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  1. Posted · Edited by DouglasFalcon

    On 1/7/2024 at 1:23 PM, Sayori said:

    So your email got compromised...and I assume you get an alert for login from a different location...but you do nothing to prevent further damage? But say you don't, lets dive into the possibilities.

     

    There's a data breach somewhere and Attacker gains credentials for your email. Attacker logins, finds out you play APB and decides put APB account credentials on marketplace. Are you telling me they went through every service to check the password? For hundreds or thousand of people? No...it's time consuming.

    - If your email and APB re-use the same password, Attacker would either have to change the APB's email or password otherwise whoever buys the credentials for APB may get access to your email....Attacker doesn't want this.

    - if your APB account credentials are different from the email, they still need to change the password so they can put it on marketplace. But here's what YOU said

    you realize something is wrong after you login...This implies the password was not changed because if it was you would already expect something to be wrong.

    So password WAS NOT CHANGED. 

    Huge red flags in your story. And t hat's only the story, we don't know what bogus  you have said to support

     

    Press F to doubt.

     

    Randomly logged in to see other stuff, I'll also answer this while I'm at it. I gotta say you guys really love making up stories in which I'm a 10 year old kid looking to get free legendaries lol

     

    The hacker broke into an old email of mine. I was not using this email at all, but it was connected to my current one and, also, another one I am no longer using, that happens to be the one tied to my APB account. As soon as they break into the account, they change my password so I no longer have access to that account. I don't notice at first, but my friend start telling me my Insta and Facebook accounts are posting crypto/porn stuff so I understand something weird is going on. My Telegram also starts joining random russian promo groups, my Reddit account comments on some random patootie ads, and so on. Something weird is defo going on. I even find payments tied to my Nintendo account (50 bucks), done with my Paypal, and I also discover my Nintendo account was also stolen (password changed).

    At some point, I realize all this stuff is still happening despite me changing passwords for my current email halfway through the events, so something else has to be the cause. Eventually, I understand it's that old email, toghether with the one tied to my APB account. I send my documents and shit to the provider, they give me my account back and there I see they did all sorts of shit. They were smart enough to delete the emails, but dumb enough to leave them in the "deleted" folder. What can I say, I'm not those assholes' parent. If you doubt my story, I still have the mail logs. That being said, I decide to delete that email account altogether, to avoid further issues.

    Flashback to some weeks after that entire, incredibly stressful, situation I had found myself in (while unemployed and stranded abroad, lol), one day I just randomly decide to log into APB (I forgot the reason but I think I mention it in the OP). There, I find that everything that could be traded was indeed traded to who knows who, and like 10 seconds after my initial shock I link this to this past experience. I open a ticket, explaining the situation just like I did now, and I literally asked them "can you see a log of my past trades? I am 99% sure someone broke into my account, sold all my stuff and got away with it". The answer: "yeah we suspect you might not be you so fuck off."

    Like, dude? I can literally prove I'm me lmao, I can send documents, I know what's up on my fucking account since I made it almost 10 years ago, I answered all your question and all you say is "nah still not sure" and close the ticket off? Not even sending me a log of my past trades? What should I do with it? rofl.

     

    If you still like to think I'm the bad guy here though, have a look at it yourself and then, please, tell me what I have to gain from a message like this one. Cause I really can't figure it out myself and I could use some help. And please stop bootlicking bad customer service, you can like a game and admit there's some dumb people working for it.

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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

    Watch out Kids, This ones a Biter. 

     Mr. Falcon: First let me say that none of us like support or their policies.

    You snapping back at Cookie who is only trying to help you, and laying out this sob story 

    bashing support as the demon. When you say that you've lost or had various social media acc's

    compromised. This would mean that your Emails and soc med and gaming acc's and their Account Recovery

     Questions and particulars have been compromised, yet you still seem to have access to or have recovered said emails

    and various game and soc med acc's all except APB, which you were able to log into but are missing weapons.

    and you're laying all the blame for this clear conspiresy of wire fraud on support. 

    has lead me to believe that You are full of it. 

     Your Story doesn't add up, You could very well be the person who hacked the account for one thing.

    So support is only doing its job. We know support will ask you for a valid picture identification from your

     municipality or government, which can then be used as proof if brought to court, in the case You yourself

     faked this act of identity theft and wire fraud, which is covered under the 'False Claims Law' a form of fraud. 

