BlatMan

I'm guessing it's upload packet loss or jitter. Not enough to affect switching shoulders, but enough to screw up the lag compensation. You can't really troubleshoot it. The in-game /fps diagnostic does not show upload packet loss, only download. Download is usually perfect when measured with wireshark, as in each packet is 33ms apart, the same as the server tickrate. I'm still leaning on it being DDoS protection messing up normal traffic. Another thing that makes me think it's the DDoS protection, is that the server usually crashes when my hitreg was too good. I haven't played recently, so idk if it's still the case but it sounds like it's still the same going by posts on here and on discord.

Can you math out the rest of the playerbase? I doubt they make enough from APB alone to pay their staff. I can't think of another reason to not ban cheaters, at least not one that makes sense business wise. Then again, this company threw away premium subscriptions to virtue signal, maybe they are that economically illiterate.

The cheaters out themselves by posting their gameplay on Youtube and Twitch. I guess these accounts are LO's main source of income, otherwise they would remove them from the game. Who would want their game to look like that when people search for it on Twitch and Youtube?

80 bare metal servers? For what?

GMs are just other players with a sliver of moderator power. The most they can do is kick the player, but then the player can immediately rejoin the district. They're useless at best.

I question how most people manage to download and install games unassisted.

Ratio wise, PUBG has more cheaters, yet it still holds onto it's playerbase. Few people play APB because they can't just hop in and play. There's too much grinding to get to a point to where you're able to play. Casuals can't customize because they can't unlock customization, because LO still haven't fixed the random mission rewards being blocked by joker tickets. They can purchase a $100+ bundle on Armas, but that doesn't unlock some clothing that's locked behind faction members. Competitive players can't reach their true potential without grinding 1000s of hours. Purchasing the weapons isn't enough. You need in-game cash to buy mods. Each balance patch is a gamble if your favorite weapon gets buffed or nerfed. Same is true with PUBG, but at least you can grab any weapon off the ground. You don't need to have it unlocked first. The above is true if there are even new players trying the game. Most streamers play at low resolution with modified files. Some openly cheat and pretend it's the aspect ratio. Who's going to see that and think it looks fun to play? Myself removes the color filtering just to make it bearable to look at. Everything has this weird blue tint. It's like whoever did the last shader changes has Tritanopes, a form of colorblindness that can't perceive blue. Or maybe they just never been outside, and think sunlight = orange, and night = blue.

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.