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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, yourrandomnobody74 said:

    Of course, the servers have always been an issue in this game, ever since they downgraded the hardware (to keep server costs low) in G1 days and change of server tickrate, the servers have been wonky sometimes.

    But, how can you be so sure that every hitreg problem reported is caused by flawed netcode? In a game that fundamentally relies on RNG/Bloom as much as APB, after having played games which lack it, I can't say for certain anymore.

    I just know that this game needs a radical shift in game design if it wants to start to get people hooked to the overall gameplay. 

    Make weapons reliable and most importantly CONSISTENT, without the need of modding (mods shouldn't affect ttk and bloom in any game that tries to be a shooter) it.

    You can certainly toss some of it up to random bloom, lack of tracers, and hit decals/blood splatters/etc being client side to causing a large amount of what are thought to be ghost shots. Ghost shots and hit reg used to be faaar worse back in like 2013. It still certainly happens today but is over exaggerated by a lot of people.

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  3. Posted

    8 hours ago, NotTheEnforcer said:

    1) Little Orbit.
    2) Gamersfirst was bought by LO.
    3) Yes. They could stop all work tomorrow if they wanted to.

    4) What about them? They dont exist as an entity anymore.

    5) See 4.

    6) They have. Gamersfirst is still used as a namesake address.

     

    I hope that answers everything.

    Gamersfirst is technically also the 'platform' and updating launcher and web store and web portal and backend login systems etc etc etc etc etc.

  4. Posted

    52 minutes ago, glaciers said:

    the rest of the text doesn't matter - for many people, only results matter at this point

     

    "learning" means nothing when we're five years in and orbit is still making the same mistakes they were making on day 1

    Don't bother vsb. You can't teach these people.

  5. Posted · Edited by NotZombieBiscuit

    14 minutes ago, R3ACT3M said:

    Basic weapons should be free yea


    Unmodded guns should be free and relatively easy to acquire. Then the free perma weapon choice should be one of mod ability 1 or 2 slots. That way new players can easily sink their teeth into the modding system of apb without feeling pressured to grind.

     

    The tutorial should give them a rank 1 or 2 mod as well and force them to jam it in the weapon they choose (but make sure it tells them it is not perm and changeable).

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  6. Posted

    11 minutes ago, R3ACT3M said:



    I think the worst roof hold is that one area in financial where the bridge overwatches 2 ladders to get to a hack/spray. Something like that needs to be fixed/have some kind of counter besides taking your car to a bridge with no cover.😄

    That place seriously needs a set of stairs at the front of it. Easy peasy fix  and actually moves attention to the entire rooftop, not just the little overwatch corner.

  9. Posted · Edited by NotZombieBiscuit

    7 hours ago, R3ACT3M said:

    Very true, can you come up with some examples?

     

    Merged.

     

     

    The easiest would be destructible that can just be simply jumped up on then jump off to get to higher ground. With the counter play being you can shoot the items or shoot the player during the jump. A more interesting variations is a series or 2-4 jumps that need to be completed to get somewhere. A mixture of long and high jumps preferable. The issue is they need to be NOT THE ONLY way to get up like some places. Another interesting addition is using a car to then jump on the car then to a spot then up. Which I think APB only really has two of those that are used? Both of which I'm pretty sure are unintentional. The main one being the camera on those stairs in waterfront that you use to get on to the back of the roofs rather than the single ladder and running around the entire rooftop while getting shot.

     

    In fact that's a great example of how badly it was done. The camera jump is so far ahead better than the trash ladder route and is the ONLY other accessible way up that destroying/using that camera becomes far more a priority than the intended ladder route. Though a lot of APB rooftops and 'holds' in general just need either more ways up or a better mix of ways up.

     

    APB has the ability to provide so many options of movement in play spaces that a lot of games don't get access to. Your basic stairs and ladders are a great foundation. But you can go so far with jumps, vehicle, spawning objects, destructible/moveable objects, etc. Should even let us headboost like you used to be able to sort of do, let me stand on allies properly like CS.

  11. Posted

    On 12/19/2022 at 4:39 PM, R3ACT3M said:

    Lmao poor silvers, it is surprising how many players don't understand that movement is key.
     

