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  1. Posted

    @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.

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    On 1/31/2025 at 10:50 AM, Westford said:

    It would be great to see monthly SARD stats by Server/Faction/Rank.
    Just add it to https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/

    Non interactive, with no names to avoid the trash talk drama fest
    that so many of us enjoyed during the Fairfight days.

    I think that most players would agree that some/any type of regular
    communication would go a long way in reassuring the community that
    “things are getting done” with regards to those players who are not
    supporters of fair gameplay.

    If this type of SARD transparency is frowned upon by Little Orbit,
    I’m confident or just hopeful, that this will be explained by an official post or
    perhaps on the next AMA later this year.

     

    We have been calling on transparancy for years now in regards to anti cheat and what LO actually does if anything. But they say they are doing something and hide behind the no name and shame. Unless the community as a whole demands this and annoys the LO staff about it without lapse it will never change.

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    On 1/27/2025 at 7:17 PM, Bruhd101 said:

    The thing is, I could have agreed, but I had one teammate who was actually trying to help but usually ended up like a 0-1-20 target practice. Well, that was when I last played the game, when every low-level gold was just blatantly cheating and withstanding a 2v1 where both enemies shot at the said person (I mean it might be worse than before with sard)

    the person was totally 99% new to shooters in general and just had a horrid wifi and pc combined 

    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.

  4. Posted

    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.

  5. Posted

    On 12/18/2024 at 2:21 PM, VanilleKeks said:

    Not sure about those OBIR changes, but it's something.

     

     You're now only 87% dead after two bursts instead of 99%. Maybe this makes the gun less obnoxious at longer ranges with fall off, but the real pain in the butt is that you can CQC it so well compared to other guns in that category.

     

    I appreciate any nerfs to that abomination though.

    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.

  9. Posted

    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.

  10. Posted

    I am skeptical as to how effective this will be in improving matchmaking quality and in banning cheaters. To date nothing has worked and they have easily skirted any cheat detection. Heres to hoping this will actually do something but one big thing that needed addressing yesterday is hitreg. You cant balance weapons when they dont work properly to begin with and that should have happened first.

  11. Posted

    On 12/8/2024 at 7:01 PM, BlatMan said:

    Green? Do they play 1 mission, then go afk for the next 100? Seriously, green is much harder to hold than bronze if they're actually participating in the missions.

    Exactly. Its harder to get green then gold and to dethreat that far requires dedicated match throwing. To dethreat that far is nothing short of ruining gameplay for others.

  12. Posted · Edited by Darkzero3802

    On 12/1/2024 at 5:35 PM, BlatMan said:

    I've been here since 2012 or maybe even 2011. The majority of dethreaters were silver threat, but they got gold because they didn't have better players to fight in the lower threat districts. The people complaining about them are people who expect the game to play itself.

    Your not looking hard enough or dont know everyone if you miss the bronzie and green threat vets who were once upon a time gold.

  14. Posted

    6 hours ago, Romique said:

    let them dethreat - let them spend time -these r not true golds- most of GOLDs will not do it - so we can keep them playng separately

    Thats where your wrong. Most golds did it and to this day continue to do so. There are people who have been playing longer then I have who are bronze and green threat as we speak. This is by choice and they dont try to threat up, which means they are throwing games. Green threat doesnt exist in the game nobody is naturally that bad. Youve been here since 2019? Ive been playing since 2011 and didnt join the forum till 2014. Dethreating used to be awhole lot more blatent then it is now but it still goes on and LO doesnt enforce its own TOS so dethreating will continue.

  15. Posted

    16 hours ago, SkittyM said:

    What staff even.  Only Support can ban and it seems LO has downsized significantly which is why support times have plateaued and/or raised.  APB at this point appears to be self running in a sense as LO has no other games and i don't believe they operate off of investors.

    All bad decisions by LO leadership. Instead of trying to do whats right they dont care are just seem to sit back and watch.

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, Romique said:

    can we just bring the gold district back  - let the golds and cheaters play there, rest can chill together on eu ! 

    Back in like 2015 or 2016 this was tried by G1... With catastrophic results. This lead to the birth of dethreating as we know it and all those golds threw games to threat down so they could continue to stomp all over lower skilled, newbie and legit players. Dethreating has been a problem ever since and it has destroyed the threat and matchmaking systems that we have to the point where it needs a clean sheet redo. Threat segregation will not work unless the system is revamped to prevent it and LO starts caring enough to enforce TOS.

  17. Posted

    29 minutes ago, Hexerin said:

    Game gets a steady turnover of new players (whether they stick around or ultimately leave), and at least some of them are going to drop some amount on ARMAS. Combine this with G1 having basically no staff to pay, and server hosting costing next to nothing, and it's not hard to make a steady profit (even if only a trickle).

    Eh. Steam charts seems to say otherwise. We had that influx back in may but that dwindled away already. No staff is proof that they dont care as if they did the staff would be in place to handle the cheaters and fix the game and for servers im sure there is some cost to that which has gone up with inflation over the last few years. I dont see the cash flow increasin with a decining playerbase to makeup for higher expenses.

  24. Posted

    On 11/18/2024 at 5:45 PM, Uhtdred said:

    game is full of cheaters, unplayable.

    now obt and cbt veterans are cheating too, they KNOW they aren't getting banned.

    people still try to hide the fact that FF was the best anti cheat we ever had.

    FailFight still failed more then is succeeded. It did more then any anti cheat Matt and LO have tried and retried but it still failed pretty badly as you still had plenty of hackers running around and not getting banned

  25. Posted

    On 11/12/2024 at 8:35 PM, Nanichi said:

    GM's are not C.S. we in no way are apart of the ban process. We record evicence and make reports.

    GM's are not technically supposed to chase cheaters since we have a anti-cheat and C.S. who handles this issue. We do record and report what we see on our own but in the end C.S. and Sard will handle the cheating issue.

    So you guys have all of your eggs in one basket with the bottom cut out of it. Cheaters make up the majority of the in game population and evidence points to them getting past SARD. Your system works so well that cheaters stream APB on twitch and show their cheats and dont get banned. You will never curtail the cheating epidemic in this game so long as this light footed system remains in place.

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