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  1. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    plz no generic titles

     

    plz no threads with questions that have been already asked/answered yesterday where you decide to be stubborn and ignoring every answer

     

    we've had previews of riot already - the eventmode with the 3 territories/factions that capture barrels. and that was a far cry from normal battle royale. and while you might hate the craze (as much as i do) it still drives in huge amount of players.

     

    and obviously they are working on the engine upgrade and fixing the game. they said they'd release that on a not too far away date and already have tests with actual players - far more than g1 ever achieved. those already confirmed progress but also evident flaws that need to be attended.

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  3. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    5 minutes ago, Monstr324 said:

    You caught my thought! Yes, there will be a transfer of characters, But they will transfer a pittance of money, which many players simply will not have enough to buy weapons at auction. The transfer will take place and people will leave = (I think no one will like such news when they were expecting a transfer, and during transfer they will run naked with a standard weapon ...

    idk how this sounds but maybe they could do the transfer as currently planned but with some compensation.

    like e.g. 2 3-slot/preset weapon selectors, 1 secondary selector, 1 4-slot/preset car selectors, 1 clothing kit selector, 30 days of premium

    or like just 4000 g1c plain or something (issue here would be e.g. with joker boxes that would inflate yet again - especially with multiaccounting).

    (watch others become upset that russians get something free)

    (or watch players that bought a lot become upset that others get stuff free too)

     

    this definitely sounds better than the other 2 current alternatives of no merge/merge with no items.

     

    i don't feel like it's perfect in any way.

     

    i honestly have no idea if the current issue also is that they *couldn't* transfer the characters as-is because of data discrepancies that they can't fix easily or that innova had broken items etc that they can't easily filter and just don't want to allow (reasonable too)

     

    ideally they'd just get the data from innova.

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  4. Posted

    1 minute ago, Monstr324 said:

    Realy, why can not you just transfer all the current information by adding a weapon filter which is not in the assortment of Citadel? Sogodsen, that many players got weapons from joker boxes for free thanks to connections with the administration, but not everyone had such connections! But to deprive the players of all their purchases is a bit too much ... It looks difficult, but it’s not difficult how to update Anrial to version 3.5! Add a weapon filter, a currency filter, and a game nickname filter ...

    ye it doesn't sound hard to me either - in theory

     

    in practice... i doubt the data in apb is saved very consequently and i guess filtering just isn't that easy - in this case.

    i honestly doubt that LO would otherwise go this way, they seem like a reasonable company.

    they obviously don't wanna lose players, which is why they merge the servers in the first place - and it's pretty obvious that players are not happy and will leave. i bet they are trying but if everything fails... playing with your weapons alone isn't gonna be much fun either.

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  5. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    17 minutes ago, Lign said:

    Did you contact Innova for database? Most people will just stop playing if you don't transfer innova purchases. I'm pretty sure most people didn't even buy any gun after migration from innova

    UPD

    I'm blind

    ye he said that plenty of times

     

    idk issue probably is that innova had way lower prices to begin with and also shelled out a lot of stuff for free - and had some corrupt gms that exploited their positions and gave out items/took them

     

    ofc i think they should still keep most of their inventories - but those also include a bunch of weapons we never had.

     

    i'd imagine the database during a transfer might be hard to filter considering how the data might be saved.

    and it probably would way much more feasible to filter a list of purchases and grant those items to the players again - so they'd

    a) only have the items they actually rightfully got

    b) only have the items that are normally available

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  7. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    5 hours ago, LovelyJasmine said:

    Too many people abused the gifting system in bugs and exploits to get what they wanted costing the company time and money to deal with these acts. It takes only a group of people to ruin it for the rest of us. I know numerous of people who wanted to gift after it was taken down. S A D~
    I think the only way is if it's linked to steam you can buy them a steam gift for steam wallet and they can use that to buy stuff from ARMAs Marketplace. I am not sure about the other cards and transactions that work with ARMAs marketplace for trade for currency of G1C.

    there were no bugs, the only exploit was using stolen creditcards or using chargeback to get others banned (which they probably had to do or it'd get exploited to get "free" weapons...)

