Noob_Guardian
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On 4/28/2021 at 5:18 AM, TzickyT said:i think apb doesn't focus on that stuff atm. they focusing only on the engine and the rest doesn't matter to them atm.
Its more they probably dont have the resources to. Though I thought transferring to costing nothing that was more of a automatic thing, or something they just have to mention to microsoft? Or was it something they have to pay to do? Not sure, but I'm glad someone mentioned in it forums. Hopefully LO mentions something on it, i'd be interested to hear
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On 4/19/2021 at 6:38 AM, Reprimand said:This video is really well thought out and pretty much makes me think of things I never considered. The fact that so many mods are locked behind Rank 195 is ridiculous and the barrier of entry for new players is crazy high. If we want to at least make the game fairer we'd make it possible for newer players to be on a level playing field with golds.
"OSCAR IS A JOKER CARBINE RESKIN AND FUNCTIONALLY IDENTICAL"
dude, this guy had some decent points, but he lacked a billion others that would have been identified with basic game knowledge.
"complains about nano" which got nerfed within like a month. C-9 lasted ages, and he completely ignored the f2p broke guns of their times.
2 slotted guns give you the "necessary" mods, 3 gives access to a feel good mod.
can i agree its a bit much and guns too expensive? sure, but he ignores that a win nets ~700-2k apbd generally. 21 wins in 10 days is enough to get a 3 slot easily especially because by the time you can get a 3 slot, you're not a "newb" anymore.
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To be fair, we voted years ago with old G1 to get no patches and they focus on the upgrade. LO has given us a handful of patches, mostly weapon rebalances, and joker store reworks. But it's kinda nice regardless. I don't think we'll get any major patches until EU. As almost every system added now, must then be recoded/transfered over as well. It saves resources and time to focus on EU and upgrade after.
2 hours ago, Thiagao145 said:
I agree with this. The game is in a dying state, it needs more people in the matchmaking, and more diverse matchmaking and, ultimately, a faster matchmaking.
By adding the option to MM against your own faction, we would be "doubling" the "quantity" of players per server without having to add more players to said server.
it would be easier to matchmake new players with new players and veterans x veterans, thus increasing the chance of player retentio,.I would love to see some Praetorian vs Prentiss hate
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2 hours ago, GhosT said:Huh, I never knew people actually used those, since most of those pre-given links aren't direct urls most of the time.
I thought it's internet 101 to right click, view image and copy the actual link just to be sure.
yup never knew about that until now hehe must've grown up in different tech worlds is all
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5 minutes ago, Deadliest said:Why couldn’t these config settings be implemented into game options?
enable always sprint and hold crouch should be there already.
can’t do it or what?
It could be done later on probably, but just adding them as downloadable lets players do it without using resources. Not only that but most games don't "automatically" allow you to delete loading screens, ragdolls, and have a 3rd party "launcher".
The only one that I can see them implementing would be autosprint.
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On 3/19/2021 at 3:46 AM, R3ACT3M said:Yep...can we get some bloom buffs now to weapons? Why does the FAR have to be shit, meanwhile the NTEC is king? Annoying is what it is.
Can't tell a lie though, bought it only because it seemed like a strong weapon.You aren't allowed to have any weapon be better than the NTEC. NTEC must be king otherwise plebs will complain.
Atac? Nerf, S1NA? Nerf, FAR? Nerf, Better not buff the STAR very much to compete, Obeya? Nerf, nerf, buff, nerf buff, NTEC must be king.
(Though obeya is fine as is now lol)
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On 3/19/2021 at 5:34 PM, GhosT said:Right click > View Image. Internet 101
Yeah, that's what I meant.
On 3/19/2021 at 3:16 AM, Hexerin said:As others have brought up, a button to collapse the filter and item list sections would be a reasonable alternative. Ideally with an option/toggle to have the collapse be default behavior.
Right click -> View Image
This is of course assuming you're using a proper browser like Firefox, and not subjecting yourself to self-harm with Chrome. Then again, if you're using Imgur, you're kinda doing it to yourself anyways.
