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  2. LilyRain
    Self-contradiction right there. Of course, APB was never FIFA or Call of Duty but going down from those numbers to the current PEAKS (sub 500 players on EU, sub 160 players on NA) most certainly counts as killing APB's playerbase. Even for those that didn't feel like playing, at the very least, socializing in Social was a thing to do all day. Now? If you're in social, you're literally wasting power. Better off attempt mining some crypto. YES, the game was killed to the point where Live Servers are currently the Open Test Servers. Anyone who says otherwise is simply not living in this timeline. +Those peaks are factually half since many Players run around with multiple characters. So it is even worse.
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  5. Weaboos
    A lot of ppl used to play via G1 launcher, hell, at first the game wasn't even available on Steam. While I personally never seen 20 k/server I have myself seen 10-11 k+ on EU1 in like 2011. Later in 2012-2013 population dropped and EU1 about 7 k players while EU2 had 3 K and it all went down the gutter since. Late 2012 to 2013 is when the game's performance degraded with every patch to the point where me and some of my friends quit due to simply being unable to run the game at satisfactory performance. I remember this clear as day. What didn't help is that all the cheaters get unbanned every time. How many unban waves has there been? 3? Every singe one was unbanned and free to cheat again. Hell under G1 cheaters even got free premium after being unbanned lol.
  6. MattScott
    Hi everyone, Here are the end of Friday CS stats for this week: STATS for 4/25/2025: Oldest ticket: April 18 Total Tickets in the system: 260 Unassigned Tickets: 26 Assigned Unsolved Tickets: 231 Pending Tickets: 129 (awaiting player response) Thanks, Matt
  7. Weaboos
    I believe he is the one with terrible WiFi. I expected more of you than to tease someone considering you used to play with like 17 fps and have first hand experience being hardware limited, you know how fair and fun the game can be under such circumstances. And the game itself has gotten only harder with the ever shrinking population. Most people playing this are hardened veterans with years of experience and usually good hardware to back them up. Back when you struggled a lot of people had terrible PCs that were having a hard time with this unoptimized game and playing on cheap $10 mouse was the norm, Now even modern midrange PCs can get decent enough performance and almost everyone is flying flagship Razer or Logitec mice. Nowadays I've seen "silvers" that play with the same abilites of what mid golds used to look like. I've seen my friends that used to be perma gold drop to high silver with how strong some of the opposition is.
  8. Grimlokk
    Face it, LO has given up on the game. just like Tiggs n the crew in the past. An 8-year-old can figure out how to implement an anti- cheat, so why don't they? because i believe they are making more selling the cheats on sites like elite pvper. rockstar is a notoriously bad company when it comes to stopping cheaters, but Little Orbit is the King.
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  10. MlssT
    Last Wednesday Chip's Car Club
  11. MlssT
    Jenz ❤
  12. MlssT
    Thank you for your BIG efforts, sadly have to agree with all your points
  13. MlssT
    %100 supported
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  15. Darkzero3802
    We revive APB when cheaters are removed
  16. Darkzero3802
    News flash. Some are more broken then others, mainly ones that are op or broken to begin with. For example, whats more broken at range? A scout or an HVR? The point here is that the .45 is broken normally and shouldnt be so powerful. 95% equip rate is beyond a symbol of meta, its a sign that no other secondary can compete and they arent worth anything. In a properly balanced world 50% equip rate is high with how many secondaries are out there. Another example. At CQB range in APB what is the gun of choice? a PMG or a shottie? A PMG will always be the gun of choice cause its also broken. APB gun balancing is beyond broken and the last few gun changes have done little to fix that. The .45 is in that broken tier and there are ways to abuse it. A nerf is needed to bring it down from broken status and to bring up other secondaries to make them viable otherwise why have them in the game at all?
