BlatMan

I know you can't help it, but try not to get worked up about it. Play another game when the servers are randomly offline again, or do something else you enjoy.

The community discord server is anything but a community. I left within 30s of joining. You're not missing anything important.

The anticheat is so good you can bypass it by running APB in a Windows virtual machine. Going by the posts on this forum, it even kindly notifies you that your cheat was detected so you can fine tune it.

DDOS since the year 2014? Sure, it's DDoS and not the game itself.

I constantly ghost shot due to my timing being too close to the max rate of fire. Manually clicking isn't an issue. If this anti-cheat feature is functioning, it will ban everyone who can click within a few milliseconds of the max rate of fire. If anything, a macro might be required to prevent you from shooting too fast or too consistent.

UE5? As if APB doesn't have enough stuttering problems.

Unless they recently changed it, the 45 was 5 shots to kill, and they nerfed the range a long time ago.

In other words, Little Orbit is saying you're not allowed to use a semi-auto weapon at it's intended rate of fire. Calling this company a joke is a compliment at this point.

SMG buff and DMR style rifle nerf. Copying PUBG is a horrible idea, but you've already done it by unbanning cheaters. Does Krafton develop APB now?

I'd wipe my Windows installation. I wouldn't risk having LO's garbage lingering around.

The MRT was disabled because Little Orbit broke it. If a player died within range of the MRT, that player would stay on radar after respawning. The player population started dropping faster at that time because LO were breaking things. They have not stopped breaking things, so the player population will continue to dwindle. Besides, MRT was overpowered. I abused it nonstop. I'd use it on a civilian looking vehicle, and park it in hard to grenade areas so players would get spotted on radar before they could see the vehicle. I practiced driving a car up the stairs leading up to the glass 2nd floor area in Jindo Computing on Waterfront. No one could approach the east side of that area without getting spotted, and no one could damage the vehicle without exposing themselves. If someone did manage to get in, they couldn't take the stairs because the car was blocking it.

I haven't been on but I know what you mean. I can't pinpoint the issue, but it's between their ddos protection and the physical server. You can't troubleshoot it, because the /fps in-game stats only show download packet loss. Trace route only shows the route up to public facing side of their ddos protection, and even that might not be the same route APB's traffic takes. The in-game latency is also inaccurate. It's related to the total player count in the district, and doesn't count the tickrate. If you run /latencytest in the chat window, it will output a file, to APB's log folder, that has the real district latency. It will show you just how bad the tickrate can be. The trace route part used to only trace to a west coast server, but it's still somewhat useful to see if you have an ISP problem or not.

Interesting. If you group with other players, does it still not find missions? There was a bug where if someone, maybe just the group leader, went AFK, the rest of the group wouldn't get put in missions. When they removed the unopposed missions, I had a hard time getting missions. A few times I sat in district for 30 minutes and nothing happened. I haven't played much since then, and now I can't even edit my characters because of the anticheat. Also, if the person saying this game works in a virtual machine is correct, then that means this anticheat is useless. I'm not for VM restrictions, I'm just pointing out the hipocracy of restricting what OS you use, but you're allowed to run it in VM. The anticheat can't see what's running on your host, so why even have a client sided anticheat at that point, especially if they're doing behavior based shadowbans server sided.

Trace route uses ICMP packets. They're lowest priority on most network devices, and many devices don't respond to them. That's also only the public facing side. You're most likely not reaching APB's servers themselves. The server provider's internet connection might be perfect, but their internal local network might be having problems. While in game, type "/latencytest" in chat and it should run a test for 10 minutes and output the results to APB's log folder. The traceroute is probably going to the wrong server, so only go by the district latency and tickrate. I forget what it's specifically called. You can import this data to excel or another spreadsheet software and make fancy graphs if you feel like it. Also, the in-game overlay, that shows fps and packet loss, isn't accurate. The latency is an average and it's unrealistically low when the player population is low. Packet loss is only for the download (server to client). It doesn't show upload packet loss (client to server).

It's the only alternative to the STAR when you're new, and people are reluctant to change what they're used to even if it's not the best. At some point it's not the weapon if you keep dying to it after many nerfs. Besides, it not like you don't have access to it.