    there's no real fix for this except only allowing safe payment methods that don't allow any kind of chargebacks... which unfortunately limits the possibilities severely.

    alternatively they could remove the gifted items from said account after a chargeback or ask for the accountowner to pay for what was charged back

    the former would still have issues since it increases the workload but also allows players to get weapons "free" temporarily without penalty. even a 3 strike rule wouldn't solve this longterm. maybe those players could somehow proof it wasn't them (close to impossible in age of vpns etc) but it would still create room for exploitation

    the latter would mean holding the account as hostage for something you might've not even wanted and would still leave the same room for exploitation - scamming people out of their money instead of the account

     

    a voluntary opt-in gift system where you agree to take responsibility in case of chargebacks seems another reasonable thing but watch people complain about the company anyway if they get fucked because they weren't careful enough

     

    removing the gift system was probably best quick solution that completely got rid of all problems - whilst sacrificing own sales. which is a quite fair move.

     

    but yes, gift them money on paypal or steam instead

     

     

  9. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    All hail MOVVOM

    19 minutes ago, Nanometic said:

    The only other thing I found last night that stuck out was some coordinates within the HTML source, could be nothing though.

     

    WafX5To.jpg

     

     

    80D0TKU.jpg

    the hidden message here is "CBA ATM"

    which are two very common abbreviations to say they didn't go further with the arg yet

     

    (jk sorry)

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, ZHER0X said:

    ACES cant kill on 0.72 or 0.63 in game on more 5 meters need 1 or 2 seconds in real combat (try this weapons on armas) c9 need 8 hits to kill cbmp too, aces need 14  :V

     

    please try play whit ACES without mods test it

    c9 is an oca reskin/mesh

    cbmp is a pmg reskin/mesh

     

    the shots to kill don't matter, it's the ttk - and while min ttk is a bad measurement, the aces definitely can compete on average too, it could just use some tweaking.

    i'd say... small range increase (small enough to not destroy actual midrange weapons) could be reasonable and mild reload speed increase seems very reasonable

    (the rifle is in an okay spot already - i wouldn't call it the op version though xd)

    mag size seems fine as it is though.

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  12. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    7 hours ago, RCooper said:

    the moirai is a copy of a bmw it gonna look definitely better in the moirai rather than in the kalvan

    no, the moirai is definitely more of a chrysler 300 (2005?) or maybe an audi a4 (2003)

    (looking at it again, it's closer to an a4 to me, i couldn't think of a close bmw tho)

    not like any of this matters tho

     

    also it maybe looking better to you wasn't really the point, the shape of the ravan is objectivly better fitting (especially rearwise)

    there are plenty of kits for the moirai and it isn't even a bad car to begin with too - and the (to me minor) issues should rather be fixed than just having a fixed version of it

    also ye the moirai is not much bigger than the ravan.

     

     

    i'd personally love to see kits for the "lower tier" cars/anything to make them viable again... but all of them probably wouldn't sell well. no matter if ravan or moirai. coywolf probably wasn't too bad considering it's probably the best "fast" 4seater out there

    (not having an accountbound version made it not a good purchass to me tho)

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  16. Posted

    3 hours ago, ExcessiveForce1 said:

    What an absolutely horrible decision, on all fronts.

     

    We thought we were done with the anti-consumer decisions that were continuously made by Gamersfirst.

     

    Apparently not.

    "on all fronts" ye, the decision to move you to a populated server so you can continue playing with others is the worst smh

  17. Posted

    On 3/3/2019 at 11:24 AM, TheSxW said:


    @Eixo propably IP adress in 2 jumps (so we grab 3 ip adresses) + hwid of hardware CPU/GPU/DRIVES/MAC Adress/CD ROM (i will do that if i will made an game with anticheat)
    @MattScott

    can't delete those annoying @ mentions on mobile

    anyway

    this is probably the worst advice ever. using ip hops for bans is the equivalent of banning someone based on their isp.

    you'd end up banning whole neighborhoods - that might work in a small town but imagine doing that to a big city, lol

    hwid is probably the weakest ban system ever - it's better than none but even if you don't spoof it just for the client, spoofing it for the whole system is one of the easiest tasks for cheat providers/coders in general - i guess it would help against those with AHK crutches - but even then, they are not the biggest issue

     

    Removed quoted content. ~@mayii

  18. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    it's definitely more than nothing - which we currently get

     

    but eh... i'd say... sounds good? but rather maybe JT (since JMBs give JT already) and they could tune them better since JT don't inflate the market - like: apb-prices 2-3x higher would certainly be more attractive but lead to apb$ being worth much less.

