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And such a way to stop developing new veterans, right?

You are a veteran of APB when you're more active on forums than ingame.

Commitment, if there was some, and I mean by G1 since they had the team and the resources to expand that team, then they could achieve something in regards of the engine upgrade. I remember playing games were the community gathered some players skilled enough in programming and such and they migrated a whole game to a new version of Unreal Engine by themselves. An example of it is "Command & Conquer Renegade" now known as "Renegade X" ...besides it took like many years for them to accomplish they did something great over there. My thought is that there's some extremist secretive policy or something like that behind APB that stops the management from expanding the development team by recruiting outsiders or such. Now LO seems to be doing way better anyways, and they are even hiring players as volunteers GMs so not sure if they can find something else around, idk.

Do not agreed, I disagree. But glad you're happy though. I mean, you gotta be trolling or idk what, these are just ingame clothes with some design that any player could make by themselves (theoricaly). While the few that are actual new content are good though, but not like we discovered the magic formula of success imo. Also, I'm nothing more far from thinking these designs "fit the game aesthetic" I mean, it does if we look at everything any player designed, but is not like the G-Kings, Bloodroses, Prentiss Tigers or Praetorians are on a satanic sect looking to recruit people to convert them into demoniac criminals or enforcers that wear inverted pentagrams and other witchery symbols to scare their opponents in combat, right? I like the stuff, but I disagree with what is being said by the op. Regards!

No one else but you can hear past the 5 secs... But you could go ask in the "unofficial" Discord where the undercover-yet-known-players volunteer GMs are and all the LO staff hangs with them. They know everything even before anyone posts on forums though.

I believe MattScott announced Jericho is about to get split between L.A. and N.Y. to start with the upcoming network changes, but I'm not sure if there's no ETA or probably they are considering delaying this because of this low population issues some are pointing out.

I'm not sure about the caps-lock title thought. Also, everyone is having the same issue and imo your other thread was more than enough and actually better than this one. Hope they fix it soon, I just came home I joined the game 2 missions ago... Regards!

I didn't get any other activity than the skin one in the past 5 days, is not that I'll use a lot if I even use it at all, but is cool to collect the special holiday items so I feel you. Maybe with this kind of rewards they should add a way to make sure that everyone gets each item activity at least once through the event next time, if that's even possible. Not only because some people didn't get the skin but also because getting the same activity is redundant and not rewarding.

It was a different game mode that involved some mechanics similar to battle royale games, also is not the first time in APB that we see a different game mode being implemented but every time the former game management attempted to do this they first brought it as a temporary event aiming to make it permanent if player base response is good enough and if not then they eventually remove it which is what is going on now so far. LO tried for the first time and without critics to their performance this kind of events or alternative game modes rarely could attract players long enough to make it a permanent mode, since now it is empty and there are no chances to get players to populate these districts they're going to shut it down. I wouldn't blame the management but is more about how players behave these days imo, here and in any other online games. Nowadays it seems It is all about grinding rewards and collecting items but once there's nothing else to earn these end up abandoned by the community. Neither do I try to blame the community if clarifying it is needed here. In my personal experience I didn't even tried it because all the stuff involving it gave me an immersive-break feeling, from the splash logo, through the new pestilence faction images to the back story and the bunch of boxes, logos and items all around the district that made me feel it was like a player-made mod more than something designed by the actual developers. I still appreciate a lot that LO took the initiative to try this though, and I look forward to see better implemented additions in the future.

The end is near! This is a sign that APB is shutting down!! Run get a tinfoil hat before their drop the EMP bombs!!! It was predicted many times by every APB prophet since 2010!!!! Engine Upgrade!!!!! Racing District confirmed!!!!!! No.

Too many arguments, some of them are valid, but no one considering the extensive South American player base from countries of the region along Brs, which have latency values above 150ms to 180ms and some even more, these players stand almost no chance against 15ms-50ms players unless they find a way to surpass their latency issues, aka edgy practices. There's plenty of gold players from SA, yet most of them either end up turning silver more often than gold or simply choose to stick to the bronze districts which sucks but is because they can't take a challenge. That along with low population on Jericho which also forces players to dethreat in order to finish leveling contacts when there are no instances available. But the majority are already max rank so...

Awesum. +1 In the meanwhile bring Beacon FC back! >_>

Same back at you since you're not getting it, I'm not talking about "centering aim" but there's something else, but while someone with way more experience than you is noticing it this seems to upsets you more than if you just try to figure out. Anyways, I'm sorry if anything I said is bothering "half the active population of the game" disregarding who is more or less experienced, there's no harm bringing on different points of view, even if some of these might be wrong, though there's a difference on calling people idiot while you might be acting like one yourself. Let's everybody chill and let this thread serve its purpose. Then they talk about toxicity on forums. *facepalm*

You really think no one notices what you're doing there? For anyone curious, "draw a dot" in the center of your screen and watch these videos in full screen to get a nice surprise. *wink-wink*

