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  1. Posted

    I'm disapointed that they chose to listen to the exclusivity cry babies, forum community ruining yet another thing for APB.

     

    The new skin doesn't look bad, but at least make sure it doesn't re-appear anywhere from this point on, to make it a new exclusive thing. New content is ALWAYS welcome.

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  2. Posted

    On 11/1/2018 at 7:57 AM, Kewlin said:

    So first thing's first, Little Orbit, you're seriously releasing an event that requires people to play ten out of fourteen days the event is active? I figure you guys have pretty busy schedules yourself over there, so I thought you'd understand that people like. . . I don't know, sometimes have things they need to do beside playing your game? But nah, apparently that doesn't matter and people should need to play APB nearly every day of the event to get all the rewards. Your grandma just died? Got a wedding to set up? Work twelve hours a few days? You're moving? Your internet or power's out? Well guess what? You don't get to get all the rewards because LO needs you to dedicate time to the event 71% of the days during the event, and if you have more than a few characters just give up and uninstall. (I never quite understood why APB punishes people who pay to have more characters by making all events rewards character bound, but that's beside the point I guess?)

     

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about needing to put in effort to get event rewards, what I'm specifically complaining about is the fact that you cannot grind at your own pace, and you instead need to put in a random amount of effort as determined by what daily activity you're assigned nearly every day. (By the way, the difficulty of  the activities is not balanced at all. . . like killing people carrying barrels? Really? That's not even based on skill in any way, that's quite honestly just random luck since people are only ever carrying barrels for like two seconds at a time. But I digress)

     

     

    Second, this is not confirmed but it would appear that it's very likely the case that you can only get two out of the three event skins. Basically, you get new skins at rank 4 and 8, and Matt Scott said that you need to choose between skins every time you get on so. . . we can assume you only can get two out of three. . . like. . . really LO? Who does this make happier? It's not like this creates any sense of exclusivity, 'cause it's entirely arbitrary.

     

    My personal suggestion to change this would be giving everyone one of the skins for free on login, but if not at least put it in one of the other ranks.

    Personally for me, playing 10/14 days isn't an issue but I can see where really busy people are coming from. Anything that you cannot grind at your own pace is frustrating in games in general. You do make a very strong point about too many things being character bound, not only from armas but also from events. I strongly agree with this, pretty much everything needs to become account wide already, from everything available on armas down to every event reward. There is no doubt about that. No matter how limited it may be by the engine or whatever, it needs to be adapted for that, if not now then at least for when the new engine arrives.

     

    I do also support the idea of making all new weapon skins obtainable somehow, not necessarily by giving them for free upon logging in, but by adding an extra rank or why not just make it so you receive ALL of the items in a rank reward package that you currently need to choose from? I don't see the appeal in having to only pick one. That just sounds like someone is being lazy, making it so that players can wait till next year to get a new (old) skin instead of creating new skins/rewards each year.

     

    Last, but not least, yes,  some of the daily activities are B.S. like the killing players that carry barrels one. It's virtually impossible to pull 3 kills like that if you don't just get a friend to help you. No one ever carries a barrel for longer than half a second up to a second, and even if you do see someone like that (who hasn't yet seen you), as soon as you shoot once, they will instantly drop the barrel and run for cover, which makes it impossible to pull that activity off. I strongly recommend removing it.

     

    I also dislike the fact that there is no real appeal in winning the actual epidemic matches, you don't really win anything even half decent from those. It's all about the activities which puts many players (me included) off from actually finishing up any matches or trying to win any matches. You only get some consumables (which, it's about time that we turn them into normal player mods that don't run out, but just have a cooldown instead BTW) and APB$ which is useless for the most part. You go into a district, do your activity (while not giving a darn about the objective or who's winning) and you just leave the district until the next activity comes up.

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  7. Posted

    Phasing would be one of the best things to ever happen to APB, especially if the full plan with a single World works out. It would solve many issues, certainly. And I'm certain that new players would have a much more playable experience then so it's bound to attract more of those.

