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  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, MrChan said:

    RIOT did demonstrate that the map does divide into blocks on the backend and the status of one city block can be different from the surrounding ones, so you'd assume that the basics of territory control are possible. Maybe details like flipping districts from Enforcer to Crim or vice versa don't work. Or maybe they just shelved any work they ever did on it chasing the EU.

     

    What was the other new game mode that LO tried? All I remember is that it eventually forced all players into Havalynd Park for a big gunfight before resetting the map?

    chaos/anarchy districts were essentially district wide fight club, but the lack of any objective meant players generally ended up trading potshots across the park

     

    i still believe if orbit had put a year into polishing that game mode instead of riot, apb would be in a much better place 

  6. Posted

    i'd consider divorcing it entirely from apb - no references, no copied assets or art

     

    its better to start clean now than have to go back and change everything (or shut down) once you get hit with a c&d, if your copy ever gets off the ground

     

     

    19 minutes ago, OmikronOverload said:

    The whole thing is made in Unreal Engine 4.26 which is basically a precursor to Unreal Engine 5, the code works the same.
    Why am i not using Unreal Engine 5, the easiest answer is because its pretty bugged at the moment.

    something something history repeats itself

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  7. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Darkzero3802 said:

    *Everyone complains about APB being stale*
    *RIOT introduced as a new game mode*
    *Everyone shits on RIOT during the alpha test, doesn't want the game to change at all*
    *RIOT cancelled due to nobody giving it a chance*
    *Everyone complains about APB being stale again even tho they just had something new*


    And thats what you call looking a gift horse in the mouth folks. We had a new mode that with tweaking would have kept the game going just abit longer. But here we are in 2022 with no changes, just what everybody wanted.

    hilariously bad take

     

    just about every player gave riot a chance and there were thousands of constructive feedback posts, the responsibility rests solely on little orbit for dumpstering a year's worth of dev time rather than working to improve it

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  8. Posted

    little orbit no longer owns the ip, so they can't make apb 2

     

    a "spiritual successor" could be made, but it couldn't have any actual connection to apb aside from general mechanics without being sued into oblivion

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  10. Posted

    37 minutes ago, MonkaS said:

    no one will buy it when its failed 3 times already or do you mean the ip cuz idk I think that chinese company will hold onto the ip for quite a while 

    to be fair people said that after rtw, and then after g1 went radio silent, and then when little orbit fumbled riot

     

    the real moral of the apb story might be that there's always a sucker out there

  19. Posted

    5 hours ago, Someone said:

    Is it just me or is everyone miscalculating DPS? The usual formula of “attacks per second * damage per attack” does not conform to reality.

    It took making my own game and expericmenting with TTK as an idea to eventually figure this out but it's quite simple.

     

    Take two weapons: Machinegun vs Shotgun

    Machinegun rate of fire is 100ms, Damage is 10.

    Shotgun rate of fire is 1000ms, Damage is 100.

    Standard DPS of MG is calculated to be 100.

    Standard DPS of SG is calculated to be 100.

     

    I argue that that in reality the time between attacks starts exactly at the same time as damage is dealt.

    Meaning any weapon with a fire rate that is a factor of 1 second will have fired when the timer starts and when it ends.

    Therefore in the span of 1 second the Shotgun will have fired twice and the Machinegun will have fire eleven times, Making the true Damage-Per-Second of the Shotgun 200 and Machinegun 110.

    has anyone been dropping dps calculations in this thread?

     

    i dont find raw dps all that useful in apb, it only slightly matters for niche stuff like specific av weapons or kevlar

  21. Posted

    7 minutes ago, FartyBumBumGuff said:

    I thought you meant a different gun, bigger one, not secondary. I'm unfamiliar with the names of all the guns. I don't think I've ever been stunned with a handgun. I tried a colby, surely it means it takes  0.8 seconds between shots, not to kill because it's fucking useless, it takes 3 shots to kill and there's no way it fires 3 shots in 0.8 seconds, it shoots so slow you die between shots.

    you're living in a different reality than the rest of us my guy

  22. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Jorlak said:

    But it has the exact same speed, and has the same kill potential as the JG + PIG, so It's stupid how this is still a thing but the pig isnt

    i dont think the nerf was about raw takeout speed, but rather the jg/pig (and the other pig combos) being able to significantly outpace other ltl without giving up lethal options

     

    i would have made jg/pig more difficult or risky instead of outright removal, but orbit seems intent on more defined niches for stuff

     

     

  24. Posted

    4 hours ago, Jorlak said:

    Yeah but like in a close quarter combat battle, the pig does not hold up to someone just using the JG? Why is JG + PIG nerfed because of it's ttk, but you can still JG to revolver or to showstopper someone. Isn't that like a weird way to balance things?

     

    You can only use the combination on 1 on 1 battles and even than, if you fuck up the pig shot which have you to carefully aim, you die.

     

    I don't get it like I genuinely don't, it's not like arresting is a more OP way of killing people, since you have to run over to the person, and even semi-lock yourself in a animation. Not only that, your teammate can help you out again after killing the enforcer.

     

    Which brings me back to my former point, why is it still possible to JG quick switch to revolver/showstopper to achieve almost a similar effect but this time killing the person.

     

    But a weaker and less-advantage type of technique nerfed because "OP"

    i assume because orbit felt the pig was out of line in that situation - the jg was far from the only gun the pig could effectively qs with, i think the only combos left are nl9/pig and scout/pig 

     

    jg/snub has also been nerfed, and jg/showstopper barely qualifies as qsing

     

     

     

     

     

  25. Posted

    5 hours ago, DOUK said:

    That's it. Over the past 12 years the players are to blame for the game's death. Actively shitting on everyone who joins the game repeatedly until they uninstall. The reason you're left with 255 sweaties with overpowered guns is everyone else left.

     

    APB is a game for 0.00000000000000001% of the population to enjoy. Aimbotters and people who happen to be born with sub 200ms reaction times. Over 12 years the people in charge of the game have done nothing to change that.

     

    It's a shame the creative efforts of so many people were ruined by a tiny sadistic group.

    you sound suspiciously like a certain deltron that had a mental breakdown ingame yesterday

     

    what about people who rant for hours in district chat and repeatedly send their opp toxic whispers, do you think they contribute to the overall decline of apb as well?

     

    a lot of people have already said it, but inaction from the devs is the biggest "apb killer" - not just in terms of content and bug fixes, but in terms of a sense of abandonment that allows players to feel as if they wont be punished for acting inappropriately 

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