    Yea I suppose. I guess the core issue is the maps having some big gaps that leave you completely vulnerable. Matt did acknowledge that the maps needed tweaking (coughs and says waterfront) . I know financial has quite a few spots as well where it's a sort of king of the hill situation. Ladders are just not super fair when it comes to trying to flank enemies as they can make quite a bit of noise. (not saying to nerf the sound they make XD) But maybe add in some more spots where stairs are then have ladders in spots that give quicker access. A sort of Risk and reward thing. Ladders get you up there faster but can leave you vulnerable to attacks but if you do make it can put you in a good spot. While stairs are a safer and quieter choice for a possible flank attack. idk just spit balling.

    There needs to be some more jumping options too. Not just ladders and stairs. Stairs are always safe and slow. Ladders are fast and risky. But additional jumping routes are a nice middle ground that also give a huge degree of skill expression. It really shows how big movement is in APB and there needs to be more of it.

     

    Merged.

     

    On 12/19/2022 at 4:39 PM, R3ACT3M said:

    well my first worry is that a sniper projectile is much faster than an opgl rocket so I just imagine there is room for something like a sniper projectile to desync and/or be impossible to land in a game like this.

    Regarding the recoil thing, I personally would prefer if APB had more recoil and less bloom for it's weapons. This would make landing shots feel a lot more like a skill than your luck. I think LO just made too many guns bloom just too much. That's just my opinion though.

    I always wish APB took the more dirty bomb route with their aiming style. Longer ttk, low bloom, medium recoil. Go even harder in to the tracking/dueling side of the gameplay and aiming style. Even just lowering bloom but increasing recoil would be a nice direction to go in (though i'd like to see them fix visual recoil per resolution first).

  12. Posted · Edited by NotZombieBiscuit

    54 minutes ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

    I got news for ya, They already do 'Allow' aimbots, wallhacks, teleports ect.

    They shut off the anticheats n let golds into bronze encouraging bullying of lower threats.

     

         The aimbot is just one tool they have, its a matter of not just bots.

    Most have other players nearby ghosting for em, and or your team mate might be spying for them.

    Via Discord. Cheating, and or Exploiting is per say an Art form, a skill. 

    Not only the how-to's of aimbotting, but knowledge and manipulation of the MM, 

    running multiple accounts, private communication with like minded players.

    These people been doing this for years, been this way since before I started,

    n be this way long after I'm Dead. 

    I would pay to watch you play/stream/record video.

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  13. Posted

    12 hours ago, R3ACT3M said:

    I think one of the things i don't like about apb is that you can shoot under cars. Since you have some areas where there is just no cover for players to use besides their car.

    I think that is one of my favorite parts of APB. That cars are this interesting dynamic cover that almost no other games have. They are not this generic cover everything below the chest and shoot back and forth cover. But have a two dimensionality between the person in the cover and the one shooting in to the cover.

  14. Posted

    9 hours ago, Queen of Love said:

    Allow aimbot to every player always as default.

    Lets see how many goldies cheaters will complain.

    Cause they need stomp legits.

    So the game comes down to just gamesense and non aiming abilities. Of which golds have more of and continue to win more against lower skilled players?

     

    What is your point here?

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  15. Posted

    9 hours ago, Yapopal said:

    Thanks for the email to the developers. When changing the characteristics of weapons, you should think about ordinary players, this is the main resource for the existence of the game. You suggested increasing the characteristics of weak weapons, which is good, but. Consider the fact that the players are located in different parts of the world. Accordingly, the ping is different for everyone. I'm having trouble with my high ping. In the game, the time to kill is too short, especially with meta weapons. Perhaps the question should be looked at differently? Maybe lower the stats of the meta weapon? And perhaps it is worth removing the rate of fire from the game, which can be constantly used by resorting to a macro?

    This was partly an issue that G1 went down the road of too. TTK was lowered not on purpose (besides the main switch from RTW), but because they would continue to buff weapons more than nerf weapons. And this compounding on itself over years moved the TTK lower.

     

    Widespread buff to everything like Frosi implies is just yet another addition to this lowering of TTK.

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  16. Posted · Edited by NotZombieBiscuit

    2 hours ago, Roxane said:

    /facepalm

     

    You're seriously telling me to check the definition of discrimination.
    This is starting to get surreal.

     

    Where are you from then?

    Straya yeah struth mate go get a check at that definition and get that up ya duff oi righto swear on me mum you drongo

     

    Plus mod merged my supposedly 'discriminatory posts' so I guess they are either fine with it or it's not discrimination.

