Grinder vs Buyer

[Grinder vs Buyer]

4 hours ago, Nymphi--DoubleDee said:

Haven't even played enough to get Mission Nanos.

I thought those were a myth.

 

I have probably got enough money for 2 nanos while waiting for it to happen. 

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1 minute ago, Solamente said:

 

 

It still goes down to actually creating it. The engine update will reduce time and probably costs but someone still have to get paid to create that stuff.  

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7 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:

APB is not the only thing LO does.

Sure but income is usually used on the game that produces it.

3 minutes ago, Solamente said:

a large part of the point in upgrading the engine is to enable new content (and any changes in general) to be created and implemented easier

 

im almost positive i’ve already explained this to you 

What I mean is the actual development of those new things. The engine update may make them easier to implement but someone has to actually create that content first. 

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2 minutes ago, Solamente said:

the minor graphical changes aren’t the point

Creating additional content will take time too even if the contacts are already done. 

What bothers me is if they will even have money to develop the game any further. With low playerbase, the income probably isn't so great too.

[N-HVR 762]

Hur är detta inte låst ännu?

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2 minutes ago, ZoriaDunne said:

Let's be honest, at this point, is the new engine even going to change something for the player base? The game is already too old for it to have a big change just by changing how textures/lighting looks.

To make the people come, there will be a huge announcement about the game getting updated... to a more than a decade old engine. 

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3 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:

If I get a teammate with carsurfer I try to immediately abandon mission.

I can't stomach watching people give out free kills like that.

Free kills for who? Also depends who is driving. ;3

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16 minutes ago, VickyFox said:

Are you really that skeptical? Tell me again what rock it was?

I have no reason not to be considering it should have been in the game already. 

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3 minutes ago, Jazeker said:

Oh man the stuff they would have made-up as new mods... you'd almost want to see the madness.

I still feel like car surf should be deleted from the game. It makes using the seats obsolete. 

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10 minutes ago, Kevkof said:

These are indeed not fully brand new contacts, but they likely weren't ready yet. Otherwise why would the old team not have taken the 'free money' of releasing them?

The same reason as now: "focusing" on the engine update?

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21 hours ago, BrandonBranderson said:

A few people seem to have missed this, but Lucas Van Rooyen and Lynette Casey are going to be Tier 3 contacts.  So they're at the same point in progression as Jeung Bloodrose, Tyron Sennet, Bonita Benjamin, Grayson Fell, Byeong Lee, Chiza, Kaspar Danko, and Hea Choi.

 

Source:

https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2019/7/23/content-update

Now that you have mentioned it, weren't these ready even during g1 times but they just never released them? 

[Why im in Russian Server?]

58 minutes ago, Kevkof said:

I'll probably make a more in-depth post about this, but there is a way to report players with cyrillic's in their name.

 

Nearly all categories of the report system have a variant that you can enter directly in the chat.

This is not a full perfect solution by any means, but it's a way to report players who have typed in chat (clicking their name from the full chat) or in your match (the whisper button on the scoreboard).

The commands would be like this:

 

/report <name> character
/report <name> cheating

All the catergories I was able to find so far are:
car, character, cheating, communicationharrassment, dethreating, griefingharrassment, hatespeech, links, missionblocking, personalinfo, rmt, song, spam, symbol, teamkilling, theme, vehicle

 

I'll keep the list updated as much as possible.

It makes me wonder is it really hard for them just to program auto fill option inside the report system especially when it is already in the game.

[Feedback on East/West addition]

You just move to citadel and hoping that the population there doesn't die as well.

 

Lets face it. There is no way out of this situation unless they merge the servers into one. Thread segregation or not, they can't just pick add more people to the game to make it playable if there aren't any.

[NA threat segregation and dethreating]

1 hour ago, Alani said:

i love how people think phasing will solve the match making issues.

 

its pretty fucking obvious everything else little orbit has done has done fuck all for the game

Matchmaking was bad even when the game still had population so yes, nothing will solve it. 

[NA threat segregation and dethreating]

jUsT wAiT fOr tHe eNgNe uPdAte lOl

 

But seriously, NA had issues with the population since years. Why is everyone acts so surprised now? You people do everything possible to scare the new players away and then cry when there is no one to play with. Ofc people will be leaving. Why wouldn't they? 

