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Hypothetically, if we increase the dropoff range from 35m to 40m & set the minimum damage is set to 200... https://i.imgur.com/95pTRph.png The 'Enchantress' is meant for a defensive playstyle, minimizing exposure to win fights, rather than charging directly at enemies. Defensive means designed for high instant DPS, but also a high TTK. You pop in-and-out of cover in-between shots to maximize the damage you deal vs. the damage you receive. Examples of this playstyle are the Scout and CSG-20. What’s interesting about this new weapon is its versatility. It can be used in both close-quarter combat (CQC) and ranged combat, but it doesn’t excel in either. Its mobility and long-range accuracy allow you to tactically adjust the distance based on your opponent’s weapon. However, without proper cover to navigate, your strategy is unlikely to succeed. In essence, this weapon is a "jack-of-all-trades, master of none". The slow refire rate and TTK lower your chances of securing a kill in anything other than a 1v1. Most of your opponents will be running Clotting Agent III, reducing your chances of getting a kill within 2 shots. Finally, against good players using "meta" weapons, you'll often fight an uphill battle since your opponents have an easier time forcing the fight within their ideal range. The 'Enchantress' niche areas are low walls and player-owned cars with high burn fuel, which are harder to find.

I am near the eastern canada shore. I get 90-100 ms here to US-West. Playing above 70 ms is too high for a PvP game. To be fair, I'd rather stop playing instead of having a laggy experience. Ever since the US-East instances are back, the Jericho population went back up. Cancelling US-East would be detrimental to the game's survival. I think the way foward is to just unbound characters from server locations. All characters should be global, and we should be able to join all worlwide instances from 1 server.

I think the weapon is very fun to play with, but its range feels lackluster in most scenarios. A Colby RSA secondary is often a better choice, considering the range. The short range and high TTK forces you to use the Enchantress defensively using cover, with a CQC secondary to defend against opponents closing in to rush you. You can use a player-owned car with high HP as portable cover to jump-shoot over it with little risk. That's one of it's few advantages. Recommendations : - Change the minimum damage of the gun to 200 to be a 5 Shots to kill (STK) at worst - Raise the range dropoff & min damage range by 5-10m each - Make accuracy acquisition faster while jumping. Consider nerfing the jump modifier to allow accurate jump-shooting without HS3

@MageLO @MattScott This evening, I've been playing matches only against suspected cheaters (a.k.a. silver players who are very bad at the game, but won't miss any shots). I suspect I was falsely flagged with cheats points. I checked the TOS and the SARD FAQ to verify what could have caused this. https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2024/8/14/sard-faq Then I read this paragraph and got scared : How does the SARD Anti-Cheat AI module work? SARD AI is purpose-built to detect cheats in games and employs AI/ML modules that have been trained using data provided by the game. This training enables SARD AI to identify a wide range of cheats effectively. SARD AI utilizes image processing, mouse movement analysis, and keyboard input tracking to understand and learn typical behavior exhibited by legitimate players. By establishing a baseline of normal player behavior, the system can then flag any abnormal activities or deviations from this baseline. When SARD AI detects suspicious behavior indicative of cheating, it provides actionable insights to game administrators or developers. These insights can be used to take appropriate actions against cheaters, such as issuing warnings, temporary suspensions, or permanent bans from the game. I've been wondering if players using uncommon input devices (ex: trackpad, trackball, analog keyboards, etc.) could classify as abnormal player behavior.

Stats: https://apbdb.com/items/Weapon_SniperRifle_VBR-Stock_Enchantress To those who tried the gun, please share your impressions on this new weapon.

Just crashed again

Its stable now

2 questions here : 1. With the update to the anti-cheat solution (SARD), what is the official stance on analog keyboards (a.k.a. Wooting keyboards) ? These keyboards have a lower than usual activation time and can allow for spamming of inputs. Just asking because I logged in to the Christmas update (Mobilize) and got kicked twice in 30 minutes. It's probably not, since the whole server crashed. Still wondering if that's the cause of kicking. 2. Can we have numbers for detections by SARD so far? Thank you

Screen capture of server pop

I thought the changes would come to live tomorrow. Was there even a client update? Oh wait... https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2024/12/12/mobilize Maybe you just logged in at the worst possible time, while the systems are not properly dispatching their roles yet. Hopefully it gets sorted out tomorrow.