You realize that imgur like 2-3+ years ago used to simply have "codes" listed to the side that you could copy and it would auto-paste right? .-. But thanks for letting me know how to do so now.
On 3/19/2021 at 7:24 PM, Speedz said:I added the ability to collapse the sidebar. When collapsed the content in it is hidden+smaller and the item list is also slightly smaller. Tell me what you think.
I'll add an options menu later for saving this and several other features.
I like it, is there a way to instead of expanding the area in the blue box when the sidebar is reduced, to instead push the numbers and info over to the left? that way that side is not so... "close" to the scroll bar and is a little more... "condensed" without having to look so far to the right to see the stats?
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10 hours ago, HighSociety said:I'll stay on Topic.
Did u already "trail" the FAR in Armas.
I'd do that first but play some rounds to get into the game before u activate the trail.
Frog kokoe is the one with 3PointSling 3 right?
It's a nice Finisher if u use ur secondary just for that. But in other situations it's slightly worse than .45 imo.
Yeah Kokoe 3ps3 one. I love it, but I also got the RS2/3 one the extra accuracy feels good.
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On 3/17/2021 at 3:59 AM, R3ACT3M said:Far is the star with a higher fire-rate and more bloom (the nerf pretty much killed this weapon's use)
I completely forgot the FAR got a max bloom nerf, and already had slightly higher max bloom. interesting.
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5 hours ago, GhosT said:The "clutter" is fine.
Though imo, the main content of the page should be a little more centered, which could be achieved by making the item selection list a little less wide. The filter side could also become a little narrower.
Something like this?
https://imgur.com/gallery/V1P3naR
God i hate how i can't copy imgur images into the chat anymore because all the imgur options disappeared wtf .-.
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47 minutes ago, Hexerin said:Yup, it's pretty much the one thing from it I can't wait to see come to the main/live site.
Going to borrow @xiphos's image for a minute:
Basically, when looking at a page, it's how it keeps all that search UI nonsense on the left half up. It takes up half the screen space with stuff that isn't relevant. When you click on an item after searching, it should bring up that item's page and remove the search UI. Compare that screenshot to this one:
The difference is night and day. The main/live site doesn't have the clutter. The actual layout of information is better on the dev site though:
I do kinda agree, the UI on the left could be made smaller/hidden with an arrow that pops out the search things when it is clicked or hovered over leaving the important information easier to see/at the forefront.
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21 hours ago, SquirrelFace said:Holy crap the dev site shows proper damage curves.
I just looked at that and holy crap you're right. I never thought i'd see that after 2015.
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2 hours ago, Reprimand said:Yes yes I know don't buy the ARMAS marketplace weapons. But what weapons are functionally similar to it? I really love the gun but I'm not an NTEC fan.
The most similar to the star is the FAR.
Similar/same recoil
same accuracy stats aside from a .5 difference in mm/out of mm accuracy. aka
same bloom
same bloom recovery
should be the same movement speed
the only major difference is the .7 vs .75ttk, faster reload and smaller mag compared to the star. It's pretty much functionally identical otherwise.
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20 hours ago, Valkyrja- said:ps4 has the new engine. It was pushed out fast for consoles and not properly optimized for it. Hopefully with them going through code the console version will get better also. When they release it for the PC. They should have it sent over to Microsoft/Sony for approval. We don't know when it will be released tho.
Every update and game that goes to xbox/ps has to be approved by microsoft/sony first. This is also why console would in the past, get updates "slower" than PC, as they needed approved first (it was also mentioned in release notes/blogs several times. While I agree they weren't optimized. APB itself was hardly optimized to begin with .-.
