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After a decade they've decided to put the new contact in fucking Waterfront. That's all you need to know. It's still a terrible game that I play.

Is it finally time to let go? I think I'm about ready to let go. Maybe I'll need another year.

If you couldn't hear the tumbleweeds yet, it has already been very quiet on your end. I appreciate the blogposts, but actual progress is still miles away. I'll stop by next year, pray to god the game hasn't shelved yet.

Well we certainly won't run into cheaters on the beta, so I'll take any bugs/errors over the current state of APB. Not to mention (and I seriously hope) a lot of us are going to be running the game at maximum settings again. Just so you know loyal APB community for those who haven't tested out the engine update. (Including myself.) Things will break, it won't be a smooth experience compared to the normal game, and I hope you keep that in mind. That's what beta testing is for.

It really was that easy huh? Why didn't we think of this before, damn.

Something has to be done for sure, but let's not get too hasty here about the death of this game, it has to be alive for that first. It's no exaggeration that BattlEye isn't performing as well as EAC, but hopefully the "much awaited" engine update will bring some players back. Just so you know LO, and this is a big IF. IF the game releases it's new engine and IF streamers that have more than ten viewers pick it up ( no offence my APB streamers) , you SHOULD take care of the anti cheat as soon as possible, as the game otherwise will just be thrown as a "game full of cheater noobs" and not really lure in a lot of people. Just kinda sad I don't even wanna hop on right now before that anymore, as playing with blatant cheaters isn't fun.

It's weird how despite being the exact same gun, I perform better with the gun that sounds better in my hand. In my example, I've got the PDW-Kris which is a whisper reskin that looks better and actually has one more slot so it technically is better, but sounds like patootie. While the whisper isn't anything special, it just sounds more satisfying when shooting and magically improves my accuracy with it. Placebo is one hell of a drug. I also really like the Agrotech DMR, a very satisfying sound when shooting.

I've always been very skeptical about people being called out as a cheater. You just have good players who outperform, those who know the ins and outs of this game. Well let's throw that out of the board now because not even in thirty minutes and it's clear as day. As much as there are talented players out there that still persist there's also the ability to know who's cheating and who's just good at the game. Stating that EAC was performing better than BattlEye is a huge understatement, and it's only been a few days.

I'm sort of out of the loop, but seeing the actual amount of likes and not seeing "I bet you're silver and got owned posts" (apart from one) I dread to even hop on now. I had latency issues ever since BattlEye came back, but I thought that was just my internet so I quit for a bit.

I'm well aware and which is why I fear it. I play games other than APB.

The joker update will definitely help a lot with newer players, so well done. Just slightly afraid BattlEye will start flagging people that shouldn't be flagged. (Think of mousekey macro's.) Again, time will tell.

Thanks for clarifying Matt. I think I see where you're going with this now. I think more than anything what people want is the new engine upgrade because it'll already solve a lot of issues performance-wise. If a function that in the near future is gone anyway (DX12) and you're actually planning on eventually moving on then there's no need to dwell on it. We've already established that the input lag will be miniscule, but time will tell.

The video in question shows that vsync is far worse than borderless windowed mode though. I highly doubt you'll notice any difference with our servers anyway. However, that doesn't mean removing the option because of bugs is a valid choice here. As always, why not both? As far as I know, most triple AAA games always grant you the option to go exclusive fullscreen mode.

..What? There's plenty of other games online where you can play naked with other men. At the end of the day this game's a third person shooter, and the only thing that'll be shot here are guns.

So you want all nades nerfed then? This doesn't really apply to just Frag grenades. Nades are fine, most people who use frag nades are people learning how to nade effectively, don't take that away from them. Have to agree with VanilleKeks here though, the actual range versus the visual range is very deceiving. As an Asylum dweller you learn to live with it, but a bigger pile of smoke would be nice.

..That's not even remotely close to the terror that was once known as quickswitching.

Well the only nerf nano needed was provided years ago where they gave it an extra shot to kill. It used to be way worse. The Golden ACT still rocks though, that and the .45 AP are the only secondaries you'll ever need. Bonus points for Flare gun.

I don't think there's enough players (or even skilled) to warrant a threat above gold yet. RTW's rank system comes to mind. (Although a neat Platinum rank would be nice.) No reason to remove the green threat though, you're saying they're a lost cause but if they're enjoying the game let them.

Apb tournament but it's only snubnoses

Considering trading has to be done in real time and might take longer than just putting it up on the marketplace, I think it's a fair trade. Not to mention not having taxes will give players more incentive to trade using the new system.

While I'm not really on Jericho, I really like that last bit. Good to see we're getting the patches very soon.

Jump shooting shouldn't be possible with an AR, this is not something that could be implemented, it should be implemented. Are you sure the shredder shouldn't receive a range nerf instead?

Mindless slaughter sounds like fun, although I hope they won't spam spawn points and kill you over and over again while you're trying to test stuff out when changing weapons.

Yikes, that's a lot of wasted effort if they remove it. And I'm not talking about myself here.

Yeah at this point it's muscle memory to crouch at longer ranges, I'm gonna look not so smart if they remove it. Please reconsider.