Haha I would love to see a match with vac turned off.

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On Apr 18, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Doctor McKay <[email protected]> wrote:

> An increased FOV gives some players an advantage over spies, which rely on 
> stealth.
> 
> If leagues want to continue to allow increased FOVs, they can disable VAC on 
> their match servers.
> 
> 
> 
> Doctor McKay
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> 
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The plugin in question was used by players to increase their FOV beyond the 
>> 90 degree limit for the sake of comfort due to their being used to higher 
>> values from other competitive games such as Quake. I do not believe that 
>> this was any more of a player advantage than having greater FPS or using a 
>> widescreen monitor.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Ross Bemrose <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> They have apparently been widely used to increase players FOV in league 
>>> play, among other things.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Evourr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> "Continued use of such plug-ins will risk your Steam account getting VAC 
>>>> banned."
>>>> 
>>>> I wasn't even aware of these plugins, but are these plugins now unable to 
>>>> be loaded without them being modified past this update? Or if users 
>>>> continue to run them after this update they will be banned?
>>>> 
>>>> If the plugins do not require an update to bypass the new system, do you 
>>>> feel this notice is sufficient enough to inform users these plugins will 
>>>> result in a ban?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Smith" <[email protected]>
>>>> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" 
>>>> <[email protected]>; "Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing 
>>>> list" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:25 PM
>>>> Subject: [hlds] Mandatory Team Fortress 2 update released
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> We've released a mandatory update for Team Fortress 2. The notes for the 
>>>>> update are below.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Eric
>>>>> 
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> Team Fortress 2
>>>>> - Added a new ConVar cl_first_person_uses_world_model to allow this mode 
>>>>> to be used outside of VR mode
>>>>> - Disabled plug-ins that would allow users to connect to secure game 
>>>>> servers even when -insecure is specified on the command line
>>>>>   - Continued use of such plug-ins will risk your Steam account getting 
>>>>> VAC banned
>>>>> - Added support for unloading the displayed URL when the user closes the 
>>>>> info panel
>>>>>   - Added ConVar sv_motd_unload_on_dismissal to allow server ops to 
>>>>> control the default behavior of their MOTD
>>>>> - Fixed a client crash related to doing a changelevel while firing the 
>>>>> Minigun
>>>>> - Fixed a bug where you could come out of a teleporter facing the wrong 
>>>>> way in VR mode
>>>>> - Improved performance and stability for the Linux version
>>>>> - Fixed a bug with custom fonts not loading for third party HUDs on Linux.
>>>>> 
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