Wasted_Potential

People are not getting banned for using cheats atm

Sadge Merged. Weird, I thought it's a fix to compensate for the 4x4 suspension becoming more bouncy after the 64bit update

Different people, different perspectives. I would not call 45 fps as solid especially having seen how game ran in 2011 and having played on older hardware. For me 45 fps is cancer when I have to fight other people (who play like they are in a tournament) and my pc at the same time. When fps dips below 60 my mouse movement starts to feel weird as if it's some sort of input lag or something along those lines. Big stutters is no longer an issue like it was on my old pc, what really helped for me with stutters is installing the game on SSD. Small stutters still exist and everyone has them from time to time as they are part of the game. Some districts sometimes have more stutters than others and I'm guessing there's too many cheaters and/or macro users doing 1000 clicks a second. Changing districts usually help. This game is sometimes weird too in a sense that the fps counter shows 80 fps but it feels "bad", and then there's instances where it shows 60-something but it feels "fine" Idk how to explain this one... 3rd gen Ryzen 5 is a good CPU and it makes sense that the game runs good for you seeing as you called 45-60 solid. I dont expect 3rd gen Ryzen 5 to drop below 70-80 fps. For me performance is hit or miss. The 47 fps is the worst case scenario, usually it does not drop this much. 47 is what I've seen a few days ago in waterfront in an area where a few different groups where having missions. I tend to avoid waterfront as I get lower fps there and constant sniping becomes old really fast. Usually my fps is in 90-60 mark. Problems begin occurring in full districts when there's multiple groups in one place doing missions or those big 8v8, 10v10 missions etc, then my fps goes to low 50's and it becomes problematic to aim. 30v30 districts are fine and can actually be enjoyable. Yesterday was a weird day, I did not see my fps drop below 60-something, except after about 1.5 h of playing when performance degraded and I needed to restart. Didn't meet a single cheater there so maybe that had something to do with it.

Yeah well my old pc from 2011 with Amd Phenom II x4 955, Radeon HD6870 and 8 gigs of ram ran APB at steady 100 fps on max settings in 2011-2012 untill they fvcked something up in late 2012-early 2013 and suddenly the same pc ran APB at unsteady 70-35 fps in full districts. Max or low settings - same fps - 0 difference. Dropping graphics to clay gave +5 fps. That's when I quit in 2014-ish after promised engine upgrade never arrived. Later I upgraded that pc to GTX 960, got +0 fps cause this garbage game is cpu bottlenecked. My current laptop from early 2018 ("5 years old") has i7-7700hq, GTX 1050 Ti, 16 gigs of ram and a SSD. One moment it runs at 80 fps and then the next it drops to 50-or even sometimes 42 fps which is unacceptable. After about 1-1.5 h of playing performance degrades over time to the point where it doesn't go above like 57 fps when I'm driving and I have to restart. Switching multiple districts causes permanent stutters untill you restart. This 64-bit upgrade gave me maybe +5fps so instead of 42 it drops to 47, which is better but still garbage. My cousin has the same cpu but a normal GTX 1050, same story. Sure it's "playable", is it enjoyable? No. Spoke to a guy who has a "5 year old pc" with GTX 1070 and Amd Ryzen 5 1600, which was the CPU to get in 2017-2018 and he said his game drops regularly to 50-something fps in full district too, so he spends his time in social and treats this game as VR Chat. Another friend has a 4th gen Ryzen 5 and even that drops to 78 fps sometimes. This game feels garbage when it runs in 70s and 40 fps in this game feels like 20 in any other. This old 13 year old game runs like garbage on modern systems unless you go crazy in cpu department. GTA 5 looks and runs 10x better. Stop trash talking if f you don't know what you're talking about.

