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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

having not played in a while i cant speak to the cheater issue myself (not that i had much faith in battleye being resurrected like discount jesus), but ive recently seen people complaining about both being moderated by GMs and being falsely banned so theres definitely something happening - whether one is satisfied with the level of happening is up to them, but i think its unfair to compare them to g1 leaving the servers running and going on vacation also, why'd you asterisk "honest answer" in the thread title but theres no footnote in the post?

really not helping your case there friend

i would have assumed an alien such as yourself would have access to way cooler video games than apb

well if breaking the rules because its a video game is fine, then why are you even worried about cheaters - obviously it doesnt matter if they cheat because its only a video game

expecting a gm to investigate everyone's wild hackusations is completely unrealistic, even with the low pop numbers apb has now theres probably a hundred or more hackusations a day calling someone a cheater without any proof can impact their gameplay or their treatment within the community, and it looks bad for orbit from an image perspective to have the forums filled with toxic player interactions like hackusations if you go around irl calling people burglars and telling the police theyve broken into someones house just because they wear all black clothing you run the risk of being sued or arrested, why would you expect to behave like that ingame?

unit games owns the ip but little orbit essentially got free licensing rights baked into the sales contract, so orbit can't sell apb reloaded because even tho they're allowed to develop the game as they wish unit game is ultimately the owner

they sold the ip which means they no longer own apb reloaded or any of its assets afaik, they retain development/creative control over the game apb reloaded specifically but because unit game owns the ip i'd assume they have the final say in any potential change of ownership of course i could be wrong, but even if orbit can sell their creative control over apb reloaded what kind of company would want to buy a game that they don't own and can't expand beyond?

good thing silvers are only balancing all the weapons then innit?

its already been sold mate, little orbit can't resell something they no longer own

considering orbit has already made major to minor changes for 30+ guns, idk if it would really be less work

a 10 second google search will give anyone access to programs that can fake hwids, so while more barriers like this aren't necessarily a bad thing its also not some magical cheater proof solution

maybe we'll finally get that apb mobile app from unit game