BlatMan

Most games use 44.1K or 48K for their audio. A lot of professional audio doesn't support > 192K sampling rate. It's not needed since we can't hear into the ultrasonic range. The garbage collection freezes are a problem. Idk how those can be fixed. All the content added over the years has made it worse.

Will this kernel level anti-cheat run in userspace on Linux? I don't trust an in-house kernel driver, mainly from a system stability standpoint. I was one of many who had to fix servers when Crowdstrike released that broken driver. Removal of instantly getting into blocked doors is going to feel really awkward. Why bother? I guess fixing things that didn't need fixing is to be expected, and this is why I don't trust your kernel driver.

He can't even figure out how to post important info on the official forums. Do you really think they have a working up and coming anti-cheat?

This isn't APB's fault. It runs on Nvidia and AMD's latest GPUs. It runs on Windows and Linux. It doesn't need DX12. It barely utilizes DX9. The only graphics intense part of APB is the particles, and that's because APB overuses them, going against Epic's best practices for Unreal Engine 3. It will be far less work if they reworked a few particles like vehicle explosions, muzzle flash, and blood.

Currently, the Scoped N-TEC is only good for crouch spraying. If you need to stand and shoot, there's other rifles that work better. The movement penalty wouldn't be so bad if APB's aim didn't skip around. The minimum rotation is way too high for a shooter. You have to wiggle left and right to compensate for the lack of camera precision. There's also a lot of locations with cover that require moving slightly to raise the gun high enough to shoot over the cover. You can't take advantage of those spots if your weapon loses accuracy while moving ADS.

With SARD gone, you should be able to use NinjaRipper. I was going to try it but APB wouldn't login on my Windows PC for whatever reason. Capturing with Vulkan and RenderDoc works again, so there's still hope.

It won't work atm. They will need to change the inventory system so it doesn't treat each item as a unique item. Instead of having 10 different unique IR3 mods, it needs to be a single IR3, with a quantity counter. If they want to keep the money sink, then restrict how many weapons can equip the mod at a time based on the counter. If it were me doing the change, I'd only use the quantity counter for selling items. I'd let you attach any mod even if not unlocked, but it will be greyed out until you unlock it or purchase it. This will help with joker ticket rentals for new players. I'd make it a separate database, and slowly merge accounts as users sign in. APB might already do that, but I doubt it.

I don't know if it's still the same way. You used to get trade banned for signing in from the same location as another account that got trade banned. Their system is terrible at determining "location". If you HWID changes, or your public IP address changes, you get temporarily trade locked. An ISP that uses CGNAT can possibly give the same public IPV4 address to multiple APB players. Chances are low, but it's more than 0.

Tried launching APB on Arch. It loaded the lobby and I was able to join Social. I guess they disabled sard? I haven't been paying attention to the patch notes.

Providing those ban stats will be useless for legit players, but cheaters will be able to use those stats to determine what is getting them banned. Are more bans a good thing? Does it mean the anti-cheat is working as intended? Does it mean there's more cheaters? What percentage of cheaters are caught? Besides, a bronze player won't know the difference between an aimbot and the character turning when shooting.

Turn off Vsync, Gsync, or Freesync.

The N-TEC series models and textures should be reverted back to RTW or early Reloaded.

They have a blog too. Nothing there either. No one is going to use the discord unless APB is their life. At least they put out another message on the forums.

And they can't even use their own website to provide updates.

Does LO have an office anymore? I can't imagine APB needing more than a half rack for the databases, and the districts would be better off ran on a few gaming desktops with 12th gen i5 or 5th gen Ryzen, rather than a server with lower core and memory clocks.