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  1. Posted

    11 minutes ago, MattScott said:

    Clearly you're frustrated by some of my decision making, and for that I apologize.

     

    All of the paid pass or extra token elements will launch down the road. So we have time to continue tweaking them prior to launch in order to be easier to understand.

    But we intentional did not toss new things in ARMAS, since that's what our predecessors focused on.

    Instead we decided to add a fair amount of new content for free to everyone who wants to play the new mode.

     

    RIOT is separate just like Fight Club. No need to play that mode if you don't want to.

    Additionally, we've built in a way to skip any seasons you're not interested in, which allows players to quickly grab the stuff they might want.

     

    Okay, I'm willing to give this a chance if the content in the season pass (barring maybe titles or something) is in permanently available. If the content is limited time though, that is my major issue.

     

    Season passes are, traditionally, a trick to prey on people's tendencies both to need to try to get limited time content, and inability to understand accumulated costs, at least in my opinion and to my understanding. If, for example, you allow people to get everything in the current season for free, and then put up every season on ARMAS for, IDK, $20-50, then I'd think that was totally fine, perhaps even good.

     

    What I don't want, and what I think would destroy so much of the fun of APB, which is cosmetics, is for, I don't know. . . let's make up an example.

     

    Say you add a German riot police helmet to a season, and you have a system where you can only get season specific items for a year. 16 months later, Joe Shmoe comes back to APB 'cause some friends told him it was good again or some shit, and he sees some dude with the German riot helmet, and he thinks, "oh shit, that's cool, and I've always wanted to make a GSG9 cosplay in APB!"

     

    Guess what, he can't, and he never will be able to.

     

    IMO this is something that should never happen to APB. So much of APB is about having fun with customizing shit to your hearts content, and if there starts to be any sizable amount of limited time cosmetics in APB the game will quite honestly start to suck.

     

     

    If you do that, I.E. allow players to be able to get anything from any season at any point, even if it's behind a paywall, I'll be 99% fine with all of the things you're saying you're doing, even if I think RIOT is a huge waste of time and resources on your part, and makes fuck all sense from a lore perspective. If I don't need to play RIOT or buy every season pass soon while it's running, then sure, whatever, have a ball. In general though, every season pass system I've seen has been morally despicable, and in my opinion as bad as lootboxes.

     

     

    There, there's my much longer explanation of my issues, with a lower concentration of cussing and insults.

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  2. Posted · Edited by Kewlin

    Please, for the fucking love of God Matt, stop with this season bullshoot.

     

    Everything about this new progression shit you're adding is so fucking convoluted and stupid: just add shit to ARMAS to make money.

     

    *EDIT* Also, requiring players to play RIOT, which sounds really shitty and like it has nothing to do with APB, to progress, needs to not be a thing at the very least. Just allow people to play what they want to play, not force them to play your new mode.

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  4. Posted

    5 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:

    Im not one of em, but man... people love their 4x4 stunts.

    I mean LOVE em.

    Not to mention the use of wheelies in matches themselves.

     

    1 minute ago, ChellyBean said:

    I mean Id take stable performance/framdrate, improved matchmaking, cracking down on cheaters etc over just being able to drive on two wheels for a few seconds. 

     

    But if a lack of wheelies are what makes the game worse for then idk what to tell you

    geez 

     

     

    It's not really even about 4x4 stunts, it's about the fact that so much of what makes APB good is how absurd and hilarious it is.

     

    Every little thing we lose from that is a significant loss. I'd take bad performance (which I don't honestly have issues with: APB runs basically fine for me) over the game losing its soul any day.

     

     

     

    Ultimately though, vehicle handling and the EU are basically unrelated, it's just up to what LO decides on.

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  6. Posted · Edited by Kewlin

    Can you please, for the love of all that's good, answer whether PC 3.5 APB will have PC or console vehicle stats, specifically with concern to the ability to do wheelies?