    2 hours ago, zyde said:

    100 trial guns of 5 days is 50k $

    I wouldn't say it's useless. It is a decent number for the average player.

    that would mean you'd have spent 100$ for 50k ingame... which would be ridiculous, since that's less than a 2slot car. (right?) i for one wouldn't be really happy about that. but ye, as explained above...

  19. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    10 hours ago, KAM1KA3 said:

    Я не понял, все покупки в Армасе Инновы, созданные символы и джинглы исчезнут?

    yes

    2 hours ago, i1Ly said:

    Главное, чтобы при переносе персонажей на Цитадель были сохранены предметы, купленные в Армасе на персонажей Некровы.

    those (from *nekrova*) will be transferred (as in the one you made on LO Armas, not Innova Armas) - this has been said in OP

    1 hour ago, i1Ly said:

    Если исчезнут, то это будет прекрасное подтверждение того, что в России могут быть только лохализации, призванные не дать играть на официальных зарубежных серверах (или отвлечь внимание от них), чтобы потом кинуть на русских.

    those from *innova* will be not, since they offered e.g. osmaw 3slot and various imbalanced things and apparently that can't be filtered...

     

    kinda sad with symbols and ingame money (but as i remember, innova also had GMs that exploited their status and just gave out stuff?)

  20. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    13 minutes ago, -Dan- said:

    "Russia against homophobia when?...Never" is not a fact, you're implying they are not fighting against it

    Eh, you could argue he meant Russia as a nation - as in, their official stance - not russians as its citizens in general.

    This obviously would be quite unlikely and pointing out the difference in wording is quite anal - but obviously the politics in Russia have lots of support by its citizens and thus you could say the official stance does have quite a meaning for the country in general.

    This is definitely related to lots of propaganda - but this still doesn't make Russia a less homophobe place to be in.

    1 hour ago, -Dan- said:

    They love ruining the game for everyone on Citadel, bunch of griefers and hackers

    I'm not even joking, if Nekrova gets merged with Citadel then the situation will get even worse

    Sure, all of them.

    Except that they made and make up a big part of the EU servers population for quite some time - since early Patriot days. Region locks are ridiculous.

  21. Posted

    designs being blurry is probably due to you setting lower texture quality/resolution or probably because of enabling compression? try disabling those

    not sure about the character issue

  22. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    On 2/27/2019 at 12:13 AM, NickYoung said:

    csg, jg, all shotguns before the strife shotty was 85 damage output up close and personal. Can anyone else quote me on this? I've played this game for a very long time I know my shotties. And JG does not have 75 damage output its 65 just like csg and tas20s. The csg and tas20s at least have a better spread control than the JG. First and foremost get your facts straight. 

    thankfully we have a really outdated version of apbdb from october 2014.

    http://apbdb.com/items/Weapon_Shotgun_JG_Slot3/

    it says damage: 12x60 there. if we calculate that... we get 720 damage. considering a player has 1000 hp, that's 72 damage for you.

     

    csg on the other hand

    http://apbdb.com/items/Weapon_Shotgun_CSG_Slot1_Armas/

    used to have 29x21 damage, that's 609 - or as you'd say, 61.

     

    both had same range/dropoff, but JG was much more inaccurate  (85 vs 132cm at 10m range), as you said.

