NotTheEnforcer

Hiya kids, I'm feelin like havin a laugh at LO's expense right now so seeing as we're 3/4 of the way through 2023, figured I'd dust off LO's 2023 roadmap and see all of the 0 progress theyve made, point by point. Key: Completed(this literally isnt used anyway), Partially Finished, Nowhere In Sight. Highest Priority - Hosting Upgrade #1 64 bit implemented. Partial EAC support. Epic Services fell through as far as Im aware. - New Car Pffft nowhere in sight. Who honestly expected a new car to happen? -We also want to use the release of a new car to do some balancing on all our vehicles to make sure each one has a solid use case. The goal is to use a series of small buffs and adjustments to improve less utilized cars. Also absolutely lmao. No balance passes for any of the other cars are anywhere in sight. - Hosting Upgrade #2 – New Mission Queueing System, Improved Matchmaking, Phasing Fucking lmao do I even need to say anything here? ‘Mission Queueing’ -This means players can mess around with friends, spend time upgrading their items, or even editing symbols and clothing while they queue. Rather than taking a year to get the full system working, we want to roll this out in multiple smaller steps: Step 1: Matchmake across all other players queueing in your world. Force an exit from your current district upon accepting and into a lobby which allows players ample time to load into a new district. When all players are available, start the match, and force them to spawn on the map screen. Step 2: Do step #1, but with limited phasing where we keep the district type in memory along with all art assets. This means if you’re queuing for a Financial mission, and you’re already in any Financial district, your loading time will be significantly less. Once the lobby is full, we force all players to spawn on the map screen. Step 3: Do step #1, but with full phasing where we place the character in the same exact position the player was previously in, accounting for collision issues in the new district, eliminating the need to return to the spawn screen. Players coming from other district maps would go through Step 2. All of this is is vapor/non-existent. - New Contacts, Lynette and Lucas have already been revealed to the community, and we are hoping to release them after EasyAntiCheat and Hosting Upgrade #1. These contacts will be added as optional Tier 3 contacts with requirements similar to Tier 5 contacts – they are meant to fill the gap on existing content that hasn’t been historically available through progression (The NSSW, OCA Nano, and HVR ‘Scout’) and to offer new progression points for veterans (new modifications, cars not normally available through progression, etc) Contacts are a lot of work – they require a lot of data entry, voiceover efforts, lore creation, and most importantly rewards. The last time APB: Reloaded released mainline progression contacts was nearly a decade ago with Gumball and Aletta. Nothing to be seen here at all either. - Hosting Upgrade #3: Multi-World District servers We will migrate the existing worlds to ‘regions’. Each region will host their own game servers and characters. These are grouped by location and latency to keep things as fast as possible. The idea is to have more, smaller regions vs. less larger worlds. Ditto as above. High Priority - Anti-Griefing Options / Streamer Mode Kek. Teamkilling is another serious problem – for streamers and regular players. While these issues can eventually be handled by customer support, there is generally no immediate resolution to a situation and often it’s easier for a player to log off and not play the game than it is to have it properly dealt with it. Kek x2 We need to make sure that the moment a player enters a mission, that they are not harassed by outside sources or intentional in-mission abuse. We’re looking into options such as: - Disabling out of mission collision contextually to prevent objectives being blocked. - Disabling collision on player-commandeered cars nearby that players have not interacted with in-mission interfering with objectives. - Hiding out-of-mission players while in streamer mode. - Flagging players as griefers so they are deprioritized from matchmaking – and potentially placed with other griefers until their behavior changes over time. Kek x3 There are potential abuses outside of these cases that we know we cannot address fully – no system is infallible – but with queued matchmaking combined with better cheat detection and deprioritization of griefers, we hope to lessen the impact on streamers to help the game grow. Kek Kaioken x4 or some shit idk - New Events and Holidays In 2018 and 2019, Little Orbit tried some rather unsuccessful ideas to replace our holiday events. I’m not afraid of making mistakes or trying new things, but I think it’s a tragedy that we didn’t iterate and try again. It’s time to try some new ideas and give you guys new rewards to earn. We will be redesigning the yearly cadence of events alongside expanding our LiveOps team to make sure we have enough new content in the pipeline to keep things interesting. There are plenty of mechanics that we created for Epidemic, Slay Bells, and RIOT that