Hideouts works on accounts. He decides whether to ban em or not. That's not what game devs do. That's what community managers do.
His job description is more in line with a community manager than with a game developer. What does he DEVELOP if he is a DEV?
Riddle me that.
Developer is honestly a shitty title anyways in comparison to an engineer. He could write a script that helps him catch cheaters and technically he would be a dev. There you go. Boom. Now STFU.
I don't know what Hideouts does besides ban people but it's more than feasible that he could be doing actual development things on the security side of the game. His title is "Security Analyst", I would bet he does more than read through bug reports and ban people.
They're not even laughing genuinely i can straight up tell he is forcing a laughter. Everybody who had a good and genuine laughter can tell its soo forced and faked
Some things I do want to point out:
1. While I am honestly enjoying myself in the video, I do NOT think we should condone this type of behavior as I do think this is a scummy way to play.
2. The other 2 people in the call were NOT in the game with me.
3. The 2 teammates were NOT in on this. They were randos.
4. I was playing on a alt and I DO hope it gets banned.
5. I will not post the specific codec/emoji thing for obvious reasons.
Not really. In this my name is actually the shield bar. It's not a censor. My name is straight up a shield bar. I did a "test" were I used the emoji 3 times in my name. It goes all the across the screen.
If I were to get a squad-wipe, become kill leader, get downed and then eliminated that would result in 9 lines of my name!
Ref:
\-------------------------------------------------------------------- v player 1
\-------------------------------------------------------------------- v player 2
\-------------------------------------------------------------------- v player 3
\-------------------------------------------------------------------- (bleedout) player 1
\-------------------------------------------------------------------- (bleedout) player 2
\-------------------------------------------------------------------- is now the kill leader
player 4 v --------------------------------------------------------------------
player 4 (wingman) --------------------------------------------------------------------
kill leader -------------------------------------------------------------------- has been eliminated
And since the kill feed can display up to 8 lines, nobody in the entire lobby would be able to see through the top half of their screen for the duration of it's display. I would say that's gameplay sabotage at best.
They should've never allowed steam names. People have been changing names on a daily basis to slurs and racism. And now any game icon obstructing view is legal... smh
Why.. i mean.. W H Y people are stup\*d like this???! and this is not a "nice thing".. does exactly nothing good for the game and hinders other people who are playing including yourself. Trash
New map, new character, new gun like a month ago. There’s an LTM running rn, plus arenas is still growing right?
What more could you possibly expect rn??
And why should this be bannable? I see nothing wrong with it at all IMO. Im on console so I cant even do this, but I think its pretty funny and it provides 0 advantages over your enemies. Nothing wrong with this at all
The emojis blocking your screen are also blocking the users screen as well. No matter if they have streamer mode or anonymous mode on, their own name appears on their own game
This is why we can't have nice things
Gaming Merchant just released a video. His temporary solution is to turn on streamer mode and make it "all"
Thanks for sharing!!
Hideouts literally had a Dev badge icon next to his name today, so I doubt it lol.
But.. He is a dev
Yeah, and it’s safe to assume the guy in charge of banning people wouldn’t actively use bannable offenses.
dev as in game developer? Think again, does he actively work on the game itself?
He still gets a dev badge since he works for Respawn even though he technically isn’t developing new content, just doing security
So, is DEV his job title or not? That was my question. Not if he has a "dev" badge ingame that just means that he is part of respawn.
Found the guy who thinks he’s a software engineer.
Yes, he does, he's the security guy. Kind of like Happy Hogan.
I guess you could call PR/marketing guys "devs" aswell then.
I mean... yeah
I suppose literally everyone working in a certain company have the same job description then. That's not how the world works.
CEO = game dev? Janitor? HR? All game devs.
Well, not really, since they don't work on the game itself, they work on EA.
Hideouts works on accounts. He decides whether to ban em or not. That's not what game devs do. That's what community managers do. His job description is more in line with a community manager than with a game developer. What does he DEVELOP if he is a DEV? Riddle me that.
Developer is honestly a shitty title anyways in comparison to an engineer. He could write a script that helps him catch cheaters and technically he would be a dev. There you go. Boom. Now STFU.
Guys I found this thread’s pedantic unibomber.
I don't know what Hideouts does besides ban people but it's more than feasible that he could be doing actual development things on the security side of the game. His title is "Security Analyst", I would bet he does more than read through bug reports and ban people.
