Trivirium

Phew, this thread is taking a turn towards both racially sensitive and almost definitely toxic. Where the forum police at?

I did remember hearing about a upcoming alienware promo, didn't know it was a vehicle. I wonder if it's just designed and dressed up with symbols like the Gumshoe 4x4 or if it has a unique take all together. I'm very curious how one would obtain said item as well. Will it be a free item earned? or will it be through owning something Alienware related as it is a promo.. Will it be useful to vets as well as new players? SO MANY QUESTIONS SO LITTLE INFORMATION.

Is this the alienware promo or whatever? I'm totally clueless as to what this is about. If there was a forum post somewhere on it I totally missed it. Edit: Turns out it's in today's patch notes. "Alienware Promotional Vehicle" will have a forum post in the "near future". So something maybe later today or tomorrow will come out.

I don't know what weapons exactly are "unique" for nekrova but as for stat changes couldn't you just do a balance across the board? Who cares who spent what, they had no problem doing a bait and switch with the Troublemakers stats when it came out. The only issue I can see arising is the amount of data they might need to pull between servers. And if item IDs or however they do it, happen to be different between the two servers. That could cause a lot of hookups as I'm assuming they'd have to rewrite stuff. It's really hard to say because it is two different versions of APB all together.

This is a perfect example of this issues that'll arise with the lack of Armas weapon trials and with everyone expecting everyone else to just "goto the joker store". People want an easy, free and simple way to try new things in a game far past it's prime where everyone else probably already has it. Making people purchase premium items with free currency is great, but when it say, Costs what would be the equivalent of, around 1,000,000 in game dollars. Because that's what the normal Vegas 4 slot goes for, it can become problematic. On a good game a non premium member can get around 2.5-4K a mission. For simplicity's sake we'll use 3K as the going rate. If you were to get 3K consecutively EVERY GAME. It would take you a total of 334 matches to meet the 1,000,000 dollar mark. JTs cannot be farmed the same way, so sadly you must be locked to a fixed skill capped grind. Where FC comes in and so does the 84 consecutive days (of which is if your rank 255) of wasting your time playing hours of APB just to get them dailies done. Now this model of progression is okay for anyone who pays for premium and legitimate golds who can do well in FC. BUT for the other 75% you have a very very very starved system of progression that ultimately pushes towards Armas purchases. Then we hit the second issue. Now that we've got this system of fremium in place, you'd think they'd be on equal grounds? No, Arma's still has exclusives like the RFP Fang, but in hindsight, The Joker Store does have the Stheno.. Even though we get the AMG as a loyalty reward... Like I said in my previous reply, I'm all for the JS. But not when JTs are and can, be considered hard earned and spent better elsewhere, like on a Coywolf or Vegas 4x4. People shouldn't be forced to use their hard earned currency just to TRY something. For as long as I've played they've had trials and I think it's just as much a gesture of honesty in letting people try their products before purchase as it is integrity as a company to show that they aren't out to rip you off with gimmicky guns and packs.. As an SPCT I'm surprised you didn't pick up on this, he's saying that you've derailed the post with the 4x4 talk, it's about weapon trials, not the fact you can buy a car from there, let alone an expensive one. All that being said, I genuinely think it was a poor decision to remove trials from Armas as it will only hurt new players who have nothing further without a trial-able arsenal in a game where the majority of player that are playing have plenty of premium guns to choose from on a whim.

Jokes because even Planetside 2 lets you trial a gun in live combat for an hour or two, once per day. So, given it's a fraction of a trial system we have/had it's still a trial system. Made to let people try their products before purchase "Half a year" That statement for a single car that's not even open slot makes my skin shiver.

Well I have to say this is the stupidest shit I've seen in a while. I constantly get my friends to try out APB and one of the nice things was that they could trial any gun in the game and find their play style and consider buying the gun permanently. You've taken away something so useful for not only allowing people to try their products before buying but also helping new players ease into the game. And I know that the P2W stigma is still strong but doing this makes it seem worse. Now not only are we getting Armas exclusives like the RFP IR 3 but now we can't trial said exclusives anymore? Secondly, this really erks me even further because I spend my money on a prema gun that say, for that time as it was just released it's working great. But two/three weeks down the road when everyone has the gun and it's being called op, it takes a nerf harder than IR 3 did. Now the nerfing is uncontrollable but releasing a weapon with intentions of changing it down the road isn't very cash money of you. Now I know it's their game, the gun may have been indeed broken in comparison to others. Perhaps more testing should be involved before it is to be released? Regardless. Nerf or not the ability to try these and any other gun like it, is super important to me and I'm sure several others. As a longtime player and having a considerable amount of premium account bound stuff. Even for me, Trials are useful if I want to buy something completely new without fear of loss. Joker store is nice and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a premium gun without paying real money, the only issue is, Joker tickets aren't easy to come by in large quantities. Which you need to make these premium gun purchases for a considerable amount of time. All in all, if new content comes out and I'm still unable to trial it. I find myself having a harder time to buy it for fear of it being either just garbage or being good and getting a nerf down the road much like the Trouble Maker, both of which are wastes of money IMO.

I had a legitimate clip that I saved and sent into support today. So I mean, if you think it's bad. Do what I did and save it and send.