     

    This has been asked many times, and you really should address it, or if you don't have a current opinion on it, figure out an opinion.

     

     

    I know I'd be very, very sad to have console no-wheelie cars personally.

     

     

     

    Oh, and also, why from 12:00-3:00? That's rather very much out of the time available of almost anyone working full-time in the U.S.

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  7. Posted

    13 hours ago, Inquitoria said:

     

    Have all the Tier 2 actives in Discord been contacted for their in-game details?

     

    I would consider myself as one of them, and nobody reached out.

     

    Feeling a little overlooked here, considering I didn't get my tinfoil email either, even though I signed up for it.

     

    SKay said people are supposed to reach out to LO. . . but IDK what qualifies, so I didn't reach out.

     

    *shrugs*

     

    It would help if they qualified at all what quantifies tier 2.

  9. Posted · Edited by Kewlin

    Sorry, MB, got the day wrong.

     

    Still, that's only one of my three points.

     

     

    30 minutes ago, Dezire said:

    Wouldn’t really make sense to hold a weed related activity on 4/24 now would it?

     

    They run holiday events multiple days despite holidays only happening on one day. . .

  10. Posted

    While I'm all for the whole weed thing. . . I'm a little confused why you're running a one day event for exclusive symbols on a Tuesday. . .

     

    It's one day, which is weird. . .

     

    . . . and it's on a Tuesday, which is weird. . .

     

    . . . and they're exclusive symbols, which feels against the spirit of APB.

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  14. Posted

    2 hours ago, Noob_Guardian said:

    they could do a similar effect as the Manic has, where out of marksman your recoil is higher, when you're in marksman its lower. The current recoil could be decreased to about half or slightly more than half of the difference between the current recoil and the pre-nerf recoil for a decent balance as well. But noone uses tommygun for a reason, sooo.

     

    I appreciate it, but I see no reason to overthink this.

     

    The changes made to M-1922 recoil were intended as a buff, but were instead a nerf. As such they simply need to be reverted.

     

     

    . . . Also, the Manic has more recoil in or out of MM? As someone who's used it a lot I never noticed that. Weird.

  15. Posted

    Since nobody mentioned, to get to Birth or Templeton you have to max out most of the contacts in the game, so in other words if you have to ask how you unlock the OSCAR you probably aren't getting it any time soon. . .

     

    RIP.

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  21. Posted

    3 hours ago, MattScott said:

    The plan is to do a RIOT Preseason as soon as the mode is ready - sort of a beta test for the various systems so we can work the kinks out in a live setting. This initial season wont have any Premium rewards, so everything will be able to be earned by players through regular play.

     

    Are you implying APB is going to have a battle pass? Please, for the love of fucking God tell me I'm reading into this too much, because if this is a fucking battle pass then I don't even know what to say. I'll have lost literally any single fucking ounce of faith I had in you or your company if you do this (which has not much for a few months.)

     

    You have to deal with the bullshoot of the butcher skin, and you decide to immediately create a limited time exclusive skin that only a handful of people can get, and then say you're going to add a battle pass to APB. . . my gosh. . . 8/8 m8, some good decisions are being made.

     

     

    Boy oh boy do I hope that was just bad wording on your part, because everything going on is looking like you're trying to make APB into PUBG lite, in gameplay and in monetization.

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  22. Posted

    21 hours ago, MattScott said:

     

    Tier 1 = Anyone who was early to publicly contribute part of a puzzle solution. (It’s hard for us to gauge who was absolutely first between the two channels).

     

    Tier 2 = Anyone who spent a reasonable amount of effort brainstorming and contributing to puzzle solving.

     

    Tier 3 = Anyone who redeems the code before my post on Friday.

     

    Fuck.

     

    Asking what the tiers are counts as being part of Tier 1, right? After all, that means I solved the most important part of the ARG: who gets rewarded.

     

    RIGHT?!

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