Login Issues Strike Again!

[Login Issues Strike Again!]

The login-issues are even worse now

[Game Client is updating?]

No, this happened on Windows 10 too.

[Game Client is updating?]

23 minutes ago, bubblesg2rl said:

 yeah it does fix the problem   

Repair did not fix the issue.

 

But the issue has resolved itself now (since the APB Launcher itself was Updated)

[Second Open Beta this Weekend]

Wasn't the beta supposed to be up by now? Can't log in.

[Network outage 11/5]

Bad timing for a network outtage.  Now people won't be able to finish up the Halloween event before it ends tomorrow.

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

10 hours ago, Lily Rain said:

You are playing on the North American server, so you should in the very least respect North American timings. You're doing the complete opposite by trying to play the game on its most dead-day (Monday) at the most trough (opposite of peak) time. If you can't match NA-timings then try petitioning LO into accelerating the global-merge if that isn't already a high-priority in their to-do list.

Fair enough.

 

However, it ain't much better during Peak-times either, as you can see here:

https://imgur.com/a/fUMxvo0

 

Now we even got two Bronze Districts, with a decent amount of players in it, (but the Districts for Silver/Golds are still pretty much empty).

 

People who DT on purpose can actually pick whether they want to play Financial, or Waterfront during peak hours, the rest of us can't.

(There's some people in Fight Club, but meh).

 

And that's at 6:35 PM in the time zone of the server (Dallas).

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

Sure, some players would quit/rage quit because they lost a match, but that's like every game ever made (and not unique to APB).

 

It is however, true that a lot of players are leaving APB because they are unable to find a match, so they get bored and leave,

which is very understandable.

 

The threat segregation is also being abused by players who purposely DT so that they can go to Bronze,

which kind of defeats the purpose of having the segregation

(this wasn't really much of an issue before segregation).

 

 

@Amayii  Thank you for moving it to the correct section.

 

 

 

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

12 minutes ago, RCooper said:

Yeah that is for  a reason

Not for the same reason though, it's basically the same reason as the Gold Districts are empty, people just don't want to play there.

 

So they DT, and join the Bronze.

 

This creates a problem where a lot of people aren't able to play anymore,

which would go away, if they do away with the Threat segregation.

 

 

Or to put it in a different way, more people are leaving the game because they are unable to play,

compared to people who leave because their OP is better than they are.

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

Barely anyone plays the Weapon-test Districts, people do play the regular Action Districts.

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

As it is right now "real" Bronzes have no choice but to play against said Dethreaters.

 

Without Threat segregation, there would be a mixed bag of Bronzes, DT'ers and actual Silver/Golds in every mission.

 

 

Now this may sound horrible at first, but would actually make the matches more even for both teams.

 

Sure, the matchmaking makes mistakes every now and then. and makes matches uneven.

But this happens in Silver/Gold Districts too, and is down to the Matchmaking, and not Threat segregation.

 

 

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

Not sure where you get the idea that Bronze is gonna disappear, there's a lot of players in Bronze, who DT'ed on purpose, so they can play in Bronze.

 

This basically means that Golds are already in Bronze, as of today.

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

Contrary to popular belief, It's not gonna die out any faster.

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

I doubt it would disappear, since half the people playing in Bronze right now, are high-Ranked players (who DT'ed on purpose, to go to Bronze).

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

Sadly, half the people in Bronze, are high-Rank players (R200+ who DT'ed on purpose to play in Bronze).

 

That gives us two good reasons to not have Threat Segregation.

[Get rid of Threat segregation, so we can actually play the game?]

Title says it all.

 

Game is actually completely unplayable for the most part, as it is now.

 

I get it Little Orbit, you want the game to die out, but i'm sure the players don't.

 

https://imgur.com/a/1LfKi36

 

 

A lot of players seem to get this wrong, so let me set this straight.

 

Way more people are leaving the game because they are unable to find someone to play with/against,

compared to people who leave because their OP is better than they are.

 

 

[engine upgrade effect on multicore cpu's]

10 hours ago, Gateron said:

So yeah that is why the game doesn't take advantage of most cores and this game doesn't use much of the GPU as well since graphics cards weren't that popular back in the day.

 

Graphics cards were actually more popular back in the day than today, which you can tell by the pricing of GPU's today.

 

In 2010 (when APB was released) you could buy a GeForce GTX 480/580 (which was the top dog GPU's in 2010) for only 499 dollars.

A top of the line GPU today, like the RTX 2080ti starts at 999 dollars.

 

Last generation of GPU's with "normal" pricing was back in 2012 (GTX 680 at 499 dollars).

 

GPU prices being driven up like that means that sales have gone down by quite a bit since then.

[Server Slow To Respond]

I didn't play yesterday (Wednesday), but the servers have switched location since Tuesday (at which point, they were still in Dallas).

[Server Slow To Respond]

You can facepalm all you want, but the servers were moved.

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4 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:

lol... no

The servers were indeed moved from Dallas to the West Coast (CA).    So yeah, that would increase the latency for most players, save for those who live on the West Coast.

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1 hour ago, Acornie said:

You forgot to mention the constant massive latency increase we've all had to deal with on Jericho since the patch :^(

The increase in latency isn't because of the patch.  It's because they moved all the servers from Dallas to California.

[What 3 things would you like to bring back from RTW days?]

Definitely would love to see these 3 things from RTW be put back into the game:

 

-Earning Premium from just playing the game  (paying for Premium was optional with RTW)

-Gold 10  (this would bring the Gold districts back from the dead, and a reason to be Gold)

-Car-chases  (now that was a ton of fun)

 

 

A couple of other things that would be fun to bring back as-well:

 

-Old dumptruck physics  (where you could smash pretty much anyone's car)

-Vaquero & Ambulance being able to do backwards wheelies

 

[In order to protect your account, you are not allowed to mail attachments from this computer for 6 days]

That is some great news indeed, and should make it near impossible to get your account hacked/hijacked.
And also good to hear there won't be any issues mailing items after switching from one computer to another.

[In order to protect your account, you are not allowed to mail attachments from this computer for 6 days]

1 minute ago, BXNNXD said:

id assume its to prevent someone (who presumably logged in from a different ip or something) from draining your account immediately

i feel like it would have been far more convenient to just add an email/text verification instead

I agree that it would be a more convenient way to do have some type of email or text message verification instead.

[In order to protect your account, you are not allowed to mail attachments from this computer for 6 days]

There's a new restriction apparently (as the title says) when trying to email an attachment in-game.
But how exactly does this HELP protect my account? I don't see how this protects people's accounts in particular.

Is any login info/passwords or other personal info compromised when emailing an attachment in-game? Didn't think so.




I find it quite annoying that i can't use my own computers (i have two), and be able to play the game without silly restrictions.

[Are VPN's allowed?]

Thank you so much for that answer.

I guess it's safe to say that APB is alright with VPN's then (unless something changed just recently).