in PvP encounters! Ban me!

Good vid :ricardo:

I PUT BLUTACK ON MY MONITOR BECAUSE GUN SIGHTS DONT POINT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WEEEEOOOOOOO

Thank you for making this video

Funny, lol. What are they going to say next? HOSAS/HOTAS is cheating? Tobii Eye Tracker is cheating? SMH

This was awesome! Thank you!

Pfft lol. I fr just use reshade cause it prettier. Never thought to try to make a night vision

CIG already white listed the program. The complainers need to just shut up.

Can we name this video to "how to miss the point by RedLir" If this was ALL you could do with reshade, it wouldn't be an issue.

This is the best, had tears in my eyes..lolz

Bravo Redlir. Bravo!

dual hotas + rudder is cheating !!! :P

Good job !

Brilliant :)

Ban it all! Imma hit someone with a rock in my space game! 10/10 meme fun.

Apparently night vision is a lost tech in far future... this is so dumb.

I love your vids. This is great

I just vape crack for my unfair advantage. To each their own.

Of course hard work, dedication and discipline will make you better than someone who just pokes their nose in search of gold nuggets all day. And this applies to absolutely everything in life.

haha, classic

False equivalency is false.

that is epic ! :D

well said!

Think re shade is divisive for it's notoriety as a cheating device on other games, specially competitive fps ones. Anyway, as far as hardware goes, having that money based edge is pretty much a given since Counter Strike beta. May even longer. I would make a case against third party software, including reshade, because anti cheating is hard enough as it is, making more exceptions can and probably will lead to very deep and intricate rabbit holes. In short, keeping third party software out of pvp multiplayer games is for the best.