Helix Reloaded

So, in the last post that @MattScott made, he discussed Riot and mentioned that the three Riot season 0 weapon skins (Yakuza, Dragon and Koi) would eventually be added to the ARMAS store for purchase. This stirred a lot of things. Many people thought "Why should I waste my time farming this right now if I can just buy it later for no effort?" And this led to another drop of interest in Riot. I myself was under the assumption that the skins we earned in season 0 were "exclusive" to those of use that tested the game-mode before the actual seasons started, which is why I spent time farming it. So that's why hearing they'd be sold on ARMAS was a bit of a kick in the balls. Now for my proposition; I say that those who farmed the skins should get the high resolution art versions (1, 2, 3) as decals in-game. Or even the separate elements that make up each picture as symbol packs, if the artist still has those saved. Example; A pack that contains the Koi, Lotus Flower and Water Splash as seperate symbols from the Koi art. A pack that contains the Dragon, Flames and Paint Splashes from the Dragon art. And a pack that contains the Oni Mask, Cloud Pattern and Flowers from the Yakuza art. TLDR: lord and savior matt scott, pls give us the skin art as symbols as exclusive rewards for grinding the fuck out of riot in season 0. Thanks P.S; Can we know who made the art for the skins? It's actually fantastic and I'd like to thank whoever created the art and skins.

New Packer Ceresco kit?

with the min players lowered to 8, we've had a couple back-to-back matches on jericho today at least 8 total since ive been on hell, we're playing right now

i'm going to call you on discord

riot is fun

Where do you live if you don't mind me asking? I'm in mid-west Canada and I get 40-80ms on Jericho and around 120-150 on Citadel, so this sounds like an internet issue on your end.

now THAT was a fucking APB event. thank you so much for the fun and chaos, mods. wish i had gotten the gold skin, but it was still very enjoyable. i look forward to more events like this. P.S. right after the "can we have the fps hell participants stand here (at your own risk)" message, my game just froze as i'm assuming everyone was firing their full-auto fireworks. so that's where the event ended for me. thanks again for taking the time to do this on a holiday. cheers.

YOOD approved. You should feel honored @MattScott

Financial skatepark/broken bridge sideshow?

Now this is epic. Glad to finally see some progress on the engine upgrade, but I see some visual issues: Lighting looks a bit.. uncanny? Improper shading on the unlit sides of objects under light. Lighting seems to just look.. too sharp. Lighting looks too warm compared to the cool Skybox. Textures all look like they're made of the same material to me. Also the water looks horrendous. Still, thanks again for finally giving us a peek and letting us know you're still hard at work. Theres a lot more to be done but I look forward to it.

After tweaking with the settings more, Composite Dynamic Lights seems to have been the setting that was causing the issue. Keep this option turned off. Also the pictures look fine on my end, so I dunno.

So I've been tweaking the launcher settings to try and get my game to run well and it seems that I've messed up the shadows somehow. The lighting on dynamic objects (Characters, Vehicles, etc) are staying the same whether I'm standing under a shadow or under the sun. So, anyone got a clue about what in the Advanced Launcher is making this happen?

Voting for this. As broken and unpolished as RIOT is, I still find the mode to be very fun and it's pretty much all I've been doing on APB since it came out. I really don't think removing it is a smart choice. People that don't want to play it are already avoiding it, so why take it away from those of us that enjoy it? Also I think more people would play if it was more rewarding, which is why I think when the battle-pass comes out, more people will be incentivized to play play. It's also VERY CRITICAL that you fix the issues with RIOT before you launch the battle-pass. Engine upgrade, RIOT mode fixes/balancing and the battle-pass need to happen AT THE SAME TIME for it to be a success. I believe there also needs to be some new weapons or vehicles added to the MISSION DISTRICTS, considering a LOT of the players have already maxxed all their contacts, so if the update only brings RIOT things, people that don't enjoy RIOT won't have any reason to play, even after the engine upgrade.

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who the fuck is joan

Spawns need to be fixed. Last match I played, I spawned in 380m away from the final safezone. If you die early, it might even spawn you across the map away from your teammates. Make the spawns always be within 100m of your teammates, or 100m of the safezone if you're the only player left in the team. Another issue relating to spawns; If you spawn in the gas, the gas-suit is equipped automatically and the cooldown still applies. This is a problem because if you spawn far enough away, you'll run out of gas-suit duration before you can get to the safezone and you'll either die in the gas or come running out into the open on low health and get shot immediately. Spawning in the gas should not apply the cooldown on the suit until you use a second one. Traveling is slow. It would be nice if there were a couple of pedestrian cars scattered across the map that are undamaged that we can use. But then the question arises; if there are working cars, why do we need to bribe the getaway truck? My solution would be to add a GA5 Can item that we need to pick up and use while in a car, and that would allow the car to work for 5 mins. That's enough time to drive to where you want, but just short enough that the car can't be used reliably while in combat. An alternative would be to add an item that we can pick up that would work like the Epinephrine Injector consumable. I'm actually enjoy the gamemode quite a bit, but it's hard to have fun when there's no-one there to even get a match started.. Perhaps when the battle-pass comes out and there's more incentive to play, it'll be more populated. For the time being though, it might be impossible for most people to get the Yakuza skin just due to how little amount of matches are being played. Deal with that how you will.

i tuned into that guys stream for the first time to see what he was like and he legit spent then next 30 or 40 mins repeating the same thing over and over complaining. i asked why he'd been saying the same thing over and over and he perma banned me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

how do i upvote this 1000 times @Kierre01 do this

It seems to run a lot better after a fresh restart of the PC and with all other applications closed, but.. That's not very convenient to do every time I want to play apb. Thanks for the tips though. It's not the greatest rig, but it does semi-modern games fine with some settings tweaking (Warframe, Destiny 2, CSGO, Apex). GTX 650 8 GB ram AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7

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maximum at ease obtained. fr though i actually just jumped in my seat. THANK YOU, SAVIOR MATT SCOTT

Whatever you wanna call it. My game runs at a solid 30-50 FPS all the time, but every few seconds, sometimes a couple times a second, the game will freeze for around 150-250 milliseconds. As you can imagine, this makes it REALLY hard to do pretty much anything. Driving, shooting, even walking is made hard because of the stutter. I can't say how long this has been a problem, but it's definitely something that's been happening for a couple years. I don't know how i used to tolerate it, but it's just really putting me off playing the game now. I want to play, but this shit just makes it so hard to have any kind of fun anymore. I've got a pretty shit PC so that's probably the reason, but I've never had stuttering problems like this in other games.. Also, even setting every possible graphic setting to the minimum using the Advanced Launcher doesn't stop or even reduce the stuttering. So that's weird. If anyone could help me figure out what the problem is or if I could even get it fixed, please let me know.

you had me at "LEGENDARY DONUT"

APB$ as in the regular game currency? That just sounds like useless filler unless it's a big amount of cash.. Have you considered adding G1C to the rewards? And no, I think we've had enough ways of getting Joker tickets by now. P.S: Thanks for taking the time to reply to us. This communication LO's been giving has been really reassuring for me and i assume a lot of other people. Also thanks for that change to the Premium cooldown reduction. Lixil had replied about it on a thread I made saying she'd bring it up with the team but it had been a few months since then so I thought you guys had forgotten. Keep up the great work Matt and other LO/G1 staff, you guys are really making a lot of people happy.