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I'm actually thrilled your clan is back and is alive and well. I'm also sorry your met up with a griefer, and I hope proper action is taken. My post was just a bit of humor over the irony of the tuff-boy gives ya grief clan trying to report a griefer. Come on, can't ya appreciate the irony?

I saw what you did there. You made a funny! Engine Upgrade 2014.

Clan: Fuckboy Industries. Wants to report a griefer. Awww.

Darn it, I should have screenshotted the match I had in Citadel against 2 trainee suspected cheaters who went who each racked up 14 and 15 kills against me and a lil bronzie. It weren't pretty since rerolling a new account to do shenanigans is still a thing. (Btw reason for the suspicion is their sniper range stars sometimes shot thru walls... often as soon as your head peaked out, exited a car, or was somewhere that came immediately into range. And boy dat range...) All I could say in District was: "Where are the GM's?" Who we hope will one day be on the districts to have a look or even spectate especially suspicious new low level reroll characters on throw-away accounts. your team match up looked more fair then some tbh, doesn't mean you didn't have a camped obj though. I have seen full gold teams match versus a low silver and a trainee before. Funny thing is, the wild card trainee's are often the practice cheat or shenanigans accounts... and sometimes they get 29 kills in a match, jus sayin it's kinda bad, but it's been bad for a long time... at least I'm optimistic there's a future fix. I think of it as playing an Alpha game right now... and don't take it too seriously. LO bought a borked and broken game. That's what we're playing... on potato servers even. But... it won't always be this bad. in fact it has the potential to be amazing. that's why I'm here, for APB: Reborn. And even though some missions are so unfair they make you groan... game is still fun sometimes.

I propose that LO keep all G1 and G1c pricing the same... but implement permanent or frequent SALES as a form of adjustment. a semi-permanent 50-75% off sale and I'd buy every gun ;D

ofc, but when the files themselves are locked, alterations in them are easier to detect... and should result in an instant temp kick. No one can eliminate cheating, but it can be massively reduced and that's something to celebrate.

The answer is REROLL G1's Failed Threat Segregation and restore the original balanced threat, scoring and matchmaking system so everybody can play everybody on every district and are ranked according to the long-term profile of their player ability... and also stacked AGAINST based on the same scoring system of ability. Dethreating then has really no purpose, since over time, the derp players will stay derp ranks, and the better players will reflect their true ranks... and the matchmaking will prove to everyone who the true epic players are... and who the mere boasters are. For in the old system, every gold 10 was worth 2 silver 5's and 5 low bronzes. Afaik the current crop of golds would become "gold dust" if the original system were ever restored... and the glory days of the massive bronze armies of 10 guys versus 1 gold 10 boasting how they actually won... made everyone laugh and cheer.

True. What LO desperately needs to do, and is so many long years late is REROLL THREAT SEGREGATION and restore the original balanced system. That way, a stacked "pro" team of say... 4 guys... would get matched against 1 low silver and 8 bronzes, and the true noobs were feel quite at home as they would belong to an ARMY with a chance.

If LO restores the better balance of the original RTW matchmaking, scoring and threat system it won't be exceptional teams steamrolling a weaker, less epic... and derpier playerbase... so it won't "seem" like 90% of the players are hacking. There are always going to be cheaters, esp some hack companies trying things out... hopefully LO has implemented a smart system so the playerbase doesn't have to grieve when those guys (the real cheaters) are online. As for the rest, the answer is changing the FAIL segregated threat system. If someone is truly an epic rank 10 gold... he will surely be able to fend for himself against 2 silvers and 3 bronzies... like in original RTW and early APB system.

The are also working on the Engine Upgrade to close off a lot of client-sided files which hack companies were taking advantage of to siphon a profit from the game while literally destroying it's fair playability for YEARS. The era of APB as a cheat infested game have come to a CLOSE... LO is never going to be G1.

YAY~! All's we ever wanted was a FAIR game for everyone, including the exceptionally "good" players. I also don't think the playerbase needs to be involved in hacusation reports due to extreme bias and ignorance... but in-game GM's can tip off LO to what THEY as experienced players perceive as "suspicious." We also do not need name and shame ever again, it simply creates a toxic atmosphere... but the fair and just removal of badbois, /w escalating temp bans is the best thing yet. Sadly, there will be those who insist on perma banning themselves.