[Why im in Russian Server?]

11 minutes ago, Sentaii said:

They should disable fking cyrillic shit characters
and make chat english only

You think they can't use english characters to type in russian? You must be new on the internet, buddy.

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5 hours ago, VickyFox said:

Yeah most people on this thread have been on APB long enough to remember how stagnant and hopeless APB seemed in the later years of GamersFirst.

No content, no real updates, next to no communication from staff.

 

Little Orbit in contract is actively working on the new game engine and MattScott is posting updates on progress. While they're few, far between and rather insignificant, holiday events are still being done and new items are being done on the side.

 

If the new game engine is going to take as long as it needs to be done properly then that should be reassuring that it is being taken seriously.

If the APB didn't die in the last 3 years with the population numbers dropping

I left at the time when the science was just starting since I saw what was coming (more like not) and I am still skeptical. I can only imagine what it has been for those who were actually waiting during that time. 

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58 minutes ago, Farbon Ciber said:

Unnecessary toxic unhelpful comment and that coming from someone with an SPTC badge. Wether you like it or not, you do represent the game and I for one expect more from you

 

instead, I would like to see SPCT members provide a bit more positivity so we can help this game survive

 

just saying

happens to be a trend with him. Not sure how he even got there. 

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5 minutes ago, Acornie said:

4 months. They did a lot in 4 months so I'd say that argument works against your assement of 'more than another year left'. Performance is the last major blocker. I'm just guessing (since that's all I can do) but I don't think there's much time consuming 'polishing' left that needs to be done before this can be released; this is a update to an existing game, not a AAA launch

And it is not even optimized yet (assuming it is possible to be optimized to the same level on the first place).

 

Also they probably have just few people testing this. No one knows what impact 80 people in district will have on the performance.

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23 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:

My rig was decent... 4 or 5 years ago.

So no, we aren't only testing on high end machines.

What is your rig? High end specs can be relevant to +10 years and works in a different way than even modern low specs. 

6 minutes ago, Acornie said:

I don't see how you can look at Matt's updates and think it will be a year minimum, they are in the final stretch, albeit a time consuming and completely unstraightforward process of attempting to improve performance, Matt told us this is the last major blocker, but it's extremely important so I don't expect to see the engine in a month... (it's hard to imagine it ever coming out) but I give it 6 months max; that's how long we have.... not that I'm guaranteeing it will be out then but that if it takes longer than that then this game might as well shut down.

Check the date of the first update and see how much time has passed. Even without more major blockers it will take just as much for "polishing" and finally getting it to live (and that is if nothing else pops up)

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9 minutes ago, Solamente said:

and it cost us performance

 

maybe you’re one of the 1% that magically has no issues running apb, but more performance hits are not what we need

There is no guarantee the engine update won't decrease the performance even more. Also they seems to be testing it only in high end machines too. 

10 minutes ago, Solamente said:

plus new contacts are needed after the engine upgrade to give players something to come back to, wasting them now won’t benefit the game in any way 

Do we know if those contacts are even made already? If not that would be at least 1 more year just for that.

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5 minutes ago, BrandonBranderson said:

Maybe because there's a few players that are actually playing on it.  Fairly vocal ones too that would most likely call out LO on their bullshoot if they tried to pull anything dishonest.

Imagine LO selling the game too when it doesn't pays off and it becoming someone else's problem. 

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15 minutes ago, Fortune Runner said:

Little Orbit has been very open about how much of a spaghetti coding mes APB is , in  more detail than most companies do.

I give them that but g1 was open about it too at the beginning.... then 6 years later....

 

Idk how people even still have hopes for it. And LO has been around like 2(?) years already? 

2 hours ago, Nivo said:

More of negativity, or can we call It silver logic?

What woudl be your excuse if I am gold?

[Why only old players stick around?]

1 hour ago, Nivo said:

Since when?

Since always (not sure about pre reloaded times though)

 

The spread of most weapons is affected by everything you do so your best bet is staying still and camping corners. There is little that you can do mobility wise if you get caught on the open too. 

[Grinder vs Buyer]

I thought only people who stay long enough bother to buy anything.