BrandonBranderson

Love it. It gave me serious Sonic 2 Chemical Plant vibes. Even though I hated that level it had my favorite music

I remember back when you guys started this and I was gonna do the audio stuff. Good thing I didn't get a chance to do anything for it because looking back on it now after seeing APB's whole sound library there would have been no need for it. Anyway good luck on this! I'd love it to become a thing. Did Zombie even read the post though? The way she said it seems like she thinks we're trying to dig up Midtown's files, and not create a new district from scratch.

Seems worth trying, HB currently has absolutely no effect on shotguns other than reducing damage. Plus with the new dropoff changes it's not like they would gain ungodly range. +1

APB is what introduced me to Meshuggah

Haven't had a chance to try them myself yet but based on what I've been reading, the changes sound pretty good.

Nice! It's rare to see an APB video that isn't just gameplay. The animation was really nice and smooth too

Haven't you been reading anything they have been saying for the past month? Matt said himself that he got excited and jumped the gun on releasing the balance patch and has apologized for it and now they're fixing it.

Awesome, I'm liking everything in that blog post! But something I think you should address, Mr Matt, will Vegas wheelies be preserved? On the console versions the Vegas (Normal and 4x4) currently can't do a wheelie when using Nitro 3 like they can in the PC version. That's extremely disappointing if it's a feature that's being removed.

Alright well like BXNNXD said, the plan was always to upgrade to 3.5 first. Until Little Orbit took over UE4 wasn't even considered because G1 didn't want to rewrite the entire game from scratch. Now LO has a separate team of devs in Australia working on rewriting the game for UE4, but that's for the distant future. Right now they're getting UE3.5 done so both consoles and PC will be running on the same version. So nope, the plans never changed. Maybe you just read things out of order? I would assume that's just a typo if it says 125%. Or maybe it's referring to the amount of cash earned from missions, because I know that's pretty much doubled if you have premium. It's been years since I was non-premium though, so I don't really know.

The normal cooldown for everyone should be set to what Premium users currently have imo. Nitro and Meteor would be pretty much useless if the baseline was set to non-premium cooldowns.

Call it Hydraulics, then it'll make sense.

Matt said the new Riot game mode is going to be in place of the Open Conflict districts.

Been a little quiet here recently. Here's a picture of a cat in VRChat. It started off as an APB model that I edited quite a bit in Blender. The nose and mouth were originally just drawn onto a bandanna, so I pretty much cut a hole in the bandanna where the mouth was, gave it teeth and the inside of a mouth, threw a fur shader on it (that's why the lighting looks weird, Vrchat isn't very compatible with this shader.) Then I set the eyes back in a little bit to give the illusion that they were following you (they were also drawn on and separated for this version but are still 2D) Also smoothed the head out a lot so it doesn't look like I'm wearing goggles and a bandanna, and the head just looks like one piece. It has two sets of eyes so I can change the color with gestures in the game, Normally white with green iris, but can be switched to a bloodshot yellow eye too (pictured). And no I wasn't actually standing like that, it's an idle animation I grabbed from Mixamo that makes it look like it's hunched over and shaking nervously. Does a weird tiptoe sneak when I walk and crawls on all fours when I sprint. Originally I didn't intend for it to be creepy, I thought it looked pretty funny tbh, but it freaked a lot of people out so far. It can have a neutral facial expression, smile (pictured), sad, evil grin, and extend it's mouth out like a Xenomorph from Alien. Also has full lip sync.

I'm in if nothing unexpected comes up on the 21st. I just drove one last night again for the first time in a long time and it's way faster than I remembered! I really wish a customizable version was available.

What does that have to do with players being a$$holes? It's not like every one of those players left because they were being bullied. Take a look at when the biggest drop off was. August. The month we got the weapon balance patch and shotguns became a huge problem. There's a big chance that a lot those people are going to come right back when they hear some big news. I'm not saying it's ok to be a banana (except in a comedic fashion with no real intent behind what you're saying) but that's surely not what's making players leave.

This would actually be a plus in my book. One of the biggest issues with a lot of areas in APB is the lack of cover. Honestly, shouldn't be able to shoot under cars regardless imo; it's better from a gameplay perspective VS what's real. What the fuck? I don't think players should be able to shoot through wheels, but under the actual body of the car where there's a big a$$ gap in most cases and their feet are totally visible? That just seems like it would be extremely frustrating and odd to not be able to hit them from under the car.

Yes please! It's super fun to drive. Ahh that video, just like old times, except back then it was every car. I forget though, is the Varzuga Rally slightly faster than the normal one?

8/10 Really nice and relaxing,

Did you hear that from a reliable source, or just one of your friends or someone in-game? The console version already runs on a weird frankenstein version of UE 3.5. The PC version is being updated to 3.5. If you've ever heard of the mythical engine upgrade, PC was supposed to get it in the first quarter of 2014, but instead they made the console versions and here we are 4 years later still with a decade old, very limiting and poorly optimized early version of Unreal 3. 3.5 has been the plan since the beginning. Unreal 4 is planned for the FAR future. Upgrading from UE3 to UE4 isn't really possible because of how different the code is, so it requires completely rebuilding the game from the ground up, and they have a separate team in Australia working on that. Right now their main priority is getting PC and console unified in the same engine version, as the console is ahead of PC. Also on the Premium question, that's a 1.25x multiplier, not a 125% increase. Meaning if you drop $100,000 in the money laundry you should get $25,000 extra.

Remember when G1 encrypted the game's files so nobody would steal the Cisco model for shitty mobile games anymore, which did nothing except tank the game's performance? I wonder if Little Orbit could do something about that?

I CANNOT LIKE THIS MORE, that would destroy APB for me Couldn't agree more. I tried it on both PS4 and Xbone, and the Vegas is just boring without it

I love the crim night rider kit, but I like the hood and wheels from the enforcer version a lot more, so it's a yes please from me. Also I don't like any of the rear ends for the Crim's Bishada, but I like the enforcer one.

Heh, the rampant IO Growl advertising is pretty crazy. In some places you can have up to like, 4 Growl billboards in your field of view at a time. They used to be propaganda billboards urging you to join enforcers, or advertising in-game brands. I don't think licensing real world advertisements would be a bad idea tbh. It really wouldn't look too out of place.

You can thank G1 getting "creative" with the login screen and main menu for the increased startup time.

I can't speak for shredder, as I have not tested it, but for other shotguns, I think the least what should be done is a reduction in effective range. Still makes it the best sub ~9m weapon but can be outdamaged my smg's/ carbine beyond that point. I believe that would be ideal. The thing about the shredder is that it's intended to have the longest range of all the shotguns, and at 30m it has roughly double the range of most shotguns currently, which I think is a good thing. It's honestly a little difficult to use point blank because marksman is pretty much necessary with it, so it doesn't excel at every range up to 30m. Personally I would hate to see it nerfed to its former uselessness. All it needs to be competitive but not overpowered is a bit of a damage nerf.