  8. Posted

    On 10/11/2018 at 7:44 PM, ChellyBean said:

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    THIS

     

    @ShadowXS Stop effing complaining about getting conveniences. If you don't like the feature, don't use it. I didn't even read through your whole post because I know exactly what I'm going to see. Endless, pointless complaining and nothing useful to say.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Flaws
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    Some of the APB players seem to have a really hard time understanding how difficult it is to work on the game currently. You already have a new anti-cheat, a trading system, a whole bunch of bug fixes that you come accross as you play (if you've paid enough attention over the years), some new useful features in-game and on armas. We have a much more promising halloween event coming up than ever in the history of APB, we have consistent, regular updates from the devs on the forums and in the blog spot, talking about the process of moving the game to UE3.5 and an idea of how close it is to being completed.

     

    And I'm not even mentioning the rebalancing of the HVR and Yukon, which were the most important ones in terms of immediate weapon rebalancing.

     

    I'm not sure what else OP wants for 5 months of LO having this spaghetti code game. I'm even surprised they've done this much already. Can we stop with the pointless threads now?

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  11. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    2 hours ago, BXNNXD said:
    9 hours ago, MidnightStrider said:

    it's a non skill weapon that requires no effort

    out of curiosity, what gun would you say takes skill to use?

     

    2 hours ago, CookiePuss said:
    9 hours ago, MidnightStrider said:

    it's a non skill weapon that requires no effort

    I too would like to know this... if the ntec is easy, what gun is hard?
    Exactly my point towards everyone else in this thread.

    My mind is not changed, the N-TEC does not require nerfing and some of you just aren't very good at this game. I rest my case, as I've already wasted too much time on this. I hope LO makes the right decision.

    (I hate how buggy the forums and quoting are.)

  12. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    5 minutes ago, Noob_Guardian said:

    I'll put it this way, I use every underpowered weapon in the game, including putting hb3 on a star and can do just fine. But if I really really really want to win without a doubt? I use an ntec.

    Why? Because it's piss easy to handle with experience and gets more kills than other rifles. I put on an ntec and don't worry about if "i'll take that guy out in the open right then or if i need to wait another 1-2 seconds until i "know" he is unable to get away."

    Its vesatile, managable, easy to use, good ttk, capable of facestomping every rifle in range. Put 2 people of the same skill with ntec vs star, ntec is likely going to be on top. It's not hard to figure out why the are hoping to nerf its versatility slightly. When out of f2p rifles you have ntec and star and 9/10 people use ntec.

     

    There's no doubt the N-TEC is better than the STAR, but why nerf a fine balanced N-TEC when you can buff the STAR and give it a reason to be used by some riflers? The discussion wasn't about the N-TEC vs STAR, it's about the N-TEC allegedly being stronger than OCA, PMG, shotguns, carbine, OSCAR etc (which it really really isn't, not in their optimal range, definitely not)

  13. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    24 minutes ago, MidnightStrider said:
    On 10/2/2018 at 5:18 PM, Flaws said:

    The new N-TEC changes are terrible and I hope they realise that. There is no need to nerf one of the most complex weapons to use in the game (compared to basically everything else in the game that is considered meta). The N-TEC has the most complexity of them all. Reducing what you can do once you master it is a bad move.

    EDIT: The N-TEC 5 requires control of many things while almost every other weapon in the game lets you get off with only keeping track of one thing. N-TEC combines tracking, fire rate control (handling bloom depending on range), recoil control and movement + having to be aimed down the sights 90% of the time.

    Most other weapons in the game either have no real recoil, no actual bloom, can be used without aiming down the sights at similar ranges as the N-TEC *cough* OSCAR *cough*.
    I don't think it's the N-TEC that needs to be looked at but things like how the PMG can be used as a sniper rifle sometimes and how stupidly overpowered the OSCAR is in it's range category.

    And as far as jump shooting with the N-TEC goes, I do not see why that should be nerfed. It's already balanced well enough considering the fact that once you jump, you are stuck in a specific arc that your character follows as they fall down to the ground. It's not like we can easily manoeuvre left and right mid-air. The jump shooting is useful to those who can do it correctly and have good enough aim. I don't see the point of nerfing that whatsoever.

