stateofthegame

Whilst this is a good option considering the population, the ping for a decent amount of NA players is simply too high to play EU. Yeah, NA is mostly Americans who complain about having to play EU at 120-250 ping, but for us Oceania players we've been doing that since the Joker/Colby merge as well as the Han shutdown. Then again given the numbers, there might not be a choice.

I think we should fix the game by allowing mrepicgoat to balance all the weapons from here on out --- Jokes aside, people who are dethreat with ease aren't really top players to begin with. The process takes too long if your elo is at least moderately high, and most people who play at a higher skill don't want to play people who they can easily beat. Of course, there's plenty that do enjoy this, but that's an issue that exists outside of threat because there will always be toxic people who want to play purely to irritate and beat others at every level of play. Online gaming is frustrating regardless of your composure, but it's a good idea to start considering whether getting so heated up about things that are outside of your control is actually worth your energy, even if this isn't always an easy task.

I would argue that quitting because of hard opp is a universal experience. Some days you just hit four premade groups in a row and you just have to say 'not today' and come back another time. But yes, you're still right, and whilst I think the matchmaking system as a whole is busted that leads to the issues you described (not an uncommon opinion I know), there's no merit to killing off a significant portion of the already small playerbase that's left. I guess if there's one district everyone can access, at least we are all able to play the game: in situations where there's a district that's inaccessible to most, not only do they choose not to play in another district (because none are active) but they actually cannot play at all. It's a lesser of two evils type of thing, not a fix. ...touché

So the population of NA is pretty dead, nothing new here. Yet for some reason, there's still threat segregation stopping a significant portion of remaining players from playing. At an estimate I'd say 30-40% of players are gold (this could be wildly off I know), yet only bronze districts are being populated lately meaning the usual cycle is: - Log in to see if you can play - See only a bronze district populated - Log off and do something else, go to EU (if your ping allows it), or spend hours dethreating to actually play I can't quite see the purpose in having threat segregation when the player count is not even high enough to populate a single district. Wouldn't it make more sense to allow everyone to play at all times? Also hello forums, it's been a few years; I'm guessing a civil discussion is still a rarity but prove me wrong here alright?

To me using a crosshair is like putting training wheels on your bike when you're a kid. It's fine initially and it'll help you out when you're new to things but eventually you take it off. In my opinion any player worth their salt aims just-as-well if not better without needing a crosshair overlay.

People really underestimate the skill-gap between low-gold, mid-gold, and high-gold. Don't become disheartened, become better.

It's gotten to the point where I'm questioning whether I actually sent the ticket in or not

Running a custom crosshair goes against the current terms of service for APB Reloaded. That being said I can't recall anyone being reprimanded for custom crosshair use (though I could be wrong.) I advise using a custom crosshair at your own risk.

this hurt me

honestly why do we even have bronze districts with THIS low a population

Agreed, this clip is fine. All it shows is someone who knows how to aim kicking the butts of people who don't.

Shotguns have always been a weapon that have rewarded mastery and skill with relatively consistent two-shotting within their effective range. With this patch it doesn't matter whether you are actually good at 'centre-ing' your shots as the overdamage is so obscene you can 2-shot most of the time even if your shot is totally off. Alongside this you can now 2-shot up to ~10m-15m which is quite dumb, you can also pick up kills and decent assists anywhere up to ~30m which is incredibly stupid. tl;dr - shotguns were fine before the patch, now their range and damage is bust

Euryale by a long shot. It's basically a mobile version of the SHAW, what's not to like? I personally recommend: Muzzle Break / Bandolier OR Three Point Sling.

So what's everyone's thoughts on the new sidearm? I'm personally having a blast with it, slightly disappointed it isn't an unrealistically weak sawed-off BUT I'll take what I can get. It's a great counter-part to any long range gun I'm running with and whilst it still isn't as reliable as an FBW/.45 it's really fun. I will say I feel as though it needs SLIGHTLY more over-damage so that it hits a 3-shot kill more reliably, but other than that it's fine.

Assuming it'll be up on ARMAS after this patch

Neither this post nor the blog post give enough specifics. It'd be nice to see the exact values of what has changed. +1

I honestly find all of these changes fine. The IR3 change is also fine because you should be controlling your fire at longer ranges anyway. It makes sense that the weapons are less viable in CQC - the whole idea of improving your rifling means you should be better at longer ranges and worse at shorter ones. Makes perfect sense to me and I can't say I even notice the difference on most of the guns.

ill grab the popcorn hopping on to try out the changes now

ALIG is too strong! We better make it 12 shots to kill ASAP !!!

I actually like this idea a lot. I've always thought 'just give task items the VIP vehicle speed' but then I realised just how often a task item spawns in a real crap spot. This would make driving around the map in a pioneer much less appealing and would still allow for item relocation.

I'm all for a revamped /report Looking forward to being able to report people for specific things ie; - offensive symbols - offensive themes - actual cheating - griefing I think it's great that they are adding more functionality and detail rather than just a standardised /report.

I use my Euryale a LOT. It's basically made the shaw completely redundant. You never see too many people using LMGs but I would argue it's the best one. - pinpoint accuracy. - tap-fire'able - full-auto'able - actually mobile The only thing that hurts it is that it suffers from more RNG than most guns. Sometimes your recoil will just screw you over. Nothing you can do. Other non-meta guns I enjoy a lot: - ACES Rifle; nice for when I don't want to think too much - ISSR-A; people REALLY don't know how to play against this gun - NSSW; basically an LMG ntec, honestly its easier to full-auto as well

I commend them for their constant stream of events themed around the different ways they could sell JMBs. Real dedication to the cause.

This got me good

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