I would like to revisit to see if we can polish them a bit more. Lets be fucking honest here, out of all of the possible options listed here, we all expected LO to go straight for the only progress point that could generate actual potential income regardless of how greedy and predatory it'd make them look. (cough cough midsummer sale with desperation Temptress and FFA sale) Even though RIOT was hot fucking trash and just a dumpster fire attempt to piggyback off of PUBG. - Upgraded Tutorial / First Time User Experience (FTUE) Our current tutorial simply isn’t great past character creation. The tutorial itself needs to be modernized. Players are thrown into the Financial district after character creation with a menu that explains a bunch of text but never teaches them what to do contextually. They are also bombarded with popups and get lost and overwhelmed with all the information they are given. We currently rely on other players to ‘fill in the gap’ on information. We need something interactive that players can complete, while also teaching them about the game and mechanics that aren’t properly explained in-depth, such as leaning. This is a tricky area to improve. We will post more details as we get closer. Something that could actually help newbies? Whattttttt? Lmao, that could never happen. They have to suffer like everyone else. - Server-side anti-cheat alongside EAC The plan is to re-integrate FairFight as a server-sided solution to compliment EAC as our client-side solution. While there is never a “silver bullet” for cheat detection, we feel that multiple anti-cheat solutions can operate in different avenues to help us keep the game clean. Server-side analytics gives us a full anti-cheat loop to help inform the client where to look better and detect cheaters who slip through the cracks. We want to detect, prevent, and deter cheaters from entering and interrupting our game, and FairFight fits the bill of that process. However, we will not be publishing any individual public ban lists – we feel that the previous usage of FFBans glorifies cheaters, and doing so only increased the level of toxicity of the game. I legitimately almost shot my coffee out of my nose laughing at this one. - Vivox Reintegration Vivox used to be integrated as our voice chat solution. Vivox changed their hosting configuration and we needed to upgrade our libraries to fit their new hosting platform – we were historically unable to do that, as Vivox did not have 32-bit versions of their new services. A lot of the work on Vivox has already been done in APB Reloaded 2.x – we need to backport this work to 1.30, as being on 64-Bit allows us to seamlessly integrate the required work. Everyone just uses Discord now, chief. Although an ingame voice chat would be nice, Vivox is hot garbage and always has been. Medium Priority - DirectX12 Rendering System We would like to eventually replace our existing DX9 rendering pipeline with a DX12-based rendering system. Newer operating systems are supporting DX9 less and less, and our engine will continue to show its age until this gets completed. Lmao. - Xbox and Playstation Ports of 1.30 Hand in hand with the upgrade to DX12, we want to re-port the console versions of APB: Reloaded. The current console ports are based on a code base we have abandoned due to its bugs and performance. It is our hope that by adding console support to 1.30, we can significantly improve the performance and stability of those platforms. Lmao. - Premium Revamp We have made APB’s premium subscription model free since early 2020. We did that because I feel like the game is much better for all players when they have all the Premium features. Historically, APB’s premium system was based on how ‘freemium’ games operate which slow down progression or gimped design layers for non-premium players. We don’t want to do that. Premium players will get a special bundle of Joker Tickets equal to the cost of the subscription. Premium will also be able to queue in ‘Premium Only’ matches that we hope will free of reroll cheaters. This reeks of corpo-speak. Also, if they really wanted to fix the game feeling like shit for non-premium players, they couldve just upped the fucking rewards instead, right????? Im just confused here. Low Priority - Player vs Environment (PVE) Missions They can barely get one task done, the fucking ice sheets will melt before APB will get PVE. - Physically Based Rendering Pipeline PBR is already supported by later versions of Unreal, and to some extend in APB for clothes and cars. Our goal will be to convert the current models, textures, and lighting to a new PBR lighting pipeline. This means redoing high quality versions of map assets and to optimize the existing maps in the process while increasing visual fidelity and modernizing the look. This is very much a ‘nice to have’ features. But it’s on the roadmap. Just......no, I cant even laugh at this one. This would be far too much work for such a teeny tiny company. So uhhhhhh in summary whats been achieved? Oh right, jack and his good ol' buddy, shit lol. I didnt make this post for anyone in particular, or even to rant, I just made it cause it made me laugh as I wrote it

