Chinook

There's tons of games with headshots, so why not play those if the actually sensible thing of aiming to center mass is too tacticool for you. With the balance being already questionable for years with certain guns and constant nerf/buff cycles ever continuing and making other guns become meta while others are turned into shit and then everything reversed and reverse-reversed again, what we really need is putting more variables and damage multipliers in to cater those who somehow think that aiming for head instead of center mass should be a thing... Could as well introduce helmets and actual body armor sets then, to take away your ability to look different. It would no longer be APB, it would be some other bland shooter game.

Problem isn't vegas being so good, it's the other cars being utterly shite. Drive moirai nose-first into a downhill and try to reverse - oh it won't, better just blow the fucking thing up and die in the blast as situation is already escalated beyond control. Then there are what i'd like to call tank-cars, that can take a lot of beating, but they're as fast as tanks when everyone else is driving supercars. The silly limits (engine?) to top speed makes most of the cars crap, you want good acceleration, good bullet resistance and decent amount of cargo space on most missions, sadly vegas is the only one that has proper acceleration and good bullet resistance, and it's not like the bit slower and bit weaker cars have tons more cargo space either... And with mission types getting more and more narrowed down, soon nobody will need any cargo space during missions anyway...

"Just smile and wave..." Yeah... About that... Be "less competitive" and not even bronze threat seems to help these days, people will badmouth you for not absolutely friggin carrying them. I just have no energy in my life to push myself at my absolute limit no more, so I just rather play for fun and games and try silly things, but even after acheiving bronze threat it seems like everyone just has right to badmouth me so I see no point to even play at this point for most of the time. The shrunken player pool doesn't help, but APB has always been very hostile towards any level of underachieving or incompetence or whatever word you wanna use. And it's just shit to play uncompetitively for shits and giggles these days. Everyone is so fixated on their god-emperor status that they cannot comply if someone isn't at least matching them in K/D.

I may be in the less popular opinion camp, but I just love when a mission goes all the way south and it becomes a fightclub but with the whole district map. I just enjoy the chaos APB is, and the more stale and boring and competitive the meta gets, the less likely I am to log in. And it's been pretty boring and stale for a good while, and if you try using silly weapons (let alone ltl) you'll get badmouthed and yelled at for like good 15 minutes after the mission ended!

Wasn't there crim v crim matchmaking in the olden days? Like Ye Olde Days? I'd still keep the factions, but perharps we should either get third faction in or some other reasons for missions that would enable it in extreme population unbalance, so that there would be something to play instead of it being like 10 v 2 when it comes to whole district pop... Nobody's gonna have a good time, unless the 2 v the world are extremely competent players and enjoy being zerged.

The "doing the obectives and being sneaky" i was kept on gold for the longest of time no longer works. You must be among the top scorers of the winning team and keep repeating that over and over again. And it's silly, the lower i dropped on "threat" the worse the matchups got untill I got to bronze. Then I started to get back the same shit that being gold once offered...

Is it just me, or is anyone else having hard time actually connecting to action districts? I struggled with this for good half an hour yesterday and after re-installing almost the entire game I got in, now I'm once again getting stuck on "Connecting to district server dot dot dot dot dot" phase on loading screen. Guess I need to find really empty district again to get in and hope for the best in terms of population changes...

APB still being APB. One rage-speed-hackbutter, few sus peeps. Wasn't the end of the world. What nearly was end of the night, was people being themselves as usual. Of course I suck, what did you expect? Me stll remembering every quirk of every 178 billion differently modded weapons and knowing exactly how each one of them functions nowdays after all the ever-going re-re-re-rebalancing? I barely remembered the controls for crying out loud... Got really reminded very very quickly why I stopped playing this game in action districts back in the day. At this rate I will propably have cured my craving for it forever after I reach the new max rank. Nostalgia can only carry so far, if the gaming experience is... unpleasant, to say the least.

Sometimes I'm just lost for words. Are all the anti-cheats ever utilized in APB so useless? Ban-waves after ban-waves being followed by un-ban-waves after un-ban-waves. Do we suck so bad using them tools? Or are the tools really that bad? Or are we just so desparate to get the sus whales back? Are we the baddies? Or what? I have no clue.

How many years we've had this style of event now? And how come we still haven't been able to fix the exploits where people get themselves out of bounds inside buildings and whatnot?

