CookiePuss

Felt great using the CSG and getting kills again. Please give.

I cant speak for anyone else, but for me its less about winning, and mostly about hitting that flow state where your brain just kind of shuts off and you play on auto pilot. Thats the whole reason I game. Im here for a break, Im here to escape, Im here to CHILL. The decisions I make are kind of based around that. There ARE mod setups I avoid, there are certain weapons I avoid, and there are certain vehicles I avoid. These ARE all sub-meta items, but along with being less useful in a fight they also make the game feel clunkier, less smooth, and more frustrating... making it that much harder to slip into and remain in the aforementioned state. The same can be said of config and or advanced launcher use. Yes these thing often offer higher FPS, and yes higher FPS does provide an advantage especially in cases where the disparity is huge (say playing at 30fps vs 120fps). But they also offer partial relief from stuttering, frame drops, and or micro freezes... of which all can snap you out of that nice chill state quite jarringly. (see image at the end if you want to see the benchmarks on my personal rig) So really, what me and possibly many other players are doing, is not so much trying to win at all costs so much as wanting to play with as few frustrations as possible. Cuz let's face it, APB has many issues. Not all of them are massive, but any of them can ruin the enjoyment of a match.

To use terms most people are familiar with, your "threat" is akin to your "elo"... a value. Its this underlying value that is used for matchmaking, where colors decide to change is completely arbitrary. You could go from the 10 levels of threat per color we have now to 100, or add 5 more color classes, but none of that would change your underlying elo meaning it would have no effect on matchmaking or your in game experience.

the color has nothing to do with matchmaking

(that's a config joke for anyone wondering)

Bold of you to assume this wouldn't quickly make things worse.

No segregation is a disaster I agree. I wonder if disabling grouping as well would have helped or hurt. Since the "golds" everyone is talking about wouldn' be able to run premades and just destroy players used to struggling in bronze districts, but it'd also mean silvers an bronzies couldn't group either. Plus its hard to say how many players would just decide not to play at all since they couldn't play with their friends. I'm not sure there was a solution this time. Might have been a choice between the shitty situation we have, and abandoning the EU player base altogether until their servers got sorted. Rock and a hard place and all that. Sorry, just thinking out loud.

You ok, homie?

Honestly, that's the best attitude to have. Some times I wish I could just "have fun" while playing. ...it's not easy for me.

Aside from your misunderstandings on what has or hasn't been done to certain weapons at this point, I do feel that same frustration.

Hex ready to run back to bronze districts because as he says, "silver districts are easy".

^this must be bait^

Are we playing the same game?

Nice crop, dork.

I won't deny that playing in a team against a group of randos is an advantage. I don't think anyone would. But APB was designed to be social, to make friends and play with them. Even without winning, there is nothing more fun than playing with friends, For that reason alone it's worth doing.

teamwork in itself is a skill

Sorry. You right.

^gets it^

Then simply disengage. They are still trapped in the open, and the car will disappear eventually. You don't have to fight every engagement to the death. You've disabled their car, their method of escape, or their ability to rush, and that's exactly what AV is for. You should know by now that AP weapons should kill people better than AV weapons. So disable the vehicle, and if you are at a disadvantage, disengage.

Are you for some reason out in the open and trying to trade fire with an assault rifle or something? Not to mention you can shoot under any car.

Sick, thanks.

It's an NFAS with a .99 ttk Not really sure what counter argument you could use tbh. Thanks for playing tho.

I still don't understand why people say this. NSSW is a full auto monster. HB2 improves it's already minimal bloom without adding stk, alllowing you to min ttk up to around 50m just by holding mouse 1. It's also less mobile, and the only mod I use on both is HS3.

I suppose if you don't have a 2 slot ntec it'd fill that role pretty well

As a slightly less versatile Ntec5, it's not a bad gun... but definitely not OP.