Kylegrey2

Ive already uninstalled and will only reinstall once the engine is done. If performance on multicore cpu's doesnt improve dramatically, ill be done for good. Been playing since 2010. This is a last chance scenario for me. The way performance has degraded over the years really is a dealbreaker. With the way the game lags and stutters during firefights, i find myself extremely irritable when playing... not really having fun anymore. Even if nothing else changes, i would be satisfied with a smooth experience.

Listen as i play the world's tiniest violin for you.

Yeah, i hate getting stunned by grenades but i fully accept it as part of the game. No need to mess with it. I feel like some people want game wide changes based on what they personally like or dislike vs things that equally effect everyone in a negative way.

I used to have a blast using shotguns. Everytime I upgrade hardware, the game runs worse. Kinda counterintuitive... shotguns cause too much stutter for me now.

I cant tell you that its a massive pain when you throw a perc right when a teamate decides to run in front of you. Or when the game lags out and you hit a wall or door frame as a result. I think its a good idea as long as the distance required to explode on impact isnt set too far.

Thats actually really interesting. Hard to say wether im on board or not... would have to test those sorts of changes myself to form a solid opinion. Way to think outside the box

Yeah... its not a my little pony game. A reasonable level of realism is expected with shooter games.

Premium for as long as possible. If i get 15 volcano kills in fc, the reward barely covers the cost of the rockets i used to get those kills. Need that premium bonus.

I dont like the idea of nerfing grenades. Irl a grenade will take you out, no follow up gunfire necessary. Nerfing any further just reduces the realism. At most, i would agree with reducing the distance to cause damage. Hitting someone in the face with a perc should not do less damage than it currently does. As far as removing explosives from fightclub, nope. As much as my volcano or opgl pisses people off, i have little to no trouble dealing with others who use them. Its about adjusting your tactics. If its fair game to hide on a roof and snipe, its fair game to blow that person off the roof with a volcano.

If i switch from my enforcer to my crim, or visa versa, 50% of the time my hud breaks. I find myself in fight club with no ability to see teamates through walls on my hud. This has been ongoing for quite a while and others in game have told me it happens to them to. My only option is to restart. I assumed it would have been fixed by now but still no luck... just letting you know incase you are not aware.

Easy to counter if you see them first. When they see you first, they can wind up while taking cover then pop out while firing... with good timing, its pretty much a guaranteed death sentence. But thats the game.

To be fair, he didnt ask them to nerf it, he asked them to get rid of it.

Well said. If you cant outgun them, outsmart them. Thats how its done.

People just love blaming other peoples weapons for their own shortcomings. If it causes you that much trouble, you need to adjust your tactics. Simple as that. I get fucking wrecked by the ogre, the solution in my head has never been for the developers to get rid of it for me. Man up.

Right you are. Stop making me look dumb glaciers lol.

Thanks. Lol i gotta learn to read more carefully that does answer one of my questions... on the edge of my seat waiting on the hardware specs and real gameplay results. Guess ill have to wait a little longer for that. Its a pain when driving a car feels like driving a motorboat but the gunplay is my real frustration with apb. Would be nice to dump my opgl for a shotty like in the good ol days but i dont have the patience for that with the game running as is.

Im curious about the engine upgrade. From what i understand, it will have a beneficial effect for people with modern hardware. Multicore cpu's in particular. However, your benchmarks appear to be based on performance while driving around the map. Although simply navigating the apb world could use a bump in performance, my issues lie elsewhere... up close gunfights were smooth as butter when i was running a core 2 duo nearly 10 years ago, but with every hardware upgrade ive made, the gunfights get worse and worse. Running a 6 core amd, when in up close gun fights, everything stutters and freezes up horribly. I am curious to know what kind of hardware and software you are benching with and if you could show us what a face to face gunfight looks like with the new engine. Thanks.

You lost me here... hacking is nowhere near the problem it used to be. I occasionally have my suspicions about certain players but thats all they are, suspicions. Do you actually believe hackers are running apb or are you just using that as an excuse for poor sportsmanship? Either way, unless someone is speed hacking, you will never know for sure if its a hacker or a pro killing you. You need to change your mindframe if you want to keep playing this game.

I suppose youre right, when someone is constantly dethreating, it should be easy enough to detect and i think people should be at least temporarily banned for it. People have been saying it for years but nothing has been done. The only advice i can give the noobies is to power through. You will lose over and over but will come out stronger in the end.

I uderstand what youre saying. Im not convinced he got banned for leaching his way through one mission one time. Its more likely hes been reported by multiple players for pulling this sort of thing on a regular basis. That absolutely merits a ban. And to say "others do it all the time and they dont get banned, so its not fair" is just a deflection. Ive gone afk many times during missions because of phone calls or people knocking at my door... never been banned. So maybe youre right, maybe the rules arent being applied consistently, or maybe im right and op has been pissing of tons of teammates who just want to play the game with a team who gives a damn. Crappy behaviour is crappy behaviour regardless of the twist you put on it. I also should point out that dethreaters dont go afk or refuse to participate so they can go back to silver. They run direcly into the action with the intention of getting killed by the opposition as many times as they can. Its more difficult to determine if someone is throwing a match than it is to determine someone is actively not participating in a match.

You realize people who dethreat arent just magically better than the silvers and bronze players they are destroying? They too were once bronzes getting decimated by dethreaters... this is why they feel no shame about their behaviour. Its a visciuos cycle and unfortunately that is just how apb is. It sucks, I know, but pointing fingers one way or the other is dishonest. Its an issue from both ends. I agree that dethreaters should get the ban hammer but so should people who throw matches and screw over their teamates because their egos cant stand a terrible loss. Keep in mind, i dealt with the same crap when i was a beginner. Eventually you get better and learn that dethreaters are actually garbage at the game. If they joined a silver district and went up egainst legit pros, they would get owned. At a certain point, you have to consider it part of apb's learning curve. Its been this way for near a decade, either get through it or play something else.

Ill fire a genade at someone, take cover, then sprint out with my seconday as the grenade should be exploding only to get killed because my grenade dissapeared into the ground... you can actually hear it explode beneath the map. This is something that has been driving me crazy for years now. Would be nice if that could be fixed at some point.

Lol this dude purposely tk's people then laughs in their face when they threaten to report. Not laughing anymore are ya.

The only thing more annoying than getting matched up against gold players is when your teammates go afk because they dont even want to try. If you only want to play against players weaker than you, you will improve extremely slowly and will eventually become one of those dethreating golds you hate so much.

If you have quality cpu and gpu, running low or high makes little difference. We need the engine upgrade so the game can make proper user of multicore cpu's. I get 100 fps on max and maybe 120fps on low but during gunfights, everything stutters so hard. Game needs to be optimised.