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i actually disagree that the pmg nerf could have been any better - its honestly still a ridiculous gun, but the range was appropriately toned down of course i have serious doubts this was intentional perfection on orbit's part seeing as how they immediately proceeded to mutilate the oca, if only they could achieve the same level of balance with every change apb would be amazing

you could just read the blogposts on the actual website anyways, in order: a report of recent information, no, no, no, this last question makes no sense

new content is worthless when no one can play it, good luck getting anyone to stick around after announcing that current performance is going to continue forever btw we have had an entirely new game mode since 2014 - riot took more than a year of dev time and still came out a buggy mess, why the hell do you think a repeat of that is what will save apb?

no regen delay and halved regen time doesn't sound like nothing to me

yes shift to the current engine that has already caused everyone to leave the game, great idea idk if you cant or wont understand this, but the last 9 years of apb have been "salvaging" whats left of the current engine, and look where its gotten us

imo the best solution would be a decent client side anticheat to stop literally anyone from launching the game with free cheats from a google search, paired with a finely tuned server side anticheat like ff to (hopefully) catch anyone regardless of code quality, or at least force them to lower their advantages but that costs money and resources that orbit probably don't have

or maybe the game is just bad

except weve been told by the very people who did both for a time that ue4 apb just wasnt feasible keeping in mind that orbit hasn't really worked on a game of this scale before it seems pretty believable that it would be easier for them to work on the version that essentially has training wheels, rather than trying to create a AAA equivalent game from scratch

there's a lot less german (?) in my apb

the severity of the issue depends on what exactly matt did to get banned which afaik was never revealed, it could have been something bizarrely specific like standing in a certain spot and doing 360 camera spins or it would have been something anyone might do like tracking spotter tags when fairfight thinks you can't either way we were also told that fairfight wasnt paid for, updated, or maintained for about a year, which also led to it not functioning correctly

they had literally no idea who was cheating or who wasn't and evidence that the anticheat wasn't functioning correctly for at least a year

you would have a point if med spray wasnt buffed, but it was, and thats whats causing the imbalance

seek professional help

the only time i get this is when there's a whole lot of packet loss happening

except the engine is needed for that new content, unless you want more stuff that is absolute shit like riot

then why not use the always sprint config that has now been officially approved?

several people have done both tho

could have just leveled up via open conflict or mugging

i have no idea how long ago "back then" means, but is it really surprising that a new company would have a different vision for apb?

i think they accomplished exactly what was said in the patch notes, a .4s or .5s equip time "discourages this playstyle" without outright deleting it, but it does seem relevant to point out that the snub ttk buff technically made jg/snub more forgiving - i'll give orbit the benefit of the doubt that they wanted the playstyle to remain an option while bringing it closer to the "baseline" they're always going on about, and not fumbling around changing values without thinking i also don't think these changes came about just because of big streamers, i've seen complaints about both (altho jg/snub is definitely a lot rarer then pig qs complaints) for years, its just we finally have a company who's willing to listen to the community (or parts of it i guess), for better or worse apparently

almost certain the snub hasn't been touched before this, its just a leftover from when the overall ttk was higher i also don't think the equip time nerf was bad, orbit overshot a bit (.3s or .4s would be more in line with other pistols than .5s) and the follow up buff took a while, but its far from the stupidest balance change orbit has done and its a weird thing for the video to hyper focus on

steering wheel could be a dealbreaker

the biggest reason is because literally everyone who plays has performance issues to some extent, which is something the engine upgrade is supposed to fix

the matchmaking and district system cant happen without the engine upgrade, so that option feels like a duplicate i really dont see why we would have to choose between info about one or the other tbh, altho obviously specifics about anticheat measures should be kept to a minimum

you can say fuck off just fine, its not censored