So we need to get rid of the last company on earth that is crazy enough to funnel some funds to this shitshow? OR: How about you find some more productive hobbies to waste your time on? APB has been a shitshow for ages, and thinking it would suddenly change or not be a shitshow is self-deception of the worst level.

Not having me even on shit tier is a sign of failure.

Listed bits remind me of my old setup. It ran semi-stable 60+ with certain settings. Slowly it kept losing performance and ended up running around 45 fps. Then I built new setup, and it ran 100+ fps "stable" without clay figure graphics. Now this very same setup runs barely at 60 fps again, with non-clay-figure settings. Sometimes little higher, can go up to very unstable 80+ fps at times on empty-ish district. Should check in one day to see if I get even that anymore.

Can we turn time back 10 years and not f' up everything on that attempt?

The latest engine update beta I tested had abysmal performance. It literally ran like s**t. That said, the live client performance is slowly getting up par with that beta, and it runs like garbage too. I have no clue what sort of nuclear pc's people who still keep playing regularly have (or if they just play with clay figure graphics and 1024 x whatever resolution), but even the live has been unenjoyable for me for quite a while now, as it runs like pile of garbage rolling downhill.

Has someone tried to use it for something else than griefing? My experience with it has always been someone just blasting everyone around him/her with massive audio overload with like 200%+ volume and bad taste in music.

If it's anything like the betas we've recently had, there'll be literally NOBODY around. So you can claim victory in your heart by the fact that you wouldn't get an opposed mission in the first place. EDIT: If someone missed the joke here, that poor soul hasn't tried the engine upgrade betas... The performance is beyond horrible. It's marginal at best, and this is with best rigs available today. I'd be perfectly happy with somewhat stable 60fps... Or even less, if it just were even remotely stable for crying out loud.

See you at the next event maybe. This must be the record for me, to play the least amount of apb halloween event ever. It's not like I'd be getting any enoyment from the "run of the mill - missions". Not even after all the "tweaks" to the meta. It's still shit if you prefer to go around solo. And while the horseman event districts boogaloo is the best thing since frozen pizza, it's still flawed.

Tryhard is someone who no matter the game, no matter the situation, will always go "all-in". I rarely "push" myself to the limit, because I get enough of that shit at work. When I'm at home I play games for fun, and I rather do things for "shits' n' giggles" than go all out with whatever "skill" I may have in the game in question.

That is obviously just to show the equipment without typing everything by hand. Can't remember what version number i run at the moment, but it's something from last 180 days. To whom it may concern... https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V10/display.php?id=131227211645

I'm sorry to inform, but it runs like garbage. If you put any of your settings towards allowing you to enjoy other people's character and car designs, the performance is shit, or worse. It is so much worse than live, that I can't fathom at this point whether or not engine upgrade is worth the time spent. I really really hope it is, but at this point it just doesn't show up to be.

I can't fathom how this can run worse than live, given that the engine upgrade must give access to plenty of areas where performance increases can be achieved. Yet it runs like a turd unless you tone it down to clay figure graphics. Way worse than current live, at least on my setup (https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V9/display.php?id=92773753464) It is just curious how it can run so bad even with low settins when enemies at 90m don't draw at all, except their gun.

It's not server fps people complain however, or is it? It's just that the game runs like a pile of garbage. You're lucky to get occasional 60 fps on any setting with a rig that used to be able to run apb at 100+ fps 5 years back in time... And when it doesn't run at any stable fps at all, it makes the controls and thus the game itself feel inconsistent and horrible. Merged. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2266913708 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2266913385 Kicked quality back up beyond high... Well, clicked high and then fiddled around with various advanced settings. And it runs fairly decently unopposed. It just has murderous dips into low-fps at times when it matters most... Stable 50 fps is beyond hope.

FPS is rough. Changing settings to low atm, to see if anything can be salvaged. High runs barely at 58fps on my setup, and keeps dipping all the way to high-30's... (At which point I'd prefer steady 30fps, because it is choppy and inconsistent as hell) Merged. Running it on low... HOLY POOPOO. Enemies at the edge of draw distance are just guns floating in the air. Good luck spotting what they're about to do. FPS still not great, yet not terrible. Looks ugly as poopoo. Still feels a bit inconsistent, but not too bad. There is still so much work to do...

Yeah, I can't fathom why there is steam login option if it doesn't work... Manual login seems to work, after I took the time to figure out what my password was...