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Just a loose opinion, seems like some missions where both sides keep calling back up. Problem with such is that the responding back up player without further instruction will try to get to the point from across town ending up running into the other teams back up or respawning players. Now I do see the Fun element of an FC style mission in district, but half the people called for back up won't make it to the point before the mission is won or lost. This will be a problem for those seeking to grind or level up, cause they won't get enough def points, or offensive points by doing objective. They won't qualify for the minimal losing pay out. They will end up getting zero progression of contacts, and if say the players whole day is spent responding to back up calls, as opposed to being part of the team from the beginning. They have wasted the day an made little to no progression of contacts. This already happens to some extent. They call back up on a almost lost mission, which is over or lost by the time you make it across town, and you get Zero for your efforts, not even gas money for the drive. Now if you devs fixed it so anyone responding to back up gets the minimum score automatically or as soon as they come into the vicinity or area (to prevent afk abuse).

Zero. They can't make enough to break even let alone profit, which brings us to the answer of the question, Why are using such crap servers, why so much lag, ect. And as usual I felt contempt when seeing a sale, when they haven't fixed the car, put lights on it. Matt said the software modules are just sitting there waiting to be put in. Now had they put them in, and any body kits ect, I would've bought at least 3 more new cars and the kits, I already have one, n wont spend till i have cop lights. Which triggers another question, How in the world are they still in business

Meh, Hax will get all the wins, n ya know i aint buying patootie till that car has lights, and at this point i may not spend another dime. Place is like a tourist trap, I've just been here too long. Not spending until you legalize and provide the same aiming hax everyone else has.

To my knowledge EAC has only banned a handful of people and not for cheating with combat hax, for other reasons. From my observation Yes a small number of the blatants are not there under the names they were under before. As Matt said If you ban them they just come right back in the front door. None of the people in NA are people I knew from bronze district years ago, they dont even try to make names anymore. My take on it is that the game is brimming full of perfect aim hackers and there is not diddly that can be done. If there is an anticheat out there that could catch them, it is too expensive. This really applies to all video games. War thunder uses a paid version of EAC and does nothing. I don't care anymore, they ruined the game by desegregating. Now I just meddle with them.

Lets get into what I got out of listening to the video. The long and short of it is, We know about all the issues and plan to fix them but we are short staffed, we haven't figured out how to fix most issues, and there is no time table for the issues we can fix. For instance' We know the police lights and rendering of the new car is not finished, the finished work is just sitting there, we just havent gotten to it yet. We asked for an anti cheat that caught aim botters, teleporters, we din't give a hoot about people using layering programs to make symbols, people going out of bounds was never a biggie, kick em from the server then, So they give us a patootie named anti cheat, that was completely ineffective towards aim bots and teleports, but banned a few honest players who never used combat cheats. So now we gonna have an Unbanning with some exceptions. Gonna throw out the patootie named EAC, put a new one. When,, soon. This is what I got out of it was that We'll get to it when we get to it. Which riled me a bit because if the police lights and kits are just sitting there, Then Please put them in IMMEDIATLY. Additionally I told you people EAC wasn't working, and instead of throwing good money after bad, why not just Resegregate so all the hax will turn gold n can bot n corner pop themselves, while the legit players can play in peace like before. But NOOOOO We can't because pop is too low. Why is this? Because even the hackers are leaving because of lack of interest, like game development. They are leaving because less and less legits play, and between that and MM everyone is waiting forever for a mission. So if I have to wait to get hacked for a miniscule amount of tickets and chump change for game cash, I'm probly gonna go play another game or take a nap ect. I did however like his idea of small worlds. Otherwise my mindset is that the hackers have taken over and nothing can be done, and so if I'm bored enough to come in and do joker job dailys, I may find some fun in trolling said hackers. I have very little confidence that anything significant will happen 'soon. It is Sad.

Appreciate you posting in the forum. What would be helpful to player moral would be estimated time to fix these 'Issues'. When can we expect a better anti cheat? Right now its open season. EAC deterred hacking for about 12 hours when it was installed, hasn't banned anyone for combat hacks, and now with the knowledge that they are pulling eac every hack in the world is coming in. EAC was bad but now its worse, because of this and the notion that, at least for now hacking is not punished, detected, just swept under the rug, really not much reason to play. Unless its to kill time and harrass hackers which is gonna be 90% of the pop, reporting never worked and as matt said they'll just make a new account n be back in 10 minutes. So in effect you have a Hacks only game.

So, You came to apb to escape depressing work. Thats like cementing yourself into a box, to escape going to jail. apb cannot be less depressing than your job. I will take your job, if you will take my doctor appt's and loud adult children roming about the house clicking doors n banging on things if I K up at all hours. Tries to leave n goto pharmacy, (my only out) But Noooo the extra Doctor needs to turn a phone appt. into a video call, so now i gotta clean up n be seen, meet a completely new doctor I don't need cuz Im not in pain anymore, which delays me from going to the pharmacy for pills I do need, keeping me in the Dust Bowl town living in a pool of snot unable to leave, n once they are done, then I can go, n it'll be 3pm by the time im home. n the loud boy gets home at 5, leaving me barely two hours to get a mission, n it takes an hour of waiting K to get a mission. I think I will build a box in my living room/bed room, and cement myself inside

I was sick and did not attend, can anyone tell me if there was any feedback on putting cop lights on the new mirage? was it recorded, is there a link to watch it? Also I think that removing factions is really bad idea, people have spent years developing their characters, cars, and clothing. Some mimicking paint and decals of particular law enforcement agencies down to minuet details. When new players come they see these personal designs and want them. Therefore spending money for the cloths and or vehicles. If you take that away, you're putting a big dent in what is known to be the best feature of the game; the personal designing of cloths, cars, and character look.

