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because the more the matchmaking system is forced to follow the rules, the less matches it creates the alternative is no unopposed matches and no unfair matches, but 30/60/90 minutes waiting for a mission instead

25% sale on district population

team on mission has to be /dnd, out of mission player readies up at the same time as backup is called

just stop paying attention to it?????

you've never seen someone win a mission but dethreat or vice versa? thats because the player failed to achieve the performance that the matchmaking system predicted, regardless of where they place on the scoreboard - if the system thinks you'll obliterate 2 bronzes and you only end up barely breaking even scorewise, you'll lose threat even as the top scorer edge cases aside, from a practical perspective you're right that the finer details and exact percentages don't matter for the large majority of players, especially without much more granular threat representation

tracers returning wont make silencers viable, they aren’t really a gameplay factor above a certain skill level

all the guns that dont have tracers disagree that tracers are ugly?

speed is certainly down to game feel, but i think the trailer is pretty close to actual old apb tracers hang around way longer than the trailer anyway, its part of why i don't think they look good

they look more like smoke trails than tracers to me for comparison an rtw trailer had more realistic tracers that i think look way better source:

anyone who thinks this looked good deserves to be shamed

bro a name change is like 10 bucks, how many cheaters do you think there are to make that profitable???

tracers are ugly af tho, keep them off

it’s easier to upthreat than dethreat due to poorly balanced score awards and anti dethreater mechanics g1 implemented, and threat percentages are not dynamic so there’s no limit on how many players can be gold

spct work for orbit the same way volunteering at a homeless shelter makes you work for the homeless lol

this is definitely the post that forces orbit to reconsider their entire dev strategy, it’s so brave that you posted this

im sure the second time they'll definitely answer you bro, 100%

damn thats crazy bro by the time you come back apb will be so different

what a goofy idea the advanced launcher is available for download from the same webpage as the actual game, refusing to use a tool provided by the devs themselves doesnt make you more skilled, it makes you a weirdo for intentionally sabotaging your own game experience

the scariest thing about halloween is it means another year has gone by and apb is still the same junk heap get spooked

first impressions are important

infinite district population, because that also means the servers can't be bargain bin virtual trash heaps 2 things for the price of 1

sir this is a wendy's

what is a bronze learning while i run circles around him with my weapons unequipped? is spending 20 minutes shooting at enemies but never getting a kill less frustrating than getting min ttk'd for 5 minutes? are bronzes okay with a pity win now making future matches even more unfair?

i “stomp” low skill players because the alternative is literally to afk - there is no other way for me (and many other veteran players) to play a mission as intended and perform below silver level its not about ego or losing threat, the skill gap is just so large that even my casual, for-fun gameplay ends up as a stomp if it’s any consolation for you, when choosing between logging in to vs bronzes 2/3 matches or not launching the game at all, i choose not launching the game matchmaking isn’t supposed to make players better, i have no idea where you got that idea - matchmaking is supposed to create more fair matchups matchmaking and elo are absolutely necessary for nearly any pvp game, like i’ve already said it’s not fun for either side when the skill gap is too large

that’s dumb tbh i play a competitive pvp game to play a competitive pvp game, not go afk for half a match so the other team doesn’t quit - it’s not my job to babysit lower skill players in my own personal free time and it provides me zero entertainment or reward this is the entire reason elo and matchmaking systems exist, because it’s simply not fun for either side when vastly different skill levels to interact in pvp