Ketog

uh, excuse me but it's not because you have problems mastering a weapon that most people do, a weapon should not be balanced because 1% of it's users are unhappy. FBW is a perfect starter weapon because it's a happy medium between everything, it's quite easy to tap, has enough ammo to be forgiving on misses, and forcers you to learn it to make something good out of it, aka a perfect starter weapon .

i was waiting to see someone mention that Enforcers already have their exclusive LTL weapons, it seems fair that criminals can make money without anyone. unless criminals don't get an exclusive weapon system or something similar , i don't see a reason for enforcers to be able to make money without anyone either.

We're almost over 100 members only in social wave by now, recruiting is still open !

awsome !

Oh yeah , this happends too : On my second match that exact spawn bug happened . Now to the questions : Well honestly, riot doesn't feel like APB at all, it's just feels like another game, just with apb graphics. No i wouldn't, not at this state at least, to my eyes, the current mode felt empty, and none of the actions you do while playing, feels like it really affects the game, i also don't like how clunky the weapon system is, why do we randomly get a message to buy our own weapons, why can't we do it at any time with a dedicated UI to this ? Also there's not clear explaination on what you are doing, at start most people were activating the riot devices without even knowing what it does, they ended up all figuring out what it does at the end by seeing they block being filled with gas For now, riot doesn't seem polished enough to be a reccomendable game mode to anyone, i know this is a test and work in progress, but that's my thoughts for now. "Imagine a battle royale game, where you are the one closing down the zones, kind of an apocaliptic surival" One thing ?! Make us start with FBW not snub, or a kife. None, i actually don't like Battle Royal type games. How unintuitive the UI was about it. Here's what i think about RIOT, while you (matt) said this mode would be unique, and use many BR elements, we clearly all seen that this mode IS in fact a battle royale mode. A simple way to say it is, if you don't like the battle royale genre, you won't like RIOT either. I am honestly very skeptical about RIOT, quite a big part of APB's community shared their thoughts on the BR genre which are mostly negative (they wouldn't be playing APB if they loved that genre of gameplay so much). No gonna lie, this mode being so far from APB's roots and core gameplay, i think there's very slim chances that this mode becomes successful in the long term, people play apb because it's unique and different, and this mode, is completely the opposite of it. Knowing you guys are going to dedicate so much effort (Battlepass, In game progression+ rewards ) into something that isn't resamblant to apb's roots seems like a very risky choice . I hope im wrong, i really do, but from a long time player's perspective, RIOT mode doesn't seem like a very good move.

*coughs*

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so when joining social i see this on breakwater galleria: Who's idea was this, who thought that having bright red clutter on somewhere that 's supposed to be a galleria would be a good idea ? if lawrance has to have a base just make his little room above be it, but, please, don't ruin the soothing feels of social by adding those ugly riot boxes all around that doesn't fit in the environement . he doesn't need to have a base that's half of social just for himself. you can add a room there as an exemple , or i don't know, just let him keep his stuff but only in the room he's in . Am i the only one bothered by those unfitting boxes spread everywhere and how unfitting they look ?

tfw you didn't have premium for 4+ years ...

yeah , i got destroyed by a green using it, it must be overpowered, please delete it .

wouldn't necessarely have to hire him , but havve LO pay him to make a song just for apb could be a thing im not sure farletched would love to be in the team at this point , or at least not with the state of apb right now.

This People hate 2FA by phone because it's tied to a physical object , which can break or is prone to unexpected things meanwhile an email is only virtual , other than you forgetting your password or email you can't loose it or break it i indeed don't see the point of having a tradelock ingame as it doesn't actually serve any purpose and mostly annoys the player without actually even protecting him .

nope , no new about it either

Thanks everyone to have participated , The Big winner was Bunrakuken , second winner KittyOfPain, Cliffnote and Machine659 for the extra round ! I will be sending out the rewards in two days due to me having a tradelock !

Im waiting you guys here

Prize jumped to 800k , thanks @MarvellouS @Amcor @Chumis !

Prize is now 650k thanks to ArnoldTR1 !

funny enough i got tradelocked this morning after a windows update

Prize increased to 450k thanks to ShiNxz The event is happening tonight !

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i knew about the rapid99 sniper, but never knew about the others , damn those look sexy for sure !

Hello guys, i've been thinking of making this thread for a while now as every day i see people complaining about tradelocks. So we all know that system that claims to make your account more secure by preventing people to trade your items if they stole your account, but while one of my friend and i had a tradelock i noticed a bit problem about that system. Trade locks actually do not make your account more secure at all, it only makes you think it does, and will only slow down a person with bad intentions. Here's why : Im sure many of you guys reading here got a trade lock out of nowhere and didn't knew the reason of it, well that's one of the problems, you don't get a reason on why you have been tradelocked , let's keep that in mind alright ? When i was tradelocked , i noticed that while my account was locked on my main machine, i was not on a computer that i previously logged onto earlier , which makes sense as it's already one of my known locations, but that's where the problem right there : You are tradelocked ONLY if you're playing in from a location that's considered to be a new computer. That means if im on my main computer with my main character, i log off ,and my hacker uses my account to login, he will get a tradelock , he will then logout Here on my side i can login back up on my account and i don't have a tradelock, everything looks normal, and i never knew anyone logged in from a new location Basically the only thing my hacker has to do now , is wait 3 days to steal my items . So that's the first flaw of the trade lock system, you do not get any notification that your account was acessed from anywhere else. Now to the second part ; there are no reasons given on why you have been tradelocked and that is another big problem, so you guys probably got a trade lock at some point and didn't knew why, usually that's caused by any big hardware change or a windows update (and that may vary still...). The problem with that is that it makes people diregard the tradelock, all of them usually just wait 3 days and tell themselves " another one of those false positives by that dumb system " not seeing a reason for your tradelock will basically make people ignore how important that message actually is. and thus they won't change their password completely making the trade lock system useless. Still following me yet ? Not sure if you noticed by this point but what i said above contradicts the first problem with tradelocks i mentionned, remember ? tradelocks is only showing on devices that are considered new computers, you actually don't get a warning anywhere else than on the hacker's computer. That means when you see a tradelock on your computer, it is ALWAYS a false positive. So why did i say that then ? : Well all of this is to prove my point : -The current trade lock system is completely pointless and doesn't give any kind of extra security for your account if you understand how the system works : -The current system is actually more of an annoyance to people only to give them a sense of security. Here's a few solutions widely used by games : -2FA (which is already in APB, it doesn't work really well but at least it does work fine). -2FA by email (Which is my favorite type of 2FA). -Email warning on connection from a new device. 2FA by email could simply require to enter a code(which is sent to your email) when logging in from a new location. that would prevent anyone from logging in without your email acess. An Email warning on connection from a new device could also be another solution, you could basically login from anywhere, but you would get tradelocked from everywhere as long as you don't confirm that new device from your recived email. (Sligthly riskier as a hacker could still delete your items without stealing them) In the end this shows that APB's current account security is more of an illusion that anything else if you don't use 2FA. On an extra note : i also thought of making tradelock more of an account lock by making you unable to use the delete button anywhere in your inventory, and preventing you to use the chat and spend money. (basically making any kind of account intrusion impossible to affect you negatively). Thanks for reading.

So i was in social waiting for a marker to appear on the map to appear , then i saw the GM tell someone in the chat "Hey [random guy name] you won !" it would be cool if you guys precised that to social event doesn't have the marker as that isn't mentioned anywhere, not even in the potshot post here i was waiting for something that would never appear. it made me go didn't know i had to search already. Agreed.