Clowns like you are the exact reason why LO continues to do this shitYou literally just hand them money for doing absolutely jack shit and abuse predatory and exploitative marketing practices. They've done NOTHING for literally going on like 4 years now and you people still just fucking throw money at them. Honest to christ I wonder how some people can afford to live on a daily basis sometimes........ Yup lmao. But dont worry guys, this is so totally different from the Joker Mystery Boxes, we promiseeeeeee!!!! /s

Lmao, because its literally Diamond Industry Logic. You're creating a false sense of rarity to generate value. The gun is literally just an OBIR reskin with slightly less zoom applied. The literal only reason it has as high of a value as it does is because of its rarity, not because of its power. It has no power, it doesnt even have any perks lmao, its a regular 3 slot OBIR with less zoom, which honestly doesnt even do that much in any situation either way. Its scummy. Its abusing FOMO. Its predatory. There is no excuse. The only reason that it's not in the Armas Marketplace alongside the OBIR is because they want players to blow away money in the JT store for a gun that literally shouldnt even be considered a legendary (because it statistically and thematically isnt), because the JT store only gives the players a CHANCE of receiving the weapon, just like your good ol friend, the Joker Mystery Box. Someone needs to buy APB's IP so they can run it into the fucking dirt and take this forum, this game, and this company offline already. This entire game and company serve no purpose anymore. I hope to christ that nobody buys into this outright scam, this company deserves nobody's money for pulling something this unbelievably desperately scummy. I've seen more legitimate products out of actual scam companies, like the SKARP laser razor lmao

Oh please you're about as apologetic as a repeat violent felon lmao. My evidence? Blue quote = Fake apologetic Orange quote = Terribly veiled insults poorly hidden within an brownnosing apology. Green = Honestly just brownnosing to the Xth degree. Come on kid, you're not good at this. You literally just attempted to ask for zero punishment by brownnosing the christ of out any mods who might look at this, and then continue to attempt to insult multiple times. And yet, you still dont see why you're a hypocrite. Guess we can add narcissism to the list now too.

Re-read, for the Xth time. Ill make it bigger this time so your blind clown eyes can read it. cough cough You ready? ahem BECAUSE I CAN BE.

Are you fucking blind, kid? *My account is permanently banned, its not coming back, I do not care* I dont know what part of that you don't understand, honestly. Also, for an American, you have a very terrible grasp of basic spelling.

Ah yes, there you go, completely ignoring the horrible things you just said and deflecting. Man, you really need a new strategy. Ill just paste it here again so you can keep re-reading your own words and maybe youll realize what a idiot Something something civil rights movement called, they want their rights back.

Everyone pretty much is NPC's when we're online. Are you suffering from Main Character Syndrome? If you cannot differentiate the real world and the real people you deal with from some random internet folk who you really shouldnt pay any mind to to begin with, then thats your problem, not mine. Maybe you should learn to not assign emotional value to things that are completely arbitrary and intangible. If people never "inserted themselves into communities theyre not welcome in", which is a horrible take thats way worse than anything I ever said, guess what? We'd still have racial segregation, the Romani (or gypsies, as you'd know them), would've all been imprisoned long ago, Jews probably wouldnt exist in anywhere near the capacity they do today, gays would never have had any basic human rights, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. You want to talk about the severity of things you say, yet you're preaching the exact mentality of the thing you hate so much. For someone whos so personally offended, you sure have a really bigoted take, how ironic, and hypocritical. This isnt a good look on you, bozo. Yeah, you're not the one who should be trying to convince anyone of anything. You're about as much of a hypocrite as they come. You couldnt teach a rabbit to eat lettuce, much less try and indoctrinate someone with your piss poor worldview and awful perspective.

