Mitne

This tool is useful for checking if servers are accessible: https://will.io/apb/ And so far it seems they are.

Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

It's still down? HAH.

And then event gonna last like week or two. Screw everyone who are late by let's say... two days. Then they wonder why this game has pop of 300.

Well I can tell you at least I was one false positive and the way I got banned I'm doubtful of many bans which happened thanks to it. (FFBans.org)

I was bullied for year and half for being banned by FF while playing legit. Worst of it... by people who were actively cheating (and many of them found themselves on FF sooner or later). Last thing we need in already toxic community of less than 500 people is dramas. If that's what drag you into APB... I don't think in the end that's game even for you.

Tbh. taking machine learned on such small pop (350 players overall at all times?) and many of said players are extremely dubious (y'know what I mean) - I wouldn't be suprised AI could as well take bad examples and use them as good ones. I know AI is easily misguided personally by usage of different AI systems for various tasks. It focus on thing or two and then lose track of others.

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.