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  2. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Monolillity said:

    It's a really bold idea.

     

    You're onto something here. If anything it would be an easy try? Right and because of that who cares if it fails if you could get a busy server going if it doesn't, that people have to pay for? The salt is kind of curious on this one. 🤣

    3 minutes ago, Monolillity said:

    It's an extra server right? And PR? This would definitely be PR. Maybe not the one you'd go for but I get the idea here. Someone say there is no such thing as bad PR but... no you still have the server that is moderated. Hiring a GM would be nice.

    i don't think you're factoring in the actual potential costs

    what happens if little orbit says "its okay to be a nazi in our game" or "it's okay to sexually harass people in our game" and apb gets removed from steam? if the ongoing deal to get apb listed on epic games is put on hold? if the server provider that apb uses decides to terminate the contract? if the storm of negative publicity begins to affect little orbits other business ventures?
     

    the problem with using shock advertising and negative pr is if the resulting controversy gets too much attention, other companies will do anything they can to show "the public" that they aren't involved

     

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  3. Posted

    2 minutes ago, NikkiCasinoKnows said:

    This is true but at the very start it wasn't enforced in a way you see today. If you claim otherwise I'd start doubting you being there... the key point to take is you do not have to play there if you don't want to, you might even see less of what you complain about on your "current" favorite server because people do not play at two servers at once. Still most of the population I'm talking about isn't currently in the 300 player pool. This idea makes the current server more "fun" for those people you want to protect, do you see the irony in the statement you make?

    the only thing that wasn't enforced in rtw was the anticheat, because it literally broke the game when it was enabled

     

    i'm not trying to protect anyone, i'm questioning how many players are left once you remove the categories i listed

    my opinion is "not many" - the amount of people who don't play apb because it has too many rules is incredibly small

     

    actually, we can add a fourth category to the list - no cheaters will play the unrestricted server because the whole point of cheats is to have an advantage over other people that don't have cheats

  4. Posted

    Just now, NikkiCasinoKnows said:

    nobody will play on the current server, we can discuss why but it's useless

     

    an unrestricted server will have every roach you can imagine on it

    who is "every roach" ?
     

    the casual players won't play there because they'll get stomped on

    the new players won't play there because they'll get harassed until they quit

    the veterans won't play there because playing with cheats isn't fun

     

     

     

    4 minutes ago, NikkiCasinoKnows said:

    Unrestricted the game is what it made big in the first place, everything done after has declined it.

    apb has always had restrictions - rtw had a ToS, and an anticheat, and GMs just like every other game

  5. Posted

    1 hour ago, NikkiCasinoKnows said:

    make a whole lot of $$$ with a game, company and community that can do this

    make money from who?

    i hate to break it to you, but the majority of players are never in danger of breaking the current rules so it would not benefit them if those rules were removed

     

    the small minority of players who would benefit from no rules are not going to spend enough money to support the game

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  8. Posted

    22 minutes ago, Y2Venom said:

    nope, nobody said that ever ?? 

    On 6/26/2023 at 7:51 AM, MACKxBOLAN said:

    B. Most Golds Cheat that are in NA, or are in groups with cheaters that are knowns.

    On 6/26/2023 at 7:51 AM, MACKxBOLAN said:

    cuz no way any active gold, 

    Active being a daily all day player. Could hold his gold or get to gold with all these hackers.

    yeah my bad its just "most" golds, and everyone who plays actively

     

    like the whole population plays actively

     

     

  10. Posted

    5 hours ago, BlatMan said:

    It renders for 1/3 the shots, and sometimes it is so delayed I see it after I killed the player.

     

    I wonder if it's related to the radar bug introduced when the  Raptor 45 'Condor' was added. Players used to show up on radar for every shot fired, and the red dot would follow them. After the 'Condor' addition, it stopped following players, and many shots don't show up on radar for every weapon. Players leaning out of a vehicle sometimes have the red dot blink twice, even though they shot once. The 'Condor' often does not show up on radar, even after the player with it killed another player.

     

    Regardless, I rather have a health value like in Counter Strike.

     

    Off topic rant about networking.

     

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    Then there's the network problems that often don't show hitmarkers, even though you know you hit the player because they died. It's not a ping issue, because for me it happens mostly on US West, and occasionally on US East and EU West. Last few times I played on EU West, my ping was fluctuating between 90ms and 300ms, but my hit registration and overall server responsiveness was near perfect, other then the latency. There were no missing hit markers, and I didn't die behind cover like I do on US.

     


     

    Support is kinda useless, although it's not their fault. They ask you to run trace routes. It's useless, because the end user can't see the internal routing between the DDoS protection nodes and the district server. The end user cannot tell where each individual packet is being sent. ICMP can be taking one route, and APB's UDP packets another route. Upstream packet loss cannot be measured by the end user, and low amounts of packet loss on the downstream shows 0 in game. They'd need to get Path involved to figure out where stuff is getting mixed up, but they probably don't have the resources to troubleshoot.

