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  1. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    3 hours ago, -Dan- said:

    Yeah but I don't think that the celebrations in-game are related in any way to the reborn of Jesus either

    i dont think bunnies and eggs are too related to jesus either

     

    i guess they fuck a lot and get born?

    all about the symbolism, sure

    especially lindt chocolate bunnies

     

    why do you paint eggs though

     

    why would you expect a 4 slot car or a permanent weapon from a simple event tho

    like when has this been the case ever

    which other f2p game throws that kinda stuff after you

  4. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    On 4/3/2019 at 4:57 PM, APB2012 said:

    Could you maybe post updates to this thread too please?  Not all of us are a fan of censorship Social media.  I dont do twitter personally, but I have enjoyed this mmorpg for years, and want to know whats coming, but not at the cost of giving twitter my info to sell.

    don't even want to go there - but what in your opinion is really getting censored there?

     

    btt: actually excited about the rework of fallen earth too, i've always wanted to try but felt like it was quite dead anyway... maybe this'll change.

  7. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    On 4/4/2019 at 11:04 AM, NotZombieBiscuit said:

    That's kinda racist.

    that implies that russians are a race. hence that you believe that races are a thing. thus, you actually are a racist. :^)

    On 4/4/2019 at 11:10 AM, VanilleKeks said:

    Russian is not a race, so it's not racist. It is however a xenophobic statement. Tune in next time on "Learning with Keks".

    someone was quicker but not with the allegations. fuck.

  8. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    not a new idea, this has been brought up tremendous amounts on the old forums - what's next, zombies, motorcycles, helicopters, planes, horses, housing or pets? xd

     

    jk

     

    adding a skateboard as an orange mod seems kinda cool and fun but you couldnt expect like tony hawk level stunts... plus it might cause issues since you could probably reach spots you shouldn't be able to.

     

    making anything a safezone on the map seems quite unreasonable, since right now everything outside a mission is a safezone anyway except for n/p 5s and ramraiders. if you made it a safezone and e.g. made ppl lose n/p 5 or lose their collected money, it'd effectively make the map smaller, since you couldnt use it during most activities. 

    plus, if people chilled there and skated around, they might also occupy the slots in a district so matchmaking could get worse.

    guess this would get solved by phasing.

     

    maybe skating should be a social only thing. in a few years - sadly there are other priorities surrounding the basegame and adding features to social... seems a bit off right now.

     

    however, i bet there are some difficulties to implementing skateboarding. have you ever seen that in any other open world game (except dedicated skating games lul)? not even gta has them... idk what that would be but... seems like something to think about.

    (i do remember them in an mmorpg - archeage, lol. but i guess mmorpgs are a bit different lul)

     

    even if it was in districts and even an orange mod, i guess it'd take quite some more development than your avaerage new content - and it wouldnt add too much

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  9. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    4 hours ago, SirVilla said:

    We also had that, or it was only for some of them to kill even more than now,
    I'll be sheltered, sorry then.
    then you disces that removing all restrictions for everyone to enter any server is a good idea? reducing the amount of money you earn or increasing it according to server uploads or download it? I do not know, I doubt that someone enters a gold server anyway, a bronze filled with gold is more fun to see that.

    dethreating is always a thing - right now you don't get discouraged.

    yeah, reducing money gained was a thing before - but imo not drastic enough.

     

    idk, having boundaries that can get circumvented by dethreating is not solving much. adding incentives to not dethreat/giving people, who would otherwise dethreat an alternative sounds more reasonable.

    or preventing dethreating as a whole by e.g. matchmaking by using max threat ever gained - maybe with deterioration over time, while keeping the actual threat as it is. (not ideal, obviously. sounds like one solution though)

     

    but no - the action to take right now is sit back and relax while they introduce phasing first and seeing if it's already solved then.

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  11. Posted

    4 minutes ago, SirVilla said:

    1: gold server: only for gold and silver.
    2: silver server: only for silver and bronze.
    3: Bronze server: only for bronzes and greens.
    4: green server: initiation or tutoring for new players
    I think this would not make people so elitist.
    but to be giving a bad suggestion, but I think that would solve the current problem,
    If you are gold, you go to a gold server to play against your rivals do not abuse, of course the servers are always empty, it is not difficult to fill them

    worse idea than what g1 implemented by introducing even more limits (downwards)

     

    threat segregation was actually tested (gold+below in gold, silver+below in silver, bronze+below in bronze) by g1 - and they lost quite an amount of players back then.

