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Right, but with a spread of 150cm @10m, giving it more range than that matters less because you'd be missing nearly all your pellets at the previous 27m max range. (when compared to say range changes for a weapon like the cr762).

The pellet system itself was a buff to all shotguns, Ogre included. Range nerf is largely pointless due to the large pellet spread of the Ogre. Fact is its always been a bad gun, maybe you are just noticing it for the first time.

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While I too would like more interaction between us and the devs, I do want to mention just how hard they are working. I wouldn't want anyone to think otherwise. Truly they are making sacrifices irl for this game.

Honestly I'd prefer even one of the Raptors or ATACs for a starter weapon. VERY easy to use, but with obvious downsides. Want to make up for the downsides? Try a more difficult AR.

The OSCAR is 4 bursts to kill (7stk). The data within the DB comes directly from the devs. https://apbdb.com/items/Weapon_Rifle_Oscar

You tell me, as a vet I have zero business in a bronze district.

I think you can delete the instrument folder without worrying as that's not the same as removing ambient sounds.

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Basically this^ While easy enough to do...it IS a no-no. So if you do it, know what you are risking.

Here I am just hoping for stable gameplay.

That isn't what Matt said, and people are punished, even perma banned for dethreating.

Don't get me wrong, players like you will always complain, it's what you do. However by removing threat based districts as seperate player pools for matchmaking, you remove the ability for a player to easily put themselves into a pool of players where they do not belong. They will always be matched against the overall pool of players meaning that getting "easier" opp through dethreating will be much more time consuming. It won't be as simple as losing a few matches on purpose, players would have to spend significantly more time lowering their threat for it to make any noticeable difference as far as the opp they receive. tl;dr remove one reason for dethreating (unfair matches) and people will be less inclined to WANT to dethreat, and by expanding the player pool to all available players, you make it much more time consuming for players who try to dethreat to actually get easier opp, reducing the INCENTIVE to dethreat

Phasing WILL bring better matchmaking, which in itself will reduce the incentive to dethreat.

Agreed. It will however eventually implement phasing, allowing matchmaking to select from the ENTIRE pool of online players, as opposed to the max 40 opp now.

If you have a teammate also running pointman, you can make a pretty potent 2 man team if you run the Strife. At least, thats how Ive always viewed it, as a fun weapon that only really shines as sort of a cqc support weapon.

Its new, first time players that APB needs to attract. The game will never bring back enough players to be viable. Its been too long, and most have moved on with life. The portion that are "just waiting for the upgrade" is small, and even then a portion of that portion wont stick around more than a couple weeks.

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As long as matchmaking is relegated to a single district it wouldn't matter if you had a million overall players, APB would still be trying to match you against only a pool of 40 (50 back in the day).

Its not the algorithm that is faulty, its the sample size. ^this^

Not really, the ATAC and Raptor outperform the Ntec where they are supposed to. ATAC being more cqc orientated up to around 35-40m after which they drastically become less useful, and the Raptors outperform the NTEC-5 as soon as you have to tap fire the Ntec, but by 45m the Raptors start to lose out again. FAR is easily as good as the N-TEC up to 50m with even better full auto spread (giving it more full auto range for cqc), but after 50m the better base accuracy of the NTEC wins out.

lol what? The Raptors can min ttk (0.75) with HS3 up to 40m... and they are the only ARs that can do this. Oscar is 0.83 ttk and only up to 35m.

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Welp, best of luck.

What uh... Whatcha get banned for?