Whats the advantage playing at a high resolution?

[Cycrow]

I didn't mean players actively removing objects, just game engines doing that for people at lower detail levels.

do u actually have any evidence of this happening, or just assuming it does coz u've been killed when u thought u would be safe ?

reducing the detail level usually just adjsuts what the player sees, not what objects are in the game.

more often than that, its the server that calculates these things, thats the whole point of a dedicated server.

 

[Cycrow]

These people need to get a life, taking gaming far to seriously and loosing the point of them being there in the first place, entertainment.

pro gamers take it seriously because its thier living.

you see games as just entertainment, while others see it as thier livelyhood

also, some ppl get more entertainment about being serious and winning against other serious gamers

 

[HangTime]

I just think that by turning all the settings off and running at crap resolutions, you may as well just play Doom and Quake 1.

Quake 1 is the main game I play online, and I still turn the settings down

 

[whitecrook]

lot of n00bs here

 

[Tefal]

pro gamers take it seriously because its thier living.

it's not really the pros that people complain about it's the whiney 14 year olds i nsemu serius clans that do it and bitch al lthe time.

it's like that annoying bloke who turns up for pub foot ball in his £200 footie boots and personalised uniform when everyone else is dressed in half rotten footie boots that are 2 games away from playing by themselves.

 

[craptakular]

You realise playing competitively in a tournament environment is incredibly fun for some people right? Ever been to a LAN? They're an absolute blast.

If your 14 and your mum lets you go I'm sure there a real blast.

From what I hear of the iseries it's full of teenagers running around boasting how many stella's they have drunk...

I cba lugging my PC to the event. They all play pap games there anyway.

 

[craptakular]

Quake 1 is the main game I play online, and I still turn the settings down

CHEATER!!!!!!

 

[synixx]

As everybody has said you can see things in much more detail and see things in the distance you would otherwise not see at a low resolution.

 

[orderoftheflame]

From what I hear...

Perhaps you should find out before you claim it's so "pap".

 

[Evilsod]

Surely there is more to being "pro" than aiming and killing, things like cover, and being blinded by the sun etc should come into being "pro"... i.e. you find the best position to make kills and use dark/bright areas of the map to your advantage, which you can't do when people turn all HDR, shadows off etc etc

Agreed. Sometimes i think people would be happier if they could simply turn off every effect, reduce everything to a grey backdrop and play every game in 16 colours. I see 'being good' at the game as being good at what the game actually is capable of doing. ****es me off on L4D when you get people clearly lowering there settings purely because Boomer Bile doesn't have as much blinding effect, its just cheating imo, i don't really care if pro gamers see it as acceptable, its still cheating. These are the people that also see scripting as acceptable so i'm not about to take there word for anything.

 

[shaggyd]

Agreed. Sometimes i think people would be happier if they could simply turn off every effect, reduce everything to a grey backdrop and play every game in 16 colours. I see 'being good' at the game as being good at what the game actually is capable of doing. ****es me off on L4D when you get people clearly lowering there settings purely because Boomer Bile doesn't have as much blinding effect, its just cheating imo, i don't really care if pro gamers see it as acceptable, its still cheating. These are the people that also see scripting as acceptable so i'm not about to take there word for anything.

That is why I stopped taking online fps seriously. At the end of the day, there is always someone, somewhere who is better than you and you try everything in your power to beat that person.
I play a game online with settings that make my system run decently with plenty of image quality. If the resolution is too high and the graphics look bland or stutter, I lower it. If the resolution is too low and I cannot read the text properly, I increase it. Some games (such as Armed Assault) have effects that look too unrealistic such as overblown bloom, this I knock off as it is more ugly.