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The acceleration idea has been kicked about for a while now and I gotta say I like it too. Not fond of your numbers, but still. Always wanted them to experiment with the health increase alongside a stiff penalty to initial acceleration only. To prevent players using it from strafing or getting back out of a fight quickly once they engage. Would certainly make for an interesting downside. One that would be far less penalizing than the constant slowdown that mod forces people to suffer through now. Ugh. Even mentioning that abysmal top speed reduction in passing makes me want to cringe. Terrible, terrible downside for a mod. Would potentially be an interesting alternative to the run n' gun playstyle that clotting agent helps facilitate. Clotting agent focuses heavily on ducking in and out of fights. So kevlar being the opposite approach to fighting only seems appropriate. I'm just not sure what would be too much or too little. There'd have to be a mix of increased acceleration time with the initial slowdown I imagine. Just a tiny bit off in either direction and the mod either falls into the same problem it has now or becomes the new go-to. Would love to see them at least toy with the idea on the OTW.

Exact same stats. The modification in legendary weapons is often a dummy mod. The changes are applied directly to that variant in a lot of cases with the modification being there to reflect the differences. would be nice Agreed. Surprised they haven't yet, or made a standard version of it to slap onto armas for direct purchase. Both of which would probably be looked upon favorably by people. Hell they could even use it for a loyalty reward. People have been complaining about a lack of those. Certainly fits the criteria based on previous entries. Seems like quite the wasted opportunity really.

There seems to be an innate fear of what would happen if joker boxes vanished. It's not like those things being removed would HAVE to be filled by an even worse monetization scheme. Plenty of games exist that sustain themselves perfectly fine off of less egregious models than APB. Yes there are worse, but my point is there are more fair ones that seem to be doing just fine. Of course it depends on what type of market and all that the product is aimed at or for. Let alone how the title is structured to begin with. Amongst a whole myriad of other variables.. point is that it can work if the right criteria is met. Now maybe I'm crazy, but a game with such an emphasis on customization seems ripe for cosmetic item sales (or at least could have been if things didn't go down the path they did). I know in the past those were thrown aside for quick easy weapon sales. Those were what presumably made the $$$. Yet they were also what was almost solely worked on. Self-fulfilling prophecy and all that. Little effort was made to branch out into other aspects and I feel like that was a mistake. They chose the common dirt road that's riddled with potholes and barely navigable. Something that had always worked just fine in the past, but had begun to show it's age even when it was first put to use for APB. Dangling content that people can't have without money but influences gameplay is a quick way to make someone bail. People like to be able to experience a game to the fullest. Not be gated off at every turn. Which is how the game feels now. ..okay this is turning into a massive post. Going to cut it short right here. It's late as all hell and I'm too tired to care beyond this point. APB's monetization since it went F2P back in 2011 was pretty bad even for the time. The joker boxes and all that only made it worse. Those choices helped scare off a lot of people and put most of the financial burden on the ones left. Forcing more boxes to be made regularly. I gotta wonder if there isn't a way to turn that mess around long-term. I just don't see it lasting in the current market as-is. At least not faring anywhere near as well as it could that is. I need sleep.

This would nuke the value of some special JMB's. Probably not a good plan for them to use what is intended to be a super rare prize to keep that sweet, sweet gambling money rolling in. I'd argue they'd have to make yet another variant at minimum. With some sort of visual difference to keep the perceived value of the original FFA up. Those are effectively one of the only forms of in-game progression currently that have meaning to them. All the rest can be bypassed or obtain fancier versions of through armas. Already have a few exceptions and the community was split on them way back when. Wholly against you on this one. This is the only point I'm really with you on. It's been a long requested item and makes absolutely no sense for there to be only presets of it. The VAS like you said just isn't the same. It's the aesthetic people are after in addition to the fact it's an N-TEC. Would have to give everyone a means of obtaining the open slot versions without paying then. Otherwise balance concerns would arise. Certain mods would wind up being straight upgrades. On the opposite side of that fence certain mods like IR would only incur the downsides. As those guns have hard limits on range I believe. Which might result in lots of complaints. Bit of a weird one there. I don't know. All of these have been run into the ground over the years. Kinda torn on a lot of these things personally as a result. Some make sense and have never gone anywhere despite numerous requests. Others come across as problematic and have been the source of countless debates (or screaming matches as the case may be with the APB forums).

They changed the LCR's TTK from 1.20>1.08 to compensate for the PR1/PR2 having IR3 forced on them. From there the 'Old Glory' does indeed take this buff in stride. While it was intended to simply keep the PR1/PR2 functioning as they did before, it instead buffed the aforementioned variant massively. It was brought down to an impressively short 1.03 for it's effective range. Causing the PR1/PR2 to end up being overshadowed to an absurd extent.

