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  1. Posted · Edited by Fortune Runner

    4 hours ago, TheJellyGoo said:

    It has been stated on multiple occasions that this wouldn't even break the lore. There is friction between the factions all the time. Would be simple to explain some mission interferences.

    Also in which world does this not help at all? It literally doubles the pool... it's in the word itself.

    Sure one world phasing would still be the ultimate solution however that doesn't mean we need unnecessary limitations.

    APB was built from day 1 to be enforcer vs crim. not just the lore but the whole thing. 

    Once again don't put the cart before the horse - fix the spaghetti coding first or changes like this can easily break APB entirely.

    A major change like this can easily break any little coding on APB

    Also I never said anything about the lore ( the story ) to begin with.

    And furthermore a pool of 4 doubled to 8 does NOT fix APB matchmaking. Of anything it is a waste of time and money on a placebo that isnt even a bandaid.

    Even you say phasing would be an " ultimate solution " but then you call it limited ? uh what ?

    4 hours ago, TheJellyGoo said:

    What do you think those formulas consist of?

    What has your suggestion to do with the mentioned balance changes? 1 sentence that addresses the point... 5 of completely useless chatter that just water down your whole post making it harder and harder to to get a grip on it. You just throw in so much bullshoot that it becomes impossible to pin you down on the facts because you pollute the whole post with obsolete information that sidetracks the whole point.

    And if you seriously put those two things (gun/car/mod balance and complete change of vehicular functionality) on the same level then you're really as lost as previous posts indicated.

     

    Thinking the EU will make way for a completely new map (or even multiple "maps") in the future is borderline delusional. You're so out of touch with what will happen.

    first off i was responding to that persons posts and not putting random stuff.

    Second putting out there what new people have said recently is not outdated information. plenty of threads on this as well as threads on what was put on youtube reviews.

    third i never said the engine upgrade will magically make anything happen i did say it would allow the opportunity to allow more content at once without having to rotate like before.

    fourth - you can be salty all you want but no one said or did anything to you to deserve your rudeness. - replying to you is pointless - enjoy trolling on your own 😛

     

     

  2. Posted

    2 hours ago, Resine said:

    Let's think what fucked Matchmaking in the first place -  Hard Gold Lock that killed quite a number of population as well - After that people never went back to Gold districts and now they can't even if they wanted to. Why did it happened? Because at some point of the game, trash players thought that dethreathing and playing on lower instances for easy matches is better than trying to get better and playing against other players. What could G1 do to prevent that?

    Back when that happened cheating was rampant and people dethreated to get away from golds who were cheating to win. Or did you forget about the goat and others. 

     

    2 hours ago, Resine said:

    First of all, higher rewards. Personally I would lower Cash and standing rewards on bronze and silver districts by significant amount so people would have to play harder mission to get better rewards.

    Further I would award only JT for Gold districts.

    does nothing to fix the problems with the current engine with bugs , cheating , matchmaking etc.

    Its not even good as a placebo.

    2 hours ago, Resine said:

    Allow Crim vs Crim and Enf vs Enf cross mission would double the district pool players.

    APB is enforcers vs crims because it is a cop vs robbers type game. It is not a different game than that.

     

    while to you saying lets just let everyone switch seems like you get a large pool in reality current matchmaking has a handful not in a mission to choose from. all you did was at most say to double that playerbase that can be selected which does not fix matchmaking at all.

    Instead it gives more of the same problem and does nothing.

     

    3 hours ago, Resine said:

    MAP WAS CHANGED ALREADY - I said it twice if I am not mistaken that in the past we had map changes that fixed some truly OP spots. I said nothing about new events.

    Gun/Cars/Mod changes are all numerical values changed - easy and quick to do. It's time worthy to think and balance them correctly.

    guns cars and mods are more than numbers alone. There are formulas as well involved in them that make them work the way they work.

    New players have said how they wish they could shoot through the glass and that its odd how you cant.

    Personally I believe bullet resistant glass would be a good compromise to be realistic enough but still keep APB as APB , but that is just an opinion on how to please both opinions of others.

    ( allow a little damage to kill those already too weak who basically deserve it , but not free killing like some wanted )

    That would take changing the car models however to make windows separate.

    With the current engine I would not want to do that or it would create a lot more bugs from how APB was coded.

     

    Also we have had the same content for years.

    APB can not survive on the same maps , and that will take the new engine to have more maps in time.

    3 hours ago, Resine said:

    Also, it's a mere 0,5 switch in engine status. I assure you, that it's old already and broken into billion peaces, that it will make to difference to cheat creators.

    I already said how the engine upgrade will be used to help clean up the spaghetti coding even more so. Who wouldn't ?

    Also , you admitted the upgrade is broken , so how much more do you think the even older engine we have is broken?

     

     

    TL;DR

    Nothing you said could even come close to fixing APB and wouldn't even extend its life either.

    Not only did you show you don't understand  the coding at all , but that you also are terrible at business.

    Any company who ran itself the way you did would die out , which is what G1 did as well if you think about it.

