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  2. Posted

    On 9/23/2019 at 3:59 PM, Hexerin said:

    Hunting Sight 2. Brings it to pixel perfect accuracy, and increases zoom for those render distance shots. Extended magazine only affects the weapon's anti-vehicle ability, which is already crazy good baseline so kinda overkill.

     

    I tested this once time and I found that EM3 did not help. I was able to reload and blow up cars faster without EM3. It might work for some of the smaller cars. I suggest HS3 because you'll be 100% accurate and can even do jumpshots. I've used the Dor Ear and bunch and tried all the mods and always go back to HS3. 

  3. Posted

    8 hours ago, darok70 said:

    ISSR-a 'Artemis' vs N-ISSR-B 'Dog-Ear'

     

    Whats the difference between these two guns?

     

    ISSR-A is also fully auto while the ISSR-B is semi auto.

     

    ISSR-B is the superior weapon between the two. While the ISSR-A is fun to play with, it is out classed by all the other assault rifles for the most part. I know the ISSR-B Dog Ear is available on the Joker Store as the Wisp if you want try it out....not sure if the ISSR-A is on there or not.

     

     

  4. Posted

    3 hours ago, hiddengamer56 said:

    And now its working for me in missions .. wtf

     

    Fight Club is bugged, so if they didn't count when you were in Fight Club that is why. If you want to use the FBW in Fight club to increase your role you will have to use the silenced or "sight zero" FBW to progress your role. Hopefully this gets fixed soon along with a million other things.

  5. Posted

    On 8/6/2019 at 9:42 PM, Flaws said:

    N-TEC 5 is the superior option in terms of Assault Rifles. But if you really want an ATAC then definitely pick the 2 slot one and give it Hunting Sight 3 and Improved Rifling 3.

     

    Red mods ruin the gun

     

    4 hours ago, Noob_Guardian said:

    why is everyone forgetting blue mods exist. Simply use hunting sight, bando/em, and mobility sling/3ps

     

     

    Because you're suggesting 3 mods when he said no slots or 2 slots. If you have two slots then HS3 and MS is the optimal loadout.

  6. Posted

    If I had nothing from Armas and $200 I'd buy the following (all weapons are account wide)

     

    3 Slot Oscar 2399

    ISSR-b Dog Ear 1999

    RFP-9 Fang 1499 (might get a nerf but whatever)

    VAS R-2 Crown 2199 (because I like silenced guns, but you could do the 3 slot ntec as well)

    Obeya CR762 2399 (or OBIR if you prefer the burst rounds)

    OCA 2399 (or PMG if you prefer the slower fire rate)

    Colby .45 AP 1499

    6 Months Premium 2636 (assuming you're gonna play for a bit)

     

    That is around $170. With the remaining $30 you could do joker boxes, vehicles, or clothing that you find appealing. I'd personally spend the money on guns since you'll use them the most. The guns I listed should allow you to be competitive in most situations. 

     

    Enjoy your spending spree.

     

     

  7. Posted · Edited by LaQuandra

    On 4/13/2019 at 5:00 AM, dogfish said:

    Can confirm that this is a problem with RTX cards. The only fix is to turn the graphics preset ingame to Minimal. As soon as you use Low or anything higher, these crashes will happen. Have talked with other friends on RTX and they say the same thing.

     

    Just wanted to bump this. I have a 2080ti and I was getting the "out of memory" error within a few missions of playing APB. Setting my graphics to minimum did indeed fix my "out of memory" issues. I have been able to play long play sessions two days in a row now without a crash. Thanks for the tip. Hopefully @MattScott and the little orbit team can start there. 

  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, Knite said:

    I've had premium pretty much always, and whenever it runs out I immediately feel bad for the F2P population; the doubled cooldowns are just painful.

     

    I've been advocating for a cooldown timer equalization for years, and am glad that it's finally happening.

     

    Why do you feel "bad" for the F2P population when it's their choice to be free to play. I am generally curious. I currently do not have premium active on my account...you honestly feel "bad" for me? I'll take the empathy I guess and if you can spare any mods for an ole buccaneer I'll take that too.

     

     

     

     

  10. Posted

    86120 G1C= $1,076.50

     

    Add on another $50 or so in retail packs back when newegg had them for $2.99-3.99.