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9 hours ago, Y2Venom said:In business school, you learn about productivity and nonsense in a workplace. A study that was done to see if it was possible increase productivity and cut down on nonsense in the workplace. Somebody put forward the theory that if you dim or brighten the lights this may effect peoples moods and increase productivity. So they chose a factory that was known for a lot of nonsense. They ascertained that the lighting in the factory was not up to standard and got to work increasing the lighting. The team then started the study. As per their findings, productivity went up and nonsense went down. Delighted with their findings, they decided to dim the lights again to see what happens. They dimmed the lights and productivity went up more and nonsense dropped even more. Scratching their heads they decided to dim the lights back to the way they were before. Again productivity rose and nonsense came down even further. It wasn't until they realized that the light dimming or brightening had no effect what so ever. It was the fact that the workers knew that they were being watched which caused productivity to increase and nonsense decrease.
It is also known that communities with a strong police presence has less crime.
Or at least, less visible crime
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On 7/1/2020 at 8:28 PM, Kast2 said:In the live version Vivox has been deactivated because it used an ultra dated version, so at the moment there is no way to communicate vocally in the game.
3 hours ago, DOUBLEY said:BUMP
VOIP is out again please fix
Voip has worked off and on the last year or so. If it's down again it doesnt surprise me though i know it worked a week or so ago when i was playing and some people were using it.
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On 3/4/2021 at 1:23 AM, Queen of Love said:When a player dies , the weapon drop on ground and can be used by oppo.
Worst ingame choose for APB.
suicide choose #1 : merge Innova with EU.
eutanasia choose #2 : merge Hoplon with NA
collective suicide #3 : threating to merge NA and EA.I actually loved that, it was cool and useful.
Merging was neccessary due to low pops and costs of servers.
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On 2/27/2021 at 3:51 PM, LilyRain said:It is indeed much better. Threat Segregation was removed before & the population dropped worldwide, the numbers speak for themselves.
You mean, before or after 3 months of gold lock caused the population to drop on Colby and Joker by at least 50%? We can say the numbers speak for themselves, but 5-6? years of the current system, vs 3 months of gold lock. Drastic difference in pop loss. Joker went from 1200 pop to 400-600 in 3 months, and now 4 or so years later its at ~120. We can say the numbers speak for themselves, however that doesn't change the fact that hard-lock was one of the worst things for APB.
Want to know why it was so bad? within several months of gold lock being removed, half the old GM team and CM "stopped working" for G1. Then we got Tiggs. Ofc it could be just... coincidence that such a large chunk of the old G1 team "disappeared" after hard threat seg gold lock. I don't believe it was though.
Threat segregation ended up being a "bandaid" fix to a bad system with compounded issues. Green should have been removed, leaving silver/bronze/gold. However the problems that infested gold which caused the population drop, carried over "once again" after threat seg was removed. G1 and LO has barely touched the issues since.
Exploits, glitches, and playstyles that "vet golds" use(d), were re-introduced to silver by a large margin. Add in the number of cheaters that Tiggs didn't ban until early-mid period. Well you had a recipe for disaster. Especially because silver and bronze's threat skill level dropped DRASTICALLY after lock. What would have been an "average or high silver" pre-lock after 3 months had the skill of a low bronze. Clans that were active pre-gold lock, were forced to disband or dethreat to play together, or constantly have the lower threat members stomped and face the constant cheat clans and exploiters in gold. The game was drastically mismanaged at the time, and it really showed, especially because of the loss of the GM team. It's a shame they haven't fixed the handful of exploits and OOB issue areas yet. Sadly the current good, came too little to late.
On 2/27/2021 at 5:22 PM, Queen of Love said:the segregation remove has been done togheter to:
-False or total false ban wave of T. (just for a Tshirt sold on ingame market, for example)
-absurd rework of any funny weapon. (option A= invincible, option B=toygun)
-server merge
-useless anticheat.
-an OOB system that doesnT help the noob but destroyed a solid community of players specialized in stunt car.
-an incredible idiocracy where a gold dethreaters opinion counts like 1000 players.-Riot district good for rage more than usual.
-drop system for allow f2p cheaters to have fun with Your gun. (also if it cost 40 $, happens)
-more and more and more suicide choose.
