Darkzero3802

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

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.

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?

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.

Now we wait for valentines and hope they brought in a new weapon rotation for valentines event

Pretty much. Day 1 all the cheats and hacks were back and since then LO has done nothing more then make this thread. Day 1 ppl stopped playing and pop decreased because hackers are back, all these weapon changes have done nothing but make the game less populated but thats a diff thread. BE didnt work the 1st time and its still not working now yet LO thinks all is ok. Unless they bring back EAC and listen to whats left of the community the new engine is pointless.

Could have been alot bigger if the community actually played nice...

And thats where community policing comes in. If the community cant behave and actually be nice then LO has to step in and make them play nice. Its all avoidable if ppl stopped being toxic dicks.

I agree with not hiding threat however segregation is needed. The curve for APB is so steep its pretty much required as is the need for community policing. Anyone who says this community can do the right thing on its own is shitting themselves, time and time again the proof of how accepted toxicity is in APB is made clear. Breaking tos, cheating, hacking, threat shaming. its constant, accepted and even defended. Change is required from the top in order for the community to finally shape up.

Strict locking golds to gold districts back in the day is what caused the massive dethreating problem we have now. Before then it was a very minor issue but once they started locking all the golds that wanted to curb stomp newbies dethreated and it backfired so bad G1 had to revert the change to what it is now. Dethreating has continued ever since because this community is so toxic and unfriendly. At this point nothing short of community policing will resolve these long standing community issues.

FYI when a event dist empties and your alone with 12 deaths running the match doesnt auto end your forced to wait out the 30 min to have it count as a complete

As much of a chance as Q1 2014 had

Q1 2014.

Maybe maybe not. If LO does this RIGHT and advertises the game for the new engine launch its possible we can live on, however I dont exactly have my hopes up on that given they ignore everything except for the new engine.

Sure that populates a silver dist and or populates fc. That small group allows for variety of people to face instead of the same ones over and over.

Some communities are better then others, and theres 0 reason why this community needs to be one of the worst out there. Whoever is still playing obv loves the game and wants to see it live but by being toxic and doing what they are doing they are doing the opposite of that. The number of players wont change so long as the community is like this its part of the problem why pop is so low. The current coding is all messed up and RTW made the code and didnt share any info with G1 about it. In order to create stuff a new engine and code is needed however LO also needs to find a way to bring ppl back now to warrent the new engine and not shut the game down.

Im exclusive to NA, im well aware of the pop issues in the game. Yes steam charts is overall but it does say how poor the pop is on APB as a whole. Ive checked and of the 500 players on APB during NA peak hrs your barely above 100 on NA itself if 100 at all. LO NEEDS to do something now or there wont be a pop when the engine comes out if it comes out. Its been dying since 2013. The point of playing is to have fun and enjoy the game. Its impossible to tho when the community is as poor as this one is. Its saying something when a community like Fortnite is nominated for one of the best communities out there.

So long as LO doesnt tackle the big problems that are driving ppl off the new engine wont save the game. Maby well see an influx of ppl for a time but they will leave when they see that everything else is the same and its just a polished turd. If LO doesnt tackle these issues and fix them asap or have a fix in place day 1 this 6 almost 7yr endeavor will be pointless. Also if the playerbase doesnt shape up it will lead down the same road. 1. LO steps up in the fight against cheaters 2. enforcement of the TOS 3. the community actually starts to help others and stops being toxic 4. matchmaking and threat fix to make things not only more accurate but to prevent squash matches 5. actual new content 6. properly balanced weapons

Numbers are down and have been going down for quite some time, but ever since they started doing these weapon rebalances ppl have been leaving at a faster pace. Steam charts still works and it is within the margin of error.

That will feed into a bigger server as if I recall right someone in EU can play someone in NA regardless of the region server.

They arent adding any additional servers, just one big server for the remaining pop. And yea we wont see any new players unless afew things happen with the new engine. 1. LO steps up in the fight against cheaters 2. enforcement of the TOS 3. the community actually starts to help others and stops being toxic 4. matchmaking and threat fix to make things not only more accurate but to prevent squash matches 5. actual new content 6. properly balanced weapons

A VPN can also be used for something called a DDoS, im quite sure everyone here is well aware of those with how frequent they are.. As for the false ban issue nothing is 100% in life humans arent perfect, however LO can def do a much better job when it comes to policing the servers and preventing cheats. They came in, saw the G1 way wasnt working and kept on using it. If it hasnt worked ever why would it magically start now? LO has already stated that the 2 servers are going to be merged for a bigger pool of players to fight

Thats a political thing. Yes it sucks quite abit however there is bad with good and good with bad. which outweighs the other?

Thats the reason why BE was removed awhile back it was easy to get around (also with a lack of support staff side). As soon as LO returned to BE ppl stopped playing en mass cause they know the floodgates reopened. Anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant or part of the problem. Yup its called closeting, something LO has yet to do anything to prevent and has been around since forever. Heres how you fix that, bar any VPN connections. You either have to connect without a VPN or your not allowed to log in or view the site. A simple universal fix that other countries already use.

Wouldnt know, nobody plays to actually be able to use the weapon