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  1. 20 hours ago, Pista said:

    Smart investors do their research and see what a game publisher/developer can do before investing.  Little Orbit purchased APB Reloaded in 2018. Six years later and they have nothing really to show what their capable of doing.  64-bit engine upgrade made the game run worse and added sound bugs they don't seem to care. They ignore community feedback.

    The 64-bit upgrade made it run better, but yes they don't care about fixing the bugs they added. SLR firing sound still crackles.


  2. On 3/13/2024 at 1:25 PM, ninjarrrr said:

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    not really a "flag" but surely this is political? having a title in the trans flag colours and "cracked egg" image.png?ex=6604565a&is=65f1e15a&hm=40a

     

    where does LO draw the line? no politics in our game but we're fine at having gender politics in our titles?

    Does that mean a cracked egg is someone who just hatched? Does it mean they hatched too early? Does it mean they were born with other issues? There's so many offensive insults. Time to call my friends cracked eggs!

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  3. On 3/9/2024 at 11:36 AM, tuktukdriver said:

    Is this really the state of the world now? The General Lee Car is being banned in APB because it might be offensive to the woke?

    Many Black Americans watched and loved the dukes of hazard show, this kind of historical revisionism is not OK.

    TBF towards Little Orbit, OP is just discussing a comment from a volunteer GM, not an official Little Orbit employee. If everything they say is to be taken seriously, using a keyboard and the mouse wheel is not allowed. For reference: https://i.imgur.com/OZjFd5U.png

     

    On 3/9/2024 at 6:19 PM, cowhorseman said:

    YOur not wrong there. i'm just Trying to fan the flames so people start fighting

    Here's some more fuel.


  4. 3 hours ago, Darkzero3802 said:

    PUBG has how many more ppl playing then APB does? tens of thousands more? Ofc there will be more cheaters there are more ppl playing. But unlike APB PUBG actually tries to do something about removing cheaters where in APB LO couldnt care less. There are more cheaters in APB then legit players and its one of the biggest reasons ppl stopped playing. @MattScott could easily change this and crack the whip but he turns a blind eye to it as do the Gms.

    PUBG doesn't do much more. You can click "No" on the Wellbia anti-cheat installer and PUBG runs without issues. The devs refuse to block high latency players, or even attempt to block VPNs. According to Battleye, 99% of the banned accounts are from China. That means those few permanent ban messages I get are only the 1%. Those are just blatant cheaters. I tried playing on the Asian servers. There were at least 2 squads blatantly cheating, like camping a tall hill and head shotting everyone in line of site 500+ meters away. At least they can't punch people out of the plane anymore.


  5. 18 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

    What kind of cockamamie crap is going on with U LO. 

    What is up with your YO-YO servers, Ya know 

    not everyone has discord. 

     I speak for the Many, tell us what you've done.  

     

    They have multiple websites. They should be posting all of their product updates on their websites. I just makes sense. Why pay for web hosting if they're not going to use it?

     

    Not everyone has discord, and not everyone wants to join a random server where they can be tracked. I'm not even talking about selling data, I mean other random discord users stalking people, being annoying.

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  6. 4 hours ago, cowhorseman said:

    Buy packs or don't buy anything. whole game is p2w even if you loudly say it isn't all the good stuff is behind a paywall

    Obeya CR762 is free.


  7. 5 minutes ago, SuperChaffee said:

    Every time I enter the apb forum I only see people arguing about LO, how hard is it to follow the rules of the game stop complaining and have fun.

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    How about they list specifically what is and isn't allowed. I mean an exact list of what they deem offensive. Every flag, every symbol, every word, etc. Without that, no one knows what is and isn't allowed. For me, I'm not offended by anything, so disallowing generic offensive content means nothing to me. If we have to apply that rule to every possible scenario, we'd have to delete cars from the game. I have a friend who freaks out when trying to drive on highways because they nearly died in a car crash as a kid. Cars are the #1 killer of children, at least in the US.


  8. 10 hours ago, TheMessiah said:

    in this talkshow a cheater in apb right now tells if some1 cheatin or not(watch like the next 5-10 min)

     

     

     

    From my perspective, it's mostly cheaters who make the claim that other players are using color based cheats. They get killed 1 time and claim the other player is using a trigger bot. Maybe I'm crazy, but shooting while you're aimed at a player seems like the right way to play a shooter.

     

    Battleye allowed virtual machines. That alone made it stupid easy to cheat. I don't have enough info to comment on detecting cheats within the same operating system. Looking through various open source repos, it seems like all the anti-cheats have exploits.

     

    But they might have a point. The players other people claim cheat, I tend to not take notice of. I have stupid long names on most characters, and abuse the move+lean mechanic to shoot bursts around corners.

     

    Another thing I often hear is APB doesn't use Epic Online Services, and it's using and outdated EAC. The EAC service description in Windows is literally called "Easy Anti Cheat (Epic Online Services)". That was installed when APB dropped Windows 7 support. Maybe they don't have the full feature set, but it's using the latest version from what I can tell.