Where did I claim that this is what I wanted? Please, link it. Because I have the Freedom Of Speech and because I can? Last I checked, you're in no power to do anything otherwise Is that Copium and Seethium Im smelling? Oh jesus christ bless thy Lord for He has decided to be merciful with all of his completely non-existent powers. Come on buddy, and said something about me being a bozo lmao

Kid, I get it, you're new to the internet. But re-read what you said in the first line. Its shit talk. People talk shit to each other. It happens when you're not a fragile little flower and other people aren't fragile little flowers. Jesus, a COD multiplayer lobby would eat like a swarm of locusts. And again, I really do not care. My account is gone, forever, whoosh, bye bye. And what? The game itself has less than 1000 players. It hasnt changed since roughly 2013. Its getting too dated to be sustainable to begin with. Im not going to miss this. Maybe you would, but thats because you dont have other interests, I assume. Im not as attached to this game as you appear to be. Apparently Im still welcome here because Im not banned here lmao. Ooooooh and also because I dont bend to the whim of some virgins on the internet who cry and mald like Tumblr users who just saw their first swastika. I don't do it in person because I actually care about the people Im around, not because of the penalties for what would happen. You'll understand when you find a friend, of course you gotta have one first before you can understand. I follow the speed limits IRL, not because Id get arrested otherwise, but because I dont trust other driver's ability to actually drive. It's not the consequences that drive someone. At least, not when that person is capable of even remotely complex thought. Guess you dont fit that category. You only claim I dont have a logical answer because none of the ones I give, and none of the ones I ever give, will ever align with your own perspective. Thats called bias. And also called me not caring. Dont agree, Im not trying to convince you, Im simply explaining what happened. And again, because for whatever reason your reading comprehension is terrible, I never made any claims that what I said was right. Just that its nowhere near as bad as fragile little bunnies like you think it is. By all means, I'd like to see you personally force me out of the community lmao. What a joke.

To you, perhaps. I've taken advantage of everything the game has to offer. I made and sold themes, symbols, vehicles. I learned and became very experience in the designer and had some of the more complex designs in Jericho aside from the once-major clans that paid people for their work. That societal progression your talking about extends to you, btw. You're automatically assuming my lifestyle because of one trivial insult in a videogame. The only one who needs to grow or improve their lives is you, if thats how short and shallow your thinking is. Especially is this day and age where assuming things will get you cancelled by the mass media. Bold move Cotton, we'll see if it pays off. No, but I also never claimed that it did. Don't try and fluff up your opinion with things I never claimed, it wont work. Or he did it because he lost the match and he's petty and wanted to see me punished to make himself feel better. Given the APB playerbase, which is more likely? Im going with the latter, because its APB, its not known for being full of nice and honorable people. Ignorance of what, exactly? I called you a clown because you have a clown take. Honk honk, buddy. Did you think I didnt expect you to do exactly what you did here and quote that? Come on buddy, thats just being predictable. K?

Yes, and this is a video game. Where everyone is anonymous. Things change in the digital world, chief. Im not assuming, actually. Because these things get turned into huge lawsuits, at least in the US. Was a big thing about a decade ago where there was a span of friends convincing their depressed friends to commit suicide. This is not that, and comparing the two is an invalid and irrelevant point. Perhaps, if someone is unable to handle things of such trivial nature being said to them on the internet, then maybe they shouldnt be on the internet. The broader internet does not have rules, thats part of the real world. Im sure in some picture perfect police state utopia, no insults would ever happen online, but currently the US is not one giant dictatorship police state where every part of the internet is fully controlled. A broad, unfounded, irrelevant, and just generally odd assumption to make, speaking of assumptions. Me throwing a generic insult at somebody does not equate to me being "bored of life" lol This is an irrelevant comparison. 1) Because marrying off children still happens in present day, in many countries. Yeah, its not great, but it still happens pretty much every day. 2) Telling someone to off themselves is not saying something that historically disenfranchises someone, like a racial or homophobic slur. I wasnt out here bleating the N-word, chief.

