VanilleKeks

Okay as these are some of my favourite weapons and also some of my best weapons (before I quit anyway) I'm gonna chime in with my monthly post. Do NOT buy the PR1. The advantage you gain from not having CJ3 is very situational, to the point where it's not worth it. The PR2 is just all around better, here's why: 1. You almost never want to stand at the two shot distance with a DMR AV. Only do this when a car phase transitions to a qualified point and you have no time to swap. Your job as a AV user is to hammer the crap out of vehicles and this is best done by doing what I always referred to as rapid firing. If you want to camp with a DMR or render distance abuse, use the DMR-SD which is vastly superior for that purpose due to open slots and the silencer. If you position well and make use of peaking as much as possible, you will be virtually undetectable by 90% of players. What is rapid firing? Simply put it is when you fire before your crosshair is closed (visual aid) but what it actually is, is shooting before the accuracy has recovered. Up to 50m on players and around 60-70 depending on how thicc the vehicle is and where you are aiming at (preferably the middle on a vegas for example). As mentioned before, use the crosshair as a visual aid. Shooting somewhere before 50% closure is the sweet spot but it takes practice. Also keep in mind that due to APBs bloom you will just randomly miss, although the hitrate can be at like 80-90% depending on how good you play. 2. Using this rapid firing tech you can decrease your TTK on cars significantly over the course of shooting an entire mag. Especially pioneers get dunked on by this. Therefore, if you know a car will pass you, stand close and not far away. The only time the increased hard damage becomes relevant is when you have already shot a car several times and it's heading towards render distance. Those last few shots of bonus damage should preferably be used as finishers and not be the main source of your vehicle damage. 3. Using rapid fire against players is also why you want the PR2. The DMR is one of the few long range weapons that doesn't have the forced "fix" for reverse quickswitch. Although you would preferably swap weapons when in CQC, if you got no choice you can play the DMR as a budget pre "fix" OBIR by hammering 1 or 2 shots into someone with rapid fire and then pistol swap. That's my 2 cents on this as someone who actually played all DMRs regularly for years.

The reason for this is that the old engine is incapable of utilizing modern PC hardware (among other things). Besides the engine itself, game development has significantly improved over the last decade (keep in mind APB is over a decade old at this point). Comparing APBs performance to such a modern title is not only unfair and pointless, but also very ignorant. If you want to criticize LO there is plenty, but at least do your research. @OP I work in development (not in gaming, but I studied game development in university) and even minor projects (miniscule compared to making a full fledged game) take a lot of resources. The first time around APB had millions to go with. I'll refrain from using the 100 mil figure because it's not accurate. Not even close to that amount went into development alone (look it up). It is however reasonable to assume that it had way more resources than LO could ever muster. Now keep in mind this was over 10 years ago. The cost for making APB from scratch would at a minimum be the same but (based on my experience so take with a grain of salt) most likely even more today. It is far more reasonable for LO to try and recycle so to say. Not to mention that this post is exceptionally greedy and clearly made from frustration (which is justifiable). The game almost got shut down twice, two new companies picked it up. This is the best it's going to get. Does APB deserve a from scratch approach? Perhaps, but given the history of the game we should all be thankful that where we are is where we are. The time for dreams and wishful thinking is over, be more realistic please. You will only torture yourself by doing that. At this point you just wait and see what the result is.

The pandemic is essentially irrelevant to this game. Even if you lock up everyone at home, new people (at least an amount that isn't negligible in the big picture) won't just magically discover a game that has no marketing whatsoever. Furthermore, other companies (not just videogame companies) have driven extensive marketing campaigns to attract people to and make them use their new found free time with their products (this is why you see other games explode). It's easy to say that people leave because APB is simply worse than before, but once you give it a proper thought you'll realize that it's far more complex (even without these troubled times) than that. I think of all the people that need a wake up call, you are ranking high on the list Dark. Over a very large timespan you have failed to realize (or failed to accept) that the Engine Upgrade is a make it or break it type of situation and that we have no more time to negotiate. It is not worth it to invest resources into a short term player increase (be real with me here, nothing added to LIVE (that is realistically and reasonably possible to code for the old engine) will be anything but a short term increase) even if we were to somehow magically double our player base. It's not going to last. The only resources flowing into the LIVE client should be to keep it running. This isn't easy for anyone passionate about the game but silence and patience will get you further than your routine "wake up call" type post. Accept reality and be patient.

I would be lying if I said that I wasn't very sceptical of this. You have set yourself a lot to achieve, but I wish you success. The one thing I dislike would be cross play, due to it most likely forcing the PC Version to match with console update cycles, which are usually slow. Having to wait several weeks for crucial bug fixes in a live service game is annoying to say the least. Not to mention that console players will get absolutely steamrolled. I cannot play the game in this state nor financially support it anymore, but for what its worth you have my blessings for success.

