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They said they will basically unban 99% of currently banned players once they introduce BE (next big patch)

Happy birthday @SKay... oh wait. Good to see you back I suppose. Why were you even banned to begin with? I've heard the most ridiculous things but I'm still up for another shocker ( :^) )

possibly allowed/10 i guess i like little orbit so far so i'd give you a perfect 5/7

which server? when i played on citadel the other day it was completely fine and the issues with jericho seem to have started (again) yesterday if i saw correctly, i haven't heard/seen complaints on the days before

Tbh I expected Defqon.1 and not Qlimax xd Can't say I listened to Hardstyle in a long time but that voice lmao Just classic innit xd

neat - but this is gigantic, cheesy crust.

Most of this was posted in another thread by me already but probably the wrong section (was more about issues there) - Please add spoilers again - the hover/mark black text to read kind or the normal expand/deflate ones like in the old forums (prefereably the latter for vids, gifs, big pics) I know, I know, your eyes bleed when having a bright theme but... While there are makeshift solutions, such as this :^) : Having an official light theme would be quite nice, especially also on mobile (which isn't too convenient to do yourself otherwise). Idk, I just prefer it a lot. Probably cause I'm used to books? Who knows.

I feel like this belongs to https://forums.gamersfirst.com/forum/7-game-forum-suggestions/ And I'd rather vote for a hidden one where people can't boast about + boost their ego with... Or where others are discouraged cause they see some highranks. Open Conflict felt nice in that regard. However the old one with announcement was quite baddass I gotta say xd Threat segregation only caused issues for APB. The old penalty-system - as in: get 20% or even less rewards when you play in lower districts used to work quite well unless people just wanted to farm weapon roles...

I did something: It's not perfect but might help. I added some other issues I encountered to the OP.

Isn't that just the same as before? Click "Quote", go down to the box, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, "Edit", Ctrl+V? Works for me. Was there an easier way in the old forums xd (ye you could make custom quotes etc but you can do the same here in the editor - except name + timestamp)

Reshade changes the shaders (not in the files I think but also by injection - both might be an issue, injection might be worse). They said something about this: Q: [Custom] Shaders and certain configs, will they be allowed back into APB? A: I feel like that this would be a super slippery slope, to say we’re gunna allow custom shaders or changes to the game. Now having said that, I do think we need to make these options available in the game, we need to put them in. We need to allow players to change the colour of the crosshair for low accessibility, and low processing reasons (Editorial: He meant low processing power.). That’s something that we should be putting in. While we appreciate the community doing the leg work, we feel it should come from our side, because it’ll not only look better, it’ll come from us, it’ll work properly and won’t be flagged by our anti-cheat. It’s a slippery slope to say “sure, you can mess with the components of the game”. It seems like they don't mind themselves (unless), the anticheat might flag+ban you though. (And I honestly doubt support will help you more than once then.) They'll see what they can implement themselves etc., I guess.

You can always ignore them, this mutes their themes In general though... uhhh... ye same. Would be nice if there was an option to disable those. Probably would take a bit away from the game, would be sad (if it wasn't for the single note "troll" ones) but ye. If you also forbid advanced launcher/removing/moving subfolders of APB, I'd like to have the option to completely disable ingame videos, takes aways quite some load time Also: I feel like this rather belongs to https://forums.gamersfirst.com/forum/7-game-forum-suggestions/

Ye, I totally agree with you, just saying. You can't even click below a quote to continue writing if you delete a bit too much underneath by just holding backspace (atleast on mobile) Rather troublesome.

https://forums.gamersfirst.com/announcement/3-forum-rules/ "Do not bump a topic unless needed." It's been a day lul. I guess the title thing wasn't intended to begin with... I'd like to have a non-wysiwyg editor too though, although it doesn't have to be BBCode specifically, just saying. Bumps weren't condoned in the old forums either... (Just a headsup, no offense. Count it as another bump xd) Also: Spoilers I said it in another thread, I mis s them

Ah yes, I guess i'll make an own thread for this: A more customizable version of the preset is close to the theme Tobii made - but: You can do "atrocious" things like this to make your eyes bleed: Or pretty + aesthetic things like this! Download: https://userstyles.org/styles/160572/apb-forum-minimal-customizable (You need Stylish, which is available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Android (and various other Chromium and Mozilla based browsers)) Some things might look weird with some colors because of the layout of the forums. I did not add pickers all different things (I bet), if you encounter issues, let me know and I'll get on them right away. I did not remove all shadows yet but made some improvements for consistency though (e.g. edit/quotebuttons). I'll remove some borders, shadows and add some more things to customized if people are interested. DISCLAIMER: Use at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage you might do to your eyes. Customization is done here, after pressing the encircled button: Finally you can have something that fits the best Discord theme!

