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  1. Posted · Edited by Rapid99

    On 7/22/2021 at 5:05 PM, Y2Venom said:

    I used to team with a former developer who explained the coding for apb was like a ball of elastic bands and was a nightmare to add things or take things away. It needs a lot of people to work on it. That was 6 years ago...... so who knows were it is now.

    When APB was developed, RTW was simultaneously working on their "Project: MyWorld" system as well. It was essentially a facet of a game development suite (primarily a mapping SDK) which was supported to pretty much be Social District: The Game. The system would allow developers to all build games and maps in this system, and those assets would link together online to form a sort of Google Earth of interconnected game worlds. It was also going to incorporate social media aspects like Facebook and Twitter among other things. 

    APB was built with this system in mind, and as a result it became this absolute nightmare of custom coding and wonky things that no one else in the industry really knows how to work on - it was built and coded to be compatible with ANOTHER game of theirs which never even came out. The game was built with Unreal as a foundation, but its such a bizarre hodgepodge mess of custom work that people couldn't just be hired to come in and work on it with Unreal knowledge - they had to be specially trained to work on APB. Having past Unreal experience isn't enough, you need the goddamn APB Rosetta Stone as well.

    This is part of why new content came out at an absolute crawl after Reloaded, and why the Engine update has basically become a Half-Life 3 esque meme. Most of the staff who knew how to actually work on the game were lost with the shutdown, and only a few were left over at RP to fix the game and produce new content. MonteCristo essentially went from being a Character Artist at RTW, to being in charge of model and asset creation, animations, color corrections, weapon skins, character lore, 2D art assets (the ones made with 3D rendering at least); he basically had to build the entire weapon skin system from scratch (there were no Weapon Skins pre-Reloaded for those unaware). Meanwhile Qwentle and Androvald were playing the roles of codemonkey extraordinaires, and I -think- Hezeki was in charge of server function? 

    Anyway, my point is, Qwentle was basically the last one to go (think he stuck around till 2019 when the UK offices were closed) and once he was gone, I figured that to be the last nail in the coffin for the game. Now its basically a few people in a pitch black room swinging a hammer around with hopes of seeing a net improvement. Im sure at least some information was passed down on how to work on APB, but... goddamn, it legitimately would probably be easier to just make a new game at this point using the existing art and sound assets.

    But what do I know, I don't know banana about game development.

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    You don't need to have racist symbols on a cut for it to look like an authentic outlaw MC cut lol. 

    If you want your character to look like he is part of a racist outlaw MC then sure, go ahead (though you'll probably have actions taken against your account).

    But no one is going to give you any sh*t for having a 3 piece patch or a one percenter patch or an iron cross or whatever (since the iron cross is a really damn generic and traditional symbol). SS logos or swastikas or whatnot though? Yeah i'd avoid that.

     

    And before you retort with "u dun know muh outlaw MC life", you're not the only person who grew up around (or was involved with) outlaw MCs. I've got a tiny toddler leather cut hanging on my door from when I was a little sh*t and my parents would take me with them to various club parties and bike rallys and whatnot. I've got a bunch of pins on that vest that were gifts from people my dad knew and hung around with; i've got one from a Pagan, one from a Warlock, one from a Hell's Angel, and a handful of others from various other smaller local MCs (one percenter or otherwise). I mean christ, I have two middle names, and one of them is literally Harley.

     

    I've seen and known some members with racially charged patches on their cut, but that sh*t was definitely not on everyone's. 

     

    TLDR: You don't NEED racist symbols to make an authentic outlaw MC cut, so no, it's not alright

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    Wait a minute...

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  14. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Lord Cashpoint said:

    Was this not immediately following the end of the Gold Rush and the subsquent disaster that was gold segregation? I always wondered how closely linked the two events were.

    A few months after it, yeah. Was also right around when patch 1.13 dropped, when Tiggs was hired, and when the Engine Update was announced (which, in the way they worded it, seemed like a direct response to the success of GTA V).

     

    Something something all of their eggs in one basket

  15. Posted · Edited by Rapid99

    On 6/14/2018 at 1:01 AM, iodyne_ said:

    Well I of course miss farfletched.

    He kinda left extremely abruptly...like one day we were running the APB Music Creator Contest...and then the next he was gone...like right when he was going to put the winner's song in the in-game building...

    Kinda weird. I never caught word of why he left or if he was fired or what. Does anybody even know??

    Cause like the day after, Tiggs was hired and she said they were dropping the contest cause they had other priorities or something. Engine upgrade something or other I don't even remember now...

     

    Edit:

    He was right in the middle of running this and left before it could be finished and then no one else at G1 would finish it.

     

    (link to the old, infinished 'Music Creator Contest')

    From my memory, Farfletched was part of the first wave of developers "let go" by G1, whom they deemed irrelevant for the future of the game's development. This was around the time Jack/Monte, Revoe and a few others were let go as well; some may remember this being followed by Jack Oakman starting his own little indie studio called Digital Curve which was somewhat short lived, but Farfletched (as well as Revoe and 5 or 6 other ex-RTW G1 folks) was on that team after the fact. Nothing ever came of the studio, and I have no idea what he got involved with after, but to my knowledge he is still making music. Just not sure if it's for any specific studios or whatnot.

     

    EDIT: Also, here you go; here is a link to the original contest thread https://forums-old.gamersfirst.com/topic/328377-apb-music-creator-contest/

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  16. Posted · Edited by Rapid99

    I'm amazed that of all the new threads popping up in the Social District forum, this was the one that facilitated over 5 pages of discussion

     

    I would have sworn this topic would have died before it reached page two when I saw it pop up last week

     

     

    But, to contribute to the thread and just repeat what has been said 50 times before...

    LTL is awful compared to lethal, and you are only punishing yourself when you choose to use it.

    Enforcer's are not favored, stop it

  17. Posted

    10 minutes ago, tennogrineer said:

    ... Another case was @Rapid99 (if i remember correct). pretty much active veteran players. Sure, some were able to rename and just deal with it, but that's easily a sore spot i bet. sorry if i called out these players, if they didnt want to be called.

    I still have the name Rapid99 on my main account, but my criminal / alt did have a forced name change; so my crim went from Agnosia to Allochiria.

    Wasn't the end of the world though, since not a ton of people recognize my crim character anyway.

  19. Posted

    I'd like to see them remove that goofy "player is out of bounds" nonsense, which despawns you if you end up on a building's rooftop.

     

    It was huge fun to launch cars and make your way up ontop of skyskrapers and parking garages and stuff, and just mess about exploring the city; the addition of the "out of bounds" nonsense completely ruined that. And I can't agree with it being a gameplay mechanic fix, to prevent exploiting on missions, because 95% of those areas are impossible to reach while in a group.

     

    Bring back the rooftop parties please.

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  23. Posted

    13 minutes ago, Kivron said:

    Please no community GMs

    Streamers like Kempington, shouldn't have any sort of say or power, due to his hate or dislike for someone.

    Learn to read please, thanks

     

    On 5/30/2018 at 7:50 PM, Lixil said:

    GMs will monitor the chat, answer players' questions and generally help them out. If they encounter a cheater they will be reporting them to our support or me, so that we can investigate on our own.
    Forum mods can give you warnings, which I will be monitoring. These measures are to ensure the forums stay clean, and that players follow the rules without issues.

    Neither GMs or Forum mods have permission to suspend/ban any account. The game is handled by support, the forum by me.

     

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