Mitne

This and absolutely this. Problem is also with objectives, there would need to be a lot of them widespread. Why? Because problem is with mission roles ranking which is slow even in standard MM already. That aside, this allows to spread defending forces thin, allowing for better tactical approach to them.

Now that you mention it. Yeah. Streets are deserted and some are opposite, like traffic jam happened and that's not because of player cars most of time. Not only that, it seems like less cars spawn. Walking on street NPC are about normal still tho. When I was doing 15 levels for Lynette I constantly was having problem with getting any car from the street during matches. Back then I could even choose, now I drive whatever is there, just to secure car.

Check your inventory. They stolen it. You never will use it.

Ugh... sounds like it fails on anti-cheat installation. Try to disable firewall on your router or whatever device you use to connect.

Basically every second match I had was against at least one cheater in enemy team. And game teamed me up with cheaters on my side as well. I'm not blind, I wasn't blind in 2020, 2019, 2018 and so on. Cheating problem is still here, was here and now it's better than never. Sadly it's not just APB problem, it's problem of all multiplayer games where PvP stands. Just entitled generation rose up where they need to win, no matter how. Ruthless upbringing brings ruthless generation - APB lore is perfect example of that. Problem with series like Battlefield vs APB is basically that Battlefield has enough of normal player population to cover cheaters and throw them on sidelines while APB cheaters are such big percentage of population that pretty much every game is affected by them. That obviously got negative effect on current and future population. Hell, even I was thinking of coming back to APB but taking combination of bad matchmaking, lack of any LO oversight and cheating problem... I just dropped it. Too bad it wasn't like that when there was OBT, would at least be game dead on arrival and we wouldn't had this problem. Yet again, as said hundred of times by me - this is both fault of LO (lack of enforcement, lack of oversight and overall "sitting back" attitude) and "loving this game" playerbase which "loves this game so much" that they have to stomp everyone playing it to ground, forgetting that anyone else also plays and nothing will replace them in the end. Enjoy your spoils, they are useless outside APB which inevitably will shut down. And you will have your uh... "gameplays" videos and such which gonna be questioned (rightfully so) for rest of time. And no, you can't legitmaize snapping from player to player while fighting them. Now they also throw some big unknown brazilian, digging in kernel anti-cheat to that and I slowly myself consider of not only uninstalling but deleting my GamersFirst account entirely. All of them. And just leaving. Contrary to what LO believes - I do have games to play, a lot of them. And you guys simply not competitve in any aspect by now. Even customization.

LO in few weeks: "All NA players get moved to Brazil server. Enjoy lags."

I gave my points to escalation before. In current form it's need serious rework. The problem is that it doesn't address problems properly. Escalation are also voluntarly which basically kills their intended intially purpose.

You got link to exact file. So I wanna see what that file is. Checksum included.

So far I don't see any of that coming. Maybe SARD really needs my point of view how many monkeys I meet to actually do something.

Argumentum ad ignorantiam

Oh and how I had it - put gold with silvers vs full team of golds. Oh he did bad? Go to silver. Put him still in silver teams, still against gold. Nice one, LO. Eh, I straight it up other day. Insane how much they fucked up.

With current matchmaking there's problem to even start one mission, yet alone segregate anything. Maybe they should fix whatever they screwed up first.

I know this trailer brought a lot of players back then.

Tbh. G1 did had track record for weird bans with no proper explanation. I wouldn't be suprised if LO had the same problem. Especially taking this banned person created their forum as back as 2013. I don't believe cheater would hold onto their account since 2013. And there were risen two other "reasoning" for bans - nudity (although clothing with symbols hardly counts as such in my honest opinion) and "payback fraud". So first one already in my opinion is unlikely and would most likely be meet with verbal warn first before any action is taken. I know LO doesn't like giving manual bans for such reasons as they are controversal. Second... well... that should be clearly stated in ban. If it is... I would just ask support to clear up situation. Mistakes happens and not always on our part. It's in my opinion idiotic if we still hold bans on people who clean up their mistakes in that area (even if voluntary caused). I hate fact that we give cheating players second chances... yet everyone else...? Yeah...