-teamkick sys for allow griefers to grief more.
-use a No segregation district when another Yes Segregation was available. (So the few honest and good left the dethreating district and bronzies were totaly alone )
I hope i didnT forget any of True reason of population drop.
PS: Ninjaripper doesnT works. 100clientsplayers less in one shot. (10-15% of population of 2016 and about 20% of nowaday)You literally did:
Vets using every glitch, exploit, and fucky mechanic to stomp and joyously admit to farming new players.
Medium item movement exploit is still not fixed, and they took far too long to fix other issues in-game.
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Server merge didn't hurt the population, unless you're going to claim that mixing the east and west coast was a terrible decision. (I agree it was bad, colby players are trash, and joker certainly didnt have to deal with their type, however it was likely done due to falling population to consolidate costs).
Anticheat was screwy absolutely
"drop system?" wtf is that. Damage drop? I don't mind it but i kinda agree but only because, it sucks getting killed at 65m by an ntec lel otherwise i dont mind it
Riot did nothing against the game, though it did little to add anything. I regret not getting on to farm it for the temporary rewards.
suicide choose??
Teamkick was necessary. While I agree it allowed griefers to grief a tiny bit more, it prevented some of the worst tactics ingame which especially hurt new players. 1 Teamlead +1 friend /clanny+ 2 randos - starts losing, immediately kicks 2 randos for new team. I had seen the leader kick 5 people after calling backup several times. So let us not pretend that teamlead kick was the "better" system. New player on team? insta-kick. Start getting to later stages/last stage? -Kick-
Sure now they just TK the newbie or grief to get the guy kicked, which is toxic in itself and but is more rare than it used to be, imo should be reportable. Still a better system though.
OOB system was necessary. While I believe it should only apply while in mission, the fact remains that too many times people exploited/glitched into areas they shouldn't have been during missions and events, and to most vets and other players knowledge, NONE of those players were banned for it. We still had them exploiting OOB this last halloween. So it certainly should be updated.
The rest of those not good reasons as to why there was population drop.
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On 3/1/2021 at 6:45 PM, CookiePuss said:When people say fog removal they generally dont mean the Halloween fog, they mean removing the haze that hangs over the city. ( looks better and offers performance benefits)
Isn't that the same setting though? I could be wrong.
On 3/1/2021 at 6:28 PM, SquirrelFace said:Clouds have dynamic shadows that can't be disabled in game or with the config files. Part of the fog shader calculations aren't needed for the horseman event.
oh. didnt know that.
Personally i feel the ban was unwarrented, but im now a fan of the halloween headless horseman event too much either. Not being able to see really sucks .-.
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On 2/28/2021 at 1:38 PM, SquirrelFace said:Meanwhile you need shader edits just to disable the extra processing done with their shader changes, like the fog, extra bloom, and instagram blue filter.
Fog/smoke removal was bannable, because it negated the downside to the horseman event. I remember like 2 weeks to a month after the horseman first came out, they said they were banning shaders, essentially "because" they removed the fog downside.
Though I do agree, to remove the cruddy blue filter, you had to use a shader. No clue about extra processing tho.
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On 2/16/2021 at 1:51 AM, Zolerox said:Config's are a weird issue with me, I don't use them in apb (i deleted the loading movies and replaced the apb intro with "F.R.I.E.N.D.S intro"
But in other games configs are life Fixing all the graphic issues or parts of the hud that make being colorblind worse, or just making the menu smaller/bigger.
In APB I have no issue with someone using a config.
Aim, recoil controll and positioning is how you'll win a fight how comfortable your hud is doesn't effect me.
The Old g1 would just say "no configs at all or auto ban" LO is a lil different I haven't used a config for apb but i might in the future,
LO has stated before they don't want configs to even be needed (but allow them and understand why) The ideal APB would just have all the settings in-game As they did with disabling death themes, slowly in time most of these "configs" won't be needed Hud size, Colorblind support or even just making the "titles" in menus pink if you wanted could be an in-game setting.
