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Pound is indeed very passionate about APB. He is absolutely not the only one to still stream it. He is welcome to join us on the forums and share his ideas. All of us have both people who like us, and people who don't, PoF isn't any different. If you really think PoF's ideas are good, then I would say you should encourage him to join the community here on the forums (the mods will handle any shit talking). But so long as he only shares his idea with his viewers, he and you can't be too surprised when none of his ideas go anywhere.

Uhh... Vanille is quite skilled when it comes to APB. I can assure you that you have NEVER seen him in a bronze district.

One thing most anti AL /config people have in common is misinformation. To start, here is a screenshot of my in game, full config graphics: So to start, "making everything look like play dough" this does not. Again I will post my benchmarks taken using the benchmarking feature included with MSI Afterburner (the same benchmarking tool used to test 3.5). As you can see, running stock APB with my rig means frame drops as low as 0.2 FPS. Thats basically a complete freeze up once the shooting starts. This is unplayable. This is a disadvantage that makes playing APB impossible. From there I went to the advanced launcher and after about a year of tweaking that I was able to achieve the next set of benchmarking stats with drops as low as 32.5 FPS once the shooting starts. This means going from smooth gameplay to stuttery nonsense once the shooting starts. That is to say IT PUT ME AT A DISADVANTAGE IN EVERY FIREFIGHT AGAINST PLAYERS WHO DID NOT SUFFER THESE DROPS IN FRAMERATE. Still frustrated I finally looked into creating a custom config. Using some of the changes made by players like Tobii, Frosi, Dopefish, and Flaws (many many thanks to you guys for your hard work) I was able to get an understanding of exactly which changes were having the most impact on my performance. After another year of trial and error changes I finally settled on my current config, and finally can experience APB without the annoying stutters and drops in framerate (never dropping below 70.4 FPS) and for the first time ever I was able to enjoy APB without being at a DISADVANTAGE every time I got into a firefight. So while I may or may not be a scrub, the decision to customize my game is CLEARLY more about removing disadvantages than creating advantages.

oof... touche

For the record, that is untrue.

about as many that aren't terrible ideas

Yesterday? You know, when the latency increased?

Well Matt disagrees and he owns the game, so tough nuts.

And Google translate fails us again.

lol... no

you get out of here with your well thought out, rational to the point of obvious, ideas

Finally I can achieve my dream of being an HVR and OCA main AT THE SAME TIME!!!

The difficulty is finding a balance where the suit can be useful without being too useful. Imagine bribing the driver in the last round only to disappear into the gas, spamming hazmat suits until the round is over. Part of the mode is paying attention to which blocks are closing, and trying to keep yourself from being in a position to be trapped by the gas, spawn or not.

You need the device codes to arm the riot devices. Riot devices, once activated, close down blocks. Final block spawns escape vehicle. Team that offers the biggest bribe to the driver, or the last team alive, wins. That's more or less it. Save up money to unlock your personal primary or secondary weapon. Save up money to buy extra lives. But keep in mind the more you spend during the match the less you will have to bribe the driver at the end.

If you've played APB for any length of time you should know by now how poorly optimized the game is, and how even on newer rigs the game can run like garbage. Here is the benchmark data for my rig, as well as the system specs: Luckily Matt knows what some players seem to not... that to remove advanced launcher at this time would be catastrophic.

Seems more of a spawn issue than an issue with the suits themselves

Yeah its up. Latency for some is high, but its running.

The only thing worse than letting players ban other players, is letting them do it anonymously.

a fair point, for sure

Im not much of a RIOT fan either. Hopefully there are people out there who will like it though.

No.

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