I find less input lag over windowed, and I never use v-sync unless it's a racing game or something that doesn't require such stupid amounts of reflex.

I almost never see stutters, 1080 8G, 4690, 16gb. I play windowed fullscreen as to avoid V-Sync input lag and screen tear. Generally I've played APB on several different PC hardware setups (HP Pavilion G6 Laptop, 980 w 4690) and it mostly falls down to the CPU. Minimize background application usage. I used razor coretex quite often which is just a tool to help minimize background application usage. Mainly shuts down everything that isn't gaming related and windows core applications.

Is this a legitimate potential? Do we have the new face of APB right here? Well there goes the lore. Mayor Daren just said screw it and threw in the towel. And in all fairness, it would solve balance issues. 10/10 No more stacked teams. No item restrictions, LtL for EVERYONE.

Wait, what's broken about the norseman? I have a harder time using those SMGs than I do an OCA. It's like I almost need to get the drop in order to kill. Otherwise I get out DPSed by OCAs or other.

*cough*

Well when a group of 4 shows up at an empty point with no teammates nowhere near in sight, nor choosing to not spawn there because they're braindead. I find it helpful that they're forced away from it when lurking. That way, they can't just stand close to the spawn and shoot everyone that spawns, sure you're greyed. But that doesn't stop spawn camping/killing after you fire the first shot to fight back.

Contrary to what everyone here says, I think the poison damage is good. BUT, it's not flawless. I agree too, it's a little broken. I think the gas shouldn't affect you as long as you're firing on the barrels, or if they get hit, the zone flashes and the gas stops or the player who shot the barrels gains immunity for a short period till they shoot the barrel again. That way, the intended spawn protection is there, but at the same time it's still viable to destroy the barrels. Win - Win.

Yeah it wasn't an event reward, More like the Raptor "Hawk" and "Vulture". But they're all exclusive to some degree. ... I faintly remember the FAR Charger...

It is a little bit of a disappointment, but on the other side of things, I can earn them on one char and buy it on the other as to save myself the headache. So loss/win? I'm conflicted. I like my Temptress, I'd hate to see it go up on Armas. I'll literally shoot myself. Exclusivity is nice imo. I should stand out a little if I've been around for 6 years and I did those events way back then...

Here's how I see it, it's new, it's never been done on this game before. It's for a limited time and for what it's worth, they're giving away weapons skins. You're a moron if you're going to complain about free shit. I've played almost every team based shooter known to man, and I have to say, this isn't AAA rated. Nor is it going to win any awards at a gaming convention, BUT. For the first time in 2/3 years we've had something substantial happen in a extremely small game. Sure they have been hit and miss with things but god damn they're trying harder than G1 did to keep the fires going. And ya'll can rag on Matt all you want. The dude has a sense of shame and he's apologized several times for when things don't go EXACTLY how the barely existent community wanted it to. I'm not saying mistakes that were made were alright, I'm just saying that it's a WIP and we need patience if we want this game to continue. As for the event. I personally enjoy it, I love the city wide warfare, the lack of names till someone shoots/shot at. The fact you can grab a bunch of random people in a full car and go fuck with other teams is great. BUT It's team based and with a population seemingly split between BRs and everyone else. That's a language barrier that prevents effective team communication, WHICH YOU NEED FOR THIS EVENT. That's the only downfall I'm seeing. That, and that multiple barrels on the same point don't cap it faster, like come on, if we're wasting barrels by setting them down once then there should be a bonus at least. Ya'll are taking something nice for granted here. If we had the old event we'd be crying for something new. Sure this isn't seamless, but for those who were around for the old event. You should remember the Blades Hotel Glitch. You could climb into the sky walk between the towers in waterfront by ways of glitching in with deployables at your feet/jumping rapidly. People were being banned over usage of it till it was fixed, and even then others were finding other locations to go. Neither event was perfect. You just remember the good times.

I honestly think it's a spotting mechanic for the event. afaik, the names show up in action districts just fine, it's for the event and FOV. Tryna make everyone sneaky, otherwise I'm sure we'd have even more people like myself, who just use the obeya and do nothing but click below the red name lmao

It's alright, nobody will be able to do anything with the districts crashing every 5 mins.

Like I said, the Little Orbit mod helped the ranged weapons more than just a straight range boost. The IR was broken IMO for range. Just made every rifle hit hard at ~80. Since they reverted it, the LMGs and stuff that were not exactly super big on range before (they hit the 50-65M range) aren't getting a 6M + 7M range bonus from the LO mod. instead now they're just getting a 7M bonus.

The "Little Orbit Improved rifling 3 mod was percentile based with a range bonus. (11% +7M) At the cost of fire rate. The reverted old IR 3 is +7 M with bloom increase. So in short I figured the LO mod was more powerful with range vs the old one.

REEEEEEEEE Everything is on fire at LO/G1.

I thought it seemed a little weird that I wasn't able to as much damage at range. But on the other hand of things, the mod did change back. It's percentile based and not just straight range or something like that, so I figured it was just less powerful than it previously was.

Both event districts crashed. I can't exactly progress the event role if I can't finish a game. And now the district limited to 30 v 30? It was 100 players total. P.S. The player reduction didn't help the lag. Just made the event boring. Gratz on this failure. Turns out it was arresting someone in the event caused a district server crash... Amazing.