Noob_Guardian

and preventing firing at enemies to boot kek

Kevlar 3 barely does much to begin with, even if speed was buffed and regen decreased from base, it only protects from 1-2 bullets depending on gun, and it doesn't even matter against others like several shotguns. It should do a % damage reduction, that way it'll have a better effect rather than more life, which still barely matters considering you die to most explosions all the same. Kev is only decent atm with cqc weapons or shaw. If someone's using kev, they're still sniper, grenade, ltl, and shotgun bait. Any regen buff should be approached extremely cautiously. While I agree it would be "nice", it also could make the game feel much worse unless CA was removed or made into a single mod like fragile/flak if regen was messed with. Regen is slow, for a reason, and it's honestly not a bad thing, this game was meant to have much higher TTK's than we currently see in APB as well. You can see this from the lack of cover and how RTW had higher TTKs. (Ironically G1 seems to have intentionally botched both high TTK tests) It's also a bit ironic that you want to bring back jump shooting, which is broken in its own right, especially due to the fact that you can simply "jump" and fire and hit enemies as if they didnt have any cover, even AFTER G1 slightly modified cover and hitboxes in an attempt to reduce (but not fix) the issue.

Blowtorch was broken. I think that the nerf my have hit a little hard on the ammo capacity, however the time to repair should definitely have been increased.

Tell that to the Odin series then which has the same ttk as oscar Weapon handling and accuracy means everything. Weapons that are accurate and ez to handle like the oscar, are better than weapons that are somewhat accurate and easy to handle, and those hard to handle but very accurate.

they should have left OCA as is and nerfed the PMG, it was dumb imo to buff the OCA and nerf the PMG, when the issue was how strong the PMG was in the first place. Though i suppose the rebuffed the oca due to shotguns? Which was why they originally buffed it before they reverted it. PMG needed the nerf, though i agree other weapon changes seem... dumb, like the snubs equip time instead of shotgun "bolt timer" etc. It would be honestly funny if they made it so if you didn't pump the shotgun and went pistol, you have to repump it before firing again if there were rounds left.

i'll have to re-buy pig to see later, but i don't think its 2s

No-one is asking to keep pig the same, 800-850 stamina damage would have been sufficient, not 650 for one 10m shot with a .52/.6 equip with a 1.25s reload (with constant ghost shots). Who cares if any weapon can set up the pig though, you still have to move from cover, fire, move back, then fire again, which would either be no different from shotgun kills or scout kills. If you have no cover, then that's whatever time out of cover + shots fired +.52/.6+time to fire which still is greater than most TTK's which hover at 7, plus you have to be within 10m. The whole "pig issue" can pretty much be summed up with this sentence. Sorry you ran in and got ambushed, have you tried playing smarter? Then wouldn't that be more of an issue with ISSR-B stamina damage? ISSR-B was created AFTER the pig, as such any such balance would then be the fault of the creator of it, and not the pig. You could have easily went with nerfing the PIG less, and nerfing the Perc stamina damage for a better finite balance, especially when it comes to other LTL. It sounds more like you have a personal vendetta with the PIG, rather than an unbiased opinion. and Lily is right, there are far more deadlier and more annoying synergies than pig n perc and when you look at reality, this whole "rebalance" could have been handled much better.

They really should have just halved perc stamina damage and put pig at 800-850 and called it a day. The fact that you can still pig n perc without issue, but it made primary LTL's using pig as a sidearm just that much worse says a lot. TG-8 is much more similar to the OSCP. Least before the OSCP buffs

If you can tell me where I called you a PMG or NTEC user, then you would have had a point, but I neither said you used PMG nor NTEC. You're the one making drama, I simply said that most people prefer lazy easy guns over most other weapons that can be just as good, simply because they don't want to put in the little extra effort. This was NOT a personal attack on you, but an observation on APB's playerbase in general, if you missed the "most" in the post as well, I clearly didn't say "all". You clearly seem to think I have a bone to pick with you for some reason, might I suggest not being so self centered? - See now "that" was a personal "attack".

they still do, not anyone's but your own fault for not using them. The only "crappy" f2p guns are the NFAS, arguably DMR, and LTL, aside from pistols. But most guns take more effort than the NTEC and PMG so people prefer not to use them.

FAR - Considered better than the NTEC by a number of players, but NTEC is still seen as a more viable option at times because more people have one. Overall I think FAR would win, at least until this patch. SNR - Yeah this was dumb Obir - Needed the bolt timer agree Manic - It's used by several, i had used it a bit while leveling pointman. It needed a jump shooting nerf and possibly an accuracy or something nerf (I guess they increased ttk) so i'm not necessarilly opposed to this. It's not very seen because it was part of a pack where it was considered the only decent gun in. Act 44 - Weird change im not in support of it. RSA - Yeah this was still a wierd thing, especially since they seem to have further increased its TTK via fire rate interval change - so it's still going to be like trash tier, but i hope im wrong. It's because the whiney crims and they didn't want to nerf perc stamina damage. They should increase the range to 15-20m and give it 2 shots with a 1.05tts now that they effectively gimped it by every standard.

