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Hey, Alisha here. Another topic focusing on improvements and suggestions. Clearly, there are some heavy issues behind the argoments below, enjoy. These are only few suggestions. 2FA 1. Missing SMS/Email authentication methods 2. Missing Backup codes 3. Missing Security questions 4. Missing Owner authentication (special code) method to skip Trade Lock (3/7 days max) 5. Missing an option to hide the Email Address while login inside the game 6. Missing Username to avoid entering the Email Address every time (website, forums, armas, game etc) Griefing 1. Missing method/s to avoid these situations to happen EAC 1. Missing both player speed and location methods 2. Missing Phone Number Verification method before going to play inside Any populated instances 3. Missing IP/MAC/HWID ban 4. Missing Shadow ban 5. Missing both Macro detection and ban 6. Missing detetion of different colored triggerbots Chat 1. Missing Chat 24/7 moderation by LO 2. Missing Automatic Spam Filters and methods that would provide more clean chatting Support 1. Missing improvements over Response Times 2. Missing Solve Now button to avoid employees wasting their time for just closing the ticket itself 3. Missing different Status such as "Not yet looked at", "Answered", "Working on..", "Waiting for your response" and "Solved and closed" Servers - Huge instability issues - Problematic Shutdown timer in-game - Missing Countdown timer on both website, forums and in-game to advice the community when the game is gonna be up again. -- 2FA Thoughs The system itself is good and for the love of the god, LO alredy implemented it, but, not in it's intregrity. Some features are missing while others could need some adjustments / rework. Griefing Thoughs These type of players totally ruining the game together cheaters, and who keep insulting, without even caring about rules, ToS and whatever is in place. There needs to be a method, a system that prevents them to keep doing that, or at least taking more under control all the districts, which is now impossible because we have literally 3 2 GM?s active, out of the total amount, just because they are GM's that doesn't mean they are being always active (sadly). Presence list related them is this; 1. AncientMew- Pretty much all the times i see a GM it's him, poor guy 2. ComFeyer - In the last months i never saw him in-game, maybe im blind but i do play every day 3. Mirele - Never seen in the last couple months 4. Mistmane - Never seen in 2020 5. VoidRatio - Never seen in-game or even in the chat in the lasts 2 years (Devs, CMs, TGM's and any other higher/low role not included + avoided the presence of these above in events, activities and/or special days) We don't beed babysitters or mods that just stays inside Social, we need this game to be Over controlled, so all the issues im talking right now, surely will be not totally solved, but most of them are going to be very less present. I don't blame nobody, but if they can't do what they should do, give them better tools god damnit, or give them the real abilities to change how the game is looking right now. EAC Thoughs I do understanding that LO Might leave "few" cheaters running around and play, ruining the experience of other legit players like nothing is really happened. While it's true that if LO should ban Every cheater and macro user (+all other major exploiters or against ToS players), this game will lose probably (like Matt said in the first Q&A), the Majority of the playerbase which isn't the best because if you don't know, Citadel and Jericho both together can reach approx. 1500/1600 players (as of now). There is a limit also on that side. I agree with that but.. at the same time i don't know why they are waiting that long to do such changes, under some system doesn't needs EU to be out. Leaving cheaters to play because you are scared to lose pretty much.. let's say.. 25/30% (I don't know exactly, im not someone who can check that) of the population, but at the same time, welcoming new newbies, players, who will just quit out of the game after being literally destroyed, obliterated and insulted by those last ones. At this point, if this is going forward like that, i don't think we will Ever see new players populating this game. I alredy tried to bring few friends, and after some time they were saying *fuck, this is so trash, im not gonna play.* and then quitted forever. Think of that, without players that actually care, without few streamers, and without the passion of every other uman partecipating into this community, the game will be dead, instantly, or it will be just full of trash bags. Good players, passionate streamers, we could do Anything, we alredy doing our best, but is just not working, since so many years have been like that and im sure most of the peoples who would and will agree with me, are literally tired, sick, and annoyed by this situation to keep going forward, without a clear STOP sign. Let's be clear guys, Engine Upgrade shouldn't be the N°1 priority. These things instead, should be. Chat Thoughs This also have been a Huge issue in APB since long time. Why the Broadcast System kick you out only after crazy amount of spams? There should be a cooldown, and then if you keep going, the kick. And mostly, why the hell /cointoss is still being used to spam the chat, to disturb, to annoy all the other players. Lastly, about the chat 24/7 moderation, i think LO should build up a system that can stay connected Live to each Social District instance, looking for those who want to "joke" too much. Support Thoughts Alright, again this is kinda repetitive but i wanted to looking at it and i just cannot avoid to talk about. Firstly, can you imagine what would happen if this game will magically reach high population numbers? The support gonna get Obliterated and Runned Over, totally, by Thousands of tickets, together also the old ones, i think we would need to wait months, before getting any answer. (like in the beginning) There needs to be new methods on this, is not possible that we are still sitting at 14 if not more, days of response, this is totally unacceptable. I can't imagine those few poor guys behind that whole system, pushing hard and working lonely, to get these solved as soon as possible. I talked with Matt a while ago and i know the situation will get better (hope pretty soon). Servers Thoughts What's happening to the servers? We are getting ddosed or are they really dying? Keep seeing them crashing, peoples getting mad and sad because they lose the connection, desyncs or any other problem. There should be really Countdown timers to let the community know the game is under maintenance and will come back in X days/hours/minutes. That thing is missing from both website and forums, and also inside the login screen of the game itself. Not talking about the Shutdown timer which is disgusting honestly, telling every 5 minutes, then every 1, when the servers are going offline, while posting these informations in the chat, or at the top of the screen, which in both cases, i don't really see always, because i have a 4k monitor and play with small UI, scaled for the monitor itself, and while playing i don't look at the chat, because you know is not facebook. Also because the UI i use daily since 2 years now is literally a bit smaller than this forums text defalt size, so would be impossible to note that while playing, or being in mission. There is a little sound that plays each time the Broadcast System post these infos, but honestly if i shoot or an explosion happen, or anything, that will just kill the notification sound volume, which will not be heard. Making an UI element that just count down Live? Minute per minute, second per second? Sort of Attention, Weekly maintenance happening in 00:00:00. All the servers will be offline for 00:00:00 Then, the same thing, but inside the login screen APB Servers are offline due to the Weekly maintenance and will be back online in 00:00:00, please be patient or try again later. I mean.. what's the point? Making players to insert their login details and wait 20/30 seconds just to receive the error message telling that the servers are offline. -- Im gonna sleep or eat something now. Thanks for reading. @MattScott

