Darkzero3802

We revive APB when cheaters are removed

News flash. Some are more broken then others, mainly ones that are op or broken to begin with. For example, whats more broken at range? A scout or an HVR? The point here is that the .45 is broken normally and shouldnt be so powerful. 95% equip rate is beyond a symbol of meta, its a sign that no other secondary can compete and they arent worth anything. In a properly balanced world 50% equip rate is high with how many secondaries are out there. Another example. At CQB range in APB what is the gun of choice? a PMG or a shottie? A PMG will always be the gun of choice cause its also broken. APB gun balancing is beyond broken and the last few gun changes have done little to fix that. The .45 is in that broken tier and there are ways to abuse it. A nerf is needed to bring it down from broken status and to bring up other secondaries to make them viable otherwise why have them in the game at all?

Ive seen that and seen it with a .45. It all goes back to why @MattScott and LO refuse to actually try to fix the problem.

Thats what happens after 2 shoulder surgeries, one of them being rotator cuff. I am by no means in my hayday and my arm isnt as steady as it used to be. I have to live with that both in game and irl, but I know for a fact that if you have an aimbot aka 100% accuracy the gun is very broken. A gun shouldnt have a 95% use rate in a game. That means there is nothing else that can compete.

Any cheater with a bot and macro can easily take you out with a 45 before you can kill them with a shottie or OCA. The gun is primary powerful and thats why 95% of the remaining playerbase uses it. Then theres the fact that legits suffer from non existant hitreg making it harder to kill someone while a bot always has perfect hitreg. If LO could do something about hackers it would help geatly but for the 45, make it 6 shots to kill instead of 5 and it would be fine. You have an extra bullet and a fast reload so its a minor nerf that would balance it out.

It really isnt that hard to come out once a month and say "this is how many people were reported for this and this, this is how many the anti cheat caught". This is how many were suspended for griefing and this is how many were banned for cheating". "We do not condone cheating or breaking the TOS in any way. If you do we will take action". Thats all they need to do and thats all were asking for. Clarity as to if the anti cheat is working and if they are actually doing anything to enforce the rules. In no way do they need to release names of those who were actioned against nor are we asking for that. Were just asking for them to care enough to prove that they are actually trying and give transparency.

They say the provider did this without notification. Either theres a serious lapse on the providers part and LO should get some sort of compensation, or there was a notification and LO missed it. For this to happen and be down for so long theres something in the background that we dont know about. A decent provider should give notification and wouldnt take down the old stuff till the new stuff was up and running. Im speculating here abit but any form of common sense would go this route.

@MattScott You say transparancy but since this letter came out there has been 0 transparancy on the game, especially when it comes to the anti cheat system and LOs policy towards them. We receive 0 info as to if the anti cheat system is actually working. How many people are banned each month for using bots? How many are suspended for griefing or accessing areas they shouldnt be in? What is the LO staff doing to further enhance security and show they have 0 tolerance for cheaters? What is LO doing about cheaters openly streaming the game while using cheats? All we as a community see is constant cheating going on and the same accounts continuing to cheat even after multiple reports. This shows us that the cheaters bypass the anit cheat and LO doesnt do anything to fix this. When we try to bring this up we are either ignored or told to be quiet about it. This is not transparant in the slightest bit and we the community demand more.

Again. New players who arent good can be legit green. But after a certain point it is questionable how your still green. It is way too easy to get bronze and bronze is considered bad. At one point everyone called silver bad cause everyone was gold (and cheated). Now with the pop so low your either silver or a cheating gold cause legit golds are just as rare as legit green threats. Matt doesnt care about APB nor does he want to spend the money to actually have a legit anti cheat system in place and hire enough people to handle the problem (between gms and devs to recode). Anyone who has been here a minute knows that a hacker broke into the game, got the game codes and built a full cheat system around it so they cant be detected. Anyone who has been here since LO took over knows that Matt and LO have a high tolerance for hackers and have been doing the same thing over and over expecting different results each time. Back at the beginning I gave LO a chance and said to support them. Now I cant argue that as they have had the game long enough to know what to do, how to do it and what needs to be done. They just chose not to do it.

Way back in the day there was a hacker who played who actually broke into the game and got the game code. When they were banned they released these cheats for free for public use. Nothing short of a complete game code redesign will stop this problem. LOs continued half assed anti cheat solutions will not prevent ppl from using these cheats. LO relying on AI to act as the ban hammer is their way of making an excuse not to actually take a stand and do more to prevent said cheats. It is lazy, it is a way not to hire more ppl to keep the game clean and it is a way for them to do less work. TLDR: These cheats have the game code and LO is too lazy to do whats required.

The only way you can do well with the OBIR at closer range is to know how to use it. If you dont know how the gun works you wont do well at closer ranges. Thats where the skill gap comes into play between the few newbies who play and the vets who have been around since forever. On another note where do you get these new legendaries perm? The only way I knew how was JMBs and that was forever ago.

ESET Nod32 and it says it found a threat in a file SARD was trying to access and it blocked SARD from accessing said file

When is LO going to finally fix hitreg?

Basically as the title says. My anti virus is seeing SARD as a virus and is preventing it from working. Something changed since this latest SARD update to where its now being flagged as a potential threat. Can this be looked into?

Got to be honest here. Pretty mixed overall on this. To just release skins in armas that were limited time only at one point that you had to put effort into getting just feels like a slap in the face to those of us who put in the time to get them. They either should have been re released with the same requirements to earn them as the first time or not at all. Its a money grab by LO for new players and a slap in the face to the vets who keep the game going and earned them the hard way. To release a jumping sniper brings a whole slew of issues. Mainly that jump shooting back in the day was abused greatly as it gives an advantage to someone in jump motion vs someone moving slowly aiming down the sights. 2ndly it also gives cheaters another way to break the game as now they can aimbot jumpshoot. Back in the day it was not an intended part of the game and it was removed due to the unfair advantage it gave and the abuse it got from cheaters.