     

    So maybe around $1,126.50.

     

    I have played since APB Reloaded launched closed beta opened in Q1 2011, so that is 8 years ago. That means I have spent $140.81 a year on APB since it first came out. $11.73 a month to play APB. According to steam I have 6,330 hours. However, it wasn't on steam in closed and early open beta so let's say I round it up to 7,000 hours. Comes out to 16 cents an hour to play APB. 

     

    Not really a bad deal considering gaming is my biggest hobby and I have spent probably $4000+ in computer parts during those years.

     

    Best purchase: Everything

     

    Worst purchase: any joker box that gave me a 3 day ALIG. 

  11. Posted

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    whether or not you "need" something has no bearing on whether you're able to experience it without paying

     

    Yes. But we aren't talking about needs or wants. We are talking about advantages and disadvantages of a premium sub. You don't "experience" APB through weapon skins nor do you experience "more" of the game by having premium. 

     

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    thats super deep and philosophical but this is a video game

     

    Exactly. Why are people pissing and moaning then? You get to play a game for free while other paying peeps front the bill. Are people seriously that upset about losing that they will take to the forums, insult the company because someone used spotter 3 times in a stage? Little Orbit is a company. They want to make money. This is so crazy that you can use their product without paying but you're gonna fuzzy bunny and complain about their product? Maybe, um, don't use it? Or......pay money and get the advantage you claim others have? Or is it principled where one doesn't want to pay money because the game is f2p or that Little Orbit/G1 don't deserve their cash?

     

    Either way, people have a choice. Why people insist on having things conform to them and their personal preferences is beyond me. Get in line and it's a long one. 

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    obviously there's no real way to calculate what is likely a fraction of a fraction of a percent advantage, but it also seems absurd to flat out deny that its possible

     

    I am not denying that it is "better" to be able to use spotter, blowtorch, nitro, etc more frequently, however I am not going to put it into the "pay to win" category of say a one shot sniper rifle that is only available to paying people. If they made a cool down timer reducer available on the joker store for joker tickets is it no longer "pay to win?"

     

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    honestly not sure why this keeps coming up, seeing as anyone who posts on the forums is statistically more likely to have spent money on the game anyways

     

    Sure, but I have to assume that most people who claim p2w or are upset about any premium features are going to be free to play players. We have seen it with this post, posts asking to increase free customization, increase in rewards, etc.

     

    The message is the same...."I want what the paying players have but I want it free because "FAIR." 

     

     

     

     

     

    Little disclaimer- when I say "you" I don't mean Bxnnxd or anyone specifically, just "general APB player." 

  12. Posted

    8 minutes ago, BXNNXD said:

    i was mostly thinking of the armas exclusive cosmetics and weapons

     

    its a direct advantage over free players that cant be obtained without spending money

     

    i wont argue that the thread title is overly dramatic but given that this thread, out of the other dozen or so on the same topic, was the one that got some concrete info out of orbit, i cant exactly fault op's methods

     

    Sure Armas exclusives and cosmetics need to be purchased with money but they don't prevent you from playing the game. I don't need an American Flag skin on my gun in order to play APB "the game.' I don't need the Misery or a "IRS" in order to play the game. 

     

    Why not just fall all the way down the slippery slope? What gives me a bigger advantage?  45 second cool down on spotter or the fact that I have a i7 4790k clocked at 4.8 ghz and a 165hz 1440p monitor and can maintain 144+ FPS a majority of the time? Should we just have government issued computers so everyone has the same hardware?

     

    The issue boils down to people wanting the game to be "fair" whether or not you pay. Sorry, but that ain't life.

     

    If you're poor you're not going to be able to afford the better lawyer. If you're poor you aren't going to be able to afford the nicer car or the fancy house. It's the way life works. We aren't going to make things 100% "fair" all the time based on everyone's financial situations and decisions.

     

    Again, to say premium players are more likely to win because of the cool down bonus is just absurd and it's cheap people putting sour grapes on the San Paro dinner table. 

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  13. Posted

    11 minutes ago, BXNNXD said:

    i'd say its probably closer to 75%

     

     

     

    Okay, a 100 million dollar developed game that cost $60 on release and a $9.99-$15 monthly sub is now free if you're willing to take 75% of the game. 

