Triksterism

Controversial but I think the matchmaking system is, by itself, actually good (as it is now). The problem that most people don't recognize is that it's a POPULATION issue not a system issue. Example: A full district is 80 people (40 E / 40 C), when you queue up you have to get lucky because at least half of those 40 (enemy faction) people are going to be already in a mission. So that leaves us with 20 potential people to get matched against. Out of those 20 people several are going to be in groups with their friends, so the system is trying to 'puzzle piece' all these people together as best it can. There are only 2 real solutions to fix this: (A) Increase the district pops -- This used to be 100 players (50 E / 50 C) but over the years has been reduced to the 80 we see today. 100 would help but only marginally and anything beyond that range would make for a bit of crowding given the district size (map). (B) Come up with some sort of 'phasing' system like World of Warcraft has. No more segregated districts, just plain 'ol Financial / Waterfront. Anyone can be in any district instance but the queue will match people across all instances and phase them into a specific one seamlessly.

RIP then

7700k @ 5 GHz // 1080ti Hybrid // 32GB RAM @ 3200 mhz // m.2 SSD in 4x mode That being said, my previous 3 computers never had any issues with APB either.

90% of these players are people who probably tried the game for an hour and uninstalled

In case you didn't know: APB has some rather large log files. Here is my logs folder from one play session (I clear mine often): After a few hours of gameplay I have collected ~565 MB of log files. You can imagine how large they must get for people who don't clear their logs! To delete your logs, navigate to the APB Reloaded/APBGame/Logs folder and simply delete the contents. HOWEVER, if you want to permanently save space while reducing writes to the same disk your game is on, I recommend making a symlink. To do this all you need to do is open a command prompt (dont forget to do run it as admin) and enter in the following command: mklink /J "Desired Directory" "Source Directory" For example, here is mine: mklink /J "F:\LOGS\APB" "C:\GAMES\Steam Library\SteamApps\common\APB Reloaded\APBGame\Logs"

Why not take my idea which is giving 'bonuses' to different vehicles? EXAMPLE: Han Veo = Increased range of the radar tower, increased benefit from fireproofing Or make steel plating give resistance to explosives but ONLY on weaker vehicles (aka vehicles that cant already take 1 rocket). Give a % penalty to using steel plating on carry vehicles (namely the Pioneer and Espacio) but give them a bonus to car spawner -- HOLD ON, hear me out --> Pio/Espacio car spawner bonus to reduce the radius of denial. I think that would be fair with the steel plating penalty. There's all sorts of things LO could do with a system like this VS adding new mods. I feel this 'bonus/penalty' idea would be a great way to shake up the meta. https://forums.gamersfirst.com/topic/676-make-apb-greatfor-the-first-time-a-list/

Anecdotal but I've been playing a heap since LO took over. I have ~6k hours game play since 2011 and have been gold for 95% of that time. Since the implementation of BattlEye I've noticed that all the god-like golds are now beatable instead of this massive wall of "get fucked" any time I fought them in the past. I've encountered maybe 2-3 cheaters AT MOST since BE (weren't many of them post-LO either). Also I should mention I play on Jericho. I'm pretty happy, especially now that server performance isn't all over the place.

https://forums.gamersfirst.com/topic/676-make-apb-greatfor-the-first-time-a-list/

I just combed through the list and threw them into three different categories with some better wording/clarification on some things. This still isn't a very casual-friendly list (description-wise). I'll try and work on that as things come to mind. Thanks for the reply!

Added more things like removing rank 16 for weapons (or maybe balancing it a bit idk), account wide things. Also my idea about giving logistical bonuses to 'non meta' vehicles.

There's not enough people per district for this to work.

Classic OSMAW sniping.

If I remember correctly the 32 bit one always causes problems with battleye but the 64 version doesnt and it's been this way for years and years. Just recently (4 weeks ago) I played some DayZ and dusted off my old auto run macro (AHK) for the game. Worked just as well as it did in years past and battleye didn't care one bit.

I'm using my own little pack that has auto-sprint, annoying sound removal, USPStyle's Advanced Launcher, and killfeed / mission names edits.

idk, DayZ Standalone uses Battle Eye and I can use my auto-run AHK script no problem. I'm also wondering this because of the auto-join script I used to use to ezmode into full districts.

Noooooooooo! But part of the fun is hearing the other team rage on mic. And damn, now I can't be the kiss master anymore my reign of smooching is over

Fair enough.

After doing a fresh APB install and doing some testing: Deleting unnecessary (district-specific) compat files + replacing certain audio packages with blank files + 'removing' a lot of audio files + always sprint edit + different killfeed / misson description edits (via localization) all seem to work fine under BattleEye.

What's the word on localization edits / deleting district specific compats?

What horrors have you wrought?

Hoping someone from Little Orbit can answer this: Are we going to see stricter bans for people that repeatedly group up with cheaters? To clarify: I feel that people who are grouped, as in manually teaming up with a cheater or cheaters, should be temp banned for a 1st offense, a longer temp ban for their 2nd offense and a permanent account ban for their 3rd offense. I also don't think this should be something that happens to someone immediately. Instead I would hope this only happens after a few initial repeat offenses -> "Hmm, this person has manually grouped with x people over time who have been banned for cheating" vs "Hey this guy may not have known his friend was cheating *BANHAMMER*" inb4 "You point the finger at me again"

I think you misread. I want the old ability to climb up on buildings with cars and what not while out of mission but anyone in a mission will be counted as out of bounds and killed/teleported.

Use the advanced launcher OR use a shortcut like "C:\GAMES\Steam Library\SteamApps\common\APB Reloaded\Binaries\APBprogram" -lbl -pktlag=0 -noamdtsc -nomoviestartup -noverifygc

At least remove the refurbish price on vehicles.