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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

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?