Snubnose

really looking forward to this. I love it that you guys actually give a damn about this game and what the community says. can't say that about RP. Also, so far you've done a great job. Battleye, the Trading System, de-bundling items, Friend System rework, critical bug fixes (fire hydrant "wallhack" + yukon fire rate for example), the upcoming new halloween event that is kinda "turf war-ish" and even weapon balance changes were huge accomplishments in my book, even though some people didn't like some of the balance changes. But please, don't let go from further tweaking weapons just because you had some backlash on the shotgun changes, you've learned your lesson. There are still many guns that need to get tweaked a bit. (got a suggestion thread in my signature about that, check it out!) gotta say, overall you've done quite a bit of good for APB in just 5 month. good luck with all your other games! I'm actually interested in Descent, gonna check that out.

wow, didn't expect actual content untill UE3.5 is finished... atleast we have something to do while waiting (instead of playing other games LUL) thanks for that!

what happens when there are sales? I'm usually always waiting for a sale to buy premium. will the subscriptions get discounts too? if yes, in what way?

I hope premium will get a nerf (actually more like non-premium gets buffed)... not even kidding, the gap between non-premium and premium is huge... not having premium robs you from all the great customization this game provides. I mean come on, 3 decals on a piece of clothing, 7 decals on a vehicle and 25 creating a symbol? that's just way too limited. also, the XP and $$$ grind is a huge pain. I'd suggest increase the decal limit to 25 for clothes and vehicles and 50 for symbols. also, reduce the cash and XP gain gap. maybe give non-premium a 50% boost in both, while taking away these 50% from the 130% and 90% we already have, making it a +80% and +40% boost on cash and XP. premium would stay the same that way, and non-premium wouldn't be such a huge pain. EDIT: lmao forgot about the cooldown on mods... remove that and make every mod have -50% cooldown in general, it's the only real "pay 2 win" aspect this game has right now...

@Lixil ok, it's been quite some time and I'm still missing 2x200 JT's... should I contact support or is this going to get fixed soon?

So don't worry. mate, I did not say the game will die soon... I said the opposite lmao. I'll quote you what I said at the bottom of my post: "conclusion: APB is dying, but won't be completely dead anytime soon." it's not going to die anytime soon. little orbit already made some great improvements to APB, and with the engine update it'll regain some population, but like I said - I don't think it's going to be as populated as back in 2012/13, but it'll probably live through 2020 and maybe even up to 2022.

APB is actually doing fine considering that it's so old, has been mistreated by G1 over the years and the community has gotten only worse... it's normal that games die out... honestly, I though this game would die a long time ago. yes it's on an all time low right now (although you gotta consider the people playing without steam, so probably +250 people on top). if the engine update hits, it's probably gonna spike to like 2500-3000 (my guess), but that'll die out pretty quick too, because nothing else has changed (slight graphics and (hopefully) some performance improvements is all we get) - yes, performance is important, but it's 2018 and the moajority of people already have PC's good enough to run this game. obviously, if you make APB run on every potato that'll make the community even bigger, but I think that's not the reason APB is struggling. other than that, the engine update doesn't deliver the "cure" APB needs. (because it's a lot more bigger and smaller issues that need changes) (originally, I typed a wall of text here regarding unreal engine 4, "APB 2", and how outdated APB is... but I removed that... went offtopic and I felt like most people wouldn't even read it, and the few that would read it wouldn't agree because "dOn'T ToUcH MuH GaEm MaN I wAnNa PLeH ThE SaMe GaEm aLl mUh LiFE!" ohwell...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ conclusion: APB is dying, but won't be completely dead anytime soon. but it sure as hell will never regain it's 2012/2013 population (only a BR mode could bring hype into APB. and I wouldn't mind even though I dislike BR)

the future of APB is scary enough man!

you changed: "Removed the Weapon Prototype districts." (OTW patch notes) to "Removed the Weapon Prototype districts until we have further balance changes ready for testing." does that mean weapon balance changes are paused for now? or does it just take some more time but it's still actively being worked on?

dude, there's plenty (modern) games that have the "over the shoulder" aim (with a crosshair, instead of looking through your scope). it's called third person shooter lmao. but yea, what you're talking about is games that have both, third person and first person. APB doesn't have first person and actually scoping through a scope would look bad and feel even worse... also, here are some modern third person shooter that use the exact same (in your opinion) "outdated" mechanism: GTA 5 Tom Clancys The Division The Last of Us Red Dead Redemtion Mass Effect Gears of War Fortnite Splatoon the list goes on and on.... I agree on the "no" part though, I think the RSA should stick to it's high mag scope.

