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iirc the difference is 11 apb$ per kill (1 apb$ for a n0/p0 vs 15 apb$ for an n4/p4), you get roughly 60 times more money for losing a mission im glad you disregarded the actual points of my post to describe your poor apb financial skills tho, really

you seem out of touch your proposed change would only increase the factionkilling - getting n0/p0 is a reward for players (except you apparently) because it means more time until the next shitty n5/p5 situation no one is worried about the trivial money decrease from enemy kills when not going n5/p5 could mean winning a mission and getting exponentially more money impacting a mission is not synonymous with balancing a mission, no need to pretend otherwise as already stated notoriety/prestige have no real relation to how well a player’s current performance is, anyone actively contributing to every mission will pop n5/p5 regularly people are “upset” because the n5/p5 system is just another layer of unhealthy rng on top of all the other suboptimal rng of apb - there’s no controlling whether other n5/p5 players interfere with your mission, there’s no controlling whether other players will interfere with your mission when you’re n5/p5, and 50% of the population can’t even control when they go p5 notoriety and prestige have no real place in apb anymore tbh, they haven’t affected mission rewards in years and open world activities have been a rare occurrence for a similar amount of time

yes it goes both ways, and it should be punishable both ways just the fact that this is an issue shows that the n5/p5 system is poorly implemented currently third situation, you performed well last mission and randomly pop n5/p5 during the current mission regardless of performance it doesn’t balance the game at all really, your example of a bounty death helping low skill players complete an obj just means that they’re going to be farmed for another entire mission stage instead of the mission ending and both sides (ideally) finding more equal opp

have prestige/notoriety reset at the start of every mission, remove the minimap star, and heavily punish players for killing n5/p5 players of the same faction fixed

i’m glad certain obnoxious ocd sufferers are creating all this negativity around free giveaways - it’s a great way to ruin future free giveaways for those people who enjoy them classic apb community

you think the obir is bad, you compare the thunder to an act44 - i’m beginning to think you might just be bad at the game tbh i’m a little confused on what you want out of the thunder tbh, it’s currently a shotgun secondary that has the same ttk(ish) as an fbw and outranges every other shotgun except the shredder atm as you’ve said the base showstopper is balanced solely for cqc (and it’s a little too strong but that’s a different thread), why would the legendary variant just be the same gun?

it’ll never work right tbh, maybe if we get phasing and a huge population boost without those two things at the very least any players/groups of sufficiently high skill will get less and less opp (and matchmaking is already annoyingly slow for these cases) as they steamroll through the district

alternative suggestion that doesn’t break any rules - get good, that way you never die and always get mvp

$1000 USD of g1c spent for a cheap mask i can’t wait

i can’t wait to never get opp again because everyone blacklists anyone who beats them

yeah it got a buff or two it’s honestly really not bad anymore, i almost always go for swarm over alig these days

at the risk of being branded as a cheating jg defender i’m curious how you’re claiming to be at least semi-competent at apb and yet you think the jg, a weapon that several secondaries can out-ttk, is somehow more op than the nfas edit: oh and it has less range than the nfas as well

you're a veteran once you realize there is no escape from apb anymore

iirc one of the forum mods (amayii?) posted a single use code in a thread at some point today

laughs in showstopper

looks ugly, shitty firing sound, and the model is awkwardly small

whoever does the promo pics is probably just choosing guns that the skins look best on, they might not even be aware that they’re using legendary weapons or that those weapons can’t use the skins ingame iirc the riot skin pack used the condor to showcase weapon skins too

yeah pretty much every time i log in i wish i could quit apb

at the very least consoles are running on the engine upgrade, so idk how anyone can think the engine upgrade doesn't exist at this point lol

most likely garbage collection, its been an issue basically forever at this point there's a way to extend the time between stutters but that results in more severe performance issues when it does occur

remember when the nfas didnt have the new pellet system and literally no one used it yeah its totally the gun itself thats the issue here haha

find me one modern (up to 8 years old) online pvp game that’s still running which doesn’t allow players to adjust their brightness settings, because i don’t think i’ve ever seen that

most people like less zoom because it allows for a wider fov, which comes in handy when using the obir in closer ranged engagements the render distance is only 100m anyway it’s not like you really need any zoom to begin with

i think they're fine as is but i can't lie, a completely fresh roster would be pretty great

of all the thousands of games that have balance changes why is it that apb needs to be the one that apologizes for bettering itself? why are you assuming that “completely neutered” weapons are the end intent for balancing?