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Here are some graphs from will.io for Friday of September 13, 2024:

Here are some graphs from will.io for Monday of September 9, 2024:

That's much higher than the true-rate but yes. Players are indeed backing away. Maybe, but we still have the problem where the online drops due to broken balance and quite quickly, in some missions I just want to leave the mission so tryhards play tryhards, I don't want to waste my time dying and dying, but I will come back to try another mission, but other players won't. Here we see players leaving: I'm currently at 270R but I don't think players will leave once they hit max rank. I only see gold in districts now because all the players like me (low skill and just wanting to chill) just stop playing. Most of these golds don't even use Armas so they don't contribute money (THEY DON'T HAVE TO) to help APB pay the bills. I have a lot of Armas reskins because I like the immersion and how I can cosplay, I'd like to buy more weapon reskins but I don't see the point in spending money on a game that doesn't want me to play. It's sad to say but I think if the balance isn't fixed the game will die.

Now you can see that 50-100 players on average leave the game every week. I think we need to push the idea of the game balance as much as possible, as it was before (at least). It would also be useful to have AI, to simply collect information about how players usually play, their paths to points, and create an AI behavior pattern from this information.

I have friends who don't play this game because of the broken balance. When asked if they would play this game if it had PVE, 8/10 friends said they would play this game, the other 2 friends only want PVP but with balance. Based on a survey of my friends who tried APB and quit after a few missions (and losses in a row), but a couple of friends lasted in this game even for a week and only because of me, but quit the game because of the too broken balance. That's why I'm more than sure that if APB has PVE, it will be online and players will buy various items in Armas. I'm personally ready to buy something in Armas once every 1-2 months if the game starts to bring me pleasure as it did with a working balance.

Here are some graphs from will.io for Friday of September 6, 2024:

Here are some graphs from will.io for Monday of September 2, 2024:

>Nope. But usually trade lock is about for a 3 days or so. LO Support ignoring every single ticket, i guess i can buy Jocker Tickets and cancel transaction in my bank app so they will finally respond me. (I can do it, lol, cuz we have a policy that saves u from scammers, and LO looks like a scammers when selling u something but its not working how i should) Cuz it's crazy, they ignoring every ticket about any question even Armas problems. So if they receive 200$ but transaction will be canceled after they will finally do something, and they will not respond, they will just block account without any response to previous tickets LOL

Yep, here how it goes 90% of the time: How many players do you think who just started playing this game will decide to stay when I'm already tired of losing?)

Separation to "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" districts After the system of dividing districts into "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" was broken, the online began to fall every day. If you look at the statistics in Steam, then after the division of districts into "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" was broken, we can notice a significant drop in the number of players. After the release of the New Horizon update, the number of players increased, but newcomers were faced with the fact that they are forced to play against players who play APB constantly and have much better game skills. Everyone says "play better, noob", well, here is the result, from 1200 players online after the update today there are already a maximum of 800, although yesterday there were 900+. None of my friends want to go to this trash heap anymore, I don't see buying JockerTickets in Armas to try to knock out some legendaries in the store, since this game has become sharply difficult for me. Moreover, when Inova and Gamersfirst merged, the ability to write in Ukrainian was removed. Before the merger, Ukrainian letters could be used without problems, but now there is no such option. (Some kind of discrimination based on nationality) Another problem is players whose nicknames are written in Cyrillic. Players whose nicknames are written in Cyrillic regularly block missions or simply do not allow me to reach the mission by ramming my car or the car of my teammates. They especially like to block mission objects if their "comrade" plays against us on the mission. It is simply impossible to send a complaint about such players with Cyrillic in their nicknames if you do not have a Russian keyboard layout. Thus, players who use Cyrillic in their nicknames receive complete immunity to reports from European players. This is not to mention the fact that I regularly receive a ton of xenophobic statements from players from Russia just because I have UA in my nickname (since my other character already had this nickname without UA). I've gotten used to getting tons of toxic comments and wishes for me to die as soon as possible from a Russian missile. I liked the idea when Inova players were on their server and didn't bring their toxicity to European servers. (I already want to transfer my character to the US region). Cheaters and tryhards It's also no secret that there are cheats on APB now and they are free and paid to access on the Internet. In addition to cheaters, there are also just players who play as if they were playing with cheats and you don't know if you were killed from 80 meters with a Colby .45 cheat or skill. I talked to newcomers to the game and not only newcomers, everyone as one says that they are tired of Gold players who don't give them a chance to take a step. Just yesterday, in my presence, several players simply didn't want to go on a mission because there were Gold players with cheats or a very cool skill, in my presence, players quit this game forever. Here are some graphs from Steam DB: Here are some graphs from will.io: In conclusion, I can only advise, at least for now, to return the division of districts into "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" so that new players play against new players, and players who play poorly play against those who play poorly, and to prohibit "green" players from getting into missions where there is at least one "gold" player.

