BlatMan

Changing APB's rendering to DX12 is like cremating a dead horse. There's already massive performance problems, like the garbage collection, mixed HUD, excessive particle usage, caching player data to storage instead of RAM, maybe you get the point. The game Crossout recently switched from DX11 to DX12. Guess what, I lost 60% of my fps in some areas of the game. It lost players because of it.

Do you mean meters, not feet? 60 feet is only 18.3 meters. The Stabba CCG damage drops off at 50 meters and reached minimum damage at 60 meters.. The Stabba NL9 has a max range of 50 meters.

I like the new launcher. I'm glad you stepped away from .net. It's difficult to keep track of which versions you have installed, and sometimes they conflict with each other. If you own the "Key to the City Pack", do you automatically get the Halloween symbols? It says "All fonts, symbols, and decals unlocked" on the store page of that pack. I'm guessing the answer is no, but that needs to be clarified on the store page if so.

It's called chat. How did you manage to login to APB being illiterate?

It sounds like a waste of time, but it does help standardize how APB runs. But like Ketog pointed out, GFAC is the current problem, so the other work is kinda pointless. I noticed GFAC allows NinjaRipper. I wonder what other modified DX9 libraries it allows?

Well I'll be dammed. That was done back in 2020. Also noticed they changed the CR762's max damage back to normal, but the minimum is still low, so it's still in the back of locker collecting dust.

Even the N-TEC 5 has been molested, although I forget if Little Orbit owned APB at the time. - Bloom changed from linear to exponential. - Base damage reduced to make Heavy Barrel II less viable, from 6 shot kill to 7 shot kill. - Reloaded added the minimum damage drop off, reducing it's effective range. I'm not sure if this counts since most weapons were nerfed with this change. Did the scoped N-TEC 5 always have the accuracy penalty while walking? I didn't use it until after the VAS weapon series was released. Archive.org seems to have wrong data, since it's showing min damage range in December 2013.

Is this the real round trip latency for the UDP packets APB sends, or just the ICMP ping command going to regions? You can't test for upload instability, which has plagued APB since the initial DDoS protection was introduced back in 2014 or 2015. The in-game network stats are currently useless. The latency scales based on the total player count in the server, often showing 0ms on an empty server. The packet loss counter is only for download. There's nothing for upload, which is APB's main hitreg problem.

I thought true fullscreen was only removed from Windows 11. Does this mean Microsoft also applied this to Windows 10? I haven't been keeping up with their slop. I was only able to get low input latency on Windows 7. Fullscreen windowed mode had less latency than Windows 10 with Fullscreen. Linux with X11/Xorg is about the same as Win7 windowed, but that no longer runs due to the anti-cheat. You can still run APB in a virtual machine, so cheating is still allowed, but legit players can't get the lower input lag needed to complete. Maybe GPU passthrough and directly attaching the mouse to the virtual machine will work, but that's too much work just to see a loading screen every other mission.

I'd record more often to show these events, at least so you don't look insane. N-TEC 5 is 0.70 ttk, SR15 is 0.76 ttk, 0.6975s with CJ3, or 0.7 realistically. Same TTK, and not 0.5s.

I'm out of the loop. What's those 150 servers for? 1 per player?

/ignore them and move on. You will not see their symbols, and they will not see you in chat. Win/Win. Don't waste support's time on it. They have a enough tickets to worry about.

And then one day you find that other player who does the same thing. You both try flanking through the most obscure route, then smack right into each other. Then it's rage whispers, followed by a group invite. Then they're your new best APB friend.

To be fair, the whole inventory system is stupid. Why do players need to redeem Armas purchases in-game? Other games don't have this problem.

The district moving was the last problem that made me decide not to play anymore. Other games don't have as long of loading screens. Those other games don't crash when loading into a new district too many times. It's bad enough that their anti-cheat software was causing blue screen of death crashes, that it can't be trusted on my main operating system. The matchmaking goes by who is available. It tries to make it fair, but there's only so much it can do with the low player population. Besides, the skill system is meaningless in some ways. Most players are not equally skilled. Two silver ranked players are handled the same way for matchmaking, but their skill set may drastically differ.