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World of Tanks. I don't like the game too much but from my ovservations population is way more toxic than that of APB. The devs even removed ability to chat with the enemy team due to toxicity. You can optionally even block all communications from your team aswell as disable PM and annonymise your nickname. The devs keep making changes to low tier battles so somebody with thousands of hours and heap of coin has less chance to roflstomp newbies (very popular to do in that game btw, the call it "seal clubbing"). On topic I do think it's time to at least temporarily remove threat locked districts so people still playing the game have a chance to get matches. People who played in 2010-2012 managed to survive without this. This reminds me of Han situation (anybody still remember that district lol)

Fps was even lower? Didn't think that's even possible. That's very worrying and the reason why a lot of people quit APB in the first place as the low fps in engagements often means certain death. Couple that with the ocasional teleports and you've got a recipe for disaster. For the sake of this game I really hope LO devs manage to fix the mess that G1 created... Merged. That's what I thought initally and the reason I quit APB in late 2013 - early 2014 when I saw it going down the hill with no hopes of recovery. Was planning to return after the promised engine upgrade arrives but it never did. I did log in here and there due to nostalgia and my love for the game but always got reminded fast why I quit and that the game was not the same as it used to be. But now after logging in and checking /pop of what used to be two most popular servers now being combined into one I noticed a ~500 player count on peak hours and 100 of those are afk social type. I start thinking it's time I need to accept the state of APB as it is and play a few matches here and there as later on it might be too late no matter how much I wanted to play. I need to accept that it's impossible to play APB competitively and I need to enjoy this laggy mess for what it is and hope that my enemy will lag and teleport more than I do... If I could go back in time to 2011 when I discovered the game the first thing I'd do is sit down for a good APB session Recently stumbled across some messages on my old phone and found conversations dating back to 2014 of one of my friends I played most inviting me to play APB and me declining him multiple times due to laggyness of the game. He quit gaming in 2015 and I will never play APB with him ever again. That fills my heart with sadness. I do plan to sit down and play a few games. I do feel the end time is nigh and all will be left are youtube videos screenshots and memories and that will be even more sad as we only realise the true worth of something only when we lose it. I do hope LO manages to pull a mirracle and save this game as I have not played anything quite like it.

But they picked up where g1 left so stuff worked on by g1 staff should be there Small improvement but improvement none the less That's odd Than there is still hope for this game. Checked /pop of the combined EU server and it was 400-500 in the peak hours, engine upgrade is the last hope this game has.

To those who played the engine upgrade beta did you notice any performance improvements? Since like 2012 G1 did their best to make performance as awful as possible and a lot of people quit as result. In 2013 engine upgrade was promised as a saving grace. Were any of those promised performance fixes felt during the testing?

One does not simply escape APB. Even in one's dreams he is not safe

Lol happened today after many years. Dreamt of new engine being tested. In the dream there were new weapons and vehicles too even a motorcycle (I know it's not happening). I guess it's the hype of new devs actually doing something and informing us of progress, let's hope it does not end up like it did with g1... Odd night tho, like I don't dream often but this night I had 3 dreams all of them interesting. 1st about apb, 2nd and 3rd about a friend of mine who I go lifting together, in 2nd one he was a girl. I told him that and he was like "dafuq did u smoke last night" I swear I didnt smoke anything that night tho lol

Back in 2011-2012 was really hooked to apb, quit it in 2013 when performance kept getting worse every patch with no improvements, at the time there was big hype going for upcoming engine upgrade (Q1 2014 anyone lol?) After 2014 came there was no sight of engine upgrade just promises. At that time I was suffering from apb widrawal and had a dream of myself being in the game with upgraded engine on mission in some new district was happy about it and sad when I woke up... Interesting how I still remember this dream after all these years with such detail and other dreams not so much... Just shows how much I loved the game and how much potential it had...

Been there, done that...

Well, I'll check forums in Q1 2019. Hopefully it's not another Q1 2014...

Engine upgrade is the last hope. If that does not fix the abysmal performance that will be the end for apb.

I'd like the 2011 version myself...

Double barrel shotgun...

Great, now implement an ability to remove improved rifling from preset weapons that now became useless so people can swap it for something that is actually useful. Glad Yukon's bugged fire rate has finally been fixed tho.

Lag

The only p2w thing in APB is Yukon.

Can't believe how many people fell for op's obvious bait...

That's just sad

Server lag + FPS lag = enjoyable experience

Welcome to the f2p world

Rtw all the way no competition. I'd like them to release oldschool APB servers with game version from RTW times removing all the stupid things G1 added or changed.

But some people like to cause drama

And 2011 performance too

Very nice. Hope you won't stop with server lag and FPS lag will be addressed in upcoming future.

No worries - no one can run APB anyways

Yes please. Yukon along with it by fixing it's bugged fire rate.