Darkzero3802

What would also help is resetting threat. Just gut the current system and start over with a system that cant be abused as easily. Dethreating has devastated MM to the point where its unfixable. Cause the APB servers are so low end and unkept that they struggled in 50 v 50 districts before the rework. Now with so few districts theres no excuse for it not to return especially if they are trying to improve mm

If only we had about 100k players actively playing. Maby this could be an option. But alas we are but afew hundred in a game that has been dying for the better part of a decade Thats not how it works. In escalation the only way backup is called is if both party leaders call for backup. If one side requests it and the other side doesnt nothing happens and neither side gets more ppl

Sorry but who thought these MM changes were good? Since these changes all I ever see are the same 3 people in opposed missions. Over and over again spanning several hours. How exactly is it fun having the same games over and over again and how does this encourage ppl to continue playing APB?

You do realize threat means shit when you have dethreaters out there who have skewered the threat system so badly it can no longer accurately determine your skill right?

Thats a massive downtime for just a weekly maint. Also for a single NA server it should be somewhere in US central. Middle of the country where connection will be about the same for both east and west coasts

Honest review? Matchmaking is still complete trash and escalation only further points out this obvious game flaw that LO refuses to fix. I hadent played since valentines day event and while I notice no bronzies in my matches anymore I notice there is still a very big imbalance. The rule of thumb that everyone has always used is one gold equals 2 silvers and escalation can bring one side 3 golds and a silver and all silvers on the other side. This creates a one sided game instantly that escalation doesnt fix and that one side can further be stacked while the other doesnt get balanced. I have been in afew big matches since returning where one side is more then 50% gold while the other only has one or 2 gold threats. I have had a mission that was 2 golds and a silver vs 2 silvers and a R9 trainee to begin with and calling backup yielded a 3rd gold for them and another silver for us, least to say this was a completely one sided game and we got steamrolled on. This doesnt promote competitive matches and then people stop playing cause its not fun in constant one sided games. While there are no bronzies on one side the end result is still a steamroll all the same cause silvers dont equal golds and matchmaking still doesnt create balanced matches. I was also noticing since coming back that I always face the same exact people over and over. This doesnt make things more fun when you constantly face the same 5 or 6 people, 40 people in a server and its vs the same ones each time. This can be atributed to the servers needing a higher max pop count and matchmaking being so broken. There needs to be a server pop increase and a deeper look into matchmaking and threat in order to get more balanced and fun matches.

The problem is that Matt and LO either dont care, are extremely lazy, are too cheap, dumb or all of the above. They have had the game long enough to have learned what works and what doesnt, yet they repeat what they do over and over and expect different results. The last mass unban wave was also on EAC, because it falsely banned a ton of players and they couldnt track true bans from fasle bans. Wait that sounds exactly like what just happened now. History repeated itself, because LO repeated itself. Same choice same result. Matt needs to wake up and do whats needed. As I said earlier. Start caring enough to have a 0 tolerance policy and get an anti cheat that works, both server and client side. Then have GMs who care about the game to watch it and ban hackers on the spot instead of ones that just babysit, troll and dont do anything. GMs currently just show up in game, do what they want, ignore problems and tell you to go away. If Matt wants to revive the game and make money this isnt the way it will be done.

So basically put APB once again tried to use a half patootie anti cheat solution that failed epically and instead of actually doing the work to see what was legit or wasnt they let all the hackers once again run rampant in game by unbanning their main accounts. Here is an idea. Start caring enough to have a 0 tolerance policy and get an anti cheat that works, both server and client side. Then have GMs who care about the game to watch it and ban hackers on the spot instead of ones that just babysit, troll and dont do anything. In my 13+ years playing APB and moreso gaming in general I have never seen a company that screwed up as badly as G1/LO, and then repeat the same mistakes over and over.

We dont need to see player names as to who got banned. But certainly LO can do better in proving to us that they actually care and are actively trying to clean up the game.

The title does mean they test things and give their feedback. So much of the changes within the past year has their imput in it. Unoffically it also means they set the standard for community behavior. Which we see how most of them behave.

Hi

There has been a serious exploit on EAC that has been found and hackers are abusing it. An APEX tourny was hosted recently where all the streamers were hacked mid tourny and all went offline. This goes for any game that has EAC installed as its anti cheat..... Which will include APB. @MattScott what are you going to do about this?

Yea lets add a server chat that will allow everyone to see the general complaining chat we already have in game

The game is still online

There hasnt been a true update since 2014

PUBG has how many more ppl playing then APB does? tens of thousands more? Ofc there will be more cheaters there are more ppl playing. But unlike APB PUBG actually tries to do something about removing cheaters where in APB LO couldnt care less. There are more cheaters in APB then legit players and its one of the biggest reasons ppl stopped playing. @MattScott could easily change this and crack the whip but he turns a blind eye to it as do the Gms.

Sounds like a good reason to populate FC

LO its time to stop hiding this and its time to start showing us your actually trying to make an effort in removing cheaters and hackers from APB. One of the biggest gripes from the community is the lack of transparency as to LOs efforts to clean up the game and make it legit. GMs have no ban power nor do they honestly show any caring for cleaning up the game. They are glofified babysitters and even with them online ppl continue to cheat cause they know they can get away with it. If LO wants to show us they are trying its time to show it. One of the biggest games today PUBG shows weekly ban stats and breaks down the reasons for the bans. Not only that but they release a weekly list of account names that were banned. There are other games out there that also release ban stats so it is very possible LO can do that as well. Nobody here says you have to release account names but you can most certainly release stats like how many were banned in total and break that down as to how many for what reason. This shows us your actually trying to make an effort into cleaning up the game and it would bring some people back who arent playing cause of the hacker problem. It also encourages players to submit player reports as they see you are taking action.

Once again LO listening to the wrong ppl and not the community

If only we had a threat system that at 5 made you visible to the entire server and used to be able to kill them even if you werent on their mission

There is server population for segregation?

Yea. Twice aint worth anything. We both know to understand the game you need at least 500hrs of playtime. Maby he does have a personal account and we dont know it? But going off the decisions hes been making and the shift away from what APB is. I would have to say no he doesnt play nor does he understand what makes APB APB.

Worth alittle. But considering Matt makes the decisions and he hasnt played

Cheating has been a big problem since I started playing back in 2011. The only diff is that now with less players you see said cheaters more. Matchmaking needs an overhaul its a key problem in APB which was made worse by dethreating. At no time should a trainee see a silver or gold or anyone high lvl for that matter. At no point should a bronze see a gold. At no point should the worst threat be harder to get then the highest threat. There are fundamental issues with matchmaking that need fixing for the game to continue. Is what LO is doing the answer? No it really isnt. But at least they are trying unlike G1 ever did. But Matt and the dev team need to play APB for afew years and gain an understanding of the game and what makes APB APB.

We had one the other day. Where were you