Pls more panty options thx

Heres to a productive 2023 and revival of APB! Regarding new matchmaking, it is known that currently switching districts deteriorates performance and people with older/weaker PCs feel it first. I wonder how new matchmaking will affect this if players are constantly being loaded from: random district > lobby > mission district. After the mission again: current district > lobby > mission district. I really hope I won't have to restart my game after a mission or two just to keep the game somewhat playable... Also regarding new contacts: in the past Matt mentioned that he planned for the contacts to unlock no longer obtainable R-A-F weapons: CAP-40 and VBR, now he mentioned NSSW, Nano and Scout with no mention of previous weapons. Can someone clarify this? Thanks Edit: Also I did not see anything regarding future optimisations to make the game run better. Surely the minimal improvements we got from 64-bit upgrade isn't the end of it? Current performance is still abysmal for anyone not running latest state of the art CPUs.

Yeah it's super useless, sold mine ages ago. May Lord have mercy on the poor soul who bought it.

Yeah it sucks. It always sucked. Game puts 1 gold against 1 silver and calls it good enough. Had countless matches where 2 golds + 2 silvers vs 4 golds with no backup. MM should always do 1 gold = 2 silvers and ability to call in backup otherwise. Those players are silver for a reason, they either don't have enough experience because they don't play enough or are limited by their older PCs.

Any optimizations are always welcome

Yes the script kiddies are running rampant rn. LO said they will implement easy anticheat in the near future, just wait untill then.

Was hoping for some more bug fixes. Sadge

Best mod for Norsemen is to use a different smg

Remove stabba from game, thanks.

Currently there exists only one secondary weapon in-game. But yeah the starting grind is horrible unless you have account bound 3 slot weapons. Imo they should have rank locked districts. Even if someone would create a new char to stomp noobs they would still be bound by rank restrictions on char and weapon mods...

At least we're getting actual patches for once

If you're hoping for something new then no everything is more or less the same. APB got a 64 bit upgrade that supposedly makes the game run slightly better and fixes rtx cards from freezing, that's about it. I might have gained up to +10 fps on average but for me it still drops to below 60 regulary, some people even reported a performance loss, IDK what's up with that. The 64 bit is supposed to be a foundation to build and improve upon so here's to hoping more good things will come. Also 50v50 districts are back like they were in 2010-2013 and population doubled because we got a first patch in the last 2-3 years. Might aswell wait for the next big patch, there's talks about EAC coming back, hopefully that will reduce the numbers of script kiddies running around. And there's talks about new contact being added so that will give max ranks something to do.

Just shows how many people are waiting for anything to happen. I can easily see EU reaching constant 1k /pop with more patches/fixes and new content...

Try contacting Matt via PM, maybe he'll answer, seeing as support was useless here. I've had some success in the past contacting GM's in private, then again seeing how popular he is I don't guarantee it. I saw you mention roles earlier, funnily enough some roles are bugged for me too, some being 945/50 etc. I know others have this issue too. Some tried contacting support but had no success even though support claimed they have "fixed" it, heard some even had other issues popping up after that. I haven't bothered contacting them as I don't want them messing something up and also why even bother at this point. Also my friend contacted support over two weeks ago regarding missing items, support managed to reply once asking for more details and it has been radio silence since...

Fixed that for you

Idk, maybe cheaters bring just enough profit for LO to justify keeping them arround or maybe LO doesnt want to lose the few active players left there are. Like this game has no new players left and the only ones that still play are either used to suffering and probably enjoy it too or are cheating themselves. APB is the only game I know where you get unbanned multiple times for cheating and get free premium on top of that too.

Nothing new

So much butthurt in just one thread. It's like the entire butthurt of the forum flocked here. Still amazes me how someone can go from removing symbols and/or clothing to breaking character by locking equipment slots. Like why even go there? What did he have equiped there for support to feel the need they need to mess with that? Swastika shaped FIeld Supplier? Nazi Book Burning Torch?

More like late 2012

2011-2012 G1 times

Oh wtf, was already surprised when beta came out some days ago but now it's live? Damn, LO dropping some bombs