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anyway the OSMAW and OPGL are by far my least favourite weapon in game, I feel no sense of satisfaction hearing one and seeing somebody use one makes me want to cry blood and pee turnip juice you seriously can't put smoke clouds over the OPGL grenades and OSMAW rockets so people can see the trajectory? let a brother at least know where to run before getting the 3 car pile-up destroyed anyway remove the charge-up timer for both weapons and just make them slower reloading, also ban it from fight club one love volcano JC is perfectly balanced yahweh edit: at least nobody uses the EOL, buff those too remove the charge-up timer

Enable tracers on PC you rapscallions, you did it on console and those guys can't even aim correctly

I hope that griefing ban extends to forum trolls who come to threads, post inflammatory nonsense for attention and derail for the sake of a quick irl gig Thank you for articulating my thoughts

Have you seen the stats? They screwed us big time.

"no one here cares about your feelings or frustrations lmao," Correction: YOU don't care about my feelings or frustrations. "i dont want to come on here and see you complaining about something that's already been said 100x." Then don't? You haven't contributed anything to this conversation other than dismissive bitching, why are you still here if you don't care? Kindly exit the thread. "we know matchmaking is a problem but they cant fix that right this second and do everything u say right when you want them to" I didn't say I wanted to fix it right away, I'm an active player and I also pay so I'm entitled to speak out even if I didn't. You're not very good at reading comprehension are you? "they are maybe fixing it with the engine but as matt has said a million times it is taking forever because of what GamersFirst did so wait for engine or leave the game," filler, nonsense, blah. I know this, Jesus Christ stop stating the obvious. "it makes no sense to say how much you dont like the game or something in but you still play contantly XD." Copy and paste the part where I said that I don't like the game. I dare you. Shut yourself up and stop putting words in my mouth. Matter fact, learn to space out your sentences so I don't have a wall of text upon reading your next response.

That's literally the matchmaking system's fault. If you join a silver server you'll be matched up against high level golds and silvers. Bronze servers have high bronze and low silvers, which is exactly the skill level I'm at. I don't dethreat and everyone else has already acknowledged this so your comment is unnecessary. Bear in mind, in 2013 I was 16 years old and I uninstalled the game on and off for a little while. I only started properly playing at the end of last year so I'm nowhere near a level where I'd be comfortable solo playing on a silver district. To everyone else, quit the hostility. I wrote this post to vent my feelings and frustrations not for you to fling mud at one-another and be dismissive. I did join this game in 2013, yes. But I only started playing consistently late 2020 so I'm essentially a new player all over again.

Can you please patch the Joker "Talon" FRP?

I'm playing bronze because that's where all the low silver players are going! I may as well go to silver but I get my patootie beat. I haven't played this game consistently up until recently. ON AND OFF! I've uninstalled this game three entire times. I came back properly last summer, then quit for a little and started again recently! There's high silvers who come to bronze and mash us up. Somehow golds are there too? YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU'RE ALL RIGHT I'M GOING TO GET MY SKILL LEVEL BACK UP AND PLAY CONSISTENTLY AND JOIN SILVER AND GOLD SERVERS. NO EXCUSES.

because I'm exhausted and I'm tired of high level golds dethreating and coming to bronze to steamroll low level players. Yesterday another player and myself had to play against two less-than-lethal OGPL users players who bhopped in tandem and fired at us from over 80m away then shot us to death. Why are there no rank ceilings for servers? Why can a player who is rank 200 and above come to a beginner server and macro everybody to death? The FBW is a really balanced weapon, but when these guys use it it's just like they have a whole second primary, don't get me started on the OCA Nano also how do I beat the OCA primary?

Can you explain this to me please? Nobody is saying that, but the fact that most of the meta is locked behind 10,000 hours of gameplay is ridiclous and unbalanced. In order to stand your ground against a gold player you have to pay money for better gear. Before the pandemic I wouldn't have ever been able to get the mods I have on F2P because it just would have taken weeks to earn the cash required. Can't you ask Matt to drop the rank requirements on this stuff? You're our only Armas contact

The love gun has two extra slots beside the tagger though, I get what you mean however. Plus I'm only rank 95? You have to be rank 195 which is stupid they need to drop it to rank 100 or 85.

