Hi I recently saw a guide on how to change your menu screen ingame (PC only) to previous menu screens, and have seen a lot of people doing this as well (including big streamers).
But today I saw a tweet saying people were getting banned after doing it, and I’m guessing it’s probably not why they were banned, but I really don’t want to lose any of my accounts, so I figured I’d post here and ask.
the tweet: twitter.com/TaemiOW/status/1747268627655798904
Blizzard doesn’t really like it when you mess with their game client.
However, looking over the instructions, this seems like it’s in line with things that should be allowed, especially since it’s effectively supported by the bnet launcher too.
I would be really shocked if it was actually why people were getting banned, but without seeing the game’s source code it’s never possible to be sure. If the anticheat logic detects anything it wouldn’t expect in the retail build you’re running (“Hey, it’s the holiday event and you have the season 2 menu… that’s sus”), you can always run the risk of being banned.
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It’s not file editing at all, just launch options. So I would imagine no but you can never really tell for certain.
It might see them as changing something in the code, but they’re not sure what it is.
So they ban instead of looking further.
That being said, giving instructions on how to do something that has gotten people banned doesnt’ seem like the smartest thing to do.
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Ok I’ll remove that part. I don’t personally think this is something that has gotten people banned but also am not 100% sure. Apparently the person deleted their reddit post complaining about their ban.
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Ironically I only learned about this from someone who came in saying they got banned recently after having tried this and were permbanned.
I wonder if it was the same person. I’m giving the benefit of the doubt though and going to remove my menu customization and will wait and see until I find more info I guess. 
The kiri mythic art is SOOOO much nicer to look at than orisa or mauga screaming at me 
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They wouldn’t leave
–lobbyMap : [optional] force a specific map to appear when connected to the lobby
as a command line argument in the consumer build of the game if they wanted to stop players from changing the map that appears in the lobby. And if it was left in the game by mistake, then there is no reason why the anticheat would be looking for it
More than likely the people got banned for some other reason. If you want to be safe I guess maybe wait a few weeks to make sure more people don’t claim they were banned for this
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With how… wonky… Blizz can be with reports, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
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Why would anyone care? Just eff around and find out.
Not everyone wants to risk a ban even if the ban may not happen.
It is a parameter call that is build into the game.
It should be stupid to ban for something that they gave ppl access too.
With that said, I wouldn’t risk it (it may be considered an “exploit”) for something as trivial as menu screen.
It will probably going to be removed soon anyway.
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I suggest you to not doing.
The anti cheat won’t detect because is a part of the game but if it has a server side end, it can be tracked by account.
they explicitly exposed the parameter to let you do it, so I doubt they would ban for it
it would be like banning people for rebinding their hotkeys
if they don’t want you doing it they can spend 30 seconds adding an #ifdef and make it only available in their internal build
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