CookiePuss

Sometimes I feel like my whole life is one big brain fart.

I see what you are saying, and it sounds like you are at least trying. That being said, you are also farming arrests against noobs. Of course, I wont sit here and argue that threat itself ISN'T broken, cuz it clearly is. Hopefully one day we will finally have a place for players stuck in that high silver / low gold position. tl;dr its more about threat being fucked than you being the bad guy

Shotguns arent getting nerfed tho. If anything, its a buff.

How did this go from talk about exploiting broken game mechanics to a "depends on what your definition of IS is" talk?

Honestly Im just jealous you have the courage to go non meta! I havent touched anything but the Oca ntec cr762 hvr in so long!!!

Its just thats the number one excuse I hear from dethreaters, "I dont dethreat on purpose, I just use bad guns / guns wrong to lose threat"... Im just not sure I buy that as a valid excuse.

thats not... you know what, nevermind. you seem happy and that puts you ahead of the game in my book. gg

I dunno... that sounds like intentionally keeping your threat low. Maybe not bannable, but definitely not cool.

I play mostly from work on a cobnles together pc. i74820k OC'd to 4.3 gtx770 100fps in fc and financial, 80fps or so in waterfront

Ram raiding empty districts is literaly abusing a broken game mechanic. Its going to be hard to get sympathy for someone preventing you from doing so.

You said it yourself, the Shredder is not meta. Its limited range (20m) and long ttk (0.84 seconds) make it a big underdog against most smg/shotgun/AR users. It does however do a fair ammount of hard damage which is nice, especially in car chases, and unlike other shotguns IR3 (raising range to 27m) is actually helpful given the shredder's tight spread. Most useful mods for the shredder are IR3 and mobility sling so you made a good choice with the preset version. As with any non meta weapon, you are going to have to outsmart your opp in order to get off the first shot(s) as you will be at a disadvantage in almost any even 1v1 situation. But as with anything, its important to have fun, and it sounds like you are so in a way, youve already won!

45 AP has the same range as all RFPs except the Fang, is more viable in cqc and has a faster ttk. Fang is a beast though, but rather than nerf Id like to see it available in game somehow. (that last bit is just opinion)

Its developer preference really. There is no "should".

You can do that with a file edit now. I dont use it, but its pretty common.

Are you not able to provide the info requested? And if not, why?

Congrats!

Yes.

APB will never retain new players until dethreaters are dealt with. That being said, Im not sure what this scoreboard is supposed to prove, no one is even gold. Also, if you feel you have actual evidence of dethreating, send it to support.

The shotgun change is being made to make shotguns more reliable, not to make them better. To quote MattScott: "Currently we feel they (shotguns) are powerful but very inconsistent, and some of this is because how our servers perform at higher latency."

Probably just a server restart, as restarts temporarily fix server issues. Expect more of these quick restarts til LO can find a more permanent solution.

Until someone who decides such things changes what its "supposed" to do. (wink wink)

The server restarts temporarily fix the server issues. Expect frequent restarts until LO can find a permanent solution. On the bright side, the servers tend to only be offline for a short period of time per restart.

@TruePirate todays event was just announced

Recoil is all that is being changed on the SWARM. What are you looking to get an LMG for? Anti Vehicle or Anti Personnel?

Dethreaters are scum. The literal lowest of the low.