Darkzero3802
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19 hours ago, Y2Venom said:We used to get updates in armas every Friday, but it has been the same clothing for the past 2 weeks. Anybody know what is happening.
Its called nobody is spending money because they own everything already
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On 2/16/2021 at 9:58 AM, CookiePuss said:Like I've said, I think you need a break from apb.
I had a break between the xmas event and now. Only thing to change in that time is the active event going on.
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On 2/16/2021 at 4:01 PM, cowhorseman said:now lets be fair to them they are trying to work on like 3 games at once 2 of which came from g1. and idk if your furry patootie was around during g1, but they cared for this game like a fat man does for vegetables
they have atleast tried and done some things around here, some good some not so good i think there trying but if you know anything about what is going on the dev tools for apb were meh at least they had an engine they could go by to start work on a new version of apb, and as for fallen earth saying the tools were busted would be praising it i mean flat broken barely scratch's how mistaken care of they were
so cut them some slack i see to much 'game now new now" from people you gotta understand making games takes alot of time look at most of todays games rushed out hunks of shit that need at least 1-2 more years to get working right
Ive been here since 2011, didnt bother with the forum till 2014 im well aware of G1. When LO took over it was a breath of fresh air and ive defended them many times however were past the 2 yr mark with nothing new. LO could have easily taken care of many issues before this Q1 2014 engine upgrade and they did when EAC was brought in. But they reversed that when they went back to BE. Theres no reason why they couldnt have fixed threat and matchmaking within these last 2 yrs along with making the community shape up. You dont need a new engine for any of that.
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1 hour ago, Pista said:How do you make APB enjoyable for Veterans and new players at the same time, when the playerbase continues to tank? I can't think of any way to do that.
The engine update might bring players back for a month or two but without new mission district(s) in the works, i don't see them sticking around. The game lacks new content big time.
8 minutes ago, cowhorseman said:if you could make apb fun to play please tell me
How to make fun
1. A proper threat system and working matchmaking
2. A actual quality anti hack that will work and ban quickly
3. A community that cares, helps others and plays the right way
4. A company that does more then blow smoke at the community
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On 2/7/2021 at 9:41 AM, CookiePuss said:Ahh yes, the population no longer spending money.
Whats there to buy? LO could have easily released new pink guns for valentines this yr and everyone would have bought em. Instead they rinsed off the event with no changes, not even new titles so whats the point to the event let alone spending money. And now the main event, whats the point spending money on a game that has no future. LO hasnt shown effort in alot of things nor are there fixes. Hackers are still a thing, community is still toxic as hell and matchmaking/threat is still garbage not to mention the highly negative reviews of recent gun balance changes. LO doesnt give us a reason to spend money and support them.
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22 hours ago, Hexerin said:So you aren't even interested in pretending to have a serious discussion, got it.
Historically, bad PR is one of the only ways to get an uncaring corporation to lift a finger to do the right thing. Course, some corporation's lack of fucks goes so deep that they just ignore bad PR (points at the likes of EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Epic, etc etc etc) and keep on truckin' with their cancerous behavior regardless. I'd like to believe that Little Orbit isn't in that camp, and that a bit of bitchslapping with the stick of reality might get them to put their asses in gear for the future health of one of their primary games.
Did you really expect cookie to have a srs discussion when they admitted they dont care about the game in the past?
APB has horrible pr via word of mouth, when newbies try the game and see how toxic this community is they spread negative word around and others dont try it. If only ppl played the right way. Now lets not forget all the negative wording in the forum to LO and about LO and they dont do anything. At this point the staff has gotten lazy and just doesnt care anymore while Matt has his own idea about the game that nobody likes or wants. The wakeup call will be when Matt realizes all this work on the engine upgrade was pointless cause they didnt do anything with the current version to make the playerbase happy.
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On 2/10/2021 at 3:42 PM, Sakebee said:While our GMs work incredibly hard to provide a better experience for you all in game, they are not responsible for tracking potential cheaters. This is the responsibility of our CS team, who needs to confirm that an instance of cheating has indeed occurred. Harassing a GM to investigate a player will not get you the result you want. Submitting a report or a ticket with evidence of the infraction, however, is incredibly helpful.
So a GM watching them do it as it happens isnt the quickest confirmation of someone cheating and the easiest way to free up resources? If thats the case have the CS team log into the single populated action district in Jericho so we can get quick results instead of waiting months.
18 hours ago, Hexerin said:You would sound more convincing if we didn't have an ever growing list of objective, presentable proof that your "CS team" literally does nothing about ToS/CoC violations like cheating and harassment. But of course the "no name and shame" policy means we can't share said proof, as it's one of the only things your team actually does take action on (which makes the actual truth so much more painfully obvious). So no, I (and most others) will never bother to submit tickets, as it's a complete waste of our time.
Sak read this
3 hours ago, CookiePuss said:...
You know how you would need to post the "proof" here?
Just do that, but in an email to support.
Quick, easy, and it accomplishes your goal.
If you are simply too lazy that's on you.