    I'm sorry but you are completely wrong on this.

     

    The only real valid solutions that I have seen , has been from Little Orbit and their plans on this.

     

  3. Posted

    On 4/13/2020 at 1:05 PM, Hennessy said:

    I remember LO promising the engine update will be done by the beginning of 2019. Here we are at the middle of 2020.

    I remember Little Orbit being open and mentioning that they were not told the full truth on apb's state

  4. Posted

    14 hours ago, Resine said:

    Thank you. I am afraid you are right though.

    Did you even read what I said? Anything except advanced new content can be added to the current engine update.

    In case you don't remember.

    Balance is about changing numeric values mostly.

    Map changes can be also made as it was proven years ago with some minor adjustments.

    Matchmaking could be tweaked too to certain degree.

     

    Matchmaking has a pool of 40 people in its current state so tell me then how would YOU fix it without the engine upgrade since you just claimed it can be without it?

     

    How would YOU do gun balancing and fix the guns that have been broken and add in new maps and events to keep the game alive with the current engine only allowing so much before it breaks again?

     

    How would YOU change maps for new events and how to go about it when anything changed had to be rotated in and also tended to break APB in unexpected ways?

     

    And how would what YOU want be more important than new content that any gamer would want ( hundreds of games make new content for a reason - too keep and also bring in players )

     

    And by all means say how YOU say it is better than the engine upgrade that will help with all of this in better ways ( like phasing for a massive pool for matchmaking )

     

    Merged.

     

    And lets not forget the coding for APB is so old and unencrypted that people can make cheat programs easily but with the new engine can make that harder if not impossible for many ( it wont be all someone sooner or later can/will ) to make cheats with  proper encrypting and other means Little Orbit mentioned in the past. 

  5. Posted

    23 minutes ago, TheJellyGoo said:

     

    I am pretty confused. Did you just devalue your own argument? What languages do you speak?

    You tell him his base is wrong because he has no insight into programming while saying that this is true for the majority of you/us e.g. including you?

    That would mean you would be just as unqualified to judge the situation? So how come you can tell but not he?

     

     

    you are definitely confused. I did not say that in the way you took it.

  6. Posted

    5 hours ago, 404 said:

    proper balance doesn't require 2.1 to do, although frankly i don't believe orbit is capable of doing it on either engine

    Resine was not just talking about gun balancing in itself , but new content including maps , bug fixes , matchmaking , pretty much anything and everything else that comes after a new engine upgrade to be able to do all of that. you can not put the cart before the horse.

     

    As for Little Orbit's work and community opinions of gun balancing - there's a lot of opinions about how people want gun balancing but only Little Orbit knows what new guns in the future will be added.

    Matt Scott mentioned in the past there would be new content after the engine upgrade and it is quite possible the current gun balancing will be unbalanced in our eyes due to not all the content being added immediately ( only Little Orbit would know for sure on that as well - but it is possible so I keep an open mind to this )

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    20 hours ago, Darkzero3802 said:

    Ive noticed the increase as well as this community is filled with those who try to exploit the game wether it be bots, bugs or glitches. This game wont survive let alone thrive if people dont start playing better all around and a new engine wont mean much if new players see all this and dont have fun.

    you forgot to include those of us who just blow the world up with any gun or car we can

  8. Posted

    25 minutes ago, Resine said:

    Using "majority of us, community, us players" does not make your point valid.

    The truth that you do not know programming does coincide with the majority of us so in this case it does because it is a part of the whole.

    Icing in itself is not part of the cake yet it makes a cake a cake as well.

     

    You tossed a lot of  "facts" yet still fail to understand that it is not possible to fix what you complain about the way you are saying to do , because you are clueless to how programming works.

    You can toss around any opinion you want , but that will still not change the limitations of what the current engine is programmed to do and handle which is why we (Little Orbit , SPCT , and us community players ) are testing the new engine upgrade.

    How you believe the current fossil engine can be doing anything advanced that it was never made for without being upgraded to do so  is beyond me. ( it is the very thing you keep saying to do )

  9. Posted · Edited by Fortune Runner

    15 minutes ago, R3ACT3M said:

    while phasing will be better, what will it matter if jehrico only gets max 160 players a day

    We have had more than that on Jericho. not all players stay on APB all day long

     

    Many players also came back during the corona virus lockdown and showed we had 2 k people on APB ( not all Jericho of course ) and it showed we have many lurkers still interested in APB who are waiting for the engine upgrade and matchmaking to be worked on.

     

    Ive also been hearing it may be possible to play people overseas as well if the ping allows it to be a good match up

     

    The guns themselves needed to change since some were completely broken and unfair so it a work in progress.

     

    I am not sure of what else is going on at the moment but a lot of changes are happening

  10. Posted

     

    1 hour ago, Hexerin said:

    Character level =/= player skill

     

    Just stop.

    a gold who dethreats to be in bronze should NEVER be there.

    a 255 gold in bronze even more so.

    reflect upon yourself over someones valid concerns please.