I also would love to see more details after dying, i miss old days.

Indeed, we alredy have Taggers and Firework, we don't need spotter. I mean, how in the world a real life spotter can see enemies through walls x). It's a game, but still, that's just garbage. I would be okay for the complete removal and add a new mod replacing it, or adjusting it, changing how it works.

There are lots of items and things that were deleted / removed from the game, i hope with the right time LO will bring some of them back.

This game has alredy too many issues, why don't we just st*u and let this 3.5 to hit our systems. Then, after this legendary thing will comes out, we will need and receive so many other things. No time to upgrade this game on UE 4.0/5.whatever. This game isn't even growing in population, just seeing players everyday, same names, or new names, just rerolls. New ones just don't keep playing it because we know it has heavy broken systems also at the beginning. If it won't be alredy dead in few years (2021/2022/2023 or ahead), we could see an upgrade? For now let's wait for the 3.5, which is alredy Much better than the actual one.

New content..... but copied and changed a lil bit from the existing ones. That's a new way to call things New Content. Well, i will try these laggy additions, i bet they're gonna be different from the actual ones.

There are some very good peoples designing, and tipically all or most of them just make symbols that would be okay only inside anime p*rns websites, pathetic. Just change game, don't bring these stuff in here.

If you want that gun just spend 85/90 dollars on each character buing JMB's, then take JT's from mailbox and buy it hahaha. I know.. is too much, but Matt was clear about that, some guns wil be exclusive to JT Store, leave them there. I have it on all character because i did what i said, but listen, is sort of an OCA, just use the OCA.

Indeed

AAAIGHT, as i understood we can't know what's going on, you can close this topic. @Azukii

Yes, it is, can.. we know what's behind all these crashes? I mean im kinda curious.

What's up with all these crashes btw? Can we get more details on what's the issue?

As title says @Azukii @Amayii

Norseman.. the pack that costs above $55 and offer guns that don't sucks, but close to. I would boost them a lil bit, just to make sure they worth that price.

It's coming, no one know when, but is in the works.

I don't think the better idea would be removing stuff, keep removing.. we alredy have many things not released or cut out completely from the game, we don't need more of them, or this won't be APB anymore. I agree that it needs adjustments, as of now LO alredy stated they are going to touch and see car mods and few more guns. So, im waiting for that to happen, and for the Radar Tower to come back reworked.

Just bring back old login screen alredy.

These shings are there singe long time, you can get that Bloom appearing on the entire character if you want, just position better the camera angles and you will see it. I don't know if it's intentional, but i don't like it that much honestly. As for the Fresno wheels, well.. haha, also this been there since years.

When this will be live i might take the ship with you guys.

Nice. About respawn timers, not always, depend on the height of the place and other factors. I know about that. It is considered abusing, because you are having an dadvantage of an area that is not meant to be both reachable and playable. But for be sure someone from the team or even a GM could answer. Im not any of them soo.. im just saying what i think. You can reach that place with Vegas 4x4 or any carsd that can jumps above 4/5/6 meters in height. Mikro, Jericho, Jeep, i think any, excluded trucks and heavy ones. Indeed No matter anyway configs will be disabled and unaccessible or non-existent inside EU 2.1, so gg.

Ammo box shouldn't work (at least from what i knew), i gonna try. in anyway you can always jump there with a car and stay safe, strange that you don't hit respawn timer, it should be there.

What about more GM's active in-game? been seeing only Mew in the last period. Com became a legend, Mistmane a shadow, Motegi a cat and Ritual, well, a Ritual.

Still posting more details on social media over forums, KAPPA.