Oh theyve already stated it wont be unbanned, hence why Im here. I dont honestly care about the account anymore, not like anyone's getting what's on it back. And with the way the game is going, there's nothing it really offers thats unique anymore. Sure, it can be fun, but some motivated indie dev could probably crank out an exact replica in UE5 within a single year if they wanted to match the current quality. For something by 2023 standards, maybe 2-3 years. Either way its not like I can lose anything now lol

Yes, of course, but you're going to spend much more resources and time arresting a corrupt president than you would a chicken thief. Hell in most areas a chicken thief would probably just be fined and let go versus doing life in prison for treason and corruption. See where Im going with this? You realize sharing support tickets is against forum rules right? I dont particularly care about rules anymore, but I want to see how long this lasts. Also with everything thats been said in this post so far, how did you come to the conclusion that Im a cheater, out of nowhere? I literally admitted to telling someone to off themselves. This has nothing to do with EAC lmao, although I do believe its about as useless as ever. The game itself is fundamentally broken.

Sounds like they must be pretty bored at work then lol Who'd imagine, they do a week's worth of work every 12 months lol

Fun fact buddy, thats exactly the point. That there is no point. Which also proves my point that you have no idea about any of this and you're only hopping on the bandwagon about "reeeee glad youre banned reeee". Would you be able to quote exactly where I said that? I dont remember saying that at all. Im simply saying I dont believe that in any way what I said justifies a permanent ban. 8 days, 30 days, 6 months, just temporary wouldve been enough. But I guess some people took "thin skinned" and decided to be "transparent skinned" instead. Also just pointing out how weird it is that I got far less punishment for cosplaying a German WW2 soldier than I did for telling someone to off themselves. Is being in the Wehrmacht more acceptable than telling someone to off themselves these days? Im confused. Also, incorrect usage of the word "law". Law implies a legal regulation in the real world. Not some company's 2023 Politically Correct Terms Of Clownery. I never said it was "wretched". Im saying its normal. Average. Common. Menial/Trivial. It doesnt matter. If you had half a brain to use, you'd have been able to figure that out by now. Which proves my other point about the general APB playerbase not being the brightest bulbs from the factory. And I feel gratification every time I blow a load. Ironic how you mentioned something earlier about not having a point.

Its because I legitimately have never seen you before so you claiming all that bs has zero basis to me. So I figured by proxy if youre making claims like that, that Id probably recognize you at the very least, and I didnt. Which then meant either I didnt know you or you were using a forum name different than your ingame name or under an alt char. Never heard that term before, neat. But honestly I do have a filter, I just didn't see any reason to use one especially in this regard. I save my profanity filter for people and things I actually care about lol. Either way, I was heated earlier about losing my account, but after a bit I kinda just accepted I was gonna get tired of the game and take another year long break, and that the game is probably never going to be in its promised state, or that if it ever is, Id probably just want to start over anyway, so I just dont care anymore.

I already made a ticket. They denied it. Do the math, rain man. Aint that complicated. Also, pretty sure Im not the only one whos ever insulted LO. Remind me how many promises they broke since they acquired APB? Hell I still remember them talking about adding a new car lmao

Nice deflecting. Im just calling you out on your bs. All bark no bite as the old folks say. My forum name is the same as my IGN because I have nothing to hide, unlike you. Hell, you're probably worse than I apparently was if you gotta hide and deflect, considering thats the coward's way out.

Sure bud. Whats your IGN again? Because only clowns hide behind a forum name and make claims like that with zero basis. Also, when I think someone's cheating I do one of two things. I keep playing, or I let the team leader know Id rather not play, ask if I can teamkill someone, then they boot me and call backup. But yeah, keep hiding your name champ, Im sure you're just so amazingly complacent and ignorant in the Nothing Bad Ever Happens To APB Ever world. I bet you couldnt even tell an aimbot from a triggerbot lmao.

