Hexerin

@MattScott You really need to stop listening to players when it comes to game balance, especially items that are part of the existing meta. The complaints you're getting about Improved Rifling are coming from people who have a biased and vested interest in seeing it remain in a place of having no real downside, because that caters to what they know and the meta as it's been stagnated for all these years. The reason you got all these complaints about the change is not because the change is bad (although honestly, 18% is probably a tad high for the firerate reduction), but because these people can no longer just slap the mod in a gun like the NTEC and use it in every situation with no downsides. In other words, they're panicking because they no longer have their "one size fits all" solution.

Due to the way the game is designed, it is not possible. The engine upgrade will not change this, either. It simply will never be an option in this game, get over it and move on.

Yes and yes, but I also don't take the game seriously anymore (haven't since a long time before I left during Gamersfirst/Reloaded days). As I've told you, repeatedly. Playing against me is barely a challenge due to this, and it brings me endless amusement how inflated people's egos get when they win against me.

There's a difference between playing against someone who's a little better than you are (which encourages personal skill growth) and being shitstomped by people with thousands of hours under their belt (which accomplishes nothing for anyone involved, except maybe the one doing the stomping if they're an asshat).

The fact that you're so fervently defending dethreating makes it abundantly clear that you're part of the problem. Either you're a dethreater yourself, or one your buddies is.

Instead of looking at stats on a piece of paper and assuming that you understand how it works, go actually test it ingame. The effect is night and day.

It's beyond easy to tell the difference between an unskilled player and a dethreater, that isn't a valid argument/excuse.

Accepting reports, and then actually taking action on them, would be a very effective method to stop dethreating if Little Orbit had the integrity to actually go through with it (it's an exceptionally rare trait nowadays, so it's unsurprising). It wouldn't stop everyone, but then actioning people for aimbotting or wallhacking would never stop everyone from cheating in those ways either. There's always those "people" that are so far gone that nothing can get through to them... and unfortunately that's simply because there's no real world repercussions for their actions.

As @ky4 stated, the upgrade to UE3.5 and matchmaking/threat changes will draw many players back. Especially if @MattScott pushes an advertisement campaign about it.

I've seen the screenshots/video of the PC version, and know the capabilities of UE. With a proper dev team and non-damaged leadership directing it, we won't see the shitshow that is the console releases on PC.

All lighting issues in this game are a byproduct of it being on a beta version of UE3. There's nothing to fix on the player's end, it'll be resolved with the upgrade to UE3.5.

Even if you hide threat level and remove district instance choice, it's still possible (and easy) to dethreat because it's an automated system.

Good drivers will always have their car prepped for this, especially with how easy it is to do once you're comfortable with your car's handling. It's not always an option, but in those cases it likely wouldn't have been worthwhile to set up anyways (example being dropping out to kill someone in the open street).

How about no. This isn't a Korean grindfest MMO, we don't need that tacky garbage here.

Still find it interesting that they went out to a gun range with recording equipment to record actual legitimate audio for all the guns that were in the game back then. It's a real shame that Gamersfirst/Reloaded changed all the audio to the generic synthesized stuff we have now...

What, were you expecting fairness in a contest? But no seriously, he points out a pretty glaring issue with this contest. Free players can't hope to hold even the slightest chance in this, and they're the ones that the rewards would actually matter for.

It's the resultant effect of economics in San Paro. When every random schmuck is making tens of thousands every day, the baseline cost of everything will rise.

I'd be perfectly content if they simply added the ACT44 and Cisco to ARMAS, like was done for the primary weapons. For those curious about the ACT44: https://db.apbvault.net/items/Weapon_Pistol_ACT44-LS_PR1_RT

Dude is so desperate to keep his slight P2W advantage, it's kinda pathetically sad.

Hard to say, it changes with my mood. Not to mention I really want to love certain vehicles, but they're "unusable" because they aren't Vegas/Pioneer. That being said, I always have a blast when it's time to pull out the Cop Kit. Stabba CCG OCA Nano Stun grenades Dolton Broadwing

@MattScott Serious question: Would you be interested in attempting to rebirth a game with an already existing (but long displaced) playerbase? You'd make a couple thousand people very, very happy. The game was shut down almost a decade ago because the publisher gave all new meaning to the term "mishandled" (like, even worse than Gamersfirst/Reloaded mishandled APB, if you can believe that). However, while it was live, it saw consistent large playerbase numbers and had one of the better communities I've seen in my gaming career. There's literally no other game like it (shares that quality with APB as well). Most have been playing on the JP servers since (the game is still very much alive and doing well there), but a new global server would likely bring them back.

Wait, is that actually a thing? EDIT: It is definitely not. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/storm-names.html

Support is no different under Little Orbit. In other breaking news, water is wet.

I fully support the grenade projectile's size being increased substantially. I personally have no problems seeing them, but I can fully understand why many would have trouble with them.