  17. Weaboos
    No worries. Another issue discovered I have. When customizing vehicles, swapping car parts and changing color seems fine but if I start messing with symbols, adding rotating them etc the game quite often crashes and I am presented with a send/don't send report button. I have not yet tested clothing but I imagine the result will be the same. My current workaround is not change symbols on the B580, if I need to do that I fire up my old laptop with GTX 1050 Ti, not ideal nothing I can do until this gets patched if ever or a fix emerges...
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  19. Uhtdred
    thank you!! I will try it!
  20. Weaboos
    Ave, you are in luck. I've tested two PCs running Win 11 with two different Intel Arc B580 cards one being the reference model and the other being a Sparkle OC model. Both PCs were using midrange Ryzen CPUs, one was using Ryzen 5 7600X and the other was with the 7600 non X. With maxed graphics @1440p the game is an unplayable stuttery mess that eventually led to CTD. There was also some kind of weird faint shadowy artifact on the left side on the screen, most visible when driving a vehicle and looking at the ground. Naturally such things are expected when buying a GPU from a new player in the GPU market but considering how good of a value this card is when you can get it at or close to MSRP I've decided to accept such risks. I've decided to mess around with the configs just to test a what if scenario and was blown away with what I ended up with. My game went from being unplayable to smooth 160-320 fps with maxed graphics @1440p (no AA as that really hurts fps for whatever reason). Having messed around with configs in the past with minimal gains on older PCs I would be extremely skeptical if someone claimed such massive gains but the words I speak are true. Credit to jmiIos for originally discovering this. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20230318201509/https://forums.gamersfirst.com/topic/19594-engine-upgrade-just-went-live/ What I did: There are more settings to mess around with but I did not touch the others as these seem to do give the most benefit. If you've never messed around with configs you will need to launch the game from APB.EXE and not from the launcher. Also consider setting a high fps cap as in my case I was sliding around 1 m as soon as I stopped and reached the fps cap of 170, and when I increased it to 300 fps I would start sliding 10 m at a time. I've set the fps cap to 500 have have not slid since. Visually the game is unchanged from max graphics, however the previously mentioned faint shadowy artifact still remains, this seems to be an Intel specific bug and so far I've seen it on 3 B580 cards that were used to play this game. To conclude you might not get a better experience using this card to play APB but you will easily be able to run modern titles such as Cyberpunk. On a side note if you are one of those people who never turns off his PC consider restarting it before your APB session at least as one of my friends had some weird stutters in APB that were fixed by restarting his PC (B580 card and a 13th gen Intel i7).
  21. MACKxBOLAN
    I dont agree with the being afk unless the cheat is on your team and being real obvious. Because I wouldn't want to help him screw the other people. That said. Being kind to these hoodlums is not in my programming. Cheats are Frauds, Crooks, Thugs with a computer. Now you have to remember these people went well out of their way to ruin the game. So missions are off the table, unless you like getting botted down and running back for another. Game is unplayable with such a high percentage of hackers in NA. Matt has done nothing to create open world tasks for cops or crims. So in effect He has no Game, no product. The only way to make money facing constant hacker stacked teams is to show up but throw. Fire off a couple shots there way n die. No reason to try cuz the gold on your team will outscore you anyway, even if you do well. Oh I've thought about making an alt account and buying some hax, just to kill the hax we have. But thats not gonna make them leave, for some reason this old game attracts hackers by the droves. And it's not enough for them to just hack out the missions, they will come n find you and troll you if you aren't a hacker. So it's best to either uninstall and move on if you dont like the hackers, or go in knowing you are risking your account, and torture them. Because they aint going anywhere. Now if you hack or like hackers this is the game for you, These are Your People
  22. CookiePuss
    I guess I must be cheating then because while I don’t know if you would actually get banned for it (that would seem harsh), going AFK in missions because you think someone is cheating is griefing. It’s better and kinder to just log out and log back in. That way the people who wanted to play that mission still can. For real just be nice and /exit and then relaunch. We have CDMM now so you wouldn’t even have to spam join if the district is full and there is currently no penalty for doing this. I really wish I could ask who the streamer was, but no name and shame so I’ll let it go.
