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i remember getting premium redeem codes and g1 pausing everyone's premium, not injecting everyones accounts with random amounts of days as per this quote here it seems like setting up automatic premium for all platforms is actually relatively difficult and not something they can just do on the fly

don't remember ever getting multiple months of free premium from g1, and i feel like giving everyone the lifetime premium option would cause issues when they eventually turn it off

there are gaps pretty much every month because the premium activations seem to only be 30 days a piece

whether they alter hitboxes or implement an entirely new mechanic its still a massive amount of work that simply doesnt need to be done when "carplay" as it is now is relatively balanced, and can easily be further balanced by changing current vehicle stats no one is worried about realism in a game where you can shove kevlar under your skin like breast implants im not sure you meant it to but the gif you've posted shows the peak negatives of apb carplay: someone using their car to minimize the risk while they bumrush enemies caught in the open and who cant fight back - thats the kind of gameplay we should be attempting to avoid imo, not encourage

despite its potential for abuse i still think a simple vote kick system would be far better for team management than the current team leader/demerit mess either way there's pretty much no way to set up a kick system that works fairly with only 2 players on a team, someone is always going to have too much power

they are not the same guns in fact the vas empire and the vas sword are reskins of other guns (nssw and ntec respectively), so they cannot also be reskins of the rabid and frenzy i honestly have no idea how you can even think this, the difference between these gun is obvious as soon as you start shooting

at that point in time there was effectively no anticheat and the closet cheating was at peak levels population increased because the gold lock happened at the same time as the gold rush event, which was also a horrible first impression - lock golds to a single instance and then give everyone else a massive incentive to flood those instances a threat lock might have been a good idea at one point, but g1 managed to bungle it so hard that half the dev team ended up "leaving"

i feel like i should point out that this is completely wrong the vas sw2 'empire', vas-r2 'sword', s1-fa 'frenzy', and s1-tic 'rabid' are all unique guns - they are not reskins of each other considering you own all 4 and have apparently used them i have no idea how you came to this conclusion, but i can only suggest that you get more familiar with the basic apb guns before you try tackling balance i also disagree with this, reskins are (imo) the best way to add new weapon content moving forward its already challenging to balance the guns we have and adding more will only increase that challenge, meanwhile reskins allow for more customization potential with no effect on weapon balance i do think the pricing (too expensive), organization (difficult to know what is a reskin and what isn't), and implementation (reskins should not count as unique weapons) all need an overhaul but reskins themselves should stay

the biggest issue with fairfight is that it doesn't actually stop anyone from cheating - statistics are cool and they might work really well but you can't get statistics without letting people play, unfortunately that includes cheaters too

that doesn't mean you aren't cheating

their first try freebie for balancing was used up a long time ago now, and it was so bad it doesn't even exist anymore lol

short answer: no long answer: not happening realistically shooting through vehicle windows would affect too many large parts of the game to be worth the (massive) effort coding this in would be - you'd have to rebalance guns somehow because more accurate guns now have a pretty large advantage, you'd have to rebalance every vehicle because vehicle hp would be largely irrelevant with maneuverability and speed getting prioritized, and you'd probably have to just outright remove any mission involving vehicle objectives because imo it would be nearly impossible to complete any kind of vehicle delivery against remotely competent opp

of course they dont care that people continue to leave, the current version of the game is broken and cannot be fixed, the only thing its good for is a subpar testing bed for weapon changes and of course they're focused on new players, not only will improving the new player experience also improve many things that affect the veteran player experience, but it doesnt matter how many veterans the engine upgrade brings back, without new players the game will just end up dying again

isnt this just a ghost shot? the first shot is fired but the ammo counter doesn't change, i have to assume it doesn't exist as far as the server is concerned

not being able to implement the server side portion of eac is very much different from eac actively causing lag the same post you copy/pasted makes it very clear that if the price was right orbit would have continued to use eac, so obviously they were satisfied with its lack of performance issues battleye on the other hand was a disaster the first time it was implemented, and the second wasnt much better imo

fairfight is worthless without a client side anticheat

and its balanced out by having a minimum of 5 seconds before any damage can occur yes this is a strength, but as i said its also a weakness - the face that you're almost never certain of the exact location a grenade will land (especially with the damage delay) makes it more difficult to use than a weapon that fires in a perfectly straight line stacking the same weapon can be useful but it also means there's more people on the team with the exact same weaknesses, having run 4 opgl teams and having faced 4 opgl teams it really becomes apparent that someone who can exploit those weaknesses will take you apart pretty easily

the situation might suck, but at the end of the day even the broken eac was doing better than anything apb had or has had since then, and orbit wasnt willing to pay for that

there's no price too high for your game being the most hacker free since it was released oh hang on, actually its the amount of money eac cost

i don't think explosives work well in baylan either, any mode where spawns are frequent and limited to specific locations is vulnerable to explosives the only thing i can really agree with here is that the 40mm grenades and their trails are difficult to see and that should be changed the opgl has more freedom of movement because it also has the longest delay of all the weapons mentioned and the same ability to arc the grenade around corners is also a drawback because the grenade does not go exactly where the crosshair are pointed

maybe a game mode that doesn't work with all the weapons is a shitty game mode and should be replaced with something else

phasing is really low on that list, not a big fan of that

what a stupid opinion

it really depends on the change, its not like every nerf can be performed in a perfect vacuum either - even something like the ntec that many people thought was too op getting nerfed ended up with several other ARs getting caught up in the rebalancing

its a video game bro so it doesnt matter if cheating is breaking the rules