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  3. Posted

    Pretty sure this post should've mentioned the new Mirage car, I've only seen a message on Discord about it, LO if you're reading this, you should definitely post on Steam game updates, or edit your Xmas post, to mention it, and put the car as the thumbnail for the post, marketing / hype 101, your old players that are not playing these days will see it in steam and will likely drop by

  4. Posted

    On 11/20/2023 at 11:21 AM, Frosi said:

    For now that's up in the air as cross-district matchmaking is not part of this Phase of matchmaking, they previously however talked about eventually not wanting there to be loading screens and to seamlessly phase you from one district to the other.

     

    As for the map question, I would assume that it won't yoink you from Waterfront to play a mission on Financial. As for when you queue up on social, I would assume it will let you choose which district you want to queue for or it will queue for the same type of district your group members are part of

    Thanks, the intent is what I meant to ask about, and from what you describe it's the ideal

  11. Posted

    8 hours ago, Divait said:

     

    You must be a 300 IQ person to compare the sniper rifle in a close range to the Ursus. I have decent aim, not calling myself A GOD but I will just say decent. (If someone will abuse thirdperson mechanics and seat behind the wall - aim will not help you, you know, the grenades will help but sometimes you have 0 info)

    I'm comparing them make a point and an exaggeration, you had to be rude and here I am detailing it again.

     

    Also what am I supposed to see? that's the point I'm making, a bullet less to kill is nothing to note if the time to kill is the same, try comparing it to Obeya for example, then Ursus is where it should be, AR-97 is just garbage, not because of TTK but because of bloom.

     

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  12. Posted

    I'll bump this to add a workaround is, as soon as you start arresting, if the criminal doesn't react (animation) cancel and try again, if it doesn't work a couple more times, move slightly and try again, it works then.

     

    Maybe the problem has to do with player position not being accurate on the server, maybe the position error threshold on client position is too large

  13. Posted

    On 4/29/2023 at 6:54 PM, Divait said:

    I mean of course on the close range you may find a better weapons but I said that the Ursus is a most powerful weapon due to the fact it's a mid + close range gun, gets you 5 shots to kill comparing to an usual 6 shots on the normal Ntec-5. I have had the situations where players were still good with an Ursus in the close range, so clearly you have a bad point of view here.

    For example - on the close range a more newbie player will use NTEC-7c New Glory (same as Ursus but for a close range) and more experienced player will stick with Ursus because it's a mid range + close range gun, just simple as that.

    What does it mean if it's a 5 shot? did you check Time To Kill? it shoots slower.

     

    Also, I'm sorry but it's not that I have a bad point of view, you have a bad aim, if you lose to Ursus close range, you can kill with DMR close range too, but that would only be because the enemy gave you plenty of chance.

     

    Borrow an Ursus and see for yourself, you'll calm down then, it's a nice and solid weapon, but nothing OP.

    And see specifically, how reliable it is close range, compared to  other n-tec variants, then compared to mid-close range weapons.

  14. Posted

    12 hours ago, Divait said:

    You are probably the Ursus player, don't you? How it's not if Ursus is the most powerful weapon in the game at the moment and it's due to the fact you have to grind for that. Technically it's like Obeya with better firerate because people are placing IR 3 (Improved Rifling 3) mode on this.

    In my opinion if they will make Ursus 1 slot mode - there will be only the crosshair thing without range abuse.

    I've had Ursus for years yes, but I rarely use it, I love it, but I'm always switching weapons, I haven't used it in many months, and I still use Ntec-5 more often than Ursus.

     

    But that's what Ursus is, a longer range variant of Ntec-5, that is also weaker @ close range, it's quite balanced

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  15. Posted

    39 minutes ago, OneSecond said:

    the last one, had it a few times even before the EAC update. Basically I'm still talking in discord but I got disconnected from the game session.

    that's probably just internet issue, like speed drops down so much or connections is cut for 1 second where it doesn't even start the time out message like it should but you get a straight up kick.

    because discord can work even on 20kb/s so if you'r connection is howering on say 7kb/s when it's choking for 2s, you should still be able to talk in discord

     

    Teammate had normal voice, there was no delay or robotic voice, he also had the timeout message for 30-40 seconds before the disconnect, this is why I suspect a desync

  17. Posted · Edited by N66

    There seems to be some new networking issues that appeared with EAC's patch:

     

    - Arresting people fails quite often, it shows the cop's arresting animation but not the criminal's, the UI radial bar appears normally, it just doesn't actually arrest, sometimes it works from the 1st attempt, at others it failed 8 times in a row (2 stuns).

    - When capturing point hold, there is a significant delay before capturing starts.

    - Teammate was disconnected due to timeout, we were on discord at that time and he had no internet connection issues.

    - Got shot after hiding behind a permanently open Asylum door, a considerable time after taking cover, not the usual latency issue, could be that my position on the server was not updated

     

    I'll throw my opinion on this, possibly game events that are replicated unreliably or sensitive to delay (condition fails @ server), causing a desync, kicking the client.

    If EAC is throttling or consuming the bandwidth, it could cause these issues to appear.

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  19. Posted

    22 hours ago, Frosi said:

    Very wrong, macros are strictly forbidden as per APB's EULA

     

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    Also I want to let OP know that macros can not make weapons shoot faster than the rate of fire enforced by the server and that very experienced players can get pretty damn close to shooting at the max rate of fire on semi auto guns even without macros. In the end its a hard thing to detect but still very much against the rules and EAC / FairFight in the future should hopefully help detecting them faster.