but he said something about "paying 200+ every time he spawns his car"... can't be a display point >_>

>actually buying ammo from a joker vending machine instead of through the inventory who even does that?

as far as im aware high mag scope gives the same accuracy bonus as hs3, just with a higher zoom level oh, I noticed the values are from HS3, but the (old) APBDB says "Increases benefit of Marksmanship mode slightly", whereas "slightly" is the description for HS1. the ingame description of HMS says the correct HS3 value... the reason I always thought it's HS1 but with greater zoom is probably because the description was just wrong, and later on got fixed but I never noticed or forgot. (not sure though, but I was always thinking it is HS1, because of the "slightly") well, I edited my post to clear that up!

this. give it a scope but keep the High Mag Scope and add Improved Rifling 3. (I think high mag scope is something that should be used more often) with IR3 it would have 83.5m range (that's +13.5m)... the TTK would go from 1.7s to 2s thanks to the -18% firerate... IMO IR3 should have -10% firerate instead of -18%... the downside is just a bit too extreme on TTK... (I get it, they wanna put a break on close up stopping power for AR's, but AR's aren't the only weapons using IR3.) the -10% IR3 would then make the RSA TTK 1.87s instead of 2s. (ntec would go from 0.7s to 0.77s instead of 0.82s, which is fine IMO) EDIT: if IR3 stays as it is, don't put it on the RSA... the downside is too big that way.

suggestion ≠ question (wrong subforum buddy) yes, population is dying. how should you handle it? gotta deal with it. either play when people are online or change servers (citadel still has an active community, except for nighttime). hope for APB to recover, and get better in the future... maybe it'll regain some population...

wait, does that mean no more upcoming weapon changes?... Q_Q

bodykits... not everyone wants to spend money on a game that's struggling this much... maybe when things get better, but I've already spend enough on this game in the past years, my last purchase of 7 month premium for 25$ (last sale) is enough for now, so I rather buy bodykits from the joker store than throwing real money at this game also, saving up more JT's for future updates to the joker store... maybe we'll get more exclusive items than just a crown...

I'm also missing 2x200 JT's... I'll wait before I write a ticket, don't wanna clog up the system. I'm waiting on a word from LO on the forums... looking at you @Lixil

just checked again. like I said, the cheapest ursus is still 5m on the MP. edit: 10 hours late, I checked again. still the same, 5m is the lowest. and I'm not wrong when I said the lowest I've seen was 2.8m, others only had it slightly above that (2.9, 3.0 up to 3.5,)... I've been waiting to buy an ursus for quite some time now and it annoyed me that 2.8 was really cheap, but still slightly out of range for me. obviously the 2.8 and 2.9 ones were sold quite fast because of how much the sellers were undercutting eachother...

I never said it's not people, but the new trading system being tax free is the reason why it happened in the first place.

the 7-9m you're talking about was when the gun was still pretty new to the game, but it's been down to ~3m for quite some time now... (unless you didn't pay attention to what I said about this issue being citadel related and you're talking about jericho prices, I have no idea about NA) "consider yourself lucky to have a +2m price increase thanks to a new trading system turning the market prices upsidedown"... like, what?

ok, I think we really need to hear from LO at this point. because I'm still missing 2x200 JT's... is it time to contact support, or is this something you guys are still trying to figure out? @Lixil

I'm not lol. the thing is one of them told me he already sold 2 for 5m... maybe he's lying, maybe not... who knows in what timespan that happened... but if that's true, whoever bought them shredded lots of money...

ever since the new trading system was released, many people stopped putting up their guns on the marketplace to avoid taxes. the problem is, prices on the marketplace therefore skyrocketed and "traders" are now using this to sell their legendaries for more money than before. (citadel, btw.) here's an example: the 'Ursus' was worth ~3 million, lowest I've seen before the trading system released was 2.8m. now, with the new trading system, the cheapest it goes is 5-6m. I wanted to buy an Ursus through the trading system so I asked in chat, and 2 people contacted me... both said the price for ursus is 5m, whereas the price was slightly below 3m just a few days ago. same goes for other guns... I've been looking at the ogre and volcano, both skyrocketed just like the ursus. it's pretty frustrating to me so I kinda felt like ranting on the forums... oh and by the way, if anyone from citadel would like to sell / trade their ursus for a reasonable price (2.8-3.5m), please contact me ingame (Snubnose).

/dab