  23. DreAmGirL
    The thing is, Matt isn’t a gamer. I actually had the same conversation about cheaters with him a few years ago, and I told him back then who was cheating and how you can spot it just by watching closely even without any anycheat. I got the feeling he knew it was a problem but didn’t want to deal with it for some reason. Many players (even cheat developers) have said that at least 30% of the player base is cheating. Ironically, it’s usually actual cheaters who deny this, claiming it’s a lie. It has always been cheaters spreading misinformation, defending ridiculous decisions like unbans, and insisting on false ban narratives. In reality, false bans account for less than 0.1% - I personally know a guy who was unbanned after loudly claiming he was falsely banned, even though he was blatantly cheating. He was using program that many players from this forums are still using and they were also banned and unbanned after. So yes, this game is cheater-friendly. In its current state, it’s too late to ban all the cheaters - there wouldn’t even be one full district left. I’m sure Matt realizes now how bad that decision was back then. G1 understood that fighting cheaters is still better than trying to please everyone and mostly listening to cheaters, just because many of them are streamers or very active users. Creating FFBans brought a lot of players back. People knew that sooner or later, the most obvious cheaters would get bannedwhether they were streamers, well-known players, or paying users. But everything went downhill after they disabled it and started pushing an anti-legit agenda. And here we are. I said back then that it would end like this, but they thought they knew better Since the only way to fight cheaters in the game is to not play against them (just stay AFK), at this point, it feels like the only real way to fix the game is to stop playing it altogether. I quit a long time ago, and honestly, I’m glad I did. P.S. Imagine this - cheaters were actually whining on the forums that staying AFK against them should be bannable. I remember people getting mad in a cheater’s stream chat when he got matched against my team a few times in a row and we just AFK’d every mission. After the fourth or fifth AFK game, he rage quit, complaining that it should be bannable, how lame it was, and throwing out all sorts of nonsense. I still recommend do afk if you face cheaters - its the only thing that makes them mad.
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  25. EVInezca
    One word. SPCT!
  26. CookiePuss
    Can you explain more about this?
  27. EVInezca
    1 week playing after long break and i can say WOAAAH what you did with the game @mattscott. Apb for legit player is Dead. You cant have fun anymore in playing missions. It is so rare to become legit vs legit. close the game or take a Gm in every district and ban every cheater (easy 50% of pop every district). You run every game in rage hackers with full trigger and aimbot sometimes + wallhacks. Many people was loving APB for his uniqe playstyle become every year more worse SINCE liddle Orbit. And this has nothing to do with the game is old many old games run in good health. Its only You LiddleOrbit who support cheater and give the Legit players Zero protection. You killed your own game. Only for the liddle cash for cheats each month.
  28. Noob_Guardian
    Hint: Use your cars/civi cars if possible to prevent costs. Ensure you use a gas station when possible. (People don't generally break cars that don't have a spawner or mobile tower in it either hint hint) Well, considering segregation forced half the playerbase into gold, then handed them off into quad stacked cheater groups which made entire servers lose 50% of their population within 3 months, yeah that's going to happen. It was like that pre-seg, except districts had no threat, and there was a population to sustain it. I've carried R20-40silvers to gold, it's sadly really easy to get, and much harder to lose. I dunno how you flux between gold and silver kek.