The answer is LO bought out G1 and to revive the game did massive unbans of many well known cheaters, many real world account and legendary traders (for irl cash) and many exploiters. The result is a populated game... populated with... you guessed it. Since LO wanted population, and is sitting on their BE settings, tweaks, or w/e... one can infer the end result is their true intent. After meeting a couple of BE bypassed shawcopters in game, and players advertising to sell dozens of legendaries... I'm done with the game. It isn't fun it's just rewarding the people who have always done their worst to profit themselves and disrupt the game. Right now I don't see bans, I'm just starting to see blatants. Not only that, but an "ordinary" player can't even properly aim thru all the lag. When things improve, I might k up again. But I don't foresee how anything will change or improve given the scenario of unbans without any system in place to actually police or moderate the game. I don't know what they were thinking anymore. It's hard to imagine people whose business is the buying-selling-trading of legendaries bought with in-game cash would ever bother with premium or Armas stufff. Best of luck with your "new" (old) playerbase.

Well this is old news about old attacks from 2013-2014. No idea if whats happening now is related... but in my view, if it happened before, why not investigate the same characters?

"Computer scientist David Birti considered it fortunate at the time that their hacking activities have mainly been restricted to denial of service attacks and have not been as severe as password leakage yet." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derp_(hacker_group) DerpTrolling Hackers Leak Thousands of PSN, Windows Live & 2K Games Account Details

Hmm, his politics explain why he was linked to Derptrolling and Anonymous. "For the last few weeks miscreants have been messing with APB by attempting both small and large DDoS attacks daily. The attacks range from small scale attempts, all the way to Derp Trolling taking down APB during their big take-down spree against Eve Online, LoL, Steam and Battle.net (on an aside, if anyone has any information about these events, we, and the FBI, are all ears and we will share more info on how the community can help out too)."

Pretty sure it's not a big mystery. When the servers would crash duing G1's tenure, MrEpicGoat and Adrianna were bragging about how they would crash the servers... and then the servers would crash.

There should have just been a general amnesty across the board, along with a new team and a new anticheat. That way everyone could have a fresh start and sign to agree to abide by the new rules.

Only 1 characteristic that makes those guys stand out from the rest, albeit a bit "iffy" and that is: Uncanny aim with instant target acquisition. While they are jumping, and bobbing, and doing a dance or peeking suddenly from a faraway ledge... the very second you move into firing range, they will POP you... perfectly, and never miss a shot. Nothing else is really that impressive. A lot of long-term players know the map, are good at flanking, etc. etc. But when they get insta popped too... they fall down into the "ordinary" players category. The ONLY exceptional players in APB.... fit into the one criteria. Hopefully with the new BE system, we'll being seeing fewer and fewer.

They didn't "want him to play." They wanted him to feed them kills for the alloted time and exploited the machmaking by dethreating to play on the Bronze District against many actual bronze and some low rank silver players, who basically have no reasonable chance of success. no one I know ever learned anything by being steamrolled into a high number of deaths, nor would any newer players "enjoy" such a match or even continue in the game.

Uh, cos we love the game and want to FUND the company which has the plan to make the awesome fixes... which they probably can't do if we don't show our support...

Corrected that for you.

I didn't say transform the already successful game that APB is, but like we have a Baylan Fight Club District, a Battle Royal ruleset and separate map as part of our already existing Fight Club is just another little goodie, and I don't think would be too hard to implement. Besides, when a District isn't popular, no one plays in it... consider G1's horribly thought out Open Conflict Districts... they've always been empty. Anyways, LO could always do a email poll to players to see if there was enough interest in a Fight Club Battle Royal District before committing resources to such an idea. Also, a Battle Royal style map or random generated maps could also be used for clan v clan wars. Alonzo is a chick? Ya don't say.

When I am in a very mismatched mission I always exit the game and never feed them kills. It's a loss but without the intense aggravation or long waiting time.

Haha that would be amazing.

There's really no point in responding to 10 year olds who hijack and derail threads to say absurd and silly things. Ignoring ya!~ As I said before, Bye Bye!~