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APB? ESPORTS? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No seriously Matt. Don't. This "league" would be filled with scandals about cheats. Pretty sure that at first tournament they would be catched red-handed.

You guys just noticed? I talk about that gun for fucking months.

Will.io/APB <- Look at RIOT population. Imagine segregating it. Imagine it. (Servers marked as unknown are RIOT ones). No. It's either we allow clans and groups to dominate RIOT matches or seperate them in team creation process - nothing between. I think second option would make RIOT games way more less cancerous. I proposed waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before RIOT Beta was even out that they should make teams random despite groups (something which I think was case even in Christmas event). Did they listen? Of course not. They straight up ignored me and others. Thread got deleted too. Why even bother suggesting, when other side don't bother listening?

No. It's because mostly is still driven by clans (just like AA was). I saw few clans carry themselves to victory in AA, something which GMs somehow forgot to prosecute.

My setup is mobile - it's problem on it's own but bypassable if I set up maximum performance battery settings and hook it up to power supply. It never will give me 100% (due to heat on it's own) but surely give me maximum it can get. 8 thread 4 thread I3-3120 M, 8 GB of RAM (can't get more in there but should be alright, task manager always was of help with allocating RAM where it supposed to be - great tool), AMD Radeon 7600M HD (2 GB GPU, while it is defintely no-no in modern games, should work perfectly for game from 2010). Funnily enough I just replaced cooling pasta on PC and checked if temperature is proper. It is along lines of producent advice but would be "overheating" in normal PC (mind you high performance laptops always work hot). I was able in 2013 to run APB with this setup at stable 100-110 FPS. each update litteraly eaten away my FPS. Had eventually to involve settings downgrades, Advanced APB Launcher, config changes and task manager manipulations to get decent 60 FPS. Since last patch I got cut off from last option which now forces me to... 40 FPS. All it misses is ban on Advanced APB launcher and forced config and tada, i'm in unplayable zone (Thank God I got better PC just-in-case, yet this is my main PC so... yeah). No major changes done to this PC whatsoever (Still using Windows 8.1, I try to not update GPU drivers cause newer drivers seem to make issue worse (!)). So yeah. I know what my setup can and can not. And at this point it can run 2016 games better than 2010 game on old, unstable engine which breaks down with each update. And what the fuck? Why would I upgrade for 2010 game? This PC is from THIS era of this game. What was done in it that it eats so much resources? I don't see any major change to 2010. Just cause they coded in few gamemodes and weapons shouldn't eat so hard on resources. My only plausible reason for upgrade would be if they upgrade to EU 3.5 and my PC not being able to handle it at all - but they don't. And we still at the same engine which keep eating resources for no visible gain. Yeah. This game turns so hardcore elitist but in totally wrong direction. By driving away little pop we have. "We exclude everyone who can't meet cap" ~ APB Elitist probably If you look at my APB old forums past comments on forum threads, you can see spirale of me complaining about dropping performance further and further. I mean for fuck sake. It keeps getting worse. And accept everyone who cheat like some kind of sheep? Lolno. You will see I'm right in the end. Like I've been with many other issues of this game. There must be first something to praise and not just "OMG THEY ADDED FREE WEAPONS WHICH MOST OF US HAD IN ONE OR OTHER VERSION TO JD STORE BUT LET'S IGNORE RIOT DISASTER AND PERFORMANCE DECREASE". Yep. From my test with hardware it turned out that anything which is lesser than 1 GB GPU can harm performance but anything in that line or above don't affect gameplay at all, even at max. Of course. This patch hardly feels like "ready". Rushed is more in place. I'm not gonna go with Ryzen purely for APB (and most of modern games are pay-wall trash so i'm not even bothering purchasing them or playing them in F2P model - this range of games I want to play is perfectly fine on this setup with the sole expection of APB...) And it's not about GPU, it's about how APB distribute resources (and it does so badly) - I guess it's all because APB is 32-bit application. When they upgrade APB to 3.5, it will become 64-bit application and it would need to be really potato PC to not feel any difference about that, even 2010 setups should feel huge difference as APB will use resources to full capacity.

xD Greaaaaaat.

I'm not suprised but kinda my RIOT rant might brought shadow a bit on other problems with this patch. And honestly dunno who restricted possiblity of tampering with task manager priority. It's idiotic and actively harms my gameplay.

Most of population was banned. Many unjustly and Citadel population stood at 300 at peak. Man it would be dead by now. Imagine Citadel with Jericho population.