     

    - Back to OP

     

    I agree and disagree on weapon balance. I think there's too many weapons with niche roles, and not enough weapons with a wider range of use. Yes, those few weapons you mentioned have the widest niche, but It's hard to give every weapon a wide niche when there's only 100M of range to work with. You'd have to turn APB into a class/hero style game where each weapon does 100% damage within it's niche, and less damage on either side of it. That would not feel right for a shooter that sorta resembles GTA. Even then, a certain combo of XYZ range weapon will always be best.

     

    This new matching system will make you face the same 12 players over and over if it works as LO says it will. Currently it matches worse than old system, with looser threat requirements. Backup isn't an option in matches that it should be.

    Maps and mission designs suck together. Financial as a whole is a decent map, but the forced to spawn on a road mechanic makes it impossible to win offense in many areas, with equal threat teams. Waterfront just sucks. Too much open space. There's a lack of alternative routes on foot. Missions have too many issues to list, but you've covered the main issues.

     

    Something I think will help with the customization would be to change it from slot limited, to memory limited. I forget the exact symbol limit in your inventory, and don't know the memory usage. Lets say it's 20, and max complexity is 1000 KB. Currently, you can have 20 symbols with 1000KB each (20000KB total), or you can have 20 symbols with 1KB each (20KB total). Instead of limiting you to 20 symbols, you should be limited to 20000KB. This would keep the current complexity limits, but you would be able to have more symbols if you don't make them as complex. There should also be a detailed view of what is adding to the complexity, so you can optimize your symbols. For example, you may have accidentally rotated a solid circle. It will look the same at any rotation, but rotating it adds complexity. Knowing this, you can then set it to default rotation, and save a few KB. Another trick to save on complexity is to use the same symbol. Experienced players know this, but a new player may not, and no one will tell them unless they ask for specific help.

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  9. 1 hour ago, magik said:

    There is a functioning 2FA system, I'm easily able to use it. You set it up on your G1 account, outside of the game.

    It requires google authenticator on a mobile phone. Not possible to use for the average player without buying a device. The more tech savvy can setup a android virtual machine.


  10. 2 hours ago, eMazing_ said:

    would you prefer to lose your legendary weapons instead?

    I'm logging in from the same PC, from the same physical location. There's enough data being sent to the login server to prove it's the same physical device. All this system does is frustrate the user. If anything, it will make a user ignore the temporary trade lock when someone else accesses the account, because they'll think it's yet another false positive.

     

    Besides, rumor is you can trade the first time you login to the account from a different location. The trade lock kicks in after switching characters or logging out and in again. I haven't tested it, because who knows when it might decide to permanently trade lock my account. It's happened to other people.

     

     


  11. It's because everyone in Little Orbit is incompetent. The trade lock is suppose to temporarily prevent trading on your account when it thinks you are logged in from a different location. Often it gets triggered for stupid reasons. For example, I get trade locked when Windows updates, and when connecting an external hard drive.


  12. 9 minutes ago, Pista said:

    The game has a small pool to choose from when doing matchmaking.  You would think with faster hardware this game could support 70v70  or more.  I see Rust servers on wipe day with over 700 players connected on one server.

    And your framerate on those servers is measured in seconds per frame.


  13. It's a weird limit. It makes more sense if symbol storage had a memory limit, rather than a total custom symbol limit. Like how we have the complexity bar on the bottom, add a second bar that shows the total complexity usage for all symbols. Then players can have tons of basic symbols, or few but very complex symbols, instead of a fixed numeric limit.

     

    Than again, I've had symbols on clothing randomly get removed because an update made the complexity bar bigger. Would hate to have that happen with my symbol's inventory.


  14. The original Overkill hardware is now10 years old. It's outdated and slow compared to modern hardware. Hardware isn't an issue, but we're limited to whatever LO can afford. LO could host their own physical servers, but I doubt LO have the funding and technical knowledge to do it, going by their latest additions to APB having features missing and broken.

     

    Besides, the current issue with the servers isn't the servers themselves. There's network issues between the server host and the DDoS protection provider. You can prove this by running traceroute with UDP packets, using the same port APB is using. The traceroute will look perfect up to the last hop.


  15. 3 hours ago, Yapopal said:

    Please tell us what is the reason for the buff of the CR 762 rifle? Unscrupulous players use the vulnerabilities of the game and this rifle for their own nasty purposes.

    What was changed recently?

     

    They nerfed the CR762's damage and range a while back. I felt that was too much of a nerf. It dropped it's damage to the same value as having heavy barrel 3 on the pre-nerf version, but without the bloom reduction.

     

    It's obvious this patch was going to go poorly. Tests had 90% of the system disabled. You relied on the players to test it, when you could have done all the testing in 1 day with a single workstation and a dozen APB instances logged in with random accounts and random threat data. It's obvious it's not matching threat properly. I got multiple matches with 2 golds vs 2 bronze. Those matches don't happen on the old matchmaking. It would match in a 3rd player for the 2 bronze team.

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