    You're kidding, right?....N-tec is one of the most overused weapons in the game, EVERYONE can use it, which is why it needs to be nerfed, it's just like the PMG, and OCA, it doesn't take skill, quit kidding yourself. N-tec recoil is/was non existent, it NEEDED to be nerfed BIG TIME
    Saying that the N-TEC recoil is non-existant when you have weapons like the Carbine, OSCAR, OCA, OBIR etc is just laughable at best.

    Also, just because "everyone can use it" (even though using it has literally nothing to do with mastering it) doesn't make it overpowered in any way. Everyone can use shotguns because they are incredibly easy. Everyone can spray an OCA, everyone can spam a carbine etc.

    As a final note, I'd like to remind you that the vast majority of silvers/low golds are using weapons like Medusa, True Ogre, Volcano, Raptor variants, HVRs, PMGs. They use Nano and Yukon as a secondary etc etc. I don't see low tier players using N-TECs that often AT ALL. And from my experience with talking to lower tier players, they claim that the "N-TEC sucks"; "too much recoil"; "I can't control it".

    If the N-TEC really was such an overpowered weapon that EVERYONE can use, no one would be buying the ATAC, spending money on JMBs to get a Medusa. No one would sit 100m away with a volcano spamming the objective etc etc.

    I'm wondering, really, who is this "EVERYONE" that you speak of?
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  14. Posted

    Like it was already stated, there isn't much of a reason for the numbers to grow right now. The engine upgrade is REQUIRED for new content, optimizations and the matchmaking to work correctly. As long as the population doesn't hit 0 before all major updates have been released with some new content (which is probably when LO will give APB some advertisement), it should be fine imo.

    Also, we still do need to address the fact that the game is incredibly confusing and unfriendly to new players if they don't have a friend who is already playing for a while, to teach them the ropes. Without a solid tutorial system, there won't be many new players staying when they get thrown around by max rank veterans. You can't blame them for not staying either.

    I have 3 real life friends who tried the game a few months back and they all said that they'd play it more after the engine upgrade.

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  18. Posted

    2 minutes ago, GhosT said:

    It's been explained countless times on the forums and various discords, even in-game or on streams. Why should I repeat myself a thousand times just because you're slow or refuse to accept the truth?
    I just don't see a point in arguing with someone that defends something that is clearly overpowered while he's running around calling others bad or silver.

    There's just no point discussing anything with you, accept that.
    Who explained it? Any high tier player who ever said that the N-TEC is overpowered? I highly doubt that.

    You being delusional has nothing to do with me, other than that it pisses me off when devs listen to people like you on the forums instead of high tier players.

  19. Posted

    6 hours ago, GhosT said:

    Yeah, I mean, you were the first to bring up irrelevant crap.

    What makes you assume that I get smashed all day long in CQC by N-TECS? Just because I dare to speak the truth about your favourite crutch?
    I'm not trying to balance guns to my personal skill level because "waaaah I got killed by one waaaaaaah", but more so because it actually is overpowered and the game became absolutely stale.

    I mean... udNpnvy.png, lol.
    The mere fact that you pasted a picture of your fellow silvers downvoting my post shows you've run out of arguments. You aren't bringing anything to the table with this post here, just hollow statements how it's "overpowered", yet there's little to no elaboration behind what you are saying 🤔

    Also, I've not brought up anything that is irrelevant. I talked about weapon balancing and how people subconciously become delusional about weapons being overpowered just because they don't know/aren't capable of facing them. You started talking about completely different things in desperate attempts to defend your empty point.

  20. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    2 hours ago, GhosT said:

    Oh man, here comes the "you're bad" argument. Funny seeing that coming from you, considering your past (or even present? I don't know.)

    Yeah, some weapons are better than the N-TEC at their intended range, and they are poop outside of it, but it doesn't change the fact that the N-TEC can effectively fight pretty much anything and outgun them at a given situation. The N-TEC is also at an advantage if you get the jump on your oh-so-good OCA user, or the N-TEC has cover - and the OCA doesn't.