Where is RAM in this setup. Also loose SSD, yikes.

Quick answer. It doesn't. I dropped to silver, got lifted up to gold next day without playing single match. Then later dropped to silver again with good performance, then stuck in gold again. Oh and I get full teams of silvers solo. No clear reasoning for that as against me they keep putting golds. Makes sense? Yeah...

Yeah, I think also the problem is matchmaking still being what it is. It's roulette of "who gets handicap, who gets good player" but there's no easy fix for that with current population, locked additionally to single district. I wonder when they gonna implement phasing cause this seems to be good solution to that.

I think escalation is actually great thing you implemented which stop problem with one-sided matches you forced to sit on. I only got two problems: 1. This one is fairly obvious and I think universally noticed - mission weren't modifed for escalation... that problem is especially visible in finales which don't properly scale up and usually side more with defending sides, especially if we talk about point capture finale or VIP ones. 2. Here's problem is implementation of escalation itself - I don't think escalation should have approval of both team leaders - often it leads to pathological situations in matches where escalation is needed but enemy team leader will veto it because they win said match. In my opinion there's better non-autocratic alternative where escalation request is voted by one entire team requesting escalation and then if accepted by it, escalation happens. I know this proposition is controversal but problem is if we allow for escalation to be in current form then current situation with toxic playerbase will nullify it's impact to zero.

Well. Time for me to slowly resign from this game.

This issue been trickling like leaky water for year. I pointed it out, it got ignored. It gonna keep getting worse and worse until population will decide to leave this game for good. By now... there's no saving. You allowed this trash to exist, now they have breeding grounds here like xenomorphs. You gotta purge breeding grounds to remove pest. Reason why I'm not actively playing since 2021. Enjoy your experince in what I call "end stage" of game. APB is already grandpa on life support which is suprisingly still alive.

Sounds good to me. I always enjoyed district devolving into pretty much fight club. Make it less more problematic if cheaters are playing and win/loss is way more less predictable. Although that can be damning for win spree activity... still...

So, when it comes to FFA R&D3... ain't that a rare gem in game right now? Almost nobody owns it and almost nobody is able to afford one even if they wanted (prices are ridiciolous because whoever has it, can dictate prices pretty much unchallenged...). But I don't see anyone having problem with that. And when they do, they are silenced for being silver and wanting to take only worth thing away from people blah, blah. So here it is. I'm owner of FFA R&D3. I could afford maybe two more if I really wanted (with such prices...). They are unscoped OBIRs with 3 mods slots, agreed. But question is why they aren't at Anne yet? I think since we want all legendaries to lose they unavaliability status, that's only way to do it. Put it on Anne. Maybe make it so each lease is 10k JT so people don't whine. I don't care. For me it can be 2,5k JT. Nothing justifes fact that this weapon is somewhere in shadows and only owned by few. I don't even use it. For me it's symbol status. So make it avaliable.

How I never saw it? This is comedy gold.

I remember back then when people were shitting on me for cheating when I never did cheated. It was like that back then with FairFight. I did glitch on other account (which was mysteriously not banned unlike my main) into one spot during Halloween but without context it's idiotic (entire team tried to get to glitcher to kill him - And suprisingly glitcher DIDN'T get banned for that) and then I was banned for cheating on my main few days later (I assume that was reason? Although it's shady.). So yeah, I just decided to shut it after unban, complete what I had... now I'm just here more like shadow. Lurking between, soaking misery of others and hoping maybe there's gonna be wind of change. Noooooope.

We just arrived to this conclusion now? If this is how they want to "develop" this game, might as well shut it down before buying it. Seems my fears about LO being repainted G1 were justifed.