     

    reasonable solutions would be reducing money gain and removing weapon role gain if you are in a lower district - so you could play with your friends, if need be.

     

    however, they are working on server-wide matchmaking through phasing which will also improve matchmaking by a margin

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, AlishaAzure said:

     

    I wanted to explain this but i was to much sleepy, anyway.. the thing is i would like to see something similar to SWAT, not only armored.. like real helmets with special armored glass protection in front of the character face and stuff like that, example > GH-Armor-Riot-Helmet-TAC2.png?fit=500,453&ssl=1

    okay, that's one thing we don't have.

    i mean, if you take a look at e.g. wildlands, there is a bazillion different militaresque gear out there - and it get's super specific. riot helmets sound kinda cool but beyond that, i couldn't think of much that we don't already have a similar option to.

    maybe a riot shield on the back, like the skateboards/radios? xdxd

  14. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    14 hours ago, Memes said:

    https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/

    EDIT: @MattScott can you tell us what kind of DDOS it is?

    they've been using cloudflare for years

    (not sure if they use spectrum tho)

    45 minutes ago, Yood said:

     70 % do not want to buy premium because of unstable servers in the first place .

    interesting arbitary number.

    80% proceed to hit their forehead with the palm of their hands when reading certain posts on the forums.

    23 hours ago, Sadira said:

    You've been told, multiple times, in your thread about the EU even, that it's being worked on. You could even look at the blog post that was posted over a week ago with the progress of it.

    Some people just can't read or process and comprehend what they are reading

     

    (hey he even misspelled the name DESPITE the forums actually providing name suggestions once you type @)

  15. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    2 hours ago, JunoSuzuki said:

    Can't we just find out who and where these Ddos guys are? Is there rly no wae? I know it is far from easy but i just wanna know if possible.

    ye, just do it.

    this isn't just some kid running LOIC on his gaming pc. those would be caught within hours. do you think they wouldn't act if there was an easy/good solution?

     

    afaik they were actually working with fbi (think matt dropped that, tiggs back in the days too)

     

    it's probably impossible - currently - since anonymization with various networks is way too safe, easy and proof, they might just use crypto to rent a booter, those use slaves all over the world that they acquired one way or the other and they'd use some anonymous hosting for their control servers/clients, have multiple layers...

    certain organizations might be able to shutdown parts of a botnet - but determining who is behind all that and who their clients are even...

    if you just find the owners of the botnet (that might live in different countries too) you don't really gain anything. even if those were stopped, there are different botnets that could be used instead. it's most likely near impossible to see who they did transactions with and get the culprit who "hired" them.

     

    i guess it's much like a contract killer - you don't find the guy who hired them by catching the contract killer but by inspecting people who held grudges etc - for a videogame that seems quite impossible, especially when they banned masses of people. and then there are those that just do it for fun.

     

    the only real way to deal with this is more mitigation and filtering.

     

    steam has their network opened to developers now and could be used to obfuscate their server addresses and thus deal with the DDoS to a degree.

     

    maybe they'll implement that, would actually be pretty good

  17. Posted

    6 hours ago, MartinPL said:

    They promised they would give us a new anti-cheat to replace BattlEye. They did, very shortly after taking over as new owners.

    They did not, they added BattlEye.

    We had no client-sided AC before. (Except PunkBuster years ago) People cried for it - and BattlEye is the best in the industry - albeit intrusive - yet people still whine.

     

    They promised to replace FF since it was flawed. They disabled FF so far. Okay-ish move if you ask me. (Though I was never affected by false-positives or other unjustified manual bans)

    They said they are working on an in-house server-sided one.

    6 hours ago, MartinPL said:

    They promised they would complete the Engine Upgrade project. They are close to finishing it - and it took them five times less time than Reloaded Productions.

    They promised they would produce new content for the game. They gave us a new weapon and also a legendary variant of it, two gamemodes, one of them entirely unique, while still being limited by the old and cluttered engine, and also a community event that got about 200 people posting in a Discord channel dedicated to it.