So I was right, your opinion holds zero intrinsic value, not that it held any to begin with because its also dumb. I also never once stated it was an either/or situation. However its frankly deranged (see how anyone can use such dumb terms?) to think that someone who said a generic insult online somehow takes more precedence over a blatant cheater who actively plays solely to disrupt other's gameplay. Its frankly deranged (what a fun phrase to use, right? Makes us all seem so much smarter) that you think your personal perspective on the matter of "not normally considered a trivial breach" should dictate any response at all. What makes it non trivial? If it was 4chan, would you pay it any mind? No, of course not. If it came from Reddit, would you pay any mind to it? Nope, not at all. This isnt any different. You simply want it to be non-trivial because you feel that it validates your perspective, which it doesnt. If some random dude on the street told you to off yourself, you'd probably laugh and keep walking. Because guess what, ITS LITERALLY TRIVIAL. I also didnt come here to make any "case". You're not a judge and thank christ for that, right? I'm simply venting my frustrations about a dying company and a dying game and their complete lack of ability to focus on whats actually an issue. Hell, just yesterday I got into 2 matches that had brand new players participating and I went easy on them to show them the ropes and explained a bunch of game mechanics to them. But that would never see the light of day because it doesnt help LO's case at all in circumstances like this. Those players havent returned since because some of the community (the cheaters) see new players as an opportunity to permanently boot someone off the game by sheer stomping. But that doesnt matter either because it doesnt help your case.

Nope, didnt even have a swastika, it was a Balkankreuz. And it was well over a year ago at this point. But thanks for showing just how little of an argument you have by latching onto something irrelevant to this. But you know what, Im gonna ask you straight up, because I think you dont have an answer for this and you'll deflect: Who do you think is more of a problem, some rando telling you to off yourself in a video game, or a cheater running around actively ruining multiple people's game experience? Answer that, then we'll see whether your opinion holds any intrinsic value.

Welp, after having an eventful time this morning participating in the Beacon District, and then in the action district for the butcher event, I logged off. After a few hours of errands I attempt to log back in to find that my account has been permanently banned. No email was issued to me about this and my marketplace and forum accounts still say Active. According to LO, I was permanently banned for telling someone to off themselves. ONCE. Why this is worthy of a perm ban Ill never understand. Everyone here is anonymous, there's a rampant cheating problem evidenced by the massive amount of cheats readily available with a simple google search that Im sure a not-small portion of the remaining playerbase uses because LO doesnt know how anticheats work, and on top of that, Jericho already struggles for population. But nope, instead of banning those players, or the ones who actively drive around ramming players in cars during missions, or ghosting, etc. They'd rather perm ban someone who anonymously told another completely anonymous player to off themselves after they said some smolbrain trash. And Im well aware that some vocal clowns on these forums will probably speak up and reveal themselves on this post in support of my ban, but thats expected. Jericho is dying anyway, and so is the rest of this game that cant even push past 300 pop across Jericho AND Citadel at peak hours. Hell, this post will probably be removed by some butthurt mod who's afraid of being personally offended on behalf of nothing. Oh well. On top of the fact that this game is literally about killing people with a massive arsenal of weapons. What a backwards world we live in.

Hell, I just got banned today for telling someone to off themselves. In a video game. Where all players are anonymous. And the game's main goal is literally to kill people. And LO wonders why they struggle for players, yet the cheaters roam around freely, continue to livestream themselves cheating, and nothing happens to them. What a backwards clown world we live in.

Hes definitely gotta be a troll. Any idiot who expects another major update so soon for any of that stuff is.....(ding ding ding), an idiot. Login rewards would be pog, but they'd have to create a new system out of scratch for it, neither RTW or G1 had a system like that before, so it'd take some time. Although it'd give a good incentive for everyone to log in. But they'd have to be half-decent login rewards too, not shitty 3 day trials for guns or something. Even I have most of the guns aside from reskins, and any guns I dont have are ones Ive trialed that I dont like. I'd say JT packs just to start off would be perfect, then they can edit the rewards or add new ones as they see fit. Maybe like 60 a day, bonus 200 for a week-long streak, and bonus 2000 for a month-long login streak, that way you'd give a good incentive for players to login, as a couple months of purely just logging in, you could perma-buy a 3-slot JT gun. 60x30(days) + 800 (4 week month), +2000 = 4600. Combine that with doing the daily contact activities or Fight Club, that'd be a really good incentive.