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  1. On 4/29/2025 at 10:03 AM, VanilleKeks said:

    The announcement for APB Reloaded release came in late 2010, with a supposed release in early 2011.

    https://www.eurogamer.net/apb-to-relaunch-next-year-as-f2p#justposted

     

    The game appeared on Steam in December 2011 and has since then never held more than a few thousand players.

    https://steamdb.info/app/113400/

     

    You're telling me that during approx. 6 months we somehow had 20k players on all server combined, which then never shows up in any stream or gameplay from that time as per my videos above. The game has been without Steam for only a few months at most and even back then, Steam was already one of / if not the most popular gaming launcher.

     

    You have no proof for anything that you claim. Can't even find any release without Steam during 2011.

     

    Here's my proof of how most of players played back then before most (if not all) moved onto Steam:

    https://www.gamersfirst.com/download/

     

    And you know that was first way to play this game.

     

    Also Steam back then was tiny platform comparing to today. Some people used it at best to play Source games and it just started to enter other areas.

     

    So don't call "bullshoot" on my childhood which I vividly remember.

     

    Gosh... you people are miserable.


  2. On 4/8/2025 at 4:38 PM, sweetLemonade said:

    To you and everyone who shares your sentiment: when are you finally going to get better at the game?
    The .45 isn't the problem this game has.

    For that comment, he get like and you get nothing.

    That's how you all gonna approach skill curve in this game - so be it.

    If secondary dominates weaker primaries, yes. That's very big problem. It's SECONDARY weapon. But that gave me idea - how about that... let's make it PRIMARY weapon since you so skilled with it? I wanna see you using it only. Oh but no worries, as bonus you can carry proper secondaries too.

     

    Btw. I main .45 and while I love design of irl. Colt M1911 I still think it's ridiculous that bought gun is the best in game as secondary. FBW and Nano loses in fire rate, all pocket SMGs in base accuracy and showstopper in bloom. That's simply unacceptable that only "acceptable" option for secondary is that gun and everything else is basically "noob" level. And especially for me is unacceptable fact that face to face some primary CQ guns can lose to this peashooter.

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  3. On 4/4/2025 at 7:43 PM, sweetLemonade said:

    Arc/Battlemage GPUs do not perform well in OpenGL & D3D9–D3D11 (DX9–DX11) titles due to their driver overhead penalty.
    APB is a D3D9 title, all effects render on the CPU.
    The driver causes massive stuttering even in CPU-limited scenarios, where the GPU usage is low. This is just a driver software limitation, perhaps a architectural limitation to some extent as well since Intel focused (& still focuses solely) on D3D12 (DX12) performance only. Even Vulkan was subpar on Arc & Battlemage cards, last time I checked.

    I would, instead, recommend you to go for a ≥12GB VRAM Nvidia GPU, at minimum Ampere (30-series) architecture or newer.
    There's a reason their usage market share is that large.

    Intel does want to focus on backward compatibility so that diagnosis will be hopefully not true in future.


  4. On 4/9/2025 at 8:58 AM, VanilleKeks said:

    "I remember when I joined this game we had EU with populations of 20k on each two servers, two instances of NA for both East and West, equally filled to brim"

     

    The game has never been beyond a 6k population peak in total on Steam and we did not get 20k per server from launcher users lol.

     

    By all means G1 and LO have let the player-base decline but let's not act like APB Reloaded was ever a major title that was killed or anything.

    The population was always abysmal for a free online title.

    You talking about Steam like it was universally used back then. LOL. Game for some time wasn't even RELEASED on Steam? Hello?

     

    Who are people liking your comment? Are they misguided or don't know history of this game?

    Clearly both.

     

    I'm suprised YOU don't remember history of this game since you been here even earlier than me.

     

    And also btw. read with understatement - 20k on each two servers. Each, two servers had 20k.

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  5. Taking how G1 killed population in past with nonaction and false promises and then LO stepped in and both took too small fishing rod for too big of fish and also decided to limit their actions to the point they pretty much G1 v.2 in nonaction. I remember when I joined this game we had EU with populations of 20k on each two servers, two instances of NA for both East and West, equally filled to brim, Asian server called Han and Innova which was seperate one but russians at least had their place too. And over years population dropped, servers had to be merged one by one by one so we arrive here... with roughly 500 players at best hours. It's safe to say all the potential was there and was absolutely wasted. And popularity was absolutely ruined. You go to YouTube - type "APB: Reloaded" and the top results are about "Why it's 100 million $ disaster".

     

    So safe to say, that ship already sailed. We just facing inevitable.  LO would need to do major... And I mean really major changes which would astound players. (Facepunch did that miracle with Rust but I doubt LO is capable to replicate what Facepunch did)

    Either that or release new APB in background (of course hyping it up first). Problem is franchise was sold to company called "Unit Game" which appears to just sit on title and present it like some trophy.

     

    So this game lost it future and really I blame developers (also game population didn't do any favours with cheating in rampant amounts for "people who love this game" and there's also people who treat newbies like "unnecessary evil" and decide to go full ham on them...)

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  6. 2 hours ago, koenyboy500 said:

    It is theoreticaly possible by just quitting before you see the "You lost" endgame results.

    But I SERIOUSLY doubt someone would go out of their way to constantly boot up the game and then quit the game for that many games.

    Notification about somebody non-stop winning games is bound to district.

    You exit district - outside of JT activities, this resets.

    Witnessing was never overhauled either so if it works like in old system, witnessing is counted as "mission". Is it exploit? To what exactly? If it's JT activities, i'm okey with that...

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  7. On 1/31/2025 at 4:55 AM, Pista said:

    We had way less cheaters when this game was running FairFight anti-cheat.  SARD doesn't seem to be much at all.

     

     

    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)


  8. On 1/31/2025 at 3:48 PM, Nagletz said:

    Nah make it total drama mode, ain't that fun?

    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.

    51 minutes ago, Nagletz said:

    It is fun if you watch it, all these chat warriors after lost matches are the reason to play apb alone lol

    If that's what drag you into APB... I don't think in the end that's game even for you.


  9. On 12/18/2024 at 8:34 PM, Hexerin said:

    Translation: "We believe our AI-driven anticheat is so perfect, that it cannot false ban an account. As such, we will not hear out any appeals for any reason."

     

    Shit like this is why people can't take LO seriously.

    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.

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  10. On 9/23/2024 at 9:30 PM, TheMessiah said:

    +1 also player must be able to progress the contacts(otherwise is pointless and gonna die fast)

    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.


  11. 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.


  12. 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.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Victoria97 said:

    I am just waiting for new forum topics "i was falsely banned" pls help!" 
    If those topics start to emerge again, then means SARD is doing a good work. 
    However they will be banned only for a year or two, until the next unban wave, when pop will drop again to 200 people. 

    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.


  14. On 8/27/2024 at 3:38 AM, ninjarrrr said:

    i used a 13900kf from dec 2022 to april 2024 (had the oxidation issue,blue screens,crashing,degradation etc) never got banned, must've put several thousand hours into apb during that time aswell. a lot of EAC banned had it coming tbh

    Argumentum ad ignorantiam

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  15. 11 hours ago, LilyRain said:

    And they made it even harder by reducing district capacity from 50v50 to 40v40.

    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.

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