I think you missed the core issue. It's usually big spenders and/or long time supporters buying a bunch of these I imagine. Guess what they get out of it: The only thing actually worth your time A long car lease or gun lease for something you already own permanently A slightly longer gun lease for a gun you own permanently A gun lease for a gun you own permanently

That was an interesting thing to watch. Looks like he skipped the tutorial. Did not bother to look up information on the game at any stage. Then proceeded to take random guesses as to what was what. He even called one of the districts PvE focused. Another point he withholds an item from a teammate then gets angry when he's finally killed so the other guy can deliver it. Rollercoaster of.. I'm not sure. It almost seems like he was intentionally painting the game in an extra bad light for fun. If not then I'm kinda shocked a reviewer can be this clueless about a game he was trying to review. I mean yes APB is confusing to newbies. Yes it isn't fair to them, but this was almost like he was trying to avoid anything helpful at all costs.

Scrollwheel is a bit of a nightmare. Just being good at clicking is massively superior.

That would be full on gambling. They are getting around it by giving you a reward they value at equivalent or more to that of the box you purchase.

Reworking the lower tiers would be great and all but there is one big problem with that. A lot of longterm big spenders already have everything they want. With the one exception being that shiny JMB gun they are after. I'd kinda like it if they have some sort of safeguard. Some games do that and I have to say it is all kinds of nice. Have a look at ESO for a pretty fair way of going about that. At least in my opinion. Basically duplicates and the likes accrue a special currency. Which can then be spent on a specific item of your choice from the crown crates. Even Runescape has a system like this. Maybe APB should revamp the boxes and aim towards a similar implementation?

Something definitely needs to change. I have to agree with that. The game throws you into the fire then laughs at you while you burn. As mentioned there's very little content for free players AND the tutorial section of the game is all but missing. Leaves newbies to just get obliterated. It's no wonder they leave. I hope they can devote some development time to fixing this. The tutorial menus from ages ago were a nice step in the right direction, but just aren't enough on their own.

...what? You want people to throw money away on boxes and get nothing of value from them for the sake of paying the server costs? I don't even know where to begin with that.

He's kinda got a point. Can set something like that up to make it a quick and easy process. Works really freaking well.

What if the guaranteed prize wasn't tradeable?

I may as well play devils advocate for a moment here. It puts a serious hurt on weapons designed to be used in.. well.. everything in it's effective range to sometimes, a very substantial extent. Everything is what it excels at currently. It isn't the absolute king of course, but you can't deny that it's shadow looms over a swath of weapons. There is very, very good reason that it's one of the most common guns. Technically a range reduction coupled with a slight tweak to the RoF would prevent it from being the end-all-be-all. Other guns would finally get a chance to get a chance to shine a bit more. Wouldn't the test changes resolve the issue without nuking the N-TEC from orbit? It would certainly feel better then tossing it's accuracy in the trash. Inaccurate guns typically feel awful in games unless they are designed with it from the start with a very specific goal in mind. I'd rather they at least investigate the current idea before moving on to other changes.

Yeah that really sounds like you might have some sort of malware on there. Supposedly an unlicensed copy of windows can do it too. Not sure if that applies here, but yeah.

I know this is going to sound a bit dumb of me to even ask, but have you checked your spam folder? Sometimes things like that get tossed in there depending on your e-mail provider.

I stupidly bought a few boxes. Got nothing I was after unfortunately. No one to blame but myself on that. I know how unforgiving random loot boxes are on games.

Have to say a test like this would certainly be interesting to see at the very least. Not sure if a lot of these would work out. Just a solid opportunity to get a real chance to check out some of the "what if?" things people have been kicking around. Who the hell knows. Maybe something of use could come from all this. Can't wait to see how it plays out! I'm not really including the shotgun tests in my opinion here. Those definitely needed work after they were buffed a tad too much.

hopefully the armas revamp will include normalized prices, since theyre currently all over the place - looking at you $50 shredder If you want crazy then look at the Norsemen gun pack. $95 for what is arguably some of the worst pointman guns out there.

Ah, that's right. I completely forgot about the fact they could be traded to criminals under RTW. And I seriously never knew the arrest bug made it to the live servers believe it or not. Spent too much time with my head up my own arse on the OTW back then.

Yeeep. Agree completely. Besides I feel like out of every weapon category the assault rifles are in the best state. There are quite a few that toe the line of surpassing free alternatives as it is. Would rather they put more attention into other guns. Unless he's talking about the TTK of the STAR? If that's the case a slightly higher effective TTK is fine by me. Although I think at this point the majority have gotten used to the faster TTK. Plus it would be another balancing nightmare. Of which I think APB has had enough. Meaning that would probably be a terrible idea.

Outside of bugs I do not think criminals ever had LTL? Sounds like a GM accidentally gave you the wrong weapon at some point along the way. Or was available through a contact mistakenly or some other error. That likely wouldn't have been an intended feature on their part. They'd adamantly stated in the past that criminals simply did not get access to it. With ram raiding being the "equivalent" (I use that term loosely).

I still can't believe how much effort you guys are putting into this game!

Kinda-sorta. Default TTK on the LCR was 1.2s before the IR3 changes. Now it is 1.08s with IR3 bringing that up to a sad 1.27s. Only the 'Old Glory' benefited from the change. Given that it has CJ2 in place of IR3 it saw a big reduction in TTK at 1.03s from 1.14s. The PR1 and PR2 variants are in a worse state then ever.