     

    there current stats for comparison are here:

    https://db.apbvault.net/items/Weapon_Pistol_Showstopper_PR1_ArmasJB

    https://db.apbvault.net/items/Weapon_Shotgun_JG_Slot3

    https://db.apbvault.net/items/Weapon_Shotgun_CSG_Slot1_Armas

     

    (linking slotted versions so you can put mods in to test the actual stats - barely anyone uses unmodded shotguns and a comparison might not be fair this way. IR3 is basically standard)

     

    On 2/27/2019 at 12:43 AM, NickYoung said:

    I mean just try it out yourself in the game and get back to me on this because no one wants to read a bunch of data like that. Give me personal experienced feedback not just data please. The shotguns need a buff that's just plain and simple and I feel like the people who think they're overpowered are people who have not used the gun or uses it as their primary (which I try to) 

    stop giving me valid, objective data! i need subjective statements! okay, the jg used to do one-shots, very op, 85m range from my experience.

     

    do you prefer this? how does this prove anything more? have you ever done anything close to scientific work? not like you'd have to to understand that saying "nuh-uh, i think it's better hence you are wrong" is proper nonsense.

     

    On 2/27/2019 at 12:38 AM, NickYoung said:

    The showstopper has a faster fire rate than a shotty which makes that balanced. And how you use that gun is the same way you use a shotgun which is to take cover and pop when the enemy is there. Out in the open of course you'll get overrun by a pmg or oca or nfas etc etc. What is RNG?? Do you mean hit reg? The shotgun is meant to be used in close quarters but its also designed to be a 2 shot kill so why do we need to try our hardest to attain that? Your dexterity has to be at max level to make a 2 shot kill with a shotty unless your target just stays still. And I have the showstopper and it works like a quick shotty with more range and way better hit reg because the spread is too dam good on it. I can get a 3 shot kill from 25meters away. That applies same thing with shotties 25 meters away gives you 3 shot kill... Do you see where I'm getting at? The showstopper has a faster fire rate but kills in 3 shots 25 meters away (Alot more accurate than shotties) The shotgun has slower fire rate and also kills 3 shots 25 meters away. Ummmmmm YO BUFF THE SHOTGUNS! 

    So what is this proving right now?

    RNG means random number generator. you say that, when something is... well, random. in relation to shotguns, they probably meant that the spray is random (instead of fixed sprays) - which is actually the case.

     

    that being said... the showstopper is a bit better at slightly higher ranges than the actual primary shotguns. which is kinda of ridiculous? i guess? it is a bit harder to hit at closer ranges though - and it does get outclassed by other weapons at those ranges - but yeah, there is room for some tweaking. the primary shotguns are in a very fair spot rn though (could probably use a mild buff again though - especially the csg?)

     

    but: JESUS WEPT could you PLEASE stop triple-posting & quoting yourself (there is an edit button) - and start using SOME paragraphs? also think (for a sec at least) or at least google if you actually don't know something and think you could be right because you feel so? and learn to argue/discuss properly? also jeez, your posts are annoying too read.

  23. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    5 hours ago, Yood said:

     

    the competence of this comment is simply amazing .

    You've chosen to ignore content by Yood. Options 

     

    not being able to quote doesn't show much competence lul

     

    and he's right lol, even that cheat of the mythical sheep-esque guy counldn't change the weaponaccuracy and had to rely on accuracy checks (as seen in his featurelist)

     

    but obviously arguments don't work against you

  24. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    i haven't noticed apb died fast under g1 -

    i bet they could've milked it for some more years - of course with more deteriorating servers and playercount (comms and updates were already beyond the point where they could've deteriorated anymore) but still

     

    they are listening, they are working on the game.

     

    this is the first time i've heard someone hackusate someone for JUMPSHOOTING though LMAO

    and if you believe that takes hacks uhh... lol

  25. Posted · Edited by neophobia

    43 minutes ago, _chain said:

    How about an FOV slider in the options menu behind a ''UI'' option? Instead of having to fiddle around with the keyboard shortcuts. And the HUD and UI need a rework to modern standards.

     

    Depending on the resolution the elements are either crammed and taking a good chunk of screen space or awkwardly far away and distributed along the borders of the screen.

    the cramming is even worse if you have 21:9 screen, you basically have an "empty" screen in the middle and gotta look into the corners for info, that are much more out of normal vision.

     

    guess they don't take too much screenspace though xd

     

    i guess they also get smaller depending on the resolution - they are quite small for me (3440x1440 (uwqhd)) but idk. any ability for customization is appreciated.

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