You know what is quick, easy and accomplishes the goal of getting these ppl banned quickly? Having GMs investigate as it happens so they can have proof as it happens. Or ya know they can watch all these twitch streams of cheaters ruining the game. God forbid they did some work.
3 hours ago, Bambola said:A rhetoric question poses, if one, hypothetically, could even publicly post their proof of someone cheating, would that actually solve anything, or it would rather just turn the forums into another ffbansorg nastiness.
Cheaters publicly post their proof all the time, its called twitch. Its public proof of the lack of work GMs and the CMs do to ban them. When the community can actively show off their cheats and get away with it its just pathetic.
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17 minutes ago, Sakebee said:I would like to remind everyone that naming and shaming is not only against the terms of the forums and TOS, it is unproductive. The absolute best thing you can do is submit a report to our CS team. I know that many here feel this isn't sufficient, but I have personally been involved in several investigations that were made possible through player reports. Naming and shaming, on the other hand, only serves to set our community against each other.
Please listen to the GMs when they encourage you to send a report. Do not name and shame (or advocate for that here on the forums). You put your own privileges at risk by doing so.The community is already against eachother and against the GMs. The in game report system is nowhere near sufficient enough and when you have an entire district telling a GM to go look at said person and the GM doesnt do it and tells everyone to basically shut up does that make the players like the GMS? No, it turns them against the GMs more and reinforces the uselessness of the report system, how unproductive LO is in dealing with hackers and turns the community against one another as its legits vs hackers. And guess what the hackers will win so long as this continues. This in turn causes ppl to give up on reporting problems and give up on the game and the pop decreases.
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1 hour ago, Bambola said:I do not see any valid arguments, to be frank with you.
It sounds like you are saying something along these lines "The recent changes made to APB weapons had an impact on the playerbase, resulting in declining numbers, hence it doesn't matter if the actions of issuing unjustified bans for using legitimate configs will push those numbers down, even further".
If the use of configs does not provide any advantage, why do you think the gameplay is unfair even before a match starts.
What do Advanced Launcher and custom configurations have to do with the game learning curve and newbies.
I simply cannot make much sense out of your post.
"it sounds like you are saying something along these lines "The recent changes made to APB weapons had an impact on the playerbase"
Yes its had a big impact on the playerbase. since they were introduced to the live version playercount has tanked and there have been many negative reviews of the changes and many asking for a revert, put 2 and 2 together.
"If the use of configs does not provide any advantage, why do you think the gameplay is unfair even before a match starts."
If using configs didnt provide an advantage then why are so many ppl using them and why does it matter if there allowed or not? You yourself just complained about the stuttering so if a config mitigates that and your opponent doesnt have that config and has more stutter doesnt that mean you have an advantage? Wouldnt you say you had that advantage well before the match starts? Wouldnt you say if everyone had the same exact 1 config this wouldnt be an issue?
"What do Advanced Launcher and custom configurations have to do with the game learning curve and newbies."Newbie doesnt know game mechanics and doesnt know the advanced launcher exists, they have more stutter and less fps then you do cause your using a config and the adv launcher. Doesnt that put them at a further disadvantage? If theres a bigger disadvantage isnt that a steeper curve?
You cant make much sense out of it cause you refuse to accept the fact that configs do more harm then good. You just want to have what you want.
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2 hours ago, Y2Venom said:To be honest cheating comes in a distant second compared to dethreating. You might come across 1 or 2 blatant cheaters a week, except when it spikes. Dethreaters are every second game.
Dont forget about the closet cheaters. You come across those constantly and thats what makes cheating the biggest problem in APB.
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9 hours ago, Bambola said:...and make the current player base of 300 active players go down to 50 from which 30 are AFK in Social.
You mean the LO weapon balances havent done that already? Some things LO should listen to the community on, other stuff such as configs they shouldnt. Right now you have those who use configs and those who dont so before you even log in the playing field is imbalanced. Now lets add in the fact that newbies (if they existed) all use the default launcher, this only makes an already impossibly steep learning curve that much steeper. Its just yet another reason why newbies never stuck around. Those that do learn about other APB launchers get the wrong thing and get banned and never return.
Everyone talks about improving the game yet the actions say screw that I want what I want. Configs are a perfect example of that.
10 hours ago, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA said:idk about you but i don't play video games that i have to "deal with" - if the game isn't enjoyable because the game doesn't work then im not going to bother playing, and i'm pretty sure a whole lot of the players using configs would agree with me
so you can chill in social wearing your big boy underwear because NA can't even support the single district it barely manages now after the config users leave lol
I dont go into social unless im changing clothes lol. I dont artificially inflate the player pop by afking in social all day unlike most vets. You will always have to "deal with" something in a video game, they arent flawless. And out of those config players how many of em would be banned anyway if we had an actual anti cheat that could detect the programs being used to "git gud"?
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Why dont we ban all configs and be done with this? So long as certain configs are allowed while others are banned this will always be a problem. To anyone who says they cant deal with basic APB, pull up your big boy underwear and deal with it.