    We also know from many years of playing apb and time spent on this Forum, that quit a few people have gifted,

    traded, sold weapons to alternate accounts, then came in here claiming they were robbed. 

    Trying to get support to give them ledgendary and armas items, Only to turn around n sell, trade, said items.

     Your stories time line doesn't jive. So You say this all happened 2 months ago, and 'A few weeks later' you came to 

    apb to see the new 'features' and noticed your stuff was missing.

     We've had no new features only one new item a car released bout a week ago, So how would you know there were 

    any new items or Features if you weren't here, and how someone would hack your account and then not change the 

    passwords and lock you out. Because it would take them a little time to transfer the items or moneys, and often its the 

    whole account that is hacked and then sold. So the proper account owner would not be able to Log in at all.

     I find it hard to believe that they got all of your particulars on several accounts including emails, social media, games.

    But only stole from your apb account, also you seem to have been aware that your identity was compromised yet you

     wait a 'Few Weeks' to try logging into apb. And here it is a month more or less from your Few Weeks after 2 Months.

    That You come in here saying this all happened. 

     Now I'm not calling you a Fraud, but I'll say maybe what support or staff can't say, n that's that your story doesn't add up, 

    it fits into a known pattern of M.O.s that many of us have seen before that looks like Fraud. 

    1. they didn't ask me to provide any document and/or proof of identity. Were I had been asked to do so, I would've complied with no problem.

    2. they can literally check on my account's trade log to see if the "story" I'm telling is backed up by facts.

    3. again, I'm literally willing to give up all my money, cars and modifications if that mean I can at least have the legendaries I've grinded for for years back. How would this "scam" be on my favour?

    4. sorry but it's a bit funny at this point. If someone breaks into your social medias and starts posting shit, your friends are gonna notify you and/or you'll get weird things happening everytime you try looking at your phone. Me knowing about the new features is simply me periodically checking the "news feed" section of Discord's channel and knowing about the game's updates.

    5. what you say about scammers does unfortunately make sense but it's very sad that actual issues like mine are less likely to be aknowledge as a result. At the end of the day I'm fine without APB, but both me and the game company lose from this and only 2 pieces of shit gain a benefit from the story.

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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, CookiePuss said:

    So someone committing crimes punishable by prison takes their time to see what games you play because maybe there’s something in the games he can sell for real $ and then they played APB enough to learn that there actually are things you can  sell?  Exceptionally unlucky. 
     

    By the way, what questions couldn’t you answer as far as proving account ownership?

    Lol, you clearly don't know how this kinda things work. The guy whole stole my data simply put my various social media/accounts login info for sale on a black market and those who are interested (i.e. your friendly APB dumbass) can buy whichever they want. The person how got the data prolly has not idea what APB is, the person who bought my login does though. Again, your comment just shows you've never dealt with this event in your life. Good for you ig.

     

    Also, I've answered all of their questions are accurately as possible and always mentioned when I wasn't 100% sure about my answer (and why I wasn't). Funny thing is my answers are the same (or even more accurate) as those of an earlier ticket opened like 1 year and a half ago, which was dealt with no issue at all. Funny how double standards work.

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  4. Posted

    Hi all,

    about two months ago a hacker broke into one of my email addresses and was able to steal an enormous amounts of personal data out of that, even going as far as being able to buy stuff with my money. I won't go over how horrendous on an experience it has been for me, it wouldn't accomplish anything.

    Long story short, a few weeks after that I log into APB because I wanted to see the new features. The moment I log into my character I realize sometthing is wrong: no weapons on my hands, no legendaries in my locket, no mods, no cars, no money. Anything I had that could be traded is no longer there. It's obvious the hacker sold my account's access information to someone who used it to trade a lot of my stuff to themselves.

    At that point I'm feeling more desperate than ever. I've been playing since around 2015/2016 and all the stuff I had grinded for all these years was gone. I decide to open a ticket to at least see if LO had a log of trades done on my account, and maybe it was possible in some way to at the very least get my legendaries back (and the pleasant fellow banned). I am answered with the endless routine questions (your characters' names, email adress, ...) to which I answer as accurately and exhaustingly as I can.

    The answer? We're sorry but we couldn't determine that's you. I try asking what went wrong, the ticket gets closed.