1. Is this 'Secrets' the Developer? Is He/She responsible for making the new car? Is there then no developer to work on 'the new car'? When can expect a developer to put police lights on the New Car? I believe there is considerable revenue to be made by putting police lights, Audio/Wheel transmission/Exhaust and Body kits for the New Car. Is this in The Plan? When can we expect these changes? 2. The MM is not working well. The wait is too much, Putting low threats on a team with golds is bad. The gold/s have to carry the team, and the low threat will never rise in threat because the gold will out perform and score highest. What can be done with the MM to fix this, and or is restructuring the way threat is scored an option?, When can we expect change? 3. Why are NA servers crashing and or laggy, What is the issue?, when can we expect a fix? 4. Why is there an abundance of false ban claims and yet I am still running into players with perfect aim, speed runners without boost, teleporters. To be blunt, you banned Kerry who never hacked, yet we have hackers not being banned? What is being done to Tune EAC?

No cop lights on the new car Golds still in missions No coffee 24hrs Servers are Instacrash cracker jack box NO pay 25+ joker tickets for any mission with golds No updates on said cop lights DoJ trying to distract with Eclipse Matt endorsing 3M Solar goggles Musk n Matt watchin without goggles I could have black coffee last time, this time No. Don't Look at it, its a Trap

I resemble that comment, Salt. May I gift you an epiphany, a center dot, a monitor crosshair, hack overlay, ect. All still require the user to put the dot on the target, I gaf if you tie yellow string to your monitor, ya still gotta aim it. ps. I do recommend Yellow string, white string blends into back ground. The aiming issue can be dealt with by adding new guns of significant size. The ammo would need to be HE Frag's, Hi penetration, and some Willie Petes, the ammo loadout would come as a mod. The calibers being 20 mm up to 4 inch. You could just come in hosing 20mm. For the bigger guns like the 88, you would wear the gun like a back pack n have to crouch to aim n fire. Why you could sear a dump truck in half!!!

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You can't convert this game, n if ya could nobody in LO would be smart enough to do it. They can't even put cop lights on a reskin car. I used to play and old pve game on ps4 or so, it was called 'Black'. the authenticity of the guns was right on, similar to MoHonor. I'm guessing that certain games have acquired copy rights, unlike apb. Or that in todays world of mass government shootings, the gun companies don't want to be fingered as the cause of said shootings via video gaming. People making law suits against gun companies because children allegedly act out games and or movies. Ya a few are real psycho kids, but the majority are the DoJ doing false flag shootings to take America's guns. Returning to the point and subject. The hard sites on these guns and the method of hold/stance/firing are all wrong with a few exceptions. All of your recoil is mimicked by bloom and barrel rise and the weight of the gun having zero effect on bloom and rise, but it make you run slow or fast. Looking down the site is what attracts me to these types of games, The job of the cop even back when this game was written up, is not authentic. There should be peps standing around on the Zombie dope or leaning, prostitutes, gang bangers, domestic disputing. Some or all on a pve, so cops could gain xp as easy as the criminal can stealing.

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Lol, Well Somebody needs to come address some of these issues. As you can see civil order is breaking down, people are throwing bar stools and table candles. Aside from My Police Lights, people want updates on the MM and Server stability. If nothing else simply an acknowledgement. We don't even know if the dev knows no police lights can be put on the car, or if they were aware of the server issues. If the server issues were caused by hackers or the provider? If coding lights for the car is in the works. Ya know issues are issues, but when you add that lack of communication, people begin to speculate and rage, n if one gets started the rest jump on the wagon.

WHY does this alleged Dev Hide on Discord, and not come to this forum and address the issues with the new car not having police lights??? WHY does Matt Hide and not address Hacking, MM, Server Crash's, ect. Why is there not even Maintenance announcements and Why does the launcher indicate that Easter Events started on March 13-20/Via web site, yet the last announcement by forum gm's says St. Patricks day started on March 13, Yet according to Google, Easter is on March 31. They are conspiring to X out Western Religious Holidays by tricking us into believing that Easter had already past before St. Patricks Day cuz it says so on the Launcher, n they always leave the last " Event" on the launcher for months. You go back to Ditch-Wire/discord n You tell that alleged Dev that Mack is gonna Fire all of LO if I don't get Police lights on My new car, n Ya either rent a decent server or you close NA n Merge to EU. How I am 60 miles from the West server at 1 ms n it runs more patootie than if I goto EU at 170ms