     

     

    it seems like the underlying issue is the poor netcode, in which case there’s no change to the HUD that can fix that - a health bar will be just as delayed as damage indicators or gun shots or any of the other current mehcanics

     

  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, Yapopal said:

    The health interface is useless. It begins to manifest itself a fraction of a second before death. There is also no sound of bullets hitting. That is, it is completely unclear to me whether I was shot or not. The combination of performance problems, stuttering, ping reduces the time for which the player can react. The game is not aimed at the average player...

    you don’t notice the giant red directional arrows?

  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, Nerima said:

    There is very old and simple program called "image ghost" written by ShadReX from Red Squadron (one of the oldest clans in apb). I dont know if current devs team are, but all of the old players must be familliar with it, as well as every apb creator who've spent more time in social district creating stuff than in actual combat.

    Basically, this program lets you take any image and place it above all of the windows with adjustable transparecy, to help you recreate any image in apb editor - it was helping people create amazing symbols for more than 10 years now. And yes, now it's bannable. Why? Because LO didnt bother to actually configure the EAC to fit their game, not to mention that possibly they have no idea about such things, because apb is one of the games where community keeps itself alive (just hire actual apb veterans to run support team, really).

    why use an unknown program to do this when there are multiple free software options that do the same thing?

  16. Posted

    8 hours ago, Ebola-Chan said:

     

    This is the least of the problems for new coming players, this game is way outdated in alot of aspects the biggest ticket which was customization is not that special anymore, and graphically its really outdated (which is a big deal for a lot of people).

    LO is doing some good work now, but its way too late. They preferred working on a flop NFT game and abandon apb for another crucial year, and the train only gets farther and farther.   

    progression is a huge part of retaining players - proper progression can legitimately make up for gameplay flaws if it’s addicting exciting enough, but apb doesn’t have that

  17. Posted · Edited by glaciers

    2 hours ago, Ebola-Chan said:


    You might be right about that, im not 100% since i didnt really play apb since LO took over, but im pretty sure you can buy permanently weapons with JT now? If so then what i said is pretty valid.

    yes it might take you ALOT of time to get these weapons, but it is still possible and you dont have to pit a cent into the game, especially now that everyone has premium.

     

    i think the point is that it still takes a lot of time, if you tell a new player that these days it will "only" take them 6 months to unlock a fully modded weapon they aren't going to debate the finer points of p2w definitions, they'll just say that's stupid and go play something with more accessible content

     

     

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  19. Posted

    5 hours ago, BlatMan said:

    Phasing will ruin matchmaking. No one wants waiting times in a game that's basically team deathmatch.

    but we already have waiting times, what do you think the 20 minutes of unopposed missions before every match against silvers is?

  23. Posted

    12 minutes ago, Aka2k said:

    Ban people who teabags too. It's toxic as well. Stop trying to pretend LO is not overreacting and picking what's right/wrong to say. Beside, this is not even the point, the point is how exaggerated is to ban someone for running their mouths like it's the worst offense in a game filled with hackers and griefers. Chat ban people like any other normal game, stop this snowflake behavior of banning people because opinions and words.

     

    Also, before you get any ideas, I hardly say anything in the game. And I do use a lot of the ignore function because every type of a-hole that run their mouths - from liberals to brats bragging. I'm fine with the ignore function. Let the big mouths talking to themselves, I don't care as long they are not hacking or running trucks over people playing missions.

    so if they dont ban cheaters they shouldn't ban anyone else either? weird logic

     

    griefers get banned, we've had multiple threads of griefers whining about bans

     

    setting aside that its entirely within LO's rights to pick what can and can't be said, they aren't even overreacting - perma bans for behavior only happen after temp bans have already been issued, if someone can't or won't take the hint that their behavior needs to change then get rid of them

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  25. Posted · Edited by glaciers

    59 minutes ago, Yapopal said:

    Killing yourself with a grenade twice and texting the leader is pretty easy... But it's stupid, especially if the leader doesn't know how to kick players... Why this headache? I do not like the enemy or teammates - went out and forgot. Why pull the cat by the balls? Why waste time and nerves?

    idk how many more ways i can explain this

     

    you ready up

    you get a mission

    your opponents all leave because they say the match is unfair

    the mission ends immediately, no rewards are given

    you ready up again

    you get another mission

    your opponents all leave again because they say the match is unfair

    the mission ends immediately, no rewards are given

    you ready up again

    you get another mission

    your opponents all leave again because they say the match is unfair

    the mission ends immediately, no rewards are given

    you ready up again

    you get another mission

    your opponents all leave again because they say the match is unfair

    the mission ends immediately, no rewards are given

     

    it has been 1 hour and you have not been able to play the game, do you continue?

     

     

     

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