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Source: https://apbreloaded.gamersfirst.com/2018/05/two-week-update-q-notes-from-my-stream.html So basically you can use whatever changes are possible to achieve through use of Advanced Launcher, but not change/edit the shaders themselves. If you decide to go poking around shader files anyway, you do it on your own risk since it may later get you in trouble (banned) with battleye as they keep turning more of it's features on over time.

Nothing can be done through the forum. You will need to go through https://support.gamersfirst.com If you have multiple accounts I wonder if it would be best to create new account to send the ticket from. Explain the issue (cannot reset password because no longer have the email linked to the account), and be ready to provide loads of data which will verify that it's really your account and not just some random joe's account you happen to know the email for.

https://support.gamersfirst.com Prepare to wait for an answer for a while as there's currently sooooooo many tickets in the queue, varying from "I've lost the email my account is registered with and can't reset my password" to "why wasn't I automaticly unbanned?" and all the usual stuff on top.

I'm curious - what for did you need those 700k so immediately? I mean, it doesn't cover the value of any legendary weapon one might really fancy (for any other reasons than having them all), and it's a bit much for anything else to just carry around casually...

*looks at profile* "Joined May 2018" Did you just happen to forget your 1400-year-old login info, or just otherwise decided to create a new account to use on the forums? I've gone offtopic here, I apologize for that However, you shouldn't take "stole my theme" claims seriously - no wait, actually you shoudn't pay any attention to those unless you have something to hide.

Can't speak for others, but I'd like to have same names on both EU and US servers... Currently I have all other names I use on both, apart from my main (EU) character name that is still reserved (in US) to either R10 or R9 unmerged character from the old Colby/Joker era (no idea which one would get it if they were to suddenly return to APB and merge on Jerico). Guessing some xXx<name>xXx players have also grown older and noticed how silly that looks...

There sure was some very cheap FFA's on the market when I took a quick look... Some were even sold for cheaper than what I paid for ursus in the past, too bad I have only one million and some pocket change on my main (and even less on other characters).

Step back from the keyboard slowly with your hands in the air!

Racism, biggotry, narrow-mindedness, xenophobia, fear of the unknown, diversity intolerance, whatever you want to call it... It's however not about the term you use, it's about the idea behind it.

I haven't heard of too many pre-FF-era unbans happening without contacting support. I'm guessing they filtered the unbans based on what they were banned for. There's old old bans that haven't been reverted and also some later manual bans that havent been reverted yet from what I've been able to gather. Contacting support and being patient is pretty much all you can do. And if you know you behaved toxicly back then, be apologetic and admit to your mistakes and beg for mercy. It might be one or two N-words in a wrong place that has got you banned, or some other slurs/badly timed negative comments/black humor about any protected class. Tiggs took no bullshoot on that front and may have occasionally overreacted in some cases.

That's good way to get on the good side of the staff... Hacked or cracked non-standard windows os. Repair or re-install.

It's a racistic request to begin with. It's unfortunately going to be something you just need to learn to live with. In the US servers there's not too much non-english discussion anyway, and if is, it's mostly either in spanish/portugese or russian. On EU we got russian, french, german, polish, turkish, spanish, portugese, italian, swedish, norweigan, danish, estonian, lithuanian, finnish, latvian, hungarian... and many other! (It's a really long list. A smörgåsbord of languages.) And while I'm sometimes little bit annoyed that I don't understand what people say in /d, that's how it's really going to be in any game, unless you start requiring language tests before allowing people to join and enforce non-english policy strictly (which would hurt the population quite a lot).

Unless you keep doing things in the game or saying things on the chat that annoy people, you can pretty much dedicate your ignore list to block themes. I mean, you can fit several instances worth of opposition on ignore simultaineously. I just rinse my ignore list after each session, because I can't keep track on why I ignored who anyway and it's really easy to ignore those people again who are making an effort to be a constant bother to you. Actually I think I should ignore people I'm against always, because it's not going to be anything plesant if they whisper something anyway. Ideal solution would be to have more volume sliders for various things... Maybe in the future after engine upgrade...

How long does it take for someone who gets unbanned to get caught? Expect "false ban" topics to begin within 5 minutes from that.

In little under 4,5 hours from this moment. Naturally it is an estimate even from their side, it takes as long as it takes.

Summary: Ram raiding shop windows doesn't make sound Description: When you ram raid shop display windows, they used to make sound of breaking glass and alarm going off. This sound can no longer be heard, only the car makes a crashing sound when you drive it into the shop display windows. Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to financial district with criminal faction character 2. Grab a vehicle and drive it into ram raid-able shop window 3. You only hear the sound of car crashing, not the window breaking and alarm going off How many times you have recreated this bug: Several times by 2 different players. Results: Window breaks without sound (you only hear car hitting a wall). Expected results: Window breaks with sound of broken glass and alarm going off.

I saw few people without premium there, so I assume premium isn't required. OTW is kind of an ongoing open beta for the next patch candidate(s) after passing internal testing. At the moment it has battleye patch in pretty much releasable shape. Note that it might not be always online between patches, as it exists for testing purposes only.

Unless those people are being toxic while themselves actively grouping with cheaters, I don't see any reason to start wasting manhours finding evidence of their grouping behaviour. I reserve right to change my opinion if the cheating situation doesn't get noticeably better after battleye.

Taking away some monopoly money shouldn't really be something to start crying over, if you're given a new chance with your account that has potentially hundreds of dollars worth of real money purchases. Yes it may suck for someone who has potentially been banned for no reason, but then again, quite a few bans have happened and I'd like to think that they have mostly been for actual reasons, yet almost nobody has come to forums and say "sorry, I've done bad things"...

Even if someone like me had recorded everything, it wouldn't be much to see... Few glimpses of their characters when our paths met for a second or two in the baylan fight club and some lines of text on district chat... And later when they moved to open conflict it would have been only some lines of text in district chat. For proper recording of any of their actual gameplay, it would have required either some of them to record/stream it or someone with gm account to spectate while recording/streaming.

The way to look at any noticeable changes to APB is like having few guys with some hand tools and a haynes manual doing service on a 747.

I know a really good quote on the already closed discussion, but can't find a good video of it. (And it needs the video to be delivered properly.) Maybe I'll add it here if I ever find it, unless of course this gets locked way before that because after all this is something you could easily interprent as "reposting closed thread". I don't think there is anything more to discuss about the previous thread, it kinda has it all covered...

The marketplace tax is currently the only noticable money sink to most people. I think the whole approach on how to ensure economics don't get mudflated should be re-thinked, the ammo costs for example only hurt those who are just learning the game and don't have a lot of time to play it in the first place - all their mission rewards get sucked in renting guns, buying ammo and respawning cars, while some people sit with hundreds of millions on several of their characters with nothing to blow that on and no danger of ever losing any of it at the moment. I think some form of wealth tax could be a thing to think about. (If we had infinite dev power, I'd turn breakwater gallery into a casino. That would surely suck some of the loose dough from rotation.)

In light of answers I've read so far this brings up the question: how secure are the servers at the moment against someone who knows what he/she's doing with his "input"? Is the next bunch of cheaters going to have access to (some of) GM powers?