BlatMan
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can we have asia server on jericho?
BlatMan replied to Modernism's topic in Social District (General Discussion)
You threatening me with a good time? -
Not receiving random rewards in opposed missions?
BlatMan replied to BlatMan's topic in Social District (General Discussion)
I noticed a reduction when consumables were added, but we also had the higher level contacts added which don't give you any random rewards. I don't understand the consumable idea. All it did was add overpowered features that are inaccessible to new players, as if they didn't have a rough enough time starting. Making them normal mods makes sense, It's a huge waste of resources having them be consumable, since every character has consumable data. The inventory limitation doesn't make sense programming wise. A single byte can count to 255, and two bytes to 65535. Technically you can't store less than a byte into memory, so why even bother with the 500 limit? It's using the same amount of memory, bandwidth, etc as a 65535 limit. -
I noticed I do not receive random rewards from opposed missions. I only receive joker tickets. This makes it impossible to unlock symbols, fonts, emotes, etc. I don't know if this was always a thing, but currently it's impossible to unlock symbols if you don't have at least 4 players, two per faction, to join an empty district to start unopposed missions. For example, I don't not have the majority of the symbols that Arlon Benjamin unlocks through random rewards, like 'poop' and 'money'. https://apbdb.com/contacts/Financial_C7# I have done 100s of opposed missions while pledged to Arlon Benjamin, but most of the symbols are still locked. I did 3x unopposed missions today, and unlocked a random symbol each mission.
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The Open Letter thread should probably be the only pinned thread in Social. The others are better suited forr Announcements. The Battleye thread is no longer applicable since EAC is free and LO do plan on switching back to it. The rest are pointless since we have the ToS. It's not like they enforce it consistently, only when someone says something that would upset Reddit.
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Same. You really need to fix the server's infrastructure. Something is screwing up traffic flow. Currently, US East has 20ms ping displayed in game, but the /latencytest shows 66ms. Whenever this happens, there's significantly higher hit registration delay. It's higher than playing on NA West or EU with over 80ms. When both show similar latency, hit registration is fine.
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This one Rust server admin would spawn hundreds of bears inside your compound for minor violations. I wonder what the APB equivalent would be?
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Mack is off his rocker, but a broken clock is right twice a day. Higher latency players can look like they have more health, due to the broken lag compensation delaying the lower latency player's shots, and the overall latency difference. The teleporting is lag related, but it's easy to trigger and is used by cheaters. Maybe FairFight will be used to detect it. At the very least, players need to be kicked if their connection is too unstable. It's not fraud. It's the equivalent of blocking people from entering businesses. The feds could do something if they felt like it, but seeing how much they screw up every other industry, I rather not have them involved. I think the solution is for people to host their own private servers. Unlike retail stores, the server admins can remove problematic people from the servers without legal repercussions. If games like Rust and CS:GO can do it successfully, I don't see how a game similar to APB can't.
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Dude's promoting bloatware at the start of the video. Can't take anything they say seriously.
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Only 1 time I've seen NA West run good, but it didn't last long because the district crashed.
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I forgot it's not the same titles as they were a few years ago. Can't get the 'Big Rooster' title anymore. The mugging mechanic needs to be fixed. No one has mugged me within range. It also seems to cancel hit registration. Got 6 hit markers with the .45 on a player who just used epinephrine, but they didn't die.
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The mugging mechanic needs to be removed. Every time I get mugged it's from a player who is roughly 20M away, probably car glitched. Bunny and chicken men need to be immune to damage to prevent griefing. They also need to stop despawning. PVP needs to be turned off for all players who don't have eggs. Or better yet, just let us buy the rewards for $10. Are you still afraid of making money?
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No RSS?
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The scoped N-TEC 5 is not used because it's not available for APB cash. It requires Joker Tickets or an Armas purchase. Same with the Agrotech ACES. It's better than the OCA and PMG in terms of accuracy, time to kill, and draw time, but it's locked behind JT or Armas, so most players don't use it. Also, the 'Ursus' fills the same role, and it's technically more accessible since you don't have to grind for joker tickets if you're patient on the marketplace. If that extra 5M is really needed and fast close range ttk isn't needed, the Obeya CR762 makes more sense. I wouldn't call it a con, it's just not good enough to justify spending JT or real cash on. BTW, you can get VAS-R2 'Scepter' NFCP 3, as an alternative. It's the same as the Scoped N-TEC 5, but it has 3 open slots.
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Top Tier Recommendations [Somewhat Satire]
BlatMan replied to Jama's topic in Social District (General Discussion)
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Turn off height fog: Open HeightFogPixelShader.usf Add " * 4096" to the end of line 49: float DistInFront = length(WorldPosition) - FogStartDistance.x * 4096; Turn off fog volumes: Open APBEngine.ini Change FogVolumes from True to False, on line 1450: FogVolumes=False Enjoy your clean looking APB night time.
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It would be the same game, except with tradable skins on Steam.
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On Windows, changing m_bUseDiskCache from True to False did stop APB from using the disk, but it didn't have any affect on stuttering. It still freezes during garbage collection, and it often stutters when an opposing player and I shoot at the same time. Turning off texture streaming seemed to help the most with stuttering, but it causes general protection fault crashes. Maybe it will be different in Linux.
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I too would like to know what is being worked on. I work in IT. I'm used to dealing with unforeseen problems. Sometimes stuff just breaks.
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Top Tier Recommendations [Somewhat Satire]
BlatMan replied to Jama's topic in Social District (General Discussion)
1b. Change font so capital "I" and lower case "l" appear different, such as Comic Sans. 9b. Make Volcano windup 5x louder and heard from 500M. #4 Sounds like it would be an improvement. I rather have stable higher ping that inconsistent low ping. It would negate the need for a VPN. #7 But then Lilly will be right about the Thumper. We can't have that! #8 Not needed. Shooting too fast already causes ghost shots. -
How is reducing the resolution at which players can compare threat making it easier to identify threat? The threat display change was like measuring in millimeters, to measuring in centimeters. There's a huge difference between gold 1 and gold 10, just like there's a huge difference between 31mm and 40mm.
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Because I have 14 characters and click on them at random.
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Why are Districts Crashing so Often?
BlatMan replied to a Pair of Socks's topic in Social District (General Discussion)
I remember it being due to the high server tickrate, but I can't search the old forums to find that post. The servers were set to 25 tps for a long time. I forget if it was G1 or LO who increased it.