RIOT aside this time. My game is way less stable after this patch, had to drop Advanced Launcher to minimal and even then I have connection problems which time me out... a lot. And the fact that you blocked off priority manipulation in fucking task manager piss me off even more - now my game is totally unstable (because APB executable is so dumb that it don't take all possible resources). And to top it off... I don't see any changes after EAC implementation. Same people which shouldn't be with us are playing. Maybe some got caught but honestly... I don't feel that much of change.

And still sounds more sane than Reddit.

Yeah let's listen feedback of one guy. Everybody else, shut up! His word is divine. That's how despotism works. Also I would love to see examples of his enlightened ideas. Pretty sure everything he talked about was inspired by forums threads or in-game talks.

Look up Reddit. Idiocracy at it best.

I did google it. But with APB everything is "as it should be" until it's not really. I closed game normally. Via exit APB button. I just don't want it to find it as justification for some ban. Punkbuster did that shit with badly installed PB in some games I played (which self-installed and self-updated itself wrongly... so who is to blame here?) and banned people, in more extreme cases... even permantely.

My entire rant about this is here: So I guess nothing really to add. Just freaking do your shit.

Buy 10 wins for 2000 G1C now! There are OPGLs and OSMAWs dropped around map as primary weapons, the fact that they possesed them is probably because they found them. Even I used OPGL and OSMAW few times there. ^ Can you blame me? You win game but game said "no".

Should I be concerned? Don't want FairFight round 2.

Oh btw. I'm gonna add few new complaints and fix to my complaint after playing today: What is wrong with RIOT: Bribing stage. You killed every enemy team? TOUGH LUCK. This who bribed most auto-win! (The fuck was this shit? I won for FIRST time since 3 days. But game said I didn't. Why? Because they bribed driver HIGHER. How does it even make sense?! Corpses gonna drive out from zone?! And who gonna carry them?! Team which lost?! Lore-wise, function-wise and fairness-wise this is idiotic as hell.) 16 people TO START (Yeah, good luck keeping this gamemode alive after month. FC dies because there are only 2-3 people always missing to start it and you want to keep regulars at RIOT? Ha. Good joke. Quick glance at will.io/apb and they will resign.) Three easy achievements and one impossible (You all though wins gonna be easy to achieve, right? Ten fucking wins. Are you mad? And all of it JUST for 100 JTs.) ~ (Sidenote: I'm gonna farm this achievement so badly by rigging RIOT and I dare you to ban me. Credibility is lost. I see people rigging up this thing already for wins. Congratulations.) Clarification to one of complaints: Bribing at the end (Excuse me... why we even collect that cash... if "bribing" means bribing with non-existent cash in king-of-the-hill style? - encourage camping at finale zone as well) - after investigating it longer, it turns out bribes come from team account.

What's up with developers not listening to customers in this years? Developer: "Hey, we listen to customer feedback" Customer: "Alright, well honestly you need to fix this and this and I think you gonna have twice population" Developer: "Battle Royale" Customer: "What? No. It wo-" Developer: "Too late. Released it now" *Customer leaves*

That's pretty good bait title I would say. But preview feature betrayed you.

That explains why it felt like AA... IF <- I start to distrust LO honestly on that one. This looks very similiar. I feel sorry for you NA players. Not like we saw it coming though. Population won't come back after leaving, just to play dubious BR (and most likely all people who left us in past, don't bother to look APB up at all) I tested it on 2 laptops and 2 stationary PCs. Stationary PCs are generally way more stable. Laptops for some reason are more likely to crash (probably something with power limits (if you turn off power limits etc. your laptop still uses at best 80% of stationary power due to fact that laptop would overheat badly at bigger power.)). Even ignoring RIOT. Just look at this blatant population. Just look at it. That's all proper suggestions. Some I covered. It's hard to not see future when everything goes so predictable - you spend years in this community and you see this shit on total repeat. Yep. Fight club expansion would make more sense. RIOT actually should've been incorporated into FC (instead of replacing FC with RIOT). BR in Asylum with RIOT devices and huge teams would be more fun. Random rewards instead of fixed ones. Do some pool of random items or JTs. And if I get one more consumable mail I'm gonna explode. I got 200 pages of mail of consumables! 200 PAGES!