     

    Man, what a fucking pleasant fellow. After this experience I'll (obviously) not ever touch the game again and hope it takes them all under bankruptcy. I fthis is the service you provide to your users I really think you don't deserve running a gaming company lmao.

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  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, CookiePuss said:

    If not the free to play ones, what guns would you like to be the meta?

    You bring up an interesting point!
    Because you see, there's plenty of non F2P weapons that are either not really meta viable (ALIG, NFAS, any secondary that's not ACT or FBW) and/or you gotta stick with preset weapons that most of the time offer you a dampened down version of what makes that weapon meta. DMR not running HS at all or MP3 CJ3 OCA are good examples of that.

    All I'm saying in my post is that everyone, f2p people included, should be able to have a decent shot at winning no matter the weapon they've chosen! It's understandable that not buying weapons leaves you with less choice and/or more time to spend on the game in order to get what you want, after all the company must drive some money to their wallets one way or the other. But giving some love to weapons that are non-meta relevant doesn't mean replacing NTEC OBIR and OCA/PMG from their roles, it only means giving people what like the game enough to spend money on it to get rewarded with something that feels different from what anyone can get. Not better, different.

    (Also, I'd argue the current meta kinda doesn't care about the f2p aspect of the game given how many legendaries or retail weapons like Ursus or Scout tend to take the top spot over NTEC or most snipers but honestly I don't need this argument to prove my point!)

  6. Posted

    Ngl despite knowing (and agreeing with) the fact that there are far bigger priorities for the game, like implementing fixing matchmaking or the anticheat system overhaul, the only thing my mind wants is a meta shift. I'm crazy, right?

    Don't get me wrong tho I don't think anything atm should be nerfed, LO has done a fairly good job at removing the cancerous stuff out of the game, I just want to see a viability bump to some less relevant weapons in order to have more choice of weapons to pick and have a real shot at winning with, instead of having to 101% outplay Mr. Goodstuff9000 every single mission I get just because I don't like using most of the current top of the meta weapons 😞

    Aside from that some weapons definetely MUST be buffed, like they're a total scam at their current state (Norsemen and IRS series in particular lmao). I know that not every weapon is supposed to be viable and I don't want that, I'd just like to have less "distance" between the best and the worst weapon so that if you're a decent player you'll almost always have a shot at winning a mission.

    I think that despite this being a low priority matter it still shouldn't be overlooked because one of the strenghts of APB imo is how many different weapons are in the game, but the current meta state encourages "safe" picks that are kinda repetitive and increase this feeling of staleness that's eating the what's left of the playerbase.

    Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels that way lol I don't wanna be an APB hipster

  8. Posted

    First of all it's nice to be back and see the game is still alive, although it's noticeable that the playerbase is still decreasing and things right now are rough 😞

    Now for the questions!

    First: I'm EU and I've noticed nobody ever plays in Baylan Shipping's fight club, is there a reason why the Asylum being more popular? Is there a time when people gather in Baylan and play there? I used to love 2 hours sessions of pure killing in that area, one of the most fun game modes in APB imho, so I'd love to experience that again.

     

    Second: I wanna waste some JTs and I've always wanted to try the SBSR rifles. When I checked APB:DB to learn the differences between IRS and Coroner the only one I was able to find is that IRS, being a sniper rifle, has 15 metres more of effective range. Is it really the only difference? Like, is the Coroner a straight up worse version of the IRS? Please enlighten me! 🙂

  9. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Cr0 said:

    Of course anyone can find themselves doing that from time to time. Especially under the right circumstances, as in: when the DMR range is long enough for 2 shot kills or/and when the enemy isn't very good. Then it's a beast of a weapon. In general HVR performs better than DMR because to stay in that small space where the DMR shines where you have to have a range of 90(?)+ meters all the time just isn't going to be practical as the missions are too dynamic. for that.

     

    If only you knew what you were talking about you'd realize noob guardian is right lol.

    Getting 3/3 shots with DMR and out-TTKing HVR ain't hard nor uncommon, 88+ range is just the icing on the cake that guarantees you're winning any fight (and consistently playing at that range is possible in a lot of cases, especially during Defend stages)

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  13. Posted

    Hello I only play sniper rifles and I main DMR AV

     

    Please, PLEASE, stop doing your calcs only basing yourself on max damage. If you guys had used DMR AV once in your life you'd know that it's impossible to get a full max dmg mag on a moving car, you'll usually get 2 max dmg shots at best.