I've upvoted people i didn't like and downvoted people i liked simply because of the opinion. Mostly though, if they posted something stupid I downvoted. ^,.,^

Game balance was crap even back then, just saying. The only difference is that you had other more broken ARMAS guns (looks at scout and csg) to compensate. Problems against an OCA? Just use a csg, 2-3 hit at 15m with barely any chance to hit the guy. Problems with enemies and cover? Perfect accuracy jump scout. Problems with joker carbine? Just use a carbine NTEC was good all around PMG got buffed? Cool use it only since OCA "sucks now" Use FBW because every other pistol in game sucked (at least now there's FBW, fr0g, and .45, and even that assortment kinda sucks) STAR needed buffed back then, and the only did after they added the FAR. And yes, people did complain NTEC was OP back then, the difference is you had 6-15 people in district chat name call and silence the guy. They didn't rework guns based on the crappy ARMAS guns they added either. In fact a great deal of "NEW" armas weapons were straight up broke. pre-nerf nano, C2, ATAC ring a bell? They did add crappy ones like the Cobr-a, and Thor series later on, but the initial weapons were bonkers. I dont know what game you played back then, but it surely wasn't APB, balance was crap back then, and it had a LOT of useless weapons laying around.

Should have just called them scrub golds who are scared of bronzes with HVR's.

A player has 1000 life total. You "can" use 85 to represent life % damage like 85% life damage, however 850 damage is the actual damage amount.

Been perm gold since 2014, they do it for easier matches, tis all. Though I have several friends who are low gold high silver, who fluctuate a lot with a lot of hours.

Manic was a bit too strong, though i do agree it could have just used an accuracy nerf instead. C2 should have less accuracy, and honestly, it's always been considered worse than the OCA and PMG, so we'll probably see more OCA's than C2's anyways.

Dude, people complain about HVR having 850 life damage, people complain that concs do high life damage, people complain that explosives kill in 1 hit. Nerfing stun grenades which are rarely used is a bad idea, ontop of the fact that at 850 people would still complain about them because it's less than lethal and people hate sitting around waiting to die. Look at the pig, 1 shot 850/900 stamina damage, people complained and it got nerfed because percussions, and instead of nerfing perc stamina damage, they nerfed the pig. Go figure.

Basically you self destruct with a satchelcharge near a vehicle (shoot it or something to kill an enemy and oneself) and spawn with one that's invisible with no guns in hand until you fire to drop it. This started happening with the most recentish update which modified consumables. To reproduce 1. Place satchel charge 2. Shoot it causing suicide near a vehicle within, i dont know 4-6 seconds. 3. Spawn with it in hand invisible, you can hear it beeping, and can move around, it seems to blow prematurely. I'm unsure if it causes self damage or destroys anything. I've reproduced this multiple times in mission, and once out of mission.

Wait, you swap equiptment?

that explains so much then

They could just "track" inputs in the game to determine macros, but the chances that is happening i think is slim.

Nope, I've seen plenty of people say they do it and don't believe they'll be banned, others say LO isn't serious about banning people using macro, and that none would be banned for it. I've never seen or heard of anyone being banned for it either. I use a Razer mouse and have the software on my pc, i've never had any issues. I just can't have AHK for PoE trade macro or it won't let me start the game because it blocks any access if AHK is running. But it's still on my PC - no issues. Do I have a macro set to any buttons at the moment? No but I easily can. There's more to the story than that guy is leading on to, as many others who do use razer mouse software/hardware, still make use of the software without issues, I've been playing multiple times a week since May with Razer software running in the background with no issues, often forgetting Matt's "be warned you likely will want to exit the mouse software" warning. You'd think i'd be banned just for using Razer Synapse by now from his post. His issue is "Autoit" after some digging, BE is kicking him for it, but he says he doesn't have autoit, and others have issues getting kicked saying the same. Also, it's "kicking" him, it's not "banning" him.

Yet I haven't heard of nor seen a single macro user banned? Yeah its bannable, but I have yet to hear of anyone actually taking the "banning" of it seriously, as no-one has been banned for it to anyone's knowledge.

The vast majority of those I said cheated have been banned though? You act like spotting a bot is hard. Isn't that the point? No one can tell, you get a free off, while you have perfect accuracy for tap firing without any effort? Suddenly you're just a "skilled player" who people think is legit, when you're just a macro scrub. I mean, you can remove recoil through macros as well, but you know, perfect fire recovery is STILL a major boon at midrange for ntec, even if you don't "remove bloom".