Along with the nice suggestions you're getting here I'll add that after the match ends you could try to go to where your opp was camping and take a look around for possible spots for sniping and such. I'd suggest you to do it every time you have a chance, every single location you have to attack or defend, take your time out of missions to stand there and look around for possible spots that could give you a clear line of shot, you'll gain enough map awareness to counter fight campers in almost every situation after a while. After that, then it is all about odds as other people pointed out here, if they are a pre-made team of experienced players and you're soloing with randoms your chances are reduced, if you have a buddy to develop some team tactics or just someone you find both get good chemistry for some spontaneous team play then you'll have better chances. Then there's also the remaining time factor, if you have a few minutes left consider every attempt to attack by its potential duration, usually a hard defended spot could take above 40 secs to 1:30 min to clear if there are teams of 3 or 4 players, and take special consideration on respawning times because once you kill the second enemy the first one might be already on sight and even aiming at you to take you down before you reach the objective.

I think people is mistaking the issue here. Is not about "shooting" your team mates, is about a reaction that besides how you can control it it is still there. Is that fraction of a millisecond that your brain takes to realize it is just the red title getting mixed with the target engage action instinct. And is not such a big deal imo but totally unnecessary to have alternative/optional features that interfere with specific design elements related with the core game mechanics. ...something like that.

Yeah well, I was being a bit extremist on purpose tbh, but after a while playing you learn to tell when a player is using a custom/overlay crosshair or not. Some times I also enjoy turning off the whole HUD here and in other games and it is true that is not hard to aim without crosshair, it just requires a whole different play style and makes it way more intuitive imo. It is not allowed at all to make any sort of file modifications or using third-party software that affects the game, so while it falls under the "third-party programs" category imo, there's this gray area where anybody could use an overlay program like the ones you use for streaming/video recording or these that even comes as a display feature in some monitors. The most valid argument is that nothing stops you from taking a pen and drawing a dot in the center of your screen while I also agree that a fix dot as part of the game crosshair would solve the controversy. Personally I used to get very upset at people using custom crosshairs in the past but was because I considered that custom shaders would allow to other shady modifications of the game graphics as no smoke and such, but since they forbid custom shaders I don't think a custom crosshair is a big deal.

Also bear in mind that most of these players if not everyone of them usually have a custom crosshair that helps to center their aiming disregarding the crosshair bloom when moving or jumping. That's the only way to do effective jump-shots and keep a good tracking of aim while moving. Whoever says the contrary is either lying or just naive.

I'm glad someone brought this up, I'm also a bit annoyed with the stuff all around Social District with all these huge boxes and a contact icon that makes no sense anymore but more particularly about that strange bubblegum red color these have and I just don't feel it fits well with APB while it breaks a bit the immersive experience for me. Besides of this, and to let negativity apart, I appreciate a lot the attempt to bring something new and the lot of effort put into it, is a good thing to have stuff like these.

Because of this: ...friend or foe? Not sure if a whole new forum thread was needed but I'm glad you asked so I could bring this screenshot here.

But that's exactly what annoys anyone who would like to try to get the pumpkins in order to become the horsemen at start of the match. Along with constantly stressing others as you aren't supposed to expect an attack from friendly players.

Yeah pretty much that's why I do it too, I don't feel like waiting for opp too long knowing many times you don't get any till the end of the match so I rather search for another match. Specially in Jericho where you don't have many players and some times both factions are put on a PvE mission without getting opp till someone finish.

Although I agree with this I have to say also that goldies are always abandoning missions before opp joins when they get matched with lowies and silvers on their team. They even do it if it is with other golds they don't know or just don't like the loadout they have tbh...even I do it a couple of times here and then.

I just stopped playing the event after a few tries because of these, and they still playing every day while keep doing the same...

I'm assuming you are young and I'd like to add my point of view here if it helps at all: Whenever you feel you're going to get upset with your team just remember that they might be learning or having the same trouble you have to keep up with the game. And what I do in these cases is stop caring about my personal satisfaction to try to approach them and help with anything I can, if I don't feel with the energy to do that I simply type /abandonmission before we get opp or I just play without caring at all or such. Now, whenever you get upset about your opposition remember they are just players the same as you are and their goals are the same as yours which should be to have fun and enjoyment. If I assume a player might be toxic or get upset at anything I do what I usually do is ignoring the whole opp for the duration of the match or just turning off the whole chat, this way I can avoid any personal interactions besides the game play till the match ends so I preserve myself from undesired whispers at the same time I refrain from doing it myself. And the most important thing some people already said, do not care about a video game, it is a virtual environment that has 0 influence in your real life and what you actually are in real life. Just keep in mind that tomorrow when you wake up and go outside to the real world you don't have an OSMAW + OCA Nano, a box of ammo and a steel plated Nulander Pioneer truck with remote explosives and neither you are a video game character, so whatever you do in a video game should remain as a fantasy and it shouldn't affect your emotions in a negative way. That said without considering the inherent toxicity of any online game nowadays and particularly in APB, but that my friend is another topic. gg ez.