People deleting sound files is nothing new (that loud generator in asylum comes to mind)
G1 said no shaders, they didn't (to my knowledge) say no configs and even then people still used them.
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On 2/24/2021 at 10:01 AM, LilyRain said:You're welcome! This length is fine for me as I used to write tens of pages of Research
Yes, this is exactly it. Excellent work!
Yeah, stats suggests the same behavior in bloom increase till the cap happens a the 6th shot (without marksman, Improved Rifling or Cooling Jacket):
I went in and did a slow-mo vid to confirm: https://streamable.com/k62du7
There doesn't seem to be any artificial phenomenon around N-tec's bloom (perhaps it got rolled back?). The stats are working fine but what you are sensing as a player isn't wrong either. N-tec indeed had its Shot Modifier Cap and Recovery altered before, numerous times by huge amounts. Additionally, the crosshair is set to show the radius at 10 meters regardless of the weapon being used. With a weapon like the N-tec that works up to 50 meters stock, if the player keeps an opponent that happens to be WAY further than 10 meters (usually the case) within the crosshair, the crosshair is visually deceiving the Player into thinking the likelihood of hitting mid-spray is 100%, which is far from the truth:
They never mentioned anything in patch notes about being rolled back. People like RespectThis who have been calling for its reversion for years would have made "THANK GOD" posts all over forums if it had been. It was something from G1 era 2014, it had been the "2nd" NTEC "rework" that occurred, after they nerfed HB on the NTEC, one that a number of people had complained about for years. I had no issue with it, but it was quite the topic of many discussions over the years. If it was removed, it might be something they did so backend/glitch wise/accidentally. We know already how fixing a car spawn made 3 others disappear already lol! Touching some weapon stats could have easily messed it up.
Out of marksman does act like what your vid did. In marksman "seems" to have the extra bloom effect (maybe that's the difference? Similar to how S1NA has less recoil in mm than out of mm or similar special weapon effects). However, it seems to have been reduced from how it was before unless it's my eyes playing tricks on me (some of them seemed really smooth and didn't jump in bloom like it used to, then others seemed to have jumped). I wonder if it's that much less pronounced now due to the reversion of the max bloom size, from 2.4 to 2.1. It still seems to be there from the 3-6 shot though, but i barely noticed it compared to how heavily distorted it had been before. I would have thought LO would have mentioned it or someone commented on it if they removed it, plus APBDB mentioning it. Hence my confusion.
I do thank you for the test and effort on the topic though.
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2 hours ago, Y2Venom said:A bit of a negative one, but i am just wondering if there is any in game moderation going on. Any at all? Im not even asking for a lot but i see the same old culprits day in day out griefing missions, running at the opposing team jumping up and down to be shot. I have been teamed with a player who for the last 4 weeks refused to use weapons ?? 4 weeks and nothing done ??? Yet i see a guy on youtube who puts up an offensive image once and gets a lifetime ban. I will be honest with you. An offensive image has less of an impact on me enjoying the game then people constantly ruining games. Its all there to be seen out in the open.
Game moderation... in APB? You INSANE?!
A lot of it comes down to image. Report a nazi symbol or other "offensive symbol" or some racist language, they can be banned pretty quickly. Report someone for griefing, glitching, or exploiting? Lol good luck ever getting that ban. That's at least my experience.
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58 minutes ago, Bambola said:Plenty of weapons you can get killed with from 50 or 80 meters with 3 bullets or less.
2 shot: Scout, HVR DMR
3 shot: ISBR, DMR, Anubis, Obir
4 Shot: ISSB. Oblivion
5 Shot: Obeya, NTEC, STAR, FAR, Misery?
6 Shot: NSSW, STIC? + Anything that has a 50m+ range
Excluding pistols, and thats from the top of my head.
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Xbox announded that APB would no long need live gold to play
in General Discussion Archive
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I didn't catch that, thanks!