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  32. Goldexen
    And the results:
  33. Goldexen
    Parts 8, 9, 10, 11: APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.8 Today i'll finally left Waterfront shit district  2025 04 18 21 59 8.2)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.8.2 It took me 3 hours to max Chiro from 7.5 to 10 lvl 2025 04 18 22 22 9)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.9 Strengthening the Pioneer  2025 04 19 15 33 9.2)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.9.2 Routine EXP farm  2025 04 19 18 50 9.3)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.9.3 Storage ended mid mission :( 2025 04 19 22 10 9.4)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.9.4 Mission against rage cheater  2025 04 19 22 52 9.5)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.9.5 Reaching 93R 2025 04 20 00 29 10)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.10 Recorded only one mission :D  2025 04 20 16 18 10.2)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.10 Recorded only one mission :D  2025 04 20 16 18 10.3)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.10.3 Pls delete a f@#$ing Waterfron from this game pls 2025 04 20 20 55 11)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.11 Final straight to the 100R  2025 04 22 16 18 11.2)APB: Reloaded P2W way - p.11.2 Finally reaching the 100R 2025 04 22 17 46
  34. DedGaem
    I said DISTINCTLY we need a solid anticheat. But we need it to WORK,,, IMMEDIATELY, during the mission to DISCOURAGE detectable cheating. Only thing I said was... temp bans rather than perma bans.. and this due to the woefully tiny playerbase. I don't believe the game can survive the kind of thorough purge perma bans would give it. G1 BANNED THOUSANDS... and it solved nothing. When LO bought the game, they did mass UNBANNING, which, at the time was largely viewed favorably... not only because of false bans... but because it welcomed back a LOT of players the game NEEDED to survive. We just didn't need them back CHEATING... but 2nd and 3rd chances are HEALTHY for a small game. THUS, the issue isn't about solving the FTP bane of rerolling cheat accounts at all. PLUS, if TEMP KICKS only lasted, say 15min, 30 min, an hour... it undercuts the effort to continuously make new accounts and rage cheat on them in revenge.. never said people WON'T reroll. The whole POINT of TEMP bans is to get the anticheat to AGGRESSIVELY KICK on detection... and not require the lengthy staff intensive process of REVIEWING BANS FOR FAIRNESS which provides an unacceptable DELAY often, in past of MONTHS... before deleting someone's account. In this process... detection doesn't have to be as stringent, because the penalty isn't... People with false detections can petition support. At that point of escalating a support ticket... the LO staff can review if the detections are valid or not and help legit but pro players NOT trigger kicks. The whole point is to get cheaters BOOTED out of missions they are abusing as soon as they're detected as a DISCOURAGEMENT TO CHEATERS AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE LONGSUFFERING PLAYERBASE.. like a SPEED BUMP. We KNOW perma bans don't work... it just erodes the playerbase. Under YOUR scenario... a reroll account will STILL get detection and KICK... the ONLY thing he would bypass is an escalating time limit...but he would STILL be kicked for 15 min... as a cooling off period. Suppose he makes a new account.. suppose he makes 15 new accounts... or already has them... WHAT THEN? Log in-cheat-detetc... KICK..... Log in-cheat-detect... KICK... Log in-cheat-detect... KICK. THAT'S the incentive NOT to cheat. He can play on 1,000 accounts and be insta kicked ALL DAY, on detection. He can't AVOID being kicked on detection. He just loses the motivation to rage at the company for a permanent ban... and abuse the playerbase in his anger over a permanent lost account. We've ALWAYS had closet cheaters in this game... and always will. The difference is, we USED to have closet cheaters... and now, without an anticheat we have full on cheaters and raging cheaters. THIS makes the game unplayable for non-cheaters... who at least with some skill and a good team could DEFEAT closet cheaters because they cheated, but in moderation. With immediate TEMP KICK on detection... it would provide an INCENTIVE to cheaters (who we KNOW will NOT stop cheating) to at least TONE DOWN THEIR LEVEL OF CHEAT and the resultant overly aggressive playstyle (because they have no fear as their bot kills faster than humanly aiming) which, in my view, would provide a MORE FAIR GAME especially to newer, casual players. I'm not proposing anything RADICAL... in fact it's moderate in the extreme.. just a temporary discipline to promote fairness and discourage the kind of extreme cheating that cause players to stop playing. Right NOW what we have without any anticheat is FC level tryharding aggressiveness that is a playstyle which literally is overkill and exterminates the less effective (read: LEGIT) playerbase... and that is on ordinary missions... and the frequency is alarming due to Cheater Clans created in absence of ANY disciplinary policing mechanism at all.
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  36. MageLO
    Hello everybody, Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (04/23) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 4 to 6 hours. Thank you for your patience.
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