  17. Posted

    33 minutes ago, gremlen said:

    According to steamcharts 7 games in top 10 of highest online daily are all heavily based on pvp. Fortnite became super popular when Epic games abandoned the first pve gamemode and turned the game into battleroyale. H1Z1, the first original battleroyale, started as an open world survival that was badly received by many players and then devs turned the game into battleroyale pvp. The most popular multiplayer mode in minecraft is bed wars, a pvp gamemode. For some reason Elden Ring devs didn't make a coop mode, instead they added a pvp mode. I can tell much more examples of many games from the past that succeeded only because it had pvp gamemode.

    Last time when I saw PvE games getting a success was during mmorpg hype era when WoW on its peak had 10 millions subs. Right now I don't even know recent succeeded pve game with as big population as many modern pvp games.

    Top 10 is a little slim sample. If you go to at least the top 50 it is about even for pvp and pve games, and most have mixed modes.

  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, Hexerin said:

    Remember back when people laughed others out of the room when they suggested a PvE mode in Overwatch? Then the event Uprising was added, and it was one of the most well received events the game had ever had. Ended up starting a line of PvE content in the game that were all wildly successful.

     

    Despite what toxic PvPers try to gaslight people into believing, PvE has a significantly larger consumer base. Additionally, PvE consumers (whether they realize it or not), would love the basic concepts of many PvP type games if there was a PvE version available. Case in point, Uprising.

     

    Adding well designed AI opponents as an option, in their own districts so as to prevent any problems with the traditional PvP districts, would see a sizeable resurgence of interest in this game. No, it absolutely would not completely revive it, you'd be an idiot to think it would. However, the game doesn't need revival, it just needs a solid consumer base to keep the lights on.

     

    That being said, the keywords there are "well designed AI", which is something Little Orbit couldn't manage by any stretch of imagination. So this is a pipe dream held by people who don't know when to just let go of this title, that has no future anymore (and hasn't for several years).

    The real difference in your post is having an actual pve gamemode with bots designed around that content as opposed to jamming bots in a pvp gamemode that are trying to mimic the role of actual players.

  20. Posted

    8 hours ago, VanilleKeks said:

    Hello,

     

    Vanille here for Lidl Orbit. Boy do I have the deal of your lifetime. If you stop posting I will instantly stop creating any low rank characters on my account. I'll even throw in a bonus. I'll delete one of my low rank characters named after an adjective today ,you heard me right, today. That way, you and other specimen of your kind will no longer have to live in fear immediately.

     

    Sounds interesting? Just call me at +1 654-10008-69 any time.

    You got any 3 character length names up for grabs??????????????????????????

  21. Posted · Edited by NotZombieBiscuit

    On 12/16/2022 at 3:06 PM, Roxane said:

     

    Some of ur posts:

    • "I don't want to play with Europeans, because I don't like them."
    • "I just don't wanna interact with Europeans. Simple as."
    • "NA culture is better."

    And that superiority you think you have.

    You know, there's more world outside of America.

     

    Now you are saying that you are not discriminating.

    I'm just curious, how old are you?

     

    We are here to enjoy this game. That we all like so much.
    How about if instead of thinking that we are superior, we help the new players, or try to help APB in any way we can.

     

    I think you need to go check what the definition of discrimination is.

     

    Never said I'm superior to Europeans. Also I'm not even American, so nice job. 

     

    Just don't wanna play with Europeans.

     

    Merged.

     

    23 hours ago, OliverB said:

    Always makes me giggle when eurobads assume they are dealing with Americans. 

    The eurobads fear the non-american americans.

  22. Posted

    17 hours ago, Mitne said:

    So in the end people will still join one server which is full because that's the way this game is played rn. due to low population. This merge is more in favour of NA than EU. We gonna suffer from latency problems when we gonna fight NA players. They gonna enjoy normal (kinda) population when it comes to districts.

    Having a higher ping affects the person with the higher ping more than others. Yeah, the people shooting them might every now and then see a little lag, but it is pretty minimal. It is usually packet loss or EXTREME ping that makes the people impossible to shoot.

     

    Playing with high ping causes even worse hit reg, you get shot around corners/behind cover, have delay on your driving and have to predict vehicle movement, delay on a lot of input actions like kicking doors or starting objectives, etc.

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