Typical APB moment in 90% of time:

I invited my cousin to this game, I invited 8-10 friends to this game in these 1-2 months and they all quit this game. 10/10 Friends quit this game because it does not welcome newbies at all, and not only newbies. Moreover, not all my friends want to play against cheaters or those who do not give them a chance to win in the mission at all. I remember the times when the game had some semblance of balance and everyone had a chance, then I played with friends and we even had chances to kill other players as players killed us, the skills were equal, now I regularly encounter the fact that my score in the game is 0-5 kills 4-10 assists, 11-20 deaths. Yes, I began to play worse over time due to a hand injury, but my friends rarely play better. I constantly die and press the respawn button)) Devs could have already added PVE tasks for beginners or for those who want to relax. It is not that difficult to write simple AI for bots that would identify walls, stairs, covers. In the end, you can add the same tasks where bots would storm some of the task points in crowds. In this way, players who are looking for PVE content could stay in the game and also invest money in cosmetics or weapons. 7/10 of my friends would return to APB, for example, if there was some kind of PVE mode in the open world designed for team play or solo. But for now I'm just afraid to invest my money in this game, there is a chance that it will not change and I will just waste my money.

It's terrible to hear... I understand how hard it is to lose so many legendary guns. I invested more than a thousand dollars in this game a long time ago, but after the developers broke the balance, it became uninteresting to play, and investing money in something that only causes you frustration is stupid. I have more than one account with weapons and cars from Armas, I was even banned by mistake and I still donated, until they broke whole game. As for cheaters - every time I return to this game I check if there are new cheats for it, to understand the chances of meeting cheaters. And yes, there are plenty of cheats for APB that can be found on trusted sites absolutely free. Just yesterday I played against players whose N-Teck outshoots any sniper rifle at 80m, and when you run behind him, the player in aiming mode spins almost 180 degrees, there was a clan that did not miss a single shot. Players from my team complained that it was a clan of cheaters. But again, they were cheaters or people without a personal life who take a shower approximately... NEVER. It's just that these people are so good that there is no place for people like us (ordinary players playing for fun) in this game. Previously, at least there was a division into "green", "bronze", "silver", "gold" and I didn't play against T's, but now my team is full of T's or bronze who are forced to play against gold clans who play either with cheats or as cheaters.

This is terrible, I was thinking of buying a new car in Armas just for the collection, but since I'm not the only one with this problem, it's somehow scary to buy something. The game is becoming like some kind of money scam if you have problems with the transaction, you won't be able to get help for more than a month. I'm afraid to think how the report system works then. If a player behaves offensively towards others based on their race or other affiliation, then it turns out that there will be no punishment for such a player. This game is clearly becoming more and more dead... I hope to see community servers one day, everything will definitely be much better there.

First, they should fix the balance so that T's are not thrown against 4 gold players in a clan that kills newbies without even giving them a chance to reach the mission object. My friend created an account in this game and the first people he played against were gold 255+ players in the clan, while his team had green, bronze and T players. My friend's team had no chance of winning, since when they called for help, silver players came to their aid, who also could not do anything to the clan of players, but gave the enemies strong silver players. There are both cheaters and people without a personal life outside of this game, which is why this game is simply not interesting to play for both casuals (who have a personal life outside of this game) and just newbies.