You announced BR - despite nobody even asking for it. You tested BR - and decided to ignore most of suggestions. You released BR... and it turned out exactly as "pessimists" like me expected. Awful. Badly done. Unfinished. Done against will of community. What is so bad in it?: Big clans groups dominating, solo players. (For me personally, biggest offense. It was risen as possible issue by me back then. You said your team gonna fix it @MattScott. My proposition was to randomize team despite groups. You didn't make sure that will be thing in the end. Now being solo in this game is punishment.) Cheaters teams which prevent you from winning. (Above issue + EAC at work ladies and gentlemen) Small population essentialy kill chances of winning ever (If I run in the same groups six times despite changing matches... something ain't right in that BR, right?) Boredom between fights. (Finding loot zzz...) Boredom between matches. (Waiting for team to die, loading, eventually crashing, waiting for it to verify files and joining game again ._. ... I can't even make that up...) Crashes (the weaker the PC, the bigger the chance - users of low-end and medium-end PCs be aware). Bad spawn system (Near border of non-contaminated zone is fine but way too often I spawn in gas half-way across map, with no possible chance to even reach desitination - even then borders usually are camped by other team. + Separation from teams while spawning + If I pay for respawn... why I don't have choice WHERE to respawn?) Bribing at the end (Excuse me... why we even collect that cash... if "bribing" means bribing with non-existent cash in king-of-the-hill style? - encourage camping at finale zone as well) - after investigating it longer, it turns out bribes come from team account. Locked finale zone (The fact that you can localize finale zone (just look for zone which have no RIOT device) - means that teams are bound to camp on it, while others who do RIOT devices can do shit) Legging it across map (Boring. Boring. BOOOORING. Stray cars on the street. Too much to ask? Why even put OSMAW or LMGs, if you don't plan to put in usable vehicles?) The fact that all RIOT devices don't self-activate over some time. (Self-explanatory. That moment when all teams are in finale zone but one of RIOT devices isn't activated somewhere between 3 zones near finale one - if RIOT devices would self-activate randomly after some time... this wouldn't be a problem.) Lack of any background sounds or music + Sounds from normal APB like in action which don't fit in deserted San Paro environment (adds to boredom and kills mood of this BR) Incomplete tutorial (Sure. 4 steps... what about more? Like bribing stage is not explained...) Respawns on it's own (with connection of bad spawn system - honestly? I would prefer permadeath. At least it would be more fair to me and others... and would let me search other game instead of dying few times in row because I can't find any serious weapon in finale stage.) Strange lore (This is first time where lore made little sense to me. Lead me to believe that this was even more rushed that you want us to believe.) Very repetitive gameplay. (Honestly after 10 matches... I felt pretty much bored. Even FC is less repetitive in feel - and that's achievement taking FC is usually TDM or capture the point in huge group of people) Weapon roles don't count in RIOT (Honestly... just why? Makes little sense in this BR.) Bribing stage. You killed every enemy team? TOUGH LUCK. This who bribed most auto-win! (The fuck was this shit? I won for FIRST time since 3 days. But game said I didn't. Why? Because they bribed driver HIGHER. How does it even make sense?! Corpses gonna drive out from zone?! And who gonna carry them?! Team which lost?! Lore-wise, function-wise and fairness-wise this is idiotic as hell.) 16 people TO START (Yeah, good luck keeping this gamemode alive after month. FC dies because there are only 2-3 people always missing to start it and you want to keep regulars at RIOT? Ha. Good joke. Quick glance at will.io/apb and they will resign.) Three easy achievements and one impossible (You all though wins gonna be easy to achieve, right? Ten fucking wins. Are you mad? And all of it JUST for 100 JTs.) ~ (Sidenote: I'm gonna farm this achievement so badly by rigging RIOT and I dare you to ban me. Credibility is lost. I see people rigging up this thing already for wins. Congratulations.) What is so good in it?: ...I guess pretty much nothing... Oh wait. JTs and Yakuza skin (Looks very good). What this gamemode remind you of?: ...Autumn Assault... Seriously. Start to work on it and addressing at least SOME of this issues. This gamemode is already on it's path to death. Just as expected by me. Hope you take it to heart and fix it. Because honestly? After all this rant I think it got potential... but this issues must be addressed and I mean ASAP.

That does sound like very functional BR, yes. /s Dunno why this devices don't activate on their own after some time...

I want to play RIOT tomorrow. Does it drop JTs? If yeah... then I don't care. If it don't. Then... But honestly... I don't think RIOT gonna be ever alive if requirements to even start game are so high in it. FC should stay, despite it's cancer. (I just showed my own self-interest and focus - which is JT tickets. I agree about "FC remaining" points tho. - FC got more sense than RIOT. Out of blue some company does battle royale with APB factions. Yeah. No.)

Shhh don't give them ideas or we gonna be back in OBT.

I hope so. Since 2017 I had to tamper with priority in task manager and disabling Vivox to get decent 60 FPS. Funny fact: Back in 2013 (hardware didn't even changed from what I have) - I had 100 FPS on high.