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  4. Posted

    5 hours ago, AgentWatson said:

    I think the actual strategy is to give cheat coders so much whiplash from the amount of back and forth between anti-cheating methods that they eventually give up on coding new cheats for APB that probably makes them a few hundred a year. 

    Going back to an inferior anti-cheat which is easier to bypass and inject through is not really helping that kind of strategy.

  6. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    15 minutes ago, Shui said:

    Just stop please...
    You are starting again to hackusate every average gold in this game on stream
    The main issue are not the few cheaters, its the random and false hackusations

    The difference between EAC and BE is day and night, everyone knew that before it came back because we've already had BE in APB and the situation was just as bad towards the end. This is nothing new, I don't understand why you would say anything like this when the facts are right here and clearly visible. So many old cheaters came back now that EAC is gone, people that were gone from the game for most of EAC's reign and the game was significantly more enjoyable (and easier) to play.

     

    Now every second player you meet is a slammer again all of a sudden. Low ranks, max ranks with names you've literally never seen or heard of before (bought accounts) and so on. No one can deny how superior EAC is.

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  7. Posted

    I perfectly predicted that all of this would happen as soon as we heard about EAC's departure. I don't really see any other options on the table either and I expect the game to only plummet down more and more. It doesn't matter how many patches they release or what engine the game goes on, how good it looks or how balanced and competitive it becomes. If the cheater issue is as bad as this, APB won't go anywhere. This is the main issue of the game again, regardless of what people want to think.

     

    APB's worst period was during the last months of FairFight when the population was at its all-time lowest (for that time) and it was caused by the blatant misuse of FairFight for manual banning anyone the old devs didn't like and also not banning actual cheaters for years on end. It was the last few months before LO announced their acquisition of G1 and APB. Now we aren't really getting many (if any) false positives because LO aren't malicious and don't seem to abuse it but a lot of actual cheaters are not being banned due to Battleye's inability to detect anything beyond free outdated cheats and some cheats that are just being tested until they become undetected on new throwaway APB accounts. Obviously, this is subpar and definitely useless in a game like APB where cheaters are in the top 3 biggest problems that the game has ever faced. Things are looking pretty dreadful.

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  8. Posted

    The FAR weapons were originally rewarded for playing some of the Christmas events and they are unlocked as leasable guns from contacts. As far as I know they are still available for leasing from contacts on the characters that you've unlocked them on.

     

    The JT variants are a part of the Joker Store overhaul which aims to make all Armas weapons available to everyone for free. They didn't scrap the old ones to my knowledge.

  13. Posted

    13 hours ago, NotZombieBiscuit said:

    Increase accuracy and increase recoil so that it is more dependent on player aim.

    This.

    2 hours ago, 404 said:

    spread

    bloom

    enemy spread

    enemy bloom

    mission type

    mission area

    mission objective

    out of mission player interference

    spawn selection

     

    And this.

  17. Posted

    I dislike many weapons as I do not believe that they should exist in the game, at least not in their current form, but the most hated one is definitely the HVR. The HVR is absolutely game breaking however you look at it. Zero effort, extremely high reward. Every buffoon can play it and use it efficiently and outplay much higher skilled player by just point and clicking. Its absolutely ridiculous. A single click and you are either dead instantly or you become a one-click kill for anyone else. The nerf they applied to it did nothing but make the gun boring to play with but still insanely broken. Just put any noob on it and you instantly gain like 50% chance to win the mission. It can change any mission's outcome in a few seconds where the HVR gets a couple tags on you and you become free kills.

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  18. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    If you have the money, I'd always advise to go down the G1C route and buy account bound guns. The Joker Ticket system for character bound guns is mostly meant for Free-2-Players who don't want to spend a dime on the game. If you want a legendary then sure, buy JT but keep in mind that you can still buy legendaries from the auction house (marketplace in social) for APB$ which you will get anyway through playing. If you aren't desperate for any of the legendaries, it might be better to keep your money for JT in your wallet or just buy other stuff from Armas. Generally speaking, legendaries aren't that great to begin with save for the Ursus or something.