Two weeks now without any comment from Staff or volunteers regarding; Maintenance, MM, Hackers, Police Lights/Kits for new car, Server shutdowns and instability. I Vow to put forth as much effort in missions as staff do (when they show up for work)

I am proof that does not happen, most all of the sweaties hate me, either because I hacusate or i don't hack. I don't run any questionable programs, so there is nothing for EAC to detect. This was a thing back in the FF days but not anymore. Occasionally we have had spammers come in, and players calling out for everyone to report the offender. When this happens it is generally a GM that comes in and Silences the offender, but doesn't ban them. GM's can't ban U alone, they would report the issue up the chain of command, as an 'In-House' report. not the same type of report a player can make. The only way to avoid suspicion of a Player/GM is to not hire a Player. Now I don't have any suspicions of our GM's, but if there is any Merit to what you have said; The only way to do this is to Hire a Non-Player, with real Money. Someone with good knowledge of gaming and hacking but having never played APB. Such a person would have zero motive to false ban or harass, they would have no friends that played, they would get no player benefits.

Maint is not what he is talking about, We are talking about how the NA goes down randomly for hours on non maint days and times, Multiple times a week, as in, Server Crash without being restarted or having any input from LO on This forum. However it is known that they comment or post on their Discord channel about these outages but not here. When this happens EU will work fine, but not NA. From a business and marketing stand point, it is as if LO either unaware of the outages or absent for weeks on end, and or they simply don't care enough to post in the forum. Which should be the main and foremost platform to communicate with clients. As you can see pista's date and time stamp this happened last week a day after general maintenance, it also happened over the weekend and again two days ago on tuesday. Again we're not talking about a brief server crash, we're talking several hours. and not one post here in forum about it, or what happened. We all know where this will lead, with a lack of communication from LO leads to speculation and hypothesis of Conspiracy's. My newest conspiracy hypothesis is that LO is renting a sub standard cheap server and rat holing the extra funds, with plans to shut down NA and force the 'Westerners to play in EU. This comes after they released a half wit car without any kits or police lighting and failed to address the situation. They failed to address the status and progress of the Anti cheat after thowing it in, yet hax are still everywhere. They failed to address the MM status and progress after 'Throwing it in. This is what We are talking about.

That's Heavy. I had no clue game hacking went this Deep, the lengths the hacker goes thru for what would seem a trivial motive.

I don't eac works at all, beings that a week after it was installed 'known sweats were talkin about The Bypass Code. Now someone talked to me n convinced me this was Propaganda made by clowns or if it was true, eventually they'd be caught. Other games like War Thunder also use eac and it has hackers up the ying yang. Right now I can't get into NA, Again it's down, So when talking about virus injection, would this effect the server, or the players pc?? It is a pity the staff won't tell us anything about the recent shut downs

I told them thousands of times. Resegregate the Golds from other players. But No, They can't even make a car right, n they gonna rewrite MM. So currently we have teams with 2 or 3 " premade' or Grouped Golds with one ungrouped Non-Gold, and the opp is 2 silvers and two T's. So the Higher threat has to carry the mission. This is not good for Golds or Low threats. All I hear is WTB decent opp, So Golds don't like low threats on their team. Lower threats don't like Golds unless they are on their team. For the non-gold this sort of mm makes Up-threating difficult, the gold will almost always out perform everyone else just by kill points, keeping the lower threat from inching up to Gold. The New Player/Lower threat won't have friends n Buddies to communicate with via discord. It's always gonna be easier to use voice over stopping and typing in T chat. You Never see missions now without any golds, Gold should be kept in a Gold only district. This shouldn't be hard beings 90% are Golds playing, ya can't go anywhere without seeing one. If LO insists on letting golds farm lower rank and threats, then make threat only based on objective performance, ie who completes offensive objectives most and who defends most. As it stands there is no reason outside of progression/standing xp for a low rank or low threat to perform.

No they didn't Fix it, ya they did something to his voice to make him sound stoned, but only certain times. Its still the same thing, ya spawn into district n the first thing you hear is the joker screaming to buy ammo. I have simple low wattage desk top pc speakers, also head set. Both will blow your ears out if not set to lowest volume. Where you can barely hear other sounds. So you basically have to mute out while getting your load out, then crank it back up to go play. Having the joker voice amplified like it is is kinda stupid in that any noob has to buy ammo, and has to learn how to buy it from where to complete the tutorial. So noobs already know, we don't need the joker voice, if the player needs ammo he needs to find the box. If he is close enough to hear the joker, then he can see the box, yet if he is away from a joker box he hears nothing to direct him.

Yea they won't fix the new car, or talk about it. NA is completely dead now, think the max i saw was 10, n 10 spread between dif instances, and I checked morning, noon and night, same numbers. I am waiting for them to Merge Na to EU or sell out. Not that I want the merge at 160ms and rarely any english speakers there, but thats all I got. LO has consistently left us in the dark, not communicated, not fixed haxing or added contacts, Matt shows up once a year with a speech. I tell ya I think they bought it for a tax wright off, adding just enough bells n whistles to show evidence, and investment. We're just the Pawns stuck in the Matrix