Hush you.

He did raise a good point about the ceiling for modifications and weapon slots, while that does add a level of flavour which keeps the weapons balanced the issue is the slog it takes to get to them (which makes it unbalanced) The OSCAR is more like a CQC OBIR in my opinion.

You always talk sense. I appreciate that about you. They could at least disable the OSMAW and OGPL.

The only reason you would want this because you're camping and the enemy has come back to rain hell on you like a South Pole snowstorm. lern2moov

Well why isn't it happening? I know the engine is being upgraded but they put the server under maintenance every week, are they unable to make these changes in order to build hype to the engine upgrade?

To answer your first question, very much so. The access to modifications and good weaponry requires quite a heavy grind left behind from previous owners of APB. Consider the permanent vehicles/weapons in game. They cost about 10,000 Joker Tickets which would be in my mind roughly 100 hours of play in Fight Club. This is a number chosen because Little Orbit have revamped the market and made it so any player if they work hard enough can get a permanent weapon or a better vehicle. Now flip over to the contacts in both Districts. To get the best modification in game you need be rank 195. That doesn't include the grinding for weapons with slots aswell. See where the imbalance is? The investment ceiling is higher than it is because Little Orbit haven't taken the time to address the unlock requirements elsewhere in the game. As calculated in the video, it would take you about 10,000 kills to get the same.

Honestly a few quickfixes could make the game viable: Removing faction locked items and making them available globally for both factions. Removing the high rank requirement on modifications Lowering experience needed to level up a contact/earn modifications/weapon slots Removing the gold district as well as widening the length of time a player maintains their rank before ranking up Collating weapon values This would make APB fun I wish you guys would complain less and actually suggest things for them to do with polls to show them

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.

I don't understand why you'd add vertical recoil to a pistol anyway or even vehicle damage? who the hell is trying to take down a vehicle with a pistol?

How the hell do you justify this? I bought this weapon because I wanted a silenced long-ranged pistol and it has comparably WORSE stats than the original? Where has the effective range gone? I feel annoyed because I'm trying to use this gun which I bought and it doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Please patch this and implement the recoil update on the pistol which was also supposed to be completed. Please consider that there may also be other weapons which stats do not match the original stock version and will also need checking.

This is absolute agony, I was going to buy the Love Gun but I got a different one instead and thought to myself "well I'll wait until Easter and they'll bring out an Easter variant" and there was no variant! When is the next round of special guns with tagger modifications coming out?

I'm going to cry blood. You fire 5 shots at a player and then they run around the corner, fart a green cloud and get half their HP back and you want to say it does literally nothing?

And I'm not saying they do? You realise that aim training is just to test your weapons, practice getting use to their recoil and improve your muscle memory as well as your aiming habits? Doing it on a large map with experienced players defeats the purpose of that. I don't know why so many of you are just suggesting Fight Club to me because I already play there regularly and I know it exists. All the weapons I get I use there as well as in districts, but that's very much just jumping into the deep end without getting appreciation for the weapon before you use it. You don't get the same amount of patience, time or experimenting in an active match to test modifications/movement/strafing or even positional strategies because you're just there under a tense situation waiting to be shot at. That isn't a solution to what I'm saying nor are you actually addressing the words I've said. This was already discussed upthread. I am already aware of this. "Hey guys we should add a shooting range to practice your weapons in your spare time without risking your rank or getting steamrolled by golds." "Just go to Fight Club." "I already do use fight club but that's not an effective way to practice." "Just use APB:DB"

When there's 20 of them at the same time though it's quite an uphill battle. I'm aware of the database, but I'm not entirely sure how to interpret the data and it would be nice to test weapon damage on an actual dummy instead of a player who would die from any amount of hits. It's a good way to experiment, at least imo.