     

    Is the 25% free players miss out on the cool downs? Come on now.........

     

    As a free player I can still: 

     

    1. Create a character

    2. Customize my character

    3. Customize my car

    4. Make symbols

    5. make themes

    6. Use the marketplace

    7. make trades

    8. Play action districts

    9. Play fight club

    10. Play in events

    11. Use all the mods

    12. Make APB money

    13. Gain contact standing

     

     

    The only thing I can't do is use Spotter every 45 seconds or whatever.

     

    Again, the title of the thread is garbage and sensationalized. Honestly....cool downs are "pay to win?"

     

  14. Posted

    10 hours ago, CookiePuss said:

    I like winning because I'm better rather than relying on paid advantages. 

    But I guess that's where we differ.

     

     

    Btw nearing $6,000 spent on APB, and have never been without premium. 

     

    Do you really honestly think the cool downs from premium are the difference between a win and loss? "OMG, I would have won if his nitro was still on cool down!" The ONLY advantage would be Spotter but the issue is with Spotter itself and not the cool down. Maybe Blowtorch also, but issue is the blowtorch itself, not the cool down.

     

    There are basically two types of "video games." Free to play and paid. If you want to play APB for free you can and you can really experience 90%+ of a pretty impressive "free to play" game 100% with zero cost to you. I don't understand the mentality of gamers who think if a game is "free to play" they are fools for investing any of their money into said game. "It's free! I want to play the game for free and have the same experience as the people who actually fund the servers and keep the game alive because I am either too poor or too cheap to spend my own money."

     

    The title of the thread is beyond sensationalized.  

     

    I agree with the sentiment that some of the community is a bunch of whiny born out of wedlockers.

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  15. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Tigrix said:


    What are you talking about... a simple google search completely dis-proves what you're posting. There are lots of paid cheats that bypass BE, has auto-hide on streaming and on recording.
    Yes BE is a decent anti-cheat, for sure and it definitely catches all the FREE stuff that used to be available for APB, which no longer exist, because it doesn't work with BE.
    But paid/premium cheats still exists in abundance and it's not like it's hard to search up the topics on them or google the sites.
     


    Why just why lol ... like you live in a bubble. Maybe you don't play citadel.
    We have tons of people advertising in chat, obvious hacker clans blatantly cheating infront of people to advertise their paid BE bypassing cheats.

    "Ty for posting this" makes it sound like you actually didn't login Citadel, like ever.
    Or stuck your head in the ground and found the one post you like, while you're ignoring all the posts with screenies and/or even advertisement/streaming from certain clans that we're not allowed to name, because then the post gets removed for "shaming".

     

    Even if what you say is true, why do you want to bring someone back who abused their power and banned people who weren't even cheating? I'd much rather have cheaters roaming around in district rather than lose my account because Mama Tiggs didn't like me. No anti cheat is going to stop 100% of cheaters. I'll take the "ineffective" BattlEye over a corrupt GM any day of the week.  

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  16. Posted

    On 3/4/2019 at 2:36 PM, Tigrix said:

    I miss Tiggs (and this comes from someone who got screwed by her ego in a financial matter)

    We really need some manual bans.

    There are multiple blatant cheaters and cheater-clans just fucking around because they bought a BE-bypass and they know that there are nobody like Tiggs around anymore to manually ban them.
    They know that LO refuses to step in, regardless how obvious a player is cheating. They run around even as 255'er and just make a mockery of APB and Little Orbit. 

    And when we post them, then it's quickly covered behind "name and shame" and said "just contact support" - who in turn does nothing, but auto-reply.

    How about, if a player goes 50-3 one round and next round 70-4 in a 20v20 spawn-everywhere game mode, you stop hiding them behind rules of "name and shame" and take action manually instead of letting a 50$ BE-Bypass make a mockery of your game? How about you let people post blatant names and deal with them instead of just hiding/removing the posts? Hell, make a sub-forum purely for posting suspicious content and give a paid employee a salary to actually go through it on a daily basis and at least remove the most blatant ones from what your community brings up?
     