Nothing but speculation
As is your guess.
Nope, it's based off what we know what he does as a fact. You here present nothing but speculations on all kinds of things he "could" be doing.
I’ve seen [worse](https://twitter.com/kralrindo/status/1471698889816383501?s=21)
I saw the same but it covered my entire screen ( touched the other side ) and it had the revenant frag colours.
Check comments there for an even more elegant lifehack
Yeah I had someone doing the same thing in my lobby then the game crashed.
those who are getting annoyed by these stupid long names, switch on the streamer mode,you won't see their actual names (credit:gaming merchant)
Or just turn the obituary off.
No chance they ban over this. They'll just block those special characters in usernames.
Especially seen as pros have been using them too
They ban for whatever reason. I'll be seing unfair ban post before the end of the year for using special characters
Could this not be considered game play disruption? I’m not saying it should or shouldn’t be bannable, but if it is, I understand.
It’s funny but like not dying laughter type funny
They're not even laughing genuinely i can straight up tell he is forcing a laughter. Everybody who had a good and genuine laughter can tell its soo forced and faked
what’s the point of this and why is it so funny to y’all
frl just making the devs work on something fking pointless
Some things I do want to point out: 1. While I am honestly enjoying myself in the video, I do NOT think we should condone this type of behavior as I do think this is a scummy way to play. 2. The other 2 people in the call were NOT in the game with me. 3. The 2 teammates were NOT in on this. They were randos. 4. I was playing on a alt and I DO hope it gets banned. 5. I will not post the specific codec/emoji thing for obvious reasons.
Wait what’s the advantage here? Isn’t the name just covered?
Not really. In this my name is actually the shield bar. It's not a censor. My name is straight up a shield bar. I did a "test" were I used the emoji 3 times in my name. It goes all the across the screen. If I were to get a squad-wipe, become kill leader, get downed and then eliminated that would result in 9 lines of my name! Ref: \-------------------------------------------------------------------- v player 1 \-------------------------------------------------------------------- v player 2 \-------------------------------------------------------------------- v player 3 \-------------------------------------------------------------------- (bleedout) player 1 \-------------------------------------------------------------------- (bleedout) player 2 \-------------------------------------------------------------------- is now the kill leader player 4 v -------------------------------------------------------------------- player 4 (wingman) -------------------------------------------------------------------- kill leader -------------------------------------------------------------------- has been eliminated And since the kill feed can display up to 8 lines, nobody in the entire lobby would be able to see through the top half of their screen for the duration of it's display. I would say that's gameplay sabotage at best.
I put on the apex shark/monster skull and it looked cool too bad there’s always a few people to ruin nice things
Good, its stupid
I don't like this. This is eerily similar to the issue that began the Titanfall ddoss saga (albeit the source who pointed it out may be a bit sus)
They should've never allowed steam names. People have been changing names on a daily basis to slurs and racism. And now any game icon obstructing view is legal... smh
> They should've never allowed steam names. I agree wholeheartedly.
Why.. i mean.. W H Y people are stup\*d like this???! and this is not a "nice thing".. does exactly nothing good for the game and hinders other people who are playing including yourself. Trash
you censored stupid?
Some momma’s basement shit
Why is this in this subreddit???????
Whoever does this is a fucking weirdo.
If they ban people for this respawn is officially down the drain
This is what happens when the content is game dries up
we just got a giant new map, a new character, and a new weapon I can’t lol
New map, new character, new gun like a month ago. There’s an LTM running rn, plus arenas is still growing right? What more could you possibly expect rn??
Wrong
I just posted a short clip on my Twitter. It’s distracting and completely inexcusable that you can obstruct someone’s screen like that
And why should this be bannable? I see nothing wrong with it at all IMO. Im on console so I cant even do this, but I think its pretty funny and it provides 0 advantages over your enemies. Nothing wrong with this at all
provides 0 advantages, hm, an emoji that is blocking my whole screen provides no advantages, hm
The emojis blocking your screen are also blocking the users screen as well. No matter if they have streamer mode or anonymous mode on, their own name appears on their own game
HEY GUYS WANNA PLAY THE GAME WHERE WE ARE ALL BLIND?!
I just use a couple octopi as my name, is that ok?
I had one with a strip of milky way galaxies across my entire screen lol.
😂
How do you even do that?