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  3. Posted

    I'm sure everybody knows by now how low the population is, making a thread about it won't solve anything. All we can do is wait and hope that things progress in the near future. Also there was a jump in players when the countries were in lockdown. Of course eventually the left again. 

     

    I agree they should have done something by now, but LO biggest mistake was that they didn't expect the engine upgrade would take them so long to finish. This is why we are still waiting and nothing has changed

  8. Posted

    3 hours ago, CookiePuss said:

    I guess let's just nerf everything.

    If you try to make a weapon more balanced so it's equal to other similar weapons how can you call that a nerf? Having more balanced weapons is not only good for players, but also for the company. Many times new players asked the question what weapons should they buy, the answer was always the same. How can a company get any profit If let's say 80% players only buy and use those 5 meta weapons?

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  9. Posted

    Everybody knows what's wrong with the PMG, it's to much accurate. With other SMGs even if your tracking is 100% some bullets will still miss the target. With PMG this doesn't happen, that's why it's more reliable and players favorite. It needs range reduced

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  10. Posted

    On 6/23/2020 at 8:57 PM, RespectThis said:

    Internet connection and rig aren't a good excuse for not wanting to face better players. Yeah it sucks but thats more on the player not the devs/game.

    All i'm saying is if you have bad internet connection and problems with the game, you will not be able to play at 100% capacity and you will have a big disadvantage when playing against players that are already batter then you. 

    How can you say it's not devs fault. People used to play this game with Dual-Core processors in the old days with no problems. Now you need top end CPU and the game still doesn't run good. It's clear that in all the years they messed up the game code and made the game unplayeble

     

    On 6/23/2020 at 9:05 PM, Abduct / Devote said:

    If you're able to play without dethreating and getting performance issues, I see zero reason for others to dethreat even more so due to PC problems. If you're doing bad due to a bad pc, you'll dethreat naturally. The issue isn't that, it's the intentional. It causes griefing to actual new players in the bronze districts. They need a place to learn. 

    I always wonder how many more players we would have if dethreaters wouldn't scare them away. The game is dying because of them and it seems like nothing is done on this matter

    On 6/23/2020 at 9:07 PM, MrChan said:

    Players dethreat because they want easy matches where they win the whole time.

    The only reason players started dethreating was so they wouldn't be facing cheaters. But i'm sure now they just do it to get easier opponents. I remember it well when we gold players were locked to gold districts. So many complaining on the forums, a lot players left, some started to dethreat. Even after they later on undo the changes, some dethreaters didn't stop. We had this problem ever since

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    5 hours ago, RespectThis said:

    A variety of reasons. Because of "gold cheaters" is one of them. Dethreating to go to bronze district is no excuse for not wanting to verse better and more coordinated players. Only way to get better is to verse better players anyway. Even with a reworked system i guarantee you people will still dethreat.  Going against low gold and silver groups only really happens often when the games population is low like it currently is. Even in a group of 2-3 its hard to find opposition for me and my buddies. There still seems to be a hidden threat system behind the bronze, silver, gold. At the end of the day you have to take the training wheels off at some point. Can't just hide in bronze forever. 

    There isn't really that many cheaters in the game as most players claim. I agree dethreating is not the way and should be stopped. Yes the only way to get better is to play against better players, but you must understand not every person has a good pc and internet connection. I for one have a decent pc, as far as i can see my fps is around 120 to 144 fps but i get crazy stutters and i die all the time because of them (yes i do have SSD). I pretty much all the time play solo because i am not an active player and all the people i played with don't play anymore. Often get a silver on my team, playing on Citadel server.

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  13. Posted

    19 hours ago, RespectThis said:

    Matchmaking is pretty low on the priorities imo. Biggest issues with matchmaking is all the dethreaters going down to the bronze district. 

