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its not purely that you cant play well with the current balance, its that its often just not enjoyable to do so 30-40 kills of holding m1 and tracking your opponent until rng blesses you with enough oca shots to kill them is not engaging gunplay

you mean you dont like being arbitrarily rewarded or punished regardless of your skill level because rng actively removes player control from a game designed around precise player input? nah ur just mad ur crutch is nerfed haha get owned

the three vehicles most heavily used in carplay (pioneer, espacio, and vegas 4x4) all received direct and indirect nerfs, so you're kind of wrong there don't really know what to say to this, it seems fairly clear that many veterans who use the forums disagree with many of the weapon balance changes little orbit has made so it seems like the supposed "manipulation" isn't working

https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2021/1/22/apb-2021-roadmap

a mod that decreases "weapon damage" would affect both hp damage and hard damage like heavy barrel does, altho since this mod would effectively render hard damage to 0 if there was a player in the vehicle you wouldnt want to use it with an anti vehicle weapon anyway would be an interesting mod to have on ltl tho, as stamina damage is not affected by the "weapon damage" multiplier and it would allow at least some counterplay to opp carplaying

its less time before it becomes a waste of space, less waste of space overall, and less time consuming/frustrating to get rid of once it becomes a waste of space also knowing that they aren't going to get something absolutely worthless from their loyalty box should make the box more appealing and therefore encourage (probably minimally, but minimal is better than nothing) players to spend more

and then you stop getting leases for it because you own it permanently and the leases aren't sitting in your mailbox, because you've redeemed them, because they are leases for something you don't have

id rather have 40 leases of a single gun that i dont own permanently than 38 leases of guns i already own that will just sit in my mailbox taking up space

https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2021/1/22/apb-2021-roadmap

they probably wont be adding any new regional servers until they get the crossplay/DAM/phasing sorted out, but afterwards i imagine the obstacle would be money so anything's possible

gonna go out on a limb here and say that unless you're claiming to be tiggs then you can't be 100% certain that she didn't falsely ban people source: https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2018/5/25/two-week-update-qa-notes-from-my-stream even if it wasn't tiggs herself, her teams were apparently still handing out whatever bans they saw fit, which is basically the same as tiggs pushing the button herself imo

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