Sayori

lol, this is coming from you. Nice.

Why? Because I want to know the system is at least trying to make things fair. It does matter. Just assume there's a serial murderer but suddenly the murderers stop. So it doesn't matter if they got caught or just moved on and stopped? Of course it matters. Sure, false FF bans were a thing but come on, when you are also VAC'd and have profiles on paid cheat sites...yeah, things really start to pile up. No idea really how would people react to the number of bans really. But can't be that bad. FFbans wasn't on the forums so you weren't forced to go and read it. It didn't breed toxicity, the toxicity already existed, it became outlet for it. lul, downright lies. APB is less toxic? Come on, try harder, my dude. Can you explain how am I causing negativity now? It seems to me that you are just throwing stuff out there without any facts and logic ™ When I played Path of Exile few years ago there was that guy who forgot he was streaming and turned on fov/zoom hack allowing him to see more of the map. People posted it on the forums and in 15 minutes the guy was gone. How do I post the twitch channels of those 2 particular russians who cheat on stream without getting deleted, banned and censored? One is nearly blatant because the bot sucks and he sucks at hiding it, the other is better, has a small fov. Well I guess they will keep cheating and ruining everyones time in the game. Gotta love the system.

And how would I know a blatant was ever banned? Nice choice of words though...alleged cheaters. I like how some people have been banned about 15 times + vac bans...but you know...alleged cheaters. Damn that's some serious bad luck there People need to see bans broadcasted so they see LO is actually banning someone, not just reassurance from LO that they are on it because it feels like no one is getting banned. I fail to see the negativity really. There's nothing different right now than when we had FF broadcasts. And by different I mean in terms of toxicity. It's really worse now than it used to be but that's also due to the fact most decent people left and it's just edgy bois who grasps to their cheats so hard as if their life depends on winning in APB.

Rainbow Six Siege broadcasts BE bans and I really doubt that Ubisoft is less competent in online games than LO. According to LO, the initial ban is temporary while being reviewed to avoid false positive then permanent once proven correct.. They can just broadcast it when correct. Please spare me that bs how broadcast bans gives cheaters publicity, this is just as bad as LO's disabling broadcasts because "it's toxic". I dont' see this game being less toxic, in fact - it's way more toxic than ever. The "community" needs to know who is ruining this game so legit players can outcast them. Oh, and it feels good when suspected someone in closetting and then you see the banhammer bringing justice.

Well...I don't think it looks better than current live build but I know that proper lighting and post processing can improve it drastically. But why "benchmarking" at 4k resolution ? How many people are playing 4k right now? A fraction. The fps seems* acceptable though. Anyway I don't see how this will be done this year. Maybe Q1 2020, early Q2

Your CPU is not bad, GPU is more than enough so how do you get such minimum fps? I'm running 8700k and gtx 950 and have almost solid 100fps besides the first 1-2 minutes after joining district. Still using advanced launcher though, I'm just used from the times I had a potato pc. Whatever advanced launcher does is not cheating but like others said - no fog and other various effects is cheating.

Is this...sarcasm? No one should ever wait more than 2 days for any kind of payment/billing issues.

Dude, do you read or you just pretend you do then proceed to bash the keyboard and see what comes out as a reply? I said tested

Same people who tested Riot. It's going to be good then :^) "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"

Some of the mods* are just a meme. I got 2 days ban for naming and shaming without actually used anyone's name but vague descriptions. Or when I got a post with picture removed but 5 other posts with pictures above weren't...and no picture wasn't offensive or anything and totally on topic. Worse than in G1 times. edit: * - community volunteers.