    I mean, there's a reason why almost everyone plays it. It's obvious that it's overpowered and you can defend your crutch all day long, it won't change my opinion about it.
     
    The "you're bad" argument is correct for the majority of the forum warriors. (No offense to anyone, but it seems that I need to make that clear.)

    You can play N-TEC all day long but when you have to attack a CQC area and the opp has 1-2+ CQC weapons, you go CQC as well. You don't stay N-TEC because you'll die most of the time. Every good player knows that. Same for long range. Stop trying to apply your personal experience of getting smashed by good N-TECs in CQC to what the reality of the situation is.

    But yeah, good job on not being able to hold your horse and just having to bring up irrelevant crap to a discussion that has nothing to do with that. Very mature.
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  21. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    9 hours ago, GhosT said:

    Yeah, no. Why are you picking at me?
    I mean, look at your streams, you're sometimes a 1 mag 1 kill type of N-TEC player.
    At least I don't need to pull false "facts" out of my a** to support a claim on the forums. If you can't kill an N-TEC in CQC with OCA, you are bad. Period. There's no excuse for that. Call me whatever you want, but most CQC weapons are more than good enough to beat the N-TEC, your previous statement doesn't make sense and is not a good enough reason to nerf the N-TEC.

    You don't pull out a CQC weapon in a long/mid range fight. You don't engage in a long/mid range fight if you already have it pulled out. You rush a CQC area with a CQC weapon. In long range you can pull out an Obeya/OBIR/HVR/Scout. All of those out-perform the N-TEC on range. The N-TEC is not strong enough to beat any of those (assuming that they are used in the correct range).

    When weapon discussions are held, one thing needs to always be noted: We are not talking about our own experiences with weapons as much as we need to address the maximum potential of every weapon that is being discussed. Just because X number of people who main OCA and can't kill a skilled N-TEC user in CQC, doesn't mean that good players can't. That's what I've been trying to say. Not everything on the forums needs to be taken into consideration when weapon changes are being made.
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  24. Posted

    3 hours ago, Kempington said:

    Ok now I'm confused. Whats the relation to the IR change and ntec jump shooting? How does a rate of fire need when using improved rifling now suddenly make ntec jump shooting appealing? 

    I was personally referring to the fact that the decreased fire rate with IR makes the N-TEC less effective in CQC spraying, therefore if you use it, you'd rather reach for your secondary in CQC. If they take away the current jump shooting accuracy (when not using IR), IMO, it would make the weapon less versatile and less appealing. (and yes, I am aware that many players who don't use the N-TEC want just that to happen.)

    43 minutes ago, GhosT said:

    Depends on the situation, the N-TEC is very viable to hold its ground in close quarters against these weapons, while still being effective up to 65m or even more.
    Good SMG players don't (USUALLY) lose to N-TECs in CQC, at least not in a fair 1v1 situation. Stock OCA alone is (USUALLY) more than enough to take down a jump shooting N-TEC. You can be mowed down by an N-TEC crouch peeker on a corner, but you could get killed like that by other weapons as well.

  25. Posted

    1 minute ago, Nitronik said:
    7 minutes ago, Flaws said:
    Forums are super derpy right now. I have no idea how I double-posted. I meant to reply to

    "and how is jumping accuracy supposed to aid with that?"

    It gives you a chance to defend yourself to an extent in CQC.
    Flaws. You're making the jump modifier to be the sole savior of the NTEC. We both know that's not the case.

    Prior to the IR nerf it wasn't. But now I think it's what makes it appealing in terms of playstyle.

    Just now, Weeb TheEpicGuyV2 said:

    Can I run a quick experiment by you people against the ntec changes. Lets say you're engaging in fights that revolve around 60m and more mainly in all your matches. If you couldn't choose the ntec (n-tec 5 and ursus) or the CR762, what would you use?

    OBIR, maybe Scout. You basically stripped us of 3 of the best choices there so it's no surprise that I'd go for one of those last two options.
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