    And why do players dethreate? Gold threat is to easy to achieve. The gap between high gold and low gold players is way too big! Matchmaking puts high premade group against random low gold and silver groups. Of course better team always easily wins and goes on a win streak of 20... So yeah i do believe with a proper matchmaking dethreaters wouldn't exist

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  14. Posted

    7 hours ago, RespectThis said:

    The engine update has very little to do with the decrease in player population imo. Its how the game has aged in terms of weapon balancing, added content, and terrible interaction with the community from the moderators. Its poor and lack luster. Irawn also makes a great point about how the console version was released before any sort of forward motion on PC. Pretty crazy to focus on console when your ENTIRE player base is on PC.  

    What are you talking about, engine upgrade has a lot to do with how the game is right now. The company decided to put everything on hold and focus only on the new engine. Bugs were piling up and never got fixed, a lot of things like matchmaking never got addressed, nothing new was added (except for some weapons so the money was flowing). Sure APB was never perfect, but before we actually got some updates, then it stopped completely...

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  15. Posted

    Would adding a new map be a good idea? The old two maps Financial and Waterfront could be abandoned, players who would want to rank up could have a hard time. Maybe instead of adding a new complete map, they could instead add new places to the two existing maps

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  19. Posted · Edited by DeadPixels

    On 6/8/2020 at 2:25 PM, TheSxW said:

    after you see someone i s clearly dethreating just let him win the mission so he will not lose thread 😉

    You apparently don't know how thread works in APB. If you are on the winning team you can still dethreat. It all depends on player score, have seen it happen multiple times. Also if you don't kill anybody and only do the objectives you can obtain gold. 

  21. Posted · Edited by DeadPixels

    22 minutes ago, heelruby said:

    not every process shows up in the task manager, there may be some hidden processes that will only show up in the resource monitor (task manager > performance > resource monitor)

    Nothing in the resource monitor. When i start it it shows APB Launcher. exe and BugReport. exe, then if i close it is says terminated for 1 minute and it disappears

     

    Tried starting game from APB Reloaded\Binaries\APB. exe and get in normally, but got error ''This client's version is incorrect''. So luncher doesn't work

  22. Posted

    Keep getting the same problem. I pressed on APB icon and waited for update to download. Then it asked me for permission to install BE. After that was done i got this error. Repair button doesn't work and i can't start my game. Kevkof there is no APB processes in my task manager, i did try restarting pc and it didn't help

  23. Posted

    On 2/26/2020 at 8:47 AM, illgot said:

    I do not feel dethreating is the massive issue people think it is.

    This is how my normal day in APB looked like when i played solo...
    start APB
    wait 1 minute for the game to load to the menu
    spam 5 minutes to get into the district
    ready up
    wait 5 to 15 minutes to get a mission with opposition
    notice i'm playing solo vs two players because i have a detheater on my team

    still played couple minutes but then decided to give up and go afk

    ok mission over, wait again 5 to 15 minutes for a new game

    missions starts, again 2v2, again a detheater on my team

    esc -> exit game GG WP, an hour of my time well spent.

     

    Nothing wrong with dethreating, it must be just in my head

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  25. Posted

    18 hours ago, NandoSeee said:

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    I remember when i bought a new pc in 2016 and i was so happy because i thought it's going to fix everything, but it didn't. My fps went up by 70 fps, stutters still remained

    11 hours ago, ExoticZ said:

    Despite having a good computer myself, I experience microstutters pretty much everyday.

    Normally they come every now and then when I'm fighting an enemy player. Fairly certain that the "blood" of the character is what causes these microstutters to happen.

    I'm surprised you have stutters, i sometimes watch your twitch and it's very smooth, stuttering should be noticeable.

     

    I also think it's something about the blood, because whenever a not so skilled player is shooting in my direction my game is smooth, but always when i play aginst good players it's constantly stuttering. So when a bad player missed my character i had a smooth experience, but when a good play hit my character i couldn't even play normally.

    5 hours ago, TzickyT said:

    i guess u have to wait for the engine upgrade than.

    That's what we've been doing for many years

    1 hour ago, NotZombieBiscuit said:

    Why do people never mention what drive they have. Especially with how much better APB runs on an SSD compared to a HDD. 

    Moving the game from HDD to SSD does help, but it doesn't fix the problem

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