     

    I see, thanks for pointing that out, at least the decision is finally made, now hopefully as you said, anti-cheat will be able to detect them

  20. Posted · Edited by N66

    I think last official stance was it's a gray area, mostly not bannable sadly.

     

    Edit: It is bannable

     

    I'm not sure how easy it is to consistently detect this without false positives, but if possible I think this should be much higher prio than punishing griefers, since macros "grief" you in PVP, and there's an unfair advantage in them, motivating doing it, unlike griefing

  21. Posted

    15 hours ago, SkittyM said:

     

    Actually curious, what's wrong with the current vehicle balance the game has?  So far the only changes have been upping cargo space on some vehicles and undoing some of the bullet sponge mobiles.

     

    The only problem right now is the Coywolf being the goat mobile.

     

    12 hours ago, Connor said:

    1 - How can you say the 4x4 Vegas is 'somewhat meh'? It is undeniably in the top 3 vehicles in overall strength for missions and I would personally put it ahead of the Pioneer in 2nd.

     

    2 - They very clearly didn't say 'all vehicles need to be equal', just that there needs to be a rebalancing to bring some vehicles that have been left behind in terms of overall strength - e.g. Mikro, Vaquero - closer into line with the other more recent releases (e.g. Coywolf).

     

    I thought this is a really positive change as vehicle variety is low in this game. 

     

    My issue is the HP nerf of the vehicles, what I said about bullet sponges I mean about people, not vehicles, I think a vehicle being difficult to destroy using bullets, for 1 or 2 people, giving it a chance to run is a good balance in APB, that also is complimented by the fact that you can't shoot the driver through the window.

     

    The old balance allowed cars like Vegas to take an osmaw hit and possibly give the driver time to exit if he's faster than his enemy, now with HB most vehicles (not even Pioneer? correct me if I'm wrong) won't take an osmaw anyway, that's also my beef and why I said Vegas is kinda meh because it's still a good choice, but it's plastic like a Bishada.

     

    Not to mention AV guns, especially ALIG, now eat through vehicles like butter, the concept is great, but this is too much

     

    Lastly, yes, Mikro and possibly Vaquero need a reasonable buff, maybe HP buff, I think that's the difference between our views, I'd like to see a buff to them, not a nerf to bring the other vehicles closer to their level

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  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, BlatMan said:

    - New Car: I want to say the new vehicle and tweaking the existing vehicles will be a good thing, but I doubt it will be done right going by previous balance attempts.

     

    - Hosting Upgrade #2: Sounds like cancer. More loading screens. Longer matchmaking time due to loading screen. More random disconnects due to switching districts. Lower performance over time due to switching districts. Less interactions with other players due to constantly switching districts and never having the same players in the same district.

     

    - Anti-Griefing Options / Streamer Mode: Why? Part of APB is getting randomly hit by a dump truck. How about having your moderators do their job for the edge cases.

     

    - Vivox Reintegration: Good. We need a voice system.

     

    - Premium Revamp: Other games implement the same thing. and it doesn't work. Cheaters don't care about a paywall. All this will do is split the community into two queues, or everyone will join the free queue so there's no wait times.

     

    - Player vs Environment (PVE) Missions: Meh. If I wanted to verse the environment I'd play another game.

    I agree with a lot of this, not sure if most people also, haven't read all the replies tbh

     

    - New Car: Vehicles and Heavy burn fuel "balance" is very terrible, I have empty vehicle mod slots and a bunch of HB sitting in inventory, I still use 4x4 Vegas, but now it's somewhat meh, your (LO) idea of balance seems to be nerfing everything to casual players and bullet sponges, which is exactly the opposite of what attracts players to APB's combat, and now to think all vehicles need to be equal sounds even worse, they're not guns, they're tiered.

    With that in mind, looking forward to see and design a new car, but not to drive it in missions.

     

    On new contact, sounds like it won't bring new content, if it's just old weapons, hopefully new mods, and hopefully, radio tower will finally be brought back.

     

    - Hosting Upgrade #2: This can seriously affect the playerbase negatively, if it is done in the manner the roadmap describes, and if it's released segment by segment, it will kill the open map and world/player interaction of APB and replace it with a "match based session" like in DOTA or such games, I see it breaking the game flow and replacing it with a bunch of loading screens, meaning even the social aspects such as customization will be worth far less.

     

    - Anti-Griefing Options / Streamer Mode: This goes well with the previous point, it's part of APB identity and what I love about it (on the long term, not in the moment), will vehicles pass through eachother if players are not in the same mission? I think occasional and accidental negative interaction with other players is a good thing, it's part of the unfairness and how you handle it, what I agree with, is abusing this to ruin missions insistently should be punished, but this isn't an ESports game afterall.

     

    - Vivox Reintegration: Is there a chance this can be used to stream imported music in game?

    - Xbox and Playstation Ports of 1.30: Don't consoles now support mouse and keyboard too? I think the matchmaking should differentiate according to mouse / keyboard, not hardware, also, maybe PC should support controllers too

    - Premium Revamp: Sounds reasonable, toxic but justifiable, but I doubt it would work

    - Player vs Environment (PVE) Missions: This is not worth the investment and the time, no one wants APB for PVE, there will always be better games at that, and APB actually aces other, AAA games when it comes to PVP, don't change focus, it will flop like Battle Royale, but taking a lot bigger investment.

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