Misterff1

Jeez yood, what is your problem man? Why do you keep posting about literally the LEAST interesting and important stuff in apb? Don't you ever get tired of it? I sure do.

Good grief... the amount of posts that I can comprehend gets lower every week. May I recommend writing this stuff up when you are not angry? Because right now I have to try real hard to understand the language.

Yesterday I spent 15 dollars to get some jmb 3's... Got the nano after twelve attempts. I see no problem here

Well you got one here. I still stand by the fact that it's more balanced than it used to be. I can understand people calling it boring after a week though. In my opinion, however, that does not change my stance on how balanced it is. As for that off-topic stuff: yes, yes that is quite hilarious

Oh hey it's you again. Can you maybe stop posting nonsense all over the place? Also can you stop dethreating? Ktxhbai

I think more segregation or new player districts is not the way to handle this situation. You will only make population spread over more instances and you can bet your patootie that the toxics of this community will keep making new accounts to grief the newbies (the most childish thing you can do, but sadly a harsh reality here). Here's a different set of ideas: 1. Have a proper gameplay tutorial Right now we have a textwall tutorial, which does not work for humans in any part of their lives. If there is one thing I learned, it's that people just don't read. What we need is an opt-in step by step tutorial where you spawn into an area on your own with target practice and its own contact. You can then learn about contacts, pledging, joker tickets and gun types. You can also do a few example missions purely focussed on the mechanics. Then when you are done, you get to my next point: 2. Use cross-instance matchmaking This way, you can add a system where you initially only get matched against other low levels. HOWEVER, this should be optional. You should get the option to get matched against any level and after R30 or so this should be the only option. That way, you give new players some time and old players the option to get out of this filter (only a new char on the same account should simply not get the option in the first place). 3. Add an Elite:dangerous-like mentor system. In E:D, you can request a mentor ingame that can show you the ropes. Others can apply for this so they can then receive those requests. Imagine this in apb, where anyone R195+ can become a mentor and anyone below R50 can request one. Possible addition: mentor rating, to avoid trolls. In my opinion, these changes will help new players while uniting the playerbase, instead of dividing it.

Double post, you can ignore this one

Actually I think the changes so far were more than welcome and were not made by the same people who do the upgrades. There's no delays because of those changes. It's just that the code is a shitshow and always has been. It takes time. Give it some.

Well perhaps some specifics with weapons could do with minor tweaks, I agree, but looking at the overall change I feel like gameplay has improved significantly

Not sure if those range fixes have come in yet, but I was playing again yesterday and had an absolute blast! Many people complain about the shotsguns in particular, but I really do not see the problem. From my experience,there is a lot more balance in types of weapons used and I felt the need to swap to different styles to stay relevant in a match more often than before. To me, that sounds like striking a good balance! Also to those saying they get fed up with getting shot so quickly from closeby...yah that is what shotguns tend to (and should) do. How about moving further away? That you easily keep you from, you know, dying.

Seriously, you disgust me. How on earth can a person feel so entitled that they ram these demands down the throats of people trying hard to fix a game older than yourself? Fuck you man. Piss off and don't come back.

Thread should've ended here. This is EXACTLY how it is.

Okay while I agree you see this a lot, it is not actually always like this. I am a silver myself, but I am not some dumb smart who's running in blindly or has tunnel vision. My aim is meh, my weapon usage is not perfect and game sense depends on the day I am playing, really. The rest simply does not apply to me. So what does that make me then? I am still technically a silver, yknow...

No I get that, but new players do not know this and even if they do, they need to put in far more effort than a rank 195+ player. No matter how you look at it, it is unfair

Okay one more thing for you.. you say you have all the latest drivers installed, but did you also perform a clean install of them? I specifically mean this: -uninstall/roll back affecting drivers -Delete driver packages that automatically restores the updated drivers -manually reinstall drivers through official channels (e.g. NVIDIA Geforce Experience or Intel support website). Solved many issues for me in the past that seemed tied to a specific game. Oh and one more things: are you sure the game uses the 1070 and NOT the internal graphics?

To be honest, we need a new launcher anyway. It's crap from the very beginning. I recall sending Jotunblut a message many years ago offering to make a new one for free, which they could then tie into their own systems. It was a no from him, sadly.

At rank 195, you suddenly get access to mods such as spotter, which really give you an edge if you play it right. This kind of end game material is cool and all, but extremely frustrating to lower lvl players

Okay I will add my two cents to this conversation... First of all, let me say that I do not wish to be regarded as racist. I appreciate everyone's input and enjoyment in games very much, regardless of where you are from and what language you speak. With that said... using native languages in a game filled with people from all over the world IS a problem. Not really when someone simply cannot speak English (lets be honest, this is simply the most universally understood language in the world), but definitely when people can. A few examples to illustrate the issue: 1. Dutch swearing Last week I played apb and there were two seriously toxic players talking in the global chat. When confronted, they switched to the Dutch language and said "stomme kuthoer" and tons of similar phrases after that. In case you don't understand that... Good on you. It basically means stupid nice lady (gotta love the filter. You know what I mean), which is of course not meant to be constructive. It is meant to talk crap about someone without them understanding it. 2. Russian chat By now it's been years since this happened, but it stuck to me because it showed the problem quite well. I was playing JC2-MP and a couple of people were talking russian to each other. I politely asked them what the conversation was about, because I couldn't understand them but given the situation I kinda needed to know. The reply was "you stupid american. We talk our language if we want to idiot" and then they went on with their business. Well... Alrighty then. First of all I am not an american, so thanks for that shortsighted assumption, but second of all I kinda need to know what this is about. No response...well actually there waa a response in russian. A not very polite one as you can imagine. 3. We love to bash people Not sure what language it was, but at some point I asked them why they chose to speak their native language in an English server. Their very honest response: "we just love to bash people without them knowing xD" In case you don't see the pattern yet: over many years I experienced native language in international chat for only two reasons: 1. To ridicule people or swear at them 2. To communicate with a friend only. The first one is blatantly stupid as I am sure everyone can agree with. The second one has a bloody simple solution: use pm's, team chat, group chat or a third party service like discord. I don't think we need LO to "solve" this as it is usually a small minority of players who do these things. However I do ask of people to understand that this has nothing to do with racism (at least not nearly in all cases). Please just respect others and show good will by using the appropriate language, whatever that might be. There are situations where other languages are required and that is fine. However, in APB English is the standard language. Please respect that if you can. Also: if people keep talking in their native language for either of the two reasons listed above, then yes, use the ignore feature.