LilyRain

I have asked my Fortune Teller about APB's nerf-train: ----------------------------------------------- We hopefully won't get to that point since changes are usually minor, but instead of 'Hey! This weapon is the current-best right now, let us give it a nerf', I'd personally like to see more of 'these weapons are severely underused and not as competitive, let us give them a raise'.

Low-Yields are also weaker against vehicles, but yes. Tweaking it further than just limiting the count to 2 is miles better indeed

Upcoming test-values were kept secret but I can still share my initial thoughts With reference to apbdb: Test District A What I do feel that justifies the ability to carry 3 half-bricks/8balls is that they BARELY offer any radius of explosion. A late-game fun-item for players to play with (or punish non-moving Campers). Values were not given for the new Low-Yields to be tested in Test Districts A & B. I can not speak for everyone, but since they would "requires a more accurate throw as we have reduced the size of the explosion", I would be personally happy with a hard radius nerf. Something like the arbitrary-values shown above those green-columns. If the nerf is not significant and still remains comparable to other grenades, I would be MUCH happier with the common suggestion of Limit Low-Yield carry amount to two. Test District B It was declared that new Low-Yields B will have the same radii as they do currently, plus an increased fuse timer of 1 second. What you have basically created here is Standard Frag-Grenades 2.0. They offer less damage but can be thrown much further... even much further than current low-yields because they get another extra second of flight-time. I can already see this being abused in some locations even with the damage-reduction. Unless the reduction in damage is sharp, Test District A could be the better deal.

"Textbook" doesn't include severely time-limited-rewards per season as OP is worried about. While the goal is to be the last squad alive, he can still progress through the RIOT-contact at his own pace. But he also stated that he doesn't want Battle Royale altogether, so he can also at a later date purchase things from ARMAS instead of playing the game-mode that he has no time for. I don't see why he is over-concerned.

They don't have to. Riot is its own thing, just like fightclub. Additionally, riot-rewards can later be purchased from ARMAS (They also shouldn't be upset about things that don't interest them nor affect them, especially on public forums). I find that hard to believe since you are here crying about something you don't fully understand (nor care about, I wonder why you are here). It was stated before that Riot is APB's own twist of battle royale. It never pretended not to be. Quoting from MattScott himself: 1 » "For those that don't enjoy Battle Royale style games, then this likely wont be for you". 2 » "This mode has undergone lots of changes during development and testing. Some of the territory control elements have been changed. We still want to introduce those mechanics, but it's more important to launch with something simple and fun before we add anything else. Our hope is that each season we can change one central gameplay element to keep the mode fresh". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I highly encourage you to keep up with what is being said and wait for the public playtest before speaking further incorrect nonsense.

RIOT's season pass works differently than what other BR-games made us get accustomed to. Simply because we will be levelling up contacts, not drive X amount of meters in a vehicle or do this much damage with an assault rifle like Ring of Elysium would make you do. With reference to https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2019/4/19/riot-rundown: 1 » "We also wanted a Season system that encourages players to play within the time-frame, gaining unique benefits throughout the season, while also allowing new players who missed previous seasons to still gain the same rewards. " 2 » "Players who enter RIOT at any point in the future will start at the season one." 3 » "In order to allow us to have a single contact stretch multiple seasons in an interesting way, we are introducing Contact Prestige to the game. "Prestiging" a contact costs APB$ and/or Joker Tickets. Doing so will increment their Season, resetting their standing and showing the next series of rewards." ----------------------------------------- With these things said, you have all the time in the world. Nothing to worry about here since you would progress through seasons at your own pace.

You sound like someone who wanted a nickname but it was already taken. I am sorry, but that option should NEVER be considered for obvious reasons.

@MattScott RIOT sounds very interesting. It contains elements other BR games don't have such as speeding up zone-closure, bribing the escape-vehicle, etc. Excellent work. Protect your ideas before another BR-game steals them Is it safe to say that ARG-participants already earned 1 out of the 15 RIOT tokens for the 1st pass, or do you plan for the ARG-token to have its own purpose later?

Gottem.

Yes, there are cheaters who would dump cheating for good, but one fact remains certain: Those who got themselves a VAC-ban have been forever slapped (unless they ditch their steam-profiles). This sure serves as a reminder that these kittens once cheated and may revert to their older-selves at any instant..

Currently, routing to Australia is messed up. Your packets will travel all over Asia.. Using a reliable VPN can drop your latency back to the 200s.

Nu, but since RIOT is going on public test, the engine upgrade should not be too far off from here

The wait is now over

Marriage with @AsgerLund when?

I used not only one, but two E-mails in the Newsletter and neither of them got the hat. This tells that our existence/contribution doesn't matter. Clearly they selected Celebrities and a few more then dumped the rest.

Cats are cleaner than dogs.

FireBomb hands down, but that's my preference.

The issue is that players try to farm as many kills as they can with the egg-launcher for bragging-rights. Modifying the event in such a way that it ends as soon as the top player reaches 15 kills (or any other set-amount) should massively prevent the time-waste.

The EULA is crystal-clear. It includes BOTH executables and non-executables.

The EULA means everything. The executable code, database and files. They are all included. Terms of Service are often made comprehensive to protect a product/service. You can't outsmart it.