     

    2 hours ago, R3ACT3M said:

    The hope is that with the new engine matchmaking will be way better than it has ever been, but this game NEEDS a bigger population, and that wont happen if people who are gold 255 getting matched with bronzes and silvers

     

    Part of the problem is that on paper 2 silvers + 1 gold against 2 golds is fair, but in practice 1 or both of those silvers are not good enough at the game to be able to compete so they end up getting stomped on by the 255's that don't give a shit.

     

    Its because of players like this (255's that don't give a shit and try hard against anyone) that the game will die if remained like this.

    it is planned for phasing and matchmaking to be reworked after the engine upgrade to fix that very problem

    but we need the engine upgrade first to be able to do so since APB is on an outdated engine and can not  handle that in its current condition.

    as for bigger population , I do not know what Little Orbit has planned but others may know . but either way we are not at that bridge yet and will probably not cross it until after matchmaking has been worked on , which will be after the engine upgrade

  12. Posted

    2 hours ago, R3ACT3M said:

    I have 3 characters 1000 hours (apparently that's not a lot to people here but it's my most played steam game) and I try to get my friends to play but most hate it now as well so im forced to solo queue. 

    Then the matchmaking gives me some of the worst matches I have ever seen for a whole week straight. I had to walk out of the house cause I was so frustrated. (I have a crim and enf and I have the same experience).

    Im not one to accuse people of hacking, but man have i seen some sketchy behavior. But that could be blamed on either new buffs/nerfs to weapons, actual skill gap, or maybe something server related.

    I really like this game which is why I am going to keep it installed. But seeing how guns work in the game right now, and hearing Matt say they (maybe misunderstood) are on the right path for weapon balance it's kind of depressing. 

    So I figured if I cant enjoy the game I don't want to give little orbit any more money. The whole reason I got premium in the first place was because I wanted to help fund Little Orbit into making the game something better. Even though we have/are getting premium for free I kept my sub for that reason. But if this is how the game is going to be I don't feel like supporting it anymore. 

    While I agree that the beta alone wont save this game, im hoping that an easier code base better performance etc will assist in making the game better than it's current state.

    I really do hope this game becomes popular/succeeds again. But until then ill keep my $$ per month

    By all measures what you have said is fair enough.

     

    And yes 1000 hours really isn't much since  many players have  a lot more than that and know APB extremely well , which is why some criticize a 255 bronze in bronze district as  unfair gameplay.

    As for gun balancing , matchmaking and such , I do not recall anything being set in stone , since in the future new guns , reworked vehicles etc can change APB in the blink of an eye.

  15. Posted

    On 6/28/2020 at 4:04 AM, Resine said:

     

    It's because people like you never see the real issues of the game. The game is shit because the current content we have is SHIT, weapons, cars, missions, players, map BALANCE is all clusterfuck.

    I am not talking about creating new content because what we currently have is fucking gismo !

    And don't tell me they couldn't fix few lines in code here and there without breaking something on the old engine to make the game more enjoyable.

    Instead of making the ENgine update top priority, and fucking us over with PS4 release, it would be much better and healthier for the game community and it's players, to address BALANCE issues of various kinds years ago.

    Like, here's what players are complaining about, lets delay entire engine for 6-12 months and put resources to fix what we can to keep players and salvage the game, giving us time to work on the engine. So even without the real new content that cannot be creating easily on the old engine, we would have a current content of the game in MUCH BETTER shape and maybe citadel would have more than one fucking district to play at.

     

    Have you seen yesterday beta? It was a fucking disaster, I don't even want to tell how much they fucked up with logging so players couldn't actually even try. I am talking about 60 FPS when there is more than 10 people in the map, and GLOBAL stutter drops to 20FPS when anyone joins district. It's outrageous. It will take months if not years to fix this shit, meaning we have old content that's not properly balanced in any way that will have to keep players in the game. And I don't mind myself, I played for years and I love the game and I am used to its shit, but if new players leave in two days, soon there won't be even one district to play.

    Please understand that a vast majority of us can tell you do not know anything about programming and how it works.

     

    Also please understand that a beta means it is not a finished product and will have problems ESPECIALLY when the community ( us players ) told Little Orbit to go ahead anyways with the testing even though we knew there WOULD DEFINITELY be problems

     

    And furthermore please understand that the community ( once again us players ) already explained more than enough times the past two years that WITHOUT AN ENGINE UPGRADE , APB PROBLEMS CAN NOT BE FIXED WHICH IS WHY IT IS A PRIORITY

     

    On a personal observation , you keep putting the cart before the horse in your arguments and in doing so your suggestions/opinions could not possibly be done.

     

  17. Posted

    5 hours ago, Akito said:

    I've disabled the steam overaly

    i do not know about your personal disconnecting however my steam overlay has existed since the ancient times so i can purchase through steam and has not disconnected me

     

    hope you can solve this good luck

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  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Kast2 said:

    In the live version Vivox has been deactivated because it used an ultra dated version, so at the moment there is no way to communicate vocally in the game.

    i just heard people a few days ago though?

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