    Removed Name and Shame. ~@mayii

     

    ps. had to add this for context=PP 

     

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    Seems I triggered someone  😉 

    Topic had like a total of 20 reactions in the space of 16 hours, then suddenly, in the space of 3 minutes, topic/posts within the thread gets 8 downvotes=PP

    Thx for the attention, but dude, you really need something useful to do with your time=p

    had to share this lmao ;DD

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    She blatantly abused her power whenever her feelings got hurt. I hope to god you're the only one who misses her and wants her back. 

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  18. Posted · Edited by LaQuandra

    22 hours ago, Ketog said:

     

    so for you it seems fair that this gun can :

     

    Do more damage than DMR AV over the same period of time

    Can do that outside a car window while the DMR Can't

    Can do that without affecting you mobillity while the DMR Can't

    Can do that while still being able to shred people to pieces while the dmr can but only in very specific conditions.

     

    does it REALLY sound right to you that this gun can do something it's not intended for better than a gun that was inteded for the same purpose ?

     

    Reduce the hard damage of the gun and give a slight buff to DMR AV and then it will be fair , but now , it's not , absolutely not.

     

    The Dog ear blooms. It isn't like you can straight spam it against a car driving away, it will bloom and you will miss. I've found the DMR to be more dependable against a car driving away.

     

    Get car surfer if you want to use the DMR while driving.

     

    So are you going to nerf the scout hvr because it has more mobility than the HVR? The Dog Ear is the scout DMR.

     

    I don't really understand your last statement....have fun shredding DMR users with your dog ear at 85+ meters. You'll lose.

     

    Why exactly is the Dog Ear not intended to have hard damage? I agree overall that the Dog Ear is a better overall gun if you want to be able to blow up cars and kill people, but there are so many counters to the dog ear.

     

    Nah, let's not buff and nerf weapons. The DMR-AV has always been a niche weapon and it should stay that way. 

     

     

    Why not just nerf everything and force everyone to use the STAR? 

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  20. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Lato said:

    The majority of the popular f2p games are completely free, some of them even have skins for free..saying "they need money somehow" is just stupid, leaving the prices so high is just a bad way to grow as a game. APB can't afford to be so expensive..also game desperately needs variety that is not inside the Armas or imo it's not to consider free to play (rework the joker store, yes, thank you)

     

    I don't get this logic. APB is a free to play game. There isn't anything you actually need on Armas or the joker store to play APB. Why would the marketplace grow the game? Either you like APB and you play it or you don't. Armas prices make no difference in that.  

  21. Posted

    1 minute ago, -Dan- said:

    The only real proof would be a detailed spreadsheet with total amounts of money that APB generated throughout the years

    Still, doesn't mean that ARMAS isn't heavily overpriced

     

    It obviously has generated enough revenue to stay float for almost a decade and be appealing enough for another company to purchase it.

     

    Your last statement is what we call an opinion. Heavily overpriced compared to what? Other free to play games? Everything is relative. I've wasted $20 on crap so many times in my life. Either you think it's worth the money or it isn't. Other consumers disagree with you.

     

     

  23. Posted

    3 minutes ago, TzickyT said:

    euhm they unbanned everyone i thought from before august 2018 ... if u are banned since august 2018 ... than contact support.

     

    They didn't unban everyone. If you did credit scams, etc you remained banned. I think Matt Scott said some bans didn't have any notes/reasons next to them so maybe some of those accounts stayed banned. Contacting support is probably the best even though you're gonna wait.

  24. Posted

    6 minutes ago, KyoukiDotExe said:

    Please don't, not every game behaves like ancient game like APB does. Most games understand these settings and it usually doesn't impact  anything. Other then the tab says "Compactability".

     

    Most games will benefit from it because it will reduce some lag/fps hit. It isn't guaranteed to work in all games but Microsoft was dumb for adding it over full screen applications. It takes like 10 seconds to do for whatever game you want and you lose out on nothing (unless you really want to see the volume tab or whatever other update Microsoft wants to pop up on your screen).

  25. Posted

    This is what I have learned over the years to help reduce stress in all walks of life.

     

    Stop worry about things you cannot control. You cannot control if people cheat. You cannot control if LO bans cheaters. You can control if you play however. If the cheating is an issue for you, you can control whether or not you boot up and the game and deal with the cheaters.

     

    You will end up and sad and unhappy person if you wait for people to change to your liking. 

     

     

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