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  19. Posted

    As much as I dislike 2v2s in APB, no. They are still just as viable for competitive play, you just need to play it in a different style to 3v3/4v4. I'd say that they are just more tricky to win against a good duo.

     

    1v1s can only occur through a bug since the 2013 change so they aren't exactly in the game and cannot happen under normal circumstances. I think that this bug needs to go away so that random 1v1s can never occur but I think that there should be some easy way to get a 1v1 with a friend if you really wish to. Sure, 1v1 combat means nothing in APB due to how RNG it gets with some weapons but it can still be done for fun and I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to do it. Currently this bug is the only way to achieve it but even now you need at least 3 players for it and its still annoying as hell.

     

    5v5 or anything more than that gets a yikes from me. As a matter of fact, I think that missions shouldn't allow more than 4v4 (assuming the matchmaking gets its sh*t together in the future and you don't need to call backup infinitely). The more players that join in, the more chaotic an disorganised it becomes. Suddenly skill matters less and it becomes fight club where people you've literally just killed are already spawning behind you and killing you as you still fight the rest of their team. It adds tons of RNG per player per team and it overall defeats the idea of competing in missions. Big no no.

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  20. Posted · Edited by Flaws

    1 hour ago, Noob_Guardian said:

    i mean exploits ARE bannable as well, you say "only allows you to move at sprint speed" but that's still bypassing the base speed of 3 m/s for medium items ensuring the enemies can NEVER catch up if you're ahead of them without using fragile (still a lost cause)/epiphrene/vehicle. Heavy's were fixed, but you can still "somewhat" move them like... 2m/s instead of 1 which isn't actually a problem. lol

    That is a mechanical exploit which many other popular games have to some extent and you cannot get banned for it, especially if the devs are unwilling to fix it.

     

    If anything, moving at sprint speed with medium items should be a part of the game. Who in their right mind would carry around a briefcase the way they do in APB when they are being shot at? Anyone would just hug it for example and make a run for it. 

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  21. Posted

    1 minute ago, Percocet said:

    lol, speed hack is already back, the game is dead move on., get a better anti cheat or get the shovels.

    I don't know whether you are serious or not, but regardless, speed hack is a sort of lag switch in APB and no anti-cheat could efficiently stop it to my knowledge. It had to be dealt with manually.

  22. Posted · Edited by Flight
    Removing off-topic reply

    4 hours ago, heelruby said:

    imagine thinking LO getting scammed by epic for a half working eac is going to save apb

    what's logic even ?

    The half working EAC that delivered the best results of all anti-cheats that have ever graced APB in their full versions? The half-working anti-cheat that was one of the very few things that made the game tolerable? Thats the logic. EAC even in just it's client side was more powerful than all the others in their full capacity and that is a well known fact.

    4 hours ago, SquirrelFace said:

    -removed-

    I am pretty confident that I can tell who cheats and who doesn't the best out of anyone in this thread. I just have the experience and knowledge for it.

     

    But if you don't want to listen to me, you can read the tons of comments from other players on the forums in the different threads discussing the issue, stating that they've also felt an increase in cheaters since BE. Kind of a thoughtless comment from you there.

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  23. Posted

    3 hours ago, HighSociety said:

    So what u basically saying is that it's better for the Game that people aren't able to play at all than playing against too easy or too hard enemies? 

     

    -full districts

    -spamming join

    -waterfront not available for golds

     

    Meh...

    dunno man...

     

    EDIT: Just talking about NOW not talking about after EUpgrade

    I don't think they plan to touch anything prior to the engine upgrade anyway. 

  24. Posted

    1 hour ago, 404 said:

    personally i think we should have stuck with eac anyway, the higher monetary cost seems worth it compared to battleye

    Definitely should've stuck with EAC at all costs because this switch back to BE could very easily mean the actual fatal end of the game. We can't have a second FFbans era. That would finish the game off.

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  25. Posted

    14 minutes ago, NotZombieBiscuit said:

    Seemed pretty explanatory to me.

     

     

    It was actually a rather confusing statement many people interpreted in different ways. I for one thought that it was EAC that was dropping APB but then other credible sources have said otherwise. I would also like another post that makes it clear for everyone.

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