this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
128 points (95.7% liked)
PC Gaming
6756 readers
42 users here now
Rule #1: Be civil
Rule #2: No spam, memes, off-topic, or low-effort posts/comments
Rule #3: No advertisements
Rule #4: No streams, random gameplay videos, highlights, or shorts
Rule #5: No erotic games or porn
Rule #6: No facilitating piracy
Rule #7: No duplicates
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Are they gonna regulate mods?
For personal use, no.
When playing in tournaments I would hope so. Ideally matches in a tournament setting should have exact same systems to prevent tampering for an advantage.
That's reasonable
Matches in in-person tournaments happen with both players on the same console. It's not possible to cheat in a 2d fighter online using mods, because the game's multiplayer data is directly peer-to-peer: if I install a mod that makes my kick faster, it'll be a faster kick on my game but the normal kick in your game, causing the game state to desync (if the kick hits you on my game but you hit me first in your game, both of our games are now playing out different scenarios but still controlling their instance of the "opponent" with the opponent's inputs)
What happened in SF6 was a tournament streamer had a boobie mod installed, and was using the in-engine "spectate" feature to put a match between two players on stream. Neither player saw the streamer's mod, it did not have any effect on the competitive integrity of the match. It was just a funny moment of a streamer's horny-on-main SF6 install being exposed on stream.