     

    Please start looking at what is actually happening with the game instead of keeping to your pessimistic outlook.

    this though.

    RP probably didn't really work on it and when the EU will release is still in the stars - but they make actual, quite quick and big progress.

    The new weapon wasn't something too major - but they probably only used it to get a process defined and tested - which is very good.

    The gamemodes were nice albeit a bit clusterfucky.

    The ARG was quite impressive.

     

    What made me very happy was that they are working on balancing and changes - while admitting mistakes and acting upon them. (Though CSG was a bit overnerfed again :/)

    Also, they pretty much fixed shotgun hitreg.

     

    The lag isn't great but really, they are making progress and obviously care.

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  19. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    49 minutes ago, Gateron said:

    The thing is it does. There is a reason you get the accept agreements. They say them self that they scan your whole PC but don't collect any personal information. And you press accept with out giving a shit anyway 🙂

    however, this is not even the case. it said it stopped loading - and the e.g. the rivatuner files are even named hook. be just strictly blocks injection - something that anticheats have been doing since forever. means you can't use certain applications - but honestly not a big deal, it is very reasonable for mp games. ideally they'd have a whitelist but ye, injection is always an open door for cheats.

    blizzard e.g. completely blocks all

    injections/hooks for overwatch with no regard to any exceptions iirc

    not saying be doesn't scan your pc. but this right here is not related at all.

    1 hour ago, AlishaAzure said:

    I just tried to run both Riva and other regarded driver program running in background while opening APB, nothing happened, launcher / direct launch won't change, BE works fine for me, 0 files blocked.

    might even be the version you/they use if they e.g. check signatures

  20. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    1 hour ago, Mitne said:

    I mean if it appears en-masse it's indeed must be something on BE side.

    I just think BattleEye probably went full facist on scanning mode without informing LO.

    Dunno why it blocks RivaTuner and GPU drivers tho. - it shouldn't even consider checking Windows folder AND block files from there!

    it probably didn't check those just for the sake of it but they tried to inject (rivatuner seems very likely here)

    edit: ye it actually says hook in the filename lmao

     

    anticheat can always affect legit player. back in the days i used ahk to do music binds - ofc it blocks ahk, which is very reasonable.

    same here for some of those tools, they inject/hook apb - this is an entryway for cheats too. ofc BE should be able to distinguish and check checksums - they'd need to update their whitelists accordingly.

     

    as stated in other threads atiags is quite useless these days though and leaving it to load has 0 benefit

  21. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    43 minutes ago, MartisLTU said:

    Dunno, tho i know that some options like removing muzzle flash and smoke are not allowed .... whole Advanced launcher more or less can flag BE so there is risk. 

    Tho if you have good/decent PC i don't get it, why you even need to use Advanced launcher at all.. 

    they specifically stated that advanced launcher is currently allowed and an exception in battleye and thus all options should not lead to bans.

    however, they want to integrate those options into the client eventually - and with ue 3.5 it probably wouldn't be possible otherwise.

     

    removing fog/smoke is not an option that the advanced launcher provides.

    particle effects still tank fps (i7 8770k@5.1GHz, 1080ti (stock oc)) and limiting those via advanced launcher is quite reasonable.

    On 6/7/2018 at 9:05 PM, MattScott said:

    For clarification, players can still use the Advanced Launcher for the time being. The developer was generous to share the code so we could test and review it. We hope to incorporate many of these features directly into APB in the future.

    also this, probably isn't what this thread is about - the OP says it's not working, he's not actually just asking if it is allowed.

     

    BTT: at this point in time, advanced launcher still works (and is allowed) - did you place the files in the apbreloaded directory? it should look kinda like this

    BruKGjm.png

    (there are some more files in there, i just cut it short, main point is that APBGame (etc) and Advanced Launcher are in the same directory)

  24. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    2 hours ago, DreadDeadd said:

    what even is that?

     

    one of those ppl with a giant fetish (as in, being devoured by a giantess or smth)

    2 hours ago, a Pair of Socks said:

    Guys help, I cant even log out of the game

    I spawn inside the statue and I cant move.  I can look around and thats it

    dont lie

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