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This is very interesting. I will have to check out the billboards next time I am in a district. I agree, we should use ai for engine upgrades.

Matt Scott’s cactus is getting more attention than this forgotten forum, but I still need to voice my concerns and suggest solutions. I’m concerned about matchmaking — as the main part of the negative perception of this game. The main goal of matchmaking is to offer the player an interesting match. After many fixes, matchmaking still fails to fulfill its main task — to make the player’s game interesting. The weak are oppressed, and the strong suffer from boredom. To improve the situation, matchmaking needs to be adjusted as follows: 1. Make it impossible for matches to occur in which players of the bronze and gold levels play as opponents or allies, even as part of a squad, to prevent fraud. 2. Use inter‑district movement to arrange players by their skill level in certain copies of the districts. This will help avoid frequent movements between districts and will also make calling for help and escalation faster, and sometimes even possible. 3. Constantly keep a few free spots in the copies of the districts for a sudden call for escalation or help from another copy of the district. 4. Make it impossible to call for help or escalate from another district if there are less than two minutes left on the mission timer. 5. Unlock the ability to leave the mission at any time and impose a monetary penalty for doing so. This will increase the pool of players available for the mission, make matches more balanced, and reduce the time required to call for help or escalate. Message to developers: As you can see, the complexity and lengthy work on matchmaking are not yielding results. You changed the approaches, but not the goals. Change the goals. Give the players an interesting match!

hello everyone, while driving around today I noticed these billboards had watermarks on them. i think we should continue to focus on outsourcing our assets and engine upgrades to ai so we can get better improvements more often.

It doesn't matter how elegant a dish looks if the meat is raw-inside. As much as I'd like for APB to look even better, it means nothing when gameplay is neglected.

Ever done a team of just osmaw and AAEPD? thats fun, it annoys every single person in the mission by 200%

He basically admits to not playing this much. I think he should spend several weeks playing a char on both NA and EU on both sides. Lets say gettign chars to level 100 each on both sides. so he knows how it feels to play this game. instead of worrying about textures or shaders or whatever fancy lighting. I don't play this because i can make a cute char, i play this to blow things up and have fun, and boy is that hard to do with people whos whole personally is just >:C to everything you do.

He needs UE5 to add a normal map and swap a shader? You're joking right?

yes

Duno if game will be alive again, i have my duudes, but if it does.................................What are you expecting? Simply re-releasing existing content—as we’ve already seen—won’t work again. Are you planning to relaunch with just two or three maps? You need at least six months of content, followed by continued progress. You have to build up your player base; you can’t just repeat the same approach—it won’t work! I’ve said it before: if you don’t have a solid player base, you can’t build a house—it’ll just collapse on its own. Furthermore, given the current landscape, you need to enforce one or two fixed resolutions for everyone. Don’t allow advantages for those using lower resolutions, which can end up making the damage indicator take up half the screen. Hopefully, you’ll at least address some of this during the Q&A—whenever that happens.

Matt explained it on the comments of AMA on discord before deleting the AMA chat, he said they're adding it for new clothes materials etc, and doing it for UE3 would mean converting these clothes to UE5 easier.

I've come across a video which seemingly got inspired by your post! The Blades Hotel finally looks nice!

https://strawpoll.com/7rnzV9YQLnO Let's hope this poll becomes a valuable data to the team of LO. In case someone isn't aware of what I'm referring to, see this clip from the last AMA:

Clowns and clowns, that's one way to put it... I call it Special OPGL-R Teamkill Unit ^...^

I agree, a D3D12 renderer makes absolutely no sense for current live APB. I really want to know which person convinced the development team to pursue this alongside a supposed UE5 overhaul... Player data being cached to auxiliary memory? That's terrible if true... Do you perhaps have some data on this? CPU-accelerated particles in this game on some guns are definitely obnoxious... For example – NFAS Ogre just shreds frame rate...

Oh your one of those clowns that plays faction A but your helping faction B, or you TK me to get a kill then die to the person i was trying to kill then you start bitching at me in PMs about it.

">_> I'm not head of anything except of being very good at team killing

Your profile picture makes you look your head of HR and about to fire an employee based on the fact his boss does not like him.

Welcome back to say the least. Not sure if they (staff) reading the forums anymore, but I believe they would be happy to read your post.

I can't wait for ingame ads. then we get the excuse of " i died becuase i got 2 45 second unskipable ads" what does he think this is? youtube?

I'm back after a couple of years, i'm a 2011 veteran, I love APB and i'm happy that the devs are still supporting the game for the few fans that are still here , love u guys ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜

He didn't seem to read this thread for questions, I got as far as the part he talks about banned players being surprised they were banned. So I have to take this as a Yes the anticheat is on, hard to believe. possibly it is on in the bigger eu. Its not seeing hacks or golds and thinking they hack, its that in the event allot were allowed out of bounds without any kick. So this is why I think the ac has been off. I can't help them cuz they don't want me in discord, i can't communicate with them or them to me, and it seems those people don't like nice people.

The thing is that shiny graphics will pull in more players then some bug fixes, but another problem Is still player retention, i dont think that matt thinks far enough regarding that.

Thanks for the summary!

Changing APB's rendering to DX12 is like cremating a dead horse. There's already massive performance problems, like the garbage collection, mixed HUD, excessive particle usage, caching player data to storage instead of RAM, maybe you get the point. The game Crossout recently switched from DX11 to DX12. Guess what, I lost 60% of my fps in some areas of the game. It lost players because of it.

mispost, cant delete anymore