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golds can't really play atm either, waiting 30 minutes for each mission or repeatedly getting a bunch of lowbies that don't even know how to jump isnt exactly the optimal apb experience

seems like you need aquire a video card that supports alpha blending with floating point render targets, since that's required to run this game

seems pretty contradictory

the csg had been a solid part of the meta (with the jg trailing ever so slightly behind) until rayscaling, so i’m not really sure what op’s talking about ontopic: rayscaling is a crutch that allows players with poor aim to ignore shotguns intentional balancing and get easy ttks

what exactly does it mean to “prepare for a ban” ?

have you just been sitting here refreshing the thread every 5 minutes? otherwise im not sure how you would know lol

please visit a doctor veterinarian asap

it’s not preventing abuses it’s openly allowing them removing the penalties for dethreating alone will actively encourage more people to do so and those people will still go and stomp on bronze/silver players, bleeding the population from both ends of the skill spectrum it’s very easy to manipulate score in order to affect your threat level, especially when the system assigns you a low consistency rating, as it does with dethreaters all your suggested system does is have little orbit stop banning the few dethreaters they already do yes let’s just allow even more ToS violations that’s how we make apb a better game

i think that usually only applies to games that get new content so not apb :^)

not only would allowing dethreaters to freely exploit the system mean that more matches in gold districts are ruined by afk players, but since the only way for these dethreaters to stay in bronze for any length of time is to lose missions they’ll be artificially boosting genuine bronze/silver players to higher threats - leading to an ever increasing loop of players dethreating, or quitting altogether

who would have thought that game development was complicated and unpredictable shocking really

what exactly would this solve? youd still likely have massive skill imbalance in each solo match, and now people are further discouraged from grouping because they’ll be forced to use the “try hard gold” instance

joker boxes are different (and i’d assume the most profitable items on armas) due to the gambling mechanics, since for every player that buys a legendary through the ingame mp another player had to buy at least 5$ of g1c i doubt the intent was ever to allow players to rack up the entire joker store inventory, although (and i doubt the devs thought this far) the ability to do so will inevitably encourage some people to try, since apb is all about the grind there is wiggle room but i think almost doubling potential fc rewards is a bit much, especially considering the mission jt reward system has yet to be fine tuned and in the future more activities game modes could be added imo it’s less frustrating to deal with a slightly slow accumulation now than it will be to potentially have max earnings taken away in the future

while a change like this would certainly encourage the purchase of new clothing, i think the most common situation would be someone who already owns an item buying a customized version from someone else who already owns an item - so instead of you seeing a nice armas jacket and deciding to spend $10 and x apb$ to get it, you would just be spending apb$

ur wrong

joker ticket rewards have to be treated very carefully, with permanent weapons now available in the joker store every joker ticket directly effects little orbits bottom line

i feel like armas items should be tradeable as long as both parties have purchased the item individually with such a large percentage of cosmetics locked behind a paywall only allowing f2p items to be traded is pretty limiting for someone looking to buy a cooler outfit than they can make themselves

the best weapons from armas would be a 3slot pmg/ntec/obeya/hvr but someone just starting out probably won’t get much use out of them immmediately, unless they invest the time to “master” them the exception is probably the pmg - it’s just pure m1 ez out to about 40m, and it’s available in the ‘dress to kill’ bundles on armas character bound only atm

i’ve grown tired of a million silvers suffering from dunning-kruger related delusions

outside of mission activities are affected, as are individual kills but thats it afaik i could be wrong - its been ages since i finished a mission at n5/p5, i either get killed by a random or faction kill some other random

do regional districts spin up according to connecting players' locations? i.e. are both servers LA because there's more west coast/asian/aussie players connected?

iirc when the Score system was introduced, end of mission rewards were changed to no longer be effected by notoriety level

no

the shredder isnt even as accurate as the thunder (albeit very close), there's definitely room for improvement