Thanks for the update but this just doesn't make any sense to me. A couple of months after LO took over, you mentioned the new game mode and everyone called it BR. Now you say you felt you can implement it without spending too much dev resources but still it's been a long time already so this surely can't be the case. And on top of that you guys made press releases to advertise your sandbox for mistakes. Yeah, who cares if our sandbox for mistakes is a flop, APB is already surrounded by negativity anyway, some more won't affect it! /s Btw the 40% who have tried RIOT is still pretty low. I think maybe you need a bigger and better carrot. Waiting for the engine update(decent one) then maybe I can finally recommend this game to others. <Insert "It's okay, we didn't want this game mode anyway" meme>

I don't have any performance issues or at least haven't noticed but have some crashes now and then + disconnects. As for EAC, don't have your hopes up, it's implemented badly, which is just amazing considering they had support from EAC devs as well. But you know, APB has never been better than it is right now :^)

And wednesday is tomorrow. And just because that's "maintenance day" it doesn't necessarily mean they will do anything. Hence why I am asking for some kind of update and announcement.

All APB "streamers" are horrible not a single game dev should ever listen to them. One is a veteran cheater, other is a boor with inflated ego, another is a rageaholic who gets angry at every teammate he gets and doesn't live to his expectation while pretending to be a gentleman and burping on stream. etc etc Great presentation of the APB community and the game itself:) That's all we have to promote the game sadly

It's going to be a week soon and not a word so far. G1 communication skills.

"I sold/bought account on a certain trading forum and got instantly banned" fify

Yep, have played lots of online games, APB by far has the most toxic playerbase. You want this to be addressed and harassers need to be penalized with temporary bans. Good luck, my ticket was answered like2 -3 months after it was submitted just to tell me they are "investigating". Some esports gamers(read as cheaters) thought the gold district is reserved for their arrenged Hack vs Hack fests. Gawd, the amount of rage and insults in district chat just because we decided to play there. Been on the internet long enough to grow a thick skin so couldn't be bothered but don't expect this from everyone. Can't forbid and ban for something that can't be actually proven. Stream sniping sucks though....

Ah, can't make the ruskis happy. Always angry at someone else but not at themselves. It's not the first time a russian publisher plays stupid or downright extorts other companies when data is needed. They did it with Black Desert last year when their license ran out and the devs wanted to self-publish in Russia and migrate the data to their own servers but russians refused to hand-over data for "legal reasons"...ironically also asked for money. Go be angry at Gamenet because they dont provide transaction history to verify everyones purchases...and we all know what GMs were doing on Innova. Btw G1/LO didn't even owe you migration. Be thankful

Nice. Armas store needed some alternative although but maybe 8000 JT for a weapon is too grindy. I'd reduce it but increase the APB$ like 5 times.

Any updates?

auth issues are not "last second issues". this is something that should have been found days before, not doing tests right before release. No they don't look unprofessional, THEY ARE unprofessional. This is just another example. I get it they are small company without any experience with "big" online games but at this point this is just a meme.

lmao, didn't see this coming /s But yeah take the servers off and do what you have to do. Those nerds can go to something else. And "the final test" should have been a week before doing any marketing....

Please provide some sort of evidence to prove I'm wrong because from years of playing I've noticed if I end up doing solo mission I'd be consistently be put against 2 silvers. or 1 silver 2 bronzes, 1 gold, the pattern persists no matter what is my team size. This is of course perfect case scenario which is not always but it always tries to be even.

You are not alone with this problem, there are plenty of people who just don't play anymore because they are tired from bouncing between silver/gold Sadly there's no population to make more skill brackets and fill them so the only solution will be Engine Update and cross-district matchmaking. And to the guy who's saying there are sub skill threats like bronze 1, 2 etc - he's talking with his patootie. 1 gold = 2 silvers, 1 silver = 2 bronzes. So I've had times that I'm solo against like 1 silver and 2 bronze players. Silver district can be hell for some people with all the "high skill" players and cheaters. Pretty sure Matt Scott acknowledged the threat system is partially responsible for the dethreating this is why they don't ban people for that although it's supposedly against the rules.

There are already bypasses just not public ones.. The only thing needed is to implement them. No idea if EAC does anything like FF on server-side. Probably not. edit: So it seems EAC's server-side AC is like FF, additionally they have machine learning team. This is far better than relying on a any client side solution