MrChan

To my non developer brain, this seems to be an effective concession that the Engine Upgrade is not achievable. Ever. At least that's been finally recognised after 7 (?) years between G1 and LO. Hypothetically the game could've been completely rebuilt from scratch twice on a new engine in the time that's passed, but by the time that was realised the resources to do something like that had long gone out of reach of G1 or LO. I'll give them something for realising that the current approach cannot work, but given APB's history I'm inclined to expect the 1.3 code to perform like arse cos the underlying systems that have been around since year dot are a mess. Hope I'm wrong.

Which they'll have to do a recall on.

Either it's gonna come out of nowhere all of a sudden one day or the game will be dead long before it's done.

The cathartic nature of seeing names come up on FFbans wasn't really a good thing, as much as a lot of us (me included) reveled in it at the time. It was more a symptom of how absolutely shite and toxic the game was. (Still note that quite a few prominent people who were on there and subsequently unbanned by LO were never quite as good when they came back. Coincidence though, I'm sure)

Better solutions than either are: 1) Reducing the frequency of Item Hold missions, which seem to make up 3/4s of Asylum's missions any time I'm there. 2) Just leaving it the way it is. It's not a big deal, really, and people are just being crying fuzzy bunnies.

No.

He just likes to be able to run around Asylum with his PMG without interruption.

Bye then.

Fucking GROUND BREAKING. You must be the smartest human being ever to have existed.

That'll result in only you playing the game inside a month cos you'll have banned everyone else. So the $5 sub will never be implemented.

I never subscribed to "baw! everyone is hacking", because I just simply don't have that ego about my own ability, and saying LO actively want and support cheaters is beyond stupid. But people who say there's barely anyone hacking or 'lol you can totally outsmart hackers' are also living in a perpetual fantasy world. Yeah, not everyone cheating is EpicGoat who streamed himself playing without his cheats on and was awful. If you're decent at the game and have a decent grasp of core gameplay elements and cheat on top of it, you'll be unstoppable to the average player. If you couldn't tell the difference between the EAC era of APB (even with it not fully implemented), and the FF/PB and BattlEye eras of APB, then I don't know what to say to you. Playing under EAC, not once did I find myself thinking "that's not right" or felt myself dying to absolute hogcrap. Speaking of FF, I still find it funny that a few people who came back after the mass unbanning were suddenly not as good with EAC running. Almost like they had been cheating in the first place and stopped when they came back cos they knew no one would believe their protestations of innocence if another anti-cheat got them. Willing to bet that 90% of FF bans were legit in spite of how badly the system was mis-used by Tiggs & Co. Anyway, mindless and probably slightly contradictory ramble over. Hope everyone had a good Christmas and Santa brought you all a Firebomb.

lol

Anyone sad enough to still cheat on a nearly dead game would benefit from Social Worker intervention.

99 little bugs in the code 99 little bugs Take one down, patch it around 127 little bugs in the code

Oh look this thread again. The problem, and it's not even that big a problem imo, with explosives in Asylum is not explosives themselves. It's that well more than half the time it gives you Item Hold missions and everyone drags the item to one of the same unimaginative choke points (if they game doesn't helpfully spawn them there for you at the start of the round) playing into the hands of explosive weapons. Maybe if that monotony was broken up a bit more, you'd feel less like you're in a bomb shelter during the Blitz every round. And anyone who thinks explosives are a problem in a relatively open map like Baylan Shipping needs their head examined. As for telling Cr0 he hasn't given you a single good reason to keep them, the onus is on you, as the person who wants rid to explain why they need to be removed. And I've gone through your word soup and can't find a compelling one. #OPGL Life

2027

I can see the future. The Halloween event will be announced in a week or so and someone will create a thread complaining that it's a waste of time and LO should concentrate on fixing the game instead.

As someone who thinks Nazi uniforms with no swastika on them are toxic, racist shit designed to trigger people that should be banned (cos deleting one detail doesn't change what it is), gotta say I think this one's been called wrong by the mods. As presented in the OP's outfit, the swastika does not appear to be part of racist iconography in this instance. I'm not familiar with the source material, maybe whatever anime it's from is racist as hell, although I doubt it and it certainly doesn't look like an overt intention to offend. I'd lean towards allowing it. Then again, maybe it's just easier for LO to have a straight, clear rule rather than have to argue about context with the pathetic manchildren who want swastikas (not the OP, obviously) just to be edgy.

It's Todesklinge, either he's been playing a fantastic long game with posts like this for years, or it is unfortunately real.

Release the engine upgrade, ban all cheaters (by that I mean ppl who are better than me) fix everything in the entire game and get 10,000 new players in a regular maintenance patch pls. I don't think that's unrealistic.

It's gonna go one of two ways: 1) It'll be brilliant because people aren't hung up on threat anymore and just play the game. 2) It'll suck patootie because either the matchmaker will still try to match by threat in the background and it won't generate matches, or it will ignore threat and all the matches will total kerbstompings because there's no matching by threat and the team skills are massively uneven. There will be no in between. Either brilliant or awful. Must try it in the next couple of days before one of those outcomes starts to set in. It's worth noting that threatless districts became unpopular fairly quickly though.

You're right that there are far too many guns for a 100m draw distance and sub 1 second ttk to make all of them, or even most of them, competitive. But I think we could do better than the 3 gun meta we had for what felt like a very long time under G1.

Exclusive N-TEC, OCA & N-HVR meta. Yes pls. Or was it the PMG that was the go to CQC gun at the end of G1's tenure? Can't remember now.

The N-TEC 5 became a cornerstone because it's been one of the best performing weapons in the game since forever, it's a natural 'progression' from the STAR 556, and it's relatively easy to use, so as such it's very popular. As a consequence people like it, and because they like it, they don't want to lose their precious crutch gun want it to remain powerful, and if there are changes, it should be to make other guns to feel more like the N-TEC. They defend this like of the weapon by saying it's 'balanced' based on feel, even though a weapon that's almost always been in the top 3 guns in the game is hardly balanced vs. the other weapons. It's also funny that a lot of the "pro" APB players want a slower ttk, but by buffing other ARs to compete with the N-TEC would actually slightly reduce the average ttk in the game because you'd have an entire class of guns that are better than they are now, and would probably need to tweak a few other guns upwards as well to compensate. It really shouldn't have this cornerstone status, but good luck convincing people who've mained it for a decade and therefore couldn't possibly be unbiased about it, of that.

Tch. Talking about APB on the APB forums. What nonsense will people think of next?