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@MattScott @Sakebee You guys couldnt at least rotate new v day weapons into this reuse? We all have these same v day weapons and roles from 9 yrs ago
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19 hours ago, Frosi said:BE does not work with APB and might just be the final straw for the games active playerbase until 2.1. There is absolutely no reason to play the game when there's one mission district that most likely has one group of cheaters on either faction if not more. EU is a complete disaster right now and there's people actively streaming themselves cheating and going as far as doing subtle hack vs hack matches. Little Orbit needs to wake up and realize that BE is not the solution that APB needs because it is unable to catch closeting cheaters consistently.
I feel like a lot of players including myself are at a breaking point where they want to play but actually just can't be bothered to put up with cheaters anymore. The longer it stays like this the more people will be inclined to cheat and the community has already started to slowly tear itself apart this way and its only going to get worse if the systems in place can not allow players to trust each other to play fair and that is certainly not the case right now.
If only Matt and LO realized this.....
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On 1/23/2021 at 3:01 PM, SquirrelFace said:I still have yet to have seen this influx of cheaters. I play on Jericho in silver action districts, so I only see a small number of the total playerbase. I feel like I'm missing out on a hard hitting placebo, like when G1 changed the Kurai but the changes didn't go to live the first patch.
I get 120+ with graphics maxed 1440p. Not sure why people need to drop their resolution down to 768 or lower to play. My eyes bug out trying to focus on a stretched screen, and the low res makes it harder to spot players peaking behind cover. I wonder if a lot of them are just meming on their streams and play with the screen not stretched.
Its not all blatants were talking about, there is a thing called closet cheating ya know
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47 minutes ago, Cyberlicious said:I swear guise... there is NO WORKING ANTICHEAT at this time... it's just old files that look like BattlEye, kinda like when G1 stopped paying for updates on Fairfight... only no one is even bothering to do biased manual bans.... APB has become HackCity... like, every single mission.
I propose Matt Scott personally, log in and disguised, play a few missions to get a freakin' clue stick!
Either that or bring back Tiggs... at least she was TRYING to control this game-breaking bs.
FailFight is trash, thats why Valve threw it in the trash years ago. Why go back to something thats proven worthless from day 1?
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11 hours ago, DeadPixels said:I'm surprised they still did nothing about dethreating, this should have been their first priority. There would be a lot more players playing this game if new players had a server where they could learn to play. Also new players that stick around tend to buy stuff so they bring money to the company which is essential for the game to survive
They did they made it against the TOS..... But the TOS isnt strictly enforced by the seldom seen mostly trolling GMs
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15 hours ago, SquirrelFace said:So make APB Stadia only. Can't cheat if you can't access the files. We will lose 99% of the playerbase, but it's better than less than 1% of all players cheating.
They could just look over the code and disable anything that would give an unfair advantage. Oh wait they already did, which is why the advanced launcher is still allowed, and why some config options no longer do anything.
And yet cheaters are still out there in numbers and there are more of them since LO returned to BE. Looking over the code really prevented ppl from cheating didnt it *thonking*
5 hours ago, Uhtdred said:what?
You're probably one of those that complains about configs but play 1920x1080 maximum quality and barely achieves 40fps, right?
I started to believe some people get really mad when other people play at 1024x768....
I get 60fps on the default launcher so thats that
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In regard to new players a BIG problem with retention is the toxic playerbase that currently thinks dethreating and rolling over newbies is ok. This is a must address if LO wants new players to stay in the game and play for awhile.
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On 1/18/2021 at 3:42 PM, CookiePuss said:Thats called cheating.
Thats the point. By allowing custom configs it makes it easier to cheat which in turn means you have to play against cheaters more often
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LOs weapon changes have mainly been frown upon by the community and has caused ppl to stop playing. It was already bad enough that they werent trying to fix anything to make the current build playable till the new engine, but with the cheater return since BE returned and the poorly done weapon changes nobody wants to deal with it. LO is causing the further decline and Matt needs to start realizing his changes and current direction arent helping nor are they what the pop want.
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Plain and simple everyone should use the same config and the same launcher. Any kind of deviation can either give an advantage or disadvantage. Like someone using the default dev config and settings vs someone who made a custom config, if one has less stuttering then there going to have an advantage by default. Its a reason why the APB curve is so steep and look at any other game they all have the same dev made config as the ONLY approved method for playing regardless of problems. APB might run poorly but by LO approving the adv launcher they have allowed for these problems to persist and it also makes it easier for cheaters to cheat. What if a custom config has a file that bypasses BE?
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3 hours ago, SquirrelFace said:I'm still wondering where all these cheaters are. EU? Fightclub? Bronze district?
All over. If you know the diff between whats within the realm of possibility and not youd easily pick out whose cheating and whose not. Fight club is where you mainly find the closets tho. Those cheaters that try to hide the cheats and dont just make it plainly obv.
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Now we wait for valentines and hope they brought in a new weapon rotation for valentines event
Is there any in game moderation at all ??
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Game and community moderation dont exist in APB. GMs and CMs dont care nor do they bother enforcing the TOS. All there good for is showing up to piss off the community and troll.