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if you're late again the manager is going to fire you, better get to work also your kids are smoking cigarettes and your wife is probably banging the neighbor's wife

the next time you think about opening your mouth remember that being a cashier at a radioshack doesnt count as relevant IT experience and shut the fuck up

that got a real live laugh out of me have you seen the game my dude

man if you said this shit to aliens they'd ban us from the galactic empire so fast it would make your floznarks spin

no expert suggestions from the man who "works in the IT industry" ? tell me, how do you deal with clients in the "IT industry" who have zero understanding of your job but still feel the need to demand things and rush you? oh wait yeah can we get mattscott in here to tell this guy to "hang from a tree" yeah i called you a passive aggressive monkey because you were acting like a passive aggressive monkey btw i feel like its a little racist that you assume i meant a specific race when i referred to monkeys

yeah we get it, you think matchmaking should be focused on right now ive been over the most likely reasons thats not happening, some are logical assumptions and some are straight from the devs if you don't trust the devs to tell the truth about why matchmaking is getting pushed until after the engine upgrade, then why would you trust the devs to actually fix matchmaking at all? thats a big yikes dude, i hope you dont act like this at your IT job

pretty sure that was the joke

oh my bad, i thought we were supposed to follow your lead yeah you’ve been a real fountain of knowledge in this thread 1 post that goes further than “work on matchmaking now because i, the ‘IT guy’, say so”

it probably would have been but, as i’ve already said, adding phasing to the current game would likely cost more resources than to wait until after the engine upgrade as an IT guy shouldn’t you understand how difficult it is to add something new to old code with no documentation? i’m willing to bet i’ve played and paid more of this game than the guy who account shared in the middle of a bender unlike you i haven’t claimed any special insight or knowledge in this thread, just working on the information the community has been given over the years

the matchmaking isn’t the issue, it uses modified elo ratings to match players of similar skill just like pretty much every other pvp game the issue is is the extremely limited pool of people it has to match - there’s no way to increase that pool without either a)bumping the district pop cap up and melting the already shit servers, or b) adding a mechanic (like phasing) that allows the entire population to be used for matchmaking purposes without changing the district pop cap wow that’s really great info thanks for explaining your points so well to us non-IT folks, i really appreciate the well thought out response

obviously not as they’ve already told us that phasing is possible after the engine upgrade from my non “industry” knowledge, i assume the problem isn’t really the underlying engine but how much of a mess all the custom coding (open world districts, day/night cycles, customization systems, etc) piled on top of it is - to change something that affects so many other pieces would introduce so many unintended effects that it’s just not currently feasible if your “industry” experience can shed some light on this topic perhaps you should chime in, instead of being a passive aggressive monkey

seamless instance transfer is not possible on the current engine unless (assumption) added via excessive custom coding - the very same thing that causes many of apb’s current issues

you cannot possibly be a real person, this amount of willful ignorance is off the charts the difference here is that you aren’t saying “stop cheating” in district, you’re saying “player x stop cheating” - given your earlier statements i doubt you understand the difference so just trust me that there is one

the only way to truly solve matchmaking issues is with the phasing mechanic, which is off the table until 3.5

who to believe, thousands of negative reviews over several years or one nerd that still plays apb?

“i don’t have this problem so it doesn’t exist” good job bud

yeah its just not worth wasting 20 minutes of gameplay if you're going to risk it by fighting, especially on jericho where riot matches are so hard to start

have you seen riot? i don't want orbit anywhere near the rest of the UI lmao

as far as im aware you (or a member of your team) needs to survive until the match ends to receive full standing rewards

2FA disables trade locks, or at least that was the plan at one point

flareguns are massively annoying when used properly honorable mention to spotter mod even tho it’s not a weapon

ddos (or mitigation) probably

yeah i'd like to give the benefit of the doubt but the last time i saw someone use it they wanted to report a bronze i had seen go hard negative a few missions beforehand

because player A has claimed that player B is cheating, you quit a mission - if other players start quitting as well then player B will experience subpar gameplay, worst case scenario they just stop playing apb for x amount of time in this case griefing is not cheating, as no unfair advantage is being gained over the opponent btw if you're the moron who spams "team watch then /report player x" in district then you arent fit determine anyone but goat level silent aimers are cheating