Post that statement in future patch notes/blogs to avoid confusion. Not everyone will see this reply.

Dont wanna sound too arrogant here but I certainly have better things to do than argue on this forum of all places. A couple years back I still bothered but those days are gone.

This doesnt bother me at all because i didnt even bother to dislike 90% of the nonsense on here anyway, and still don't.

This is nice and all but why remove the funny reaction too? I had a bunch of funny hahas that are now gone.

Give this guy some slack. First he lost his pioneer and now his PMG. That must be like losing your own kid, twice. Even a certified APB Virgin can feel that

I think any change to the staleness of the game is great even if I disagree with some of these. I don't play "meta" much anyway so apart from the carbine buff I don't really care that much. I hope to rejoin the game with the reworks of my non meta guns some day. I expect there to be tweaks and I hope it gives a breath of fresh air to people that still play.

pmg nerf ?? = ))

BE is always universally dislikes in all parts of the community (that i know of). Even SPCT doesn't like the switch to BE. It sucks but that is the way it is. Allthough BE being bad doesn't mean we have to accept garbage like this thread.

We NEED some weapon balance changes. The meta is record amounts of stale.

With a playerbase of two, it could be you

I use an equalizer which has a GUI that uses AutoIT. I get kicked for it which is a good thing for all of us and an inconvenience for me, but its manageable. I don't understand how your mouse would be "next to useless" without its software? It's not required and merely allows for some customisation most of the time. I very rarely even change anything in my own software and I'm someone with many profiles. I can just switch profiles on the go without having the program open. If closing the software doesn't help either then you might have to uninstall it. Sucks I guess.

I used that service for some months when I only had my laptop and while it was great, a pvp shooter would be the last thing I'd play on that. Not to mention I'd assume that most geforce now users would be casual players so I'd doubt that we would gain any worthwhile population.

When I play against new players I don't excessively push them and instead keep to the objective more. I do however not gimmick or cripple myself on purpose, as that often achieves the total opposite of ones intention by coming across as an insult.

You learn the game by playing against people on your skill level or someone more experienced teaching you. Contrary to popular belief, getting stomped by more skilled people won't teach you much of anything. This is also the reason my martial arts trainer didn't beat me to a pulp on day one. Does that mean we should hold each others hands? No.

That seems fair to me considering any braindead player can sit in their car and abuse the missing hitbox (when entering) and the car TP. A braindead thing to counter a braindead thing.

Imagine new players paying 10 bucks to get steamrolled by max ranks. Then again we can't have any cheaters if no one plays the gamer = )

These numbers are something to be looked at with a good pinch of salt. There are a lot of factors missing here. Without knowing what type of accounts get banned it seems unclear to how effective it really is. You could argue that the swap back to BE has encouraged more active development on cheats again and therefore many throwaways are getting banned. Even if we say BE is the better software, the problem we really have is that there are no other levels of security. The stuff that does get through stays undectected for ages. Other games use seperate mechanisms that work together, such as server side solutions. Even Systems like CSGOs Overwatch are helpful. No System is going to be perfect but we certainly need something else. I hate to formulate it like this, but playing within the top threats has been awful since BE. Sure, everyone faces cheaters but this is the level where the closets stay at. There are also several twitch clips of blatant triggerbot display and these people are still playing daily. Certainly it shouldn't be your job to go through twitch clips, but this shows the state we are in. Relying on player reports to catch cheaters after they bypass BE is not going to give great results. We need another system.

Putting my internet issues aside, the game is just really unrewarding to me right now. If I stack with anyone I go up against the same 24/7 gamers with a combined weapon pool of 4 (Obeya, JG, OBIR and PMG). Do that 15 times in a row and oh well time to get to bed for work. Even putting the increasing closetting issue aside, I can either play what is essentially the same mission 15 times in a row or I can play solo to get some variety atleast. Still, I then have to play solo which is even more unappealing. I'd rather keep watching streams for now.

I have this forbidden knowledge. What am I gonna do with it? Nothing good of course. i suck at themes

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Stepping outside its range sure is a valid tactic, but it it sounds better on paper than it is. Many spots are within the range of the PMG and a lot of areas are 40 meter or below inbetween walls/cover etc. Not to mention that cargaming is still possible simply because many spots reward sitting in a car. Allthough this isn't a PMG issue, it's still indirectly relevant. More often than not, getting outside of PMG range is impossible due to map layout and even if possible will put you at a downside, because you now have to play a specific way, while the PMG user is rewarded for simply existing. There is a reason that swapping to PMG is the best way to counter a PMG.