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  3. Posted

    On 1/21/2024 at 3:09 PM, MattScott said:

    For the record, I completely own the situation with console. I feel bad about it. I've been talking about console upgrades for years. I was excited to show PS4 running day/night when I posted that video on Twitter.

     

    When we got involved with APB, it was a simple plan:

    - Remove Joker Mystery Boxes and make Legendaries accessible through Joker Tickets

    - Finish APB 2.1 with upgraded lighting, 64-bit compatibility and better performance

    - Upgrade the anti-cheat

    - Finish the Battle Royal mode that would add some spice to the game

    - Add 2 new contacts, new clothing, new guns, and a new car

    - Upgrade console once we had PC merged onto the console code base

     

    Unfortunately nearly every part of that plan was all flawed. And it took us more than 3 years of wasted dev time to realize that.

     

    These are painful lessons as a CEO. It wasn't for a lack of trying.

     

    20 months ago, we threw away most of that plan because it wasn't working. We started over from the APB 1.20 code base. Unfortunately the current situation with console was the casualty of having to start over.

    Thanks,
    Matt

     

    These aren't things that you will see your average game company CEO say, props for the honesty Matt

    Take note guys, because this is words you get from a CEO with good intentions, APB has been misshandled since it's creation, and so far Matt is the only CEO with the guts to communicate the good and the bad, LO could ditch APB at any point, but it's pretty clear they're gonna keep trying, and be thankful for that.

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  4. Posted · Edited by Ketog

    13 hours ago, Zypectrumm said:

    The PC game engine could have been upgraded to console level, cross-platform support could have been introduced, and the servers could have been combined. But unfortunately little orbit is not a company that can do this.

     

    Everything is possible, but that's only in theory

     

    it wasn't reasonable for LO to keep console running because the codebase is just fundamentally broken, but also vastly different

     

    LO isn't a multibillion game company with a team or 100 developers solely for APB

  5. Posted

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    @mojical Ended up as the technical winner, however every single following score up to @owzzy ended up denying the prize, so @Yeedman gets the final prize !

    Thanks everyone for participating, honestly this was both a low profile and a high profile event in some ways, it was pretty fun!

    Who knew there would be so many Linux users in here, and who knew you could almost reach 3000 FPS in APB talk about an exeperience!

  7. Posted

    Here is the current state of the leaderboard:

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    @mojical is still in first, however, all of the current top participants are planning on not taking the prize, meaning that Sheeno (sorry i don't know your forum name!) is in the winning position currently.

    Note that the "Prize" box is only a public show for if the winner is planning to take the reward or not as an indication for you if it's worth competing against that player or not, once the event ends i will still ask the 1st place if they want the price, and move on to the second if they say no, until i find someone that says yes.

    Again, it is only an indication, and not a set decision.

    Going by the assumption that none of the winners change their minds, that means beating Sheeno's score would currently get you the end prize !

     

    Happy tweaking !

  8. Posted

    Medek donated 69 APB$ so the prize is now 1 000 069$ (nice)

    As for anyone reading this, know that while most of the top leaderboard is at super high FPS, a lot of them refuse to take the reward, so the current runner up for the reward is @Frosi while @mojical is the current technical winner.

    And believe me when i say a mid/high end PC CAN absolutely reach those framerates without being on linux.
    Do not loose hope, there is an entire week left before the end of the contest !

  12. Posted · Edited by Ketog
    Medek donation

    EVENT ENDED

     

     

    Event powered by Wave Lounge !

    A new type of clan made to preserve citadel's community, and unite them ! learn more here.

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    Hey, Ketog from Wave Lounge here, (yep we still exist), it's been a little while since we had some activity, and with the start of the new year i thought i'd add some spice to it myself but with a fun little twist, a contest, but for nerds, what do i mean by that ? Well you're the judge:

    🤓 The Hypermetrics Contest 📊

     

    This event is pretty simple and straight forward, it's how we do it at Wave Lounge, the goal you might ask ? right, get the highest possible FPS in APB, that's it, that's the event, yup.

    All you have to do to win is reach the highest possible FPS in APB with a few rules:
     

    1) You must provide a complete screenshot of your game with performance metrics (any overlay of your choice)
    2) You must be in an online district (yes social and fightclub are districts), that means no login screen trickery

     

    The rules are subject to change if some player finds a loophole, so we take the right to change the contest's rules to keep it fair, and give the win to the player that actually deserves it.

     

    The event will run from the date of which this post is published, up to the 8th January 2024

     

    What can i win and how do i participate ?
     

    This event is happening on Citadel, however feel free to participate if you are not on citadel, i just won't be able to provide a prize for you to win.
     

    The winner with the highest FPS score will get the following:
    1) 1 000 069 APB$

    2) Showstopper 'Thunder'

    3) box of Exfluencis©

    4) a special Legendary Donut

     

     

    The prize might increase as we get sponsors from other clans and/or donations from players,

    If you wish to donate to the cash prize, please message me on this forum or on discord @Liarus

     

    If you wish to participate, you will have to either join our discord and submit your screenshot in the submissions channel or DM me said submission (@Liarus), for me to take it into account,

    your submission will then appear on the leaderboard, in case you win, but do not want the prize, you can decide to give it to the best score after you,

    and if that player also doesn't want it, it goes on until we find a player that wants it.

     

     

    As an extra little note, I'm planning on running this little contest every end of the year, it would be quite a fun way to gather performance metrics related to APB over time.

     

    Have fun tweaking, breaking, experimenting with APB, there is no other rules other than what's currently listed, however stay up to date with this post for the latest news!

     

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  14. Posted · Edited by Ketog

    On 10/18/2023 at 10:44 AM, Frosi said:

    Camera anchor swapping outside of cover

    Gunplay better suited for PvP

    Movement (APB probably has the best movement out of all TPS games even now)

     

    i agree for everything except movement

    APB probably has one of the worst movement of PVP games imo,

    no stopping on ladders

    needing to press buttons to interact with ladders or fences is terrible

    a lot of hitboxes are not the same size as their visuals meaning parkouring is an absolute pain.
    walking (not sprinting) with fragile or kelvar desyncs you from the servers
    drifting and going out of your car even though it's pushing you for multiple meters doesn't kill you and you just slide around
    no things you expect to see in modern games like grabbing a ledge

    no leaning if you're not aiming

    leaning out of the rear windows of a van obstructs your vision

    pressing shift while aiming will kick you out of the aiming position

     

    and there's probably way more i forgot.

    tldr apb's movement is nothing special in my opinion, in fact i'd say it's worse than average.

    If you want to see what good movement really is, i'd say look at what s4 league and gunz did

     

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  22. Posted · Edited by Ketog

    On 5/23/2023 at 11:44 PM, SuperChaffee said:

    And complaining in a forum is not the best thing to do, you can create a support ticket and they will give you a reason or a solution. https://support.gamersfirst.com/

    Support isn't very helpful for bans, in fact they often respond vaguely and deter players from reaching out to them, personally haven't had any issues with support, however i have seen plenty of unhelpful support answers, such as " you know why you are banned and your account will stay banned " without actually providing an actual answer, don't get me wrong, the support isn't supposed to be your slave, but they need to understand that players being left in the unknown for x action taken against them is extremely frustrating, i know most people would rather see " you have been banned for cheating " rather than the standard universal answer or "we can't provide details" kind of answer.

     

    And that's only for the ban part, APB support in general is a hit or miss and it's pretty frustrating

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