    DMR AV is decent against cars, but eh otherwise. Dog Ear used to be MUCH better than it at dealing with cars (due to much faster fire rate, higher movement speed, and many other factors) and now it's just a very strong sniper (imo) that can still threaten weakened cars if needed.

     

    I'm personally more on the side of "buff weaker guns" instead of "nerf stronger guns", but I can see what they wanted to do in this patch. Still, as many people mentioned, DMR AV won't see more usage until they'll address some of its core weaknesses that also plague the SD variant, like its atrocious equip time coupled with its bad mobility. But Dog Ear is fine lol that weapon is still good and y'all just bad 😇

     

  14. Posted

    As much as I don't mind territory control at all, why has Baylan Shipping been half empty since this new ruleset has been implemented?

    Judging by the poll's result it should be the opposite.

     

    Also please, lower the population cap back to 32, so more than 1 district will be active at a time and click spamming issues will be mitigated

  16. Posted

    Tried logging in the beta for 2 hours, eventually giving up afterwards (cause I also had to go eat). I was hyped af for trying out the beta and this was a huge letdown to me. So I decided to boot up the normal, old APB. I wanted to play Baylan Shipping, but then I remembered that I won't be able to do so for a long time still bc of the Gun Game event, which I don't like playing cause it lags way too much on my PC. Still, I decide to try a couple missions of Gun Game, and as soon as I get tired I go play a bit of Financial. After a good 5 minutes of spamming "Join", I immediately get teamed up with 3 silvers (nothing to say abt them, I'm silver too atm) and our opponents are, of course, 3 golds all from the same clan. No backup allowed on our part either. I shake my head, get in my car and look for where to go. Until... I realize I got that stupid bug that prevents the game from showing items' and players' positions. I was super close to getting to R18 with a contact, so I decide to play the mission regardless instead of just turning off my PC. Of course, we start getting bodied. Of course, in the end my score sucked so much I didn't even manage to rank up. Of course, right as I press K again the game crashes.

    Please, hurry up and fix APB. I try my best to stay positive, but days like this put a hard toll on me.

  21. Posted

    23 hours ago, Noob_Guardian said:

    oblivion is a lovely weapon... one of the fastest sniper ttks, great accuracy with no need for hunting sight as long as you "strafe". It's not an AV sniper so it doesn't need more car damage, and has one of the fastest sniper equip times in game as well, slower than scout, but faster than dogear, hvr, and dmr. (Scout has one of the fastest sniper equip times ingame, with 3ps3 it goes to under .4s)

     

    I think the reason you feel its mediocre is because it's 4 hits to kill, i know dogear has somewhat similar issues at times, though it at least has high hard damage to compensate.

    While I agree Oblivion's stats seem pretty good in paper, I feel like they don't work well together.

    Equip time is too long to make any use of Mob Sling, which means that it can't take full advantage of its accuracy gimmick, which results in a frustrating "must do" thing that is very often unwelcome (like when shooting under cars). And in this regard, you could forego HS3, but said issues will become even worse and it's not like Oblivion benefits from many other mods whatsoever, so to me it feels pointless to do so. You're basically forced to use 3PS3 alongside HS3 and CJ3, and at that point it's useless to have slightly better equip time than average if your loadout is gonna be the same thing.

    Speaking of TTK, while it's definitely pretty good for a sniper (although nothing huge imo), it's pretty hard to land all 4 shots in a row, and you'll be forced to aim more carefully and slowly, else you'll most likely leave the opponent alive behind a cover/inside a car.

     

    All in all I feel Oblivion fails to fill its niche because of it not being polarized enough.

     

    On a side note, Oblivion's crazy good at jumpshooting. Too bad its shots don't deal enough damage to make it significant 😞

  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, BrandonBranderson said:

    Don't mean to derail this thread here but Car Surfer shouldn't even be a mod. Staying on the roof of a car should be skill based like it originally was.  Originally you had to constantly walk in the direction the car was moving to not slide off, but G1 said nah and made it so you slid off no matter what and introduced a mod to make you just stick to the roof to force you to have to progress further to get this extremely useful ability.  What was nice about the old way was that it balanced the weapon accuracy of those riding it because they were technically "jogging" to stay on the roof which caused their crosshair to bloom, whereas now they're just standing still.

    Was it really like this? Lol

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