Doing the unforgivable sin but actually doubleposting: I added a bit for the edit/quotebar now too, the buttons are not white anymore. Just added .ipsItemControls > ul > li > a, .ipsItemControls > button Ah damn, how did you do that the website actually starts below the navbar? - Edit: nvm got it, easierr than expected

Oh Well yeah - that's what happens then Enjoy this screenshot:

It's not white though

Wha? Looks the same as Toobiis for if you leave it at default... Okay no, I broke something with the quote buttons since i wanted to make them gray instead of white (the bar has the same color now) Fixed now

I created a customizable version of this (for light/more colorful versions): https://userstyles.org/styles/160572/apb-forum-minimal-customizable You can also choose own images as background... (However since some elements don't have a default background set and I ahd to make some changes it might mess up some small things)

no, it is most definitely not religious - the temple symbol is the other way around. (and putting a black swastika in a white circle with red stuff around it definitely is not related to any religion) (unless you want to argue nazis are kind of a cult) i'm german too and to me swastikas are okay in videogames. and unless they are there just to offend others (unlike wolfenstein or some historical games) they should always be allowed. which is obviously subjective - and i feel there has to be a line of good taste somewhere - would it be okay to allow people to shout "gas the jews" too? as i said, drawing a line somewhere, and i guess. it's not like they forbid "jedem das seine" which had a long history before it was instrumentalized by the nazis. maybe noone ingame would care about nazi symbols either - but it would definitely create a bad image for apb/LO - buzzfeed headlines such as "family friendly game dev endorses nazi propaganda" xd

This is not limited to console gamers, don't act like that lol

This. And that aside, there are also so many useless drops for people who actually spent lots of money on armas already - should they be "punished" for that? I'm not talking about not giving any duplicates, then you could just drop Legendaries from every box - but maybe reducing the odds of them. or add increasing odds like Dota 2? (if that's not a thing yet) Revealing the odds would be a good move - people will still gamble (-> CS:GO gambling sites) Adding trials via JT would be a good move Or giving people a choice of one untradeable one once they reach 255, idk Add more cosmetic (exclusive?) stuff (the ideas from quote sound good) Add free ingame lootboxes with way worse chances as random rewards (mb with stuff like few jt/apb$ etc) I'm glad you don't make legendaries generally untradeable. However... taking EA as an example doesn't seem too good I guess you do you. Just listing some ideas from other games (that you may be aware of though)

My point was they they are not VAC bans but Game Bans, noone mentioned the name - And it was mostly clarification about which effects both Game Bans and VAC bans can have. Tbf, idk why I added your quote... >Whoops, Sorry

Those are called Game Bans: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6899-IOSK-9514 Quote from there: (In all VAC protected games there are also none VAC servers that you can always play on.) The issue here is that APB doesn't have any kind of offline stuff - I guess they could do it like "limit to social"? Not sure. I don't think Steam would agree to this. That's something LO would have to figure out - and even then, Steam is rather indecisive at times, maybe they'd revert their decision. (And then again they could just annoy people in social etc. I guess they could make a cheat-district, that should be fine.) If it's not gonna be displayed on the profile etc. I think LO could do whatever they want though and just ban based on the Steam ID (not URL/Name, you have an unique identifier that you can't change) Wouldn't stop people from rerolling though. Creating a new Steam account is just as easy as doing a new G1 one... It might only scare people away from cheating on their mains. I guess that would be good? HWID bans were already in place with PB and will probably see a return with BE - issue is that they probably won't help much. Many cheats - no matter which game - include a HWID changer and even spoofing it "manually" should be no problem. I guess it would help against macro users who just use their mouse software or smth similar - and have no idea what they are doing but want to get an advantage - somehow. (I think FF had a similar system? Not sure if they actually were like normal HWID bans but there you go. Issueing temporary IP bans (since most people have a dynamic one these days anyway) could help too - but yeah, 24h and they'd have a new one (or less if they just reset their connection...))