I guess I´ll take out shadows from my post since that is a legitimate complaint. You are missing my point though. It´s not about specific things that someone changes, but how someone argues.
Arguing for SV to put in an option to remove shadows is good, arguing that you should be allowed to modify the game files is bad. The first is giving good feedback, the second shows entitlement. The rules were and are quite clear from the start. People argued that they should not have to follow the rules because of various reasons. I think that is a slippery slope, you are welcome to disagree with that.
I also think that going around SV actually waters down feedback in the end. Everyone gets used to the work around and no one tells SV how bad it is without it.
I absolutely love how you, and others like Phen, try to paint this picture like we're trying to allow people to do as they please to any files of the game.
Yes, absolutely! Star Vault should allow me to delete in-game objects such as bushes and walls so I can see through them! It's unfair, WAAAH WAAAH let me delete these things WAAAAH. /sarcasm
You guys are either so willfully ignorant or mislead it hurts.
There were people who could not run the game, even on the lowest settings; and even on lower resolutions (As the game QUITE LITERALLY runs worse for most people on lower resolutions.) I had no problem running the game around 80 FPS, but I wanted my game to run
smoother and I also had several friends who were literally getting 20-30 FPS. People who were originally PvP vets of MO1, but couldn't play the combat alpha they had to pay to get into even when meeting either the minimum or recommended specs.
I love how people are more concerned with looking at what I did, which was objectively just trying to help people play, and say "haha i told you so, i told you so!! you're so mad! you are so upset!!" and then would praise the efforts of someone who reports you if they get called 'dumb' or puts up quite literally common sense knowledge of how to improve FPS in games.
But here is the kicker, I've said several times through out people arguing with me in the discord that I would be 100% okay if they added options for lower-spec players to join into their alpha without being mislead OR having better optimization. But in my head, it makes less sense for it to be labeled a combat alpha and cry wolf when the players who ARE there, aren't trying to test optimization - but rather the combat as the name implies.
Point being, plenty of games allow .ini editing so that players have a better user experience when playing their game. If Star Vault wants to disallow it, disallow it then. The people who think that is 'normal' are very much strange in my eyes. But if the game was to force you FOR EXAMPLE to play with shadows on or anti-aliasing on, you'll find in the future players are going to resist that very much unless it runs to their liking.
No one wanted to abuse the files, no one wanted to be malicious in their editing of the USER SETTINGS. People just wanted the game to run so they could play, and telling people to play on a 800x600 resolution is not a solution in the slightest. Telling people to run it on DX11 isn't a solution, as I get WORSE FPS on DX11. Telling people to run the game at minimum isn't a solution because the game at times looks much worse then MO1 and as Keurk pointed out, shadows on minimum are actually just messed up.