If I read between the lines here... it means we finally get to export characters and assets to EU?

Still relevant 7 hours later bump

I miss the Overkill servers. Imagine if LO hosted action districts with overclocked servers on recent hardware O.O https://apbreloaded.blogspot.com/ Sunday, February 17, 2013 In a synthetic benchmark the i7-3930K OC (compared to the stock X5570) shows raw gains of nearly 70% in single-threaded performance (!). We do lose two cores per server, but the extra expense (more servers) seem worth the vast performance gain.

I have the same components inside my PC, yet I do not have these massive stutters. Believe it or not, I once had a RAM RGB control software interfering with APB, crashing the game after the 1st death... I'd suggest a clean install of Windows, if that's not too much of a hassle.

The first 2 weeks of FairFight were pure bliss.

It was an issue with the RBG software for my RAM. It affected multiple games, just not enough to crash everything I played.

Is there a Discord for testers? I'm in the good ol' APB community one. https://discord.gg/uU7xQmdd EDIT: Installing OTW build atm, will report here once testing is over. /*Crickets noise*/ Pretty empty in here, hopefully the devs won't have to test-drive in the live environment. 1st try: 10007 - Login failed - Servers unavailable 2nd try: Error code 4 : Steam Login failed - Check your user & password

I'd like to help test but my PC doesn't want me to play APB anymore. I think the cache cleaning algorithm on respawn/death is incompatible with my 4090. Anyone else with recent hardware in the same predicament?

Things I learned over the years on the ELO formula: Score is the single factor determining if you will rank up or down. Winning or losing doesn't matter. In a match, players above the median score gain threat, the others lose some. If the opposite team average threat rating is significantly higher than your own, and you score above the 50% mark, you'll get more threat. MVP gains the most threat. If you get called as backup at the last minute & gain the required minimal score (like 100), then you are considered as a match participant for the purpose of threat calculation. Back in the day, the ELO was calculated upon your last 50 missions. You needed to fight gold opponents to reach the highest value possible. You gain little threat for gaining MVP against lower threat players (Ex: 1 Gold vs 2 Bronzes). When a fight club mission starts, the player with the highest threat is assigned as team leader.

What Is Dead May Never Die I've heard Bjorn Laarson (Ex-G1 CEO) talk about End of Life on video game cycles. But it is the first time I hear about mercy killing a game How old is APB on console?

We've had the same playerbase for a decade. Pretty hard for veterans not to know/befriend each other after playing for so long. I log in on dead NA server (Jericho) and still recognize a few names in there, even after years without playing.

Anyone still crashing / freeze locking while using recent NVIDIA GPUs (RTX 2xxx or higher) ? From previous posts on the forums, the problem used to occur on all NVIDIA cards using GDDR6. When I start playing APB, it usually takes 1 or 2 death/respawn screens until a system-wide freeze locks up everything to a crawl. Killing the APB process doesn't get rid of the freeze. The only fix is a manual restart. I'm just trying to gather some data, see how many are still affected by this. Please share if you managed to find a way to play reliably with your RTX card. My PC specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7800X3D Motherboard: AsRock X670E Taichi RAM: 2x16 GB DDR5-6000 CL30 GPU: GeForce-RTX-4090-SUPRIM-LIQUID-X-24G OS: Windows 11 Pro

Many would quit if you enforced it. Gamers play this game to have fun. You cannot have maximum control (fair game) AND maximum player freedom, A few rules for optimal matchmaking: 1. Do not allow players to group outside of Social District 2. Only allow district map selection, not direct connection to an instance. 3. If there are enough players, dynamically phase them in-between missions according to their group ELO 4. Depending on server population, modulate the maximum group size between 2 and 4+ 5. Until the current mission stage has less than 3 minutes, always allow to call backup.

Just tested it and it worked on my end. Thanks!

I played the fr0g last week, and its crazy OP in the 0-20m range. It doesn't need that buff. Now Clotting Agent III will be useless against it.