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the temptress is being held back as f2p content for the next contacts last we were told

12/5 is thursday??????? edit: com wuz here

make sure you actually activate it for everyone this time :^)

nice to see little orbit digging through g1's old playbook of scummy sales tactics, just in time for the holiday season the old glory is $10 more expensive than every other weapon with 3 preset modifications, and $6 more expensive than any gun with 3 open slots doesn't even need to be a limited time offer afaik (not like the old glory is going to destroy apb weapon balance), its just another attempt to cash in on an overpriced armas addition i get that once the sale discount and premium discount are stacking correctly the old glory will only be like $18 dollars, but i'm mostly just irritated about the principles

when you run out of money

suh dude

like using ff to ban people for random reasons and then flat out lying that all ff bans were for cheating? ecksdee

i think theres more people complaining about ntec mains in this thread than people actually complaining about the new test a ntec nerf

classic little orbit

having trouble getting excited about more preset clothing tbh, altho at least this time the preset symbols are included separately and from the preview these look like actual outfits instead of the same preset symbol slapped onto 5 random clothing items

the condor has always been 45m iirc, and it's not like you should really be using at 45-50m anyway not sure why you would think "fix n-tec" means the same thing as "fix assault rifles"

well at least 3stk across the whole weapon class was scrapped, so at least one person on the balance team is actually thinking

not great at cqc due to high ttk and 3stk, not great at range because low effective range and pellet spread might as well just use a thunder, it’s better at being a ranged shotgun and it doesn’t take up a primary weapon slot

considering a player can achieve gold without ever firing a shot, aiming skill may be helpful but it’s definitely not necessary and even if it was, there used to be a player who maintained gold threat with no hands - if the average silver can’t outperform a legitimately handicapped player then how can they recognize the difference between a really good player and a really good cheater?

iirc the main issue was people potentially hoarding names, which is a thing in basically every single online community ever and really doesn't matter much

because chances are if someone doesn't know enough about apb to get gold they also probably don't know enough to reliably judge who is cheating

thread title makes me lol out loud

yeah the forum mod is gonna go have a talk with eu customs to show who’s boss spoiler: it’s not the forum mod

haha yeah man riot was great, no issues at all i still think riot should have been anarchy/chaos districts but with randomly generated objectives this would have allowed orbit to push out riot super fast, and given them a solid base to “test themselves” on by adding content (new objectives, new mode variations, new weapon balance, etc) over time, as opposed to spending a year developing riot only to delete it within a month

we have basically same devs we had under g1, iirc it was stated when orbit took over that they were rolling a majority of current g1 devs over into orbit

there’s a message when you delete a character that it could take up to 90 days (or is it minutes?) for the character name to become available again iirc

heavy barrel reduces bloom not recoil, it doesn't have much effect on the tommy gun and heavy barrel itself is almost worthless, as the benefits are almost never worth the loss of damage (and therefore the higher ttk)

the servers are down dude chill

you can outrange the ogre even with other cqc weapons, it has like 10m of effective range because it’s spread is so wide if you want an actual example of a broken cqc weapon, grab a pmg with ir3 and laugh as you min ttk ogres at 40m

weapon balance is one of the few things that can be done to apb in its current state without needing to pull devs away from other more important projects like the engine upgrade weapon balance is also a very big problem in apb, i’m not sure why it would be “the last thing to do”, i would reserve that spot for aesthetic/graphical changes i will agree that little orbits balancing efforts have been more bad then good but they’ve clearly taken note of this, recent changes have been excessively conservative and they’ve been allowing the entire community to both test and provide feedback on them “fun” is pretty subjective, i personally enjoyed the Kill Mattscott/Kill the GM events, the Autumn Assault event, and last year’s Epidemic halloween event i agree that riot was an objective failure and one made worse by little orbit claiming it was “just for testing” after the community (rightfully) blasted it, as if you put out hype a year in advance and do press releases for “just a test” i actually feel the opposite about the showstoppers the base showstopper is overtuned, it’s slightly too competitive in cqc for a secondary weapon the thunder is very well balanced, i’m not sure why you’re complaining about ttk when it has essentially the same ttk as the fbw and it can easily hit min ttk all the way out to 25m - it’s a risk/reward oriented gun, if you can land all your shots you have a powerful shotgun secondary that can outrange almost every other cqc weapon, if you miss then you’ve got a long unforgiving ttk the new glory ttks are also fine imo especially given how easy it is to partially circumvent the marksmanship mod penalty, what really leaves the gun underwhelming is it’s accuracy - hipfire accuracy is too low to truly take advantage of its lower ttk, and marksmanship accuracy suffers from “LCRness” where it constantly drops shots that artificially lengthen ttk at the end of the day legendaries aren’t supposed to be “legendary” super guns, they’re simply intended to have a unique playstyle or mechanic that “normal” guns do not i think you should take those rose tinted glasses off under g1 the game went down for multiple weeks at a time some years under g1 the servers were intentionally downgraded multiple times, despite g1 showing the community “proof” (via indecipherable or irrelevant graphs) that the new option would be better under g1 the community was repeatedly told that the ddos issue was being fixed, all the way up until they sold the game to another company, still with the exact same ddos issue under g1 there often wouldn’t be any compensation if the downtime was only for a day or two i can’t say i like the way little orbit has been going about things so far but at the end of the day it’s clear they’re genuinely trying to better the game, that alone puts them ahead of the company that actively dumpstered apb over the course of 7 years thank you for coming to this week’s Apb Anonymous meeting, please make sure to check in with your sponsors on the way out