LilyRain

Districts in APB were 50v50 when I started playing it. At one point in time the district cap got lowered to 40v40 due to server performance: https://apbreloaded.blogspot.com/2015/02/new-apb-servers.html If servers can benefit from the x64 environment then that is a solid yes as that will help with the benchmarks that happened years ago against district population. If not, x64 with Cross-District matchmaking will allow the matchmaker to consider those in a ready-state across other districts, it will then move them all to an appropriate district. I never came across in-depth details of how that will happen (will there be loading screens? will players phase inside civilian traffic? no clue atm).

Correct. There are things that don't really need the x64 Engine Environment. The exception being matchmaking because of the way LO wishes to address it, Phasing (cross-district matchmaking). The only quick-alternative to waiting for the x64 engine is for LO to increase district caps, because 40v40 is quite low for matchmaking to shine. A slower alternative would be to either revise scoring or skew how threat changes, because anyone who can press F at an objective can be Gold. But yes, things like balancing should happen NOW. Even if LO delays its advertising of the x64 Engine, players and Game Bloggers WILL BRING the World's attention back to this game. They will re-try it, see that it indeed performs better, RTX-Cards don't crash, etc but the game is still the same unbalanced mess.... then they will leave. Plus, weapons are hit-scan. There are no physics involved with bullet travel time because that doesn't exist in APB. Also, the efforts later will naturally revolve around finding bugs in the x64 environment rather than balance the game. If balancing gets delayed, that would be the ultimate mistake.

Precisely. Longer TTKs will simply amplify ALL of APB existing problems. Anyone who advocates for longer TTKs doesn't have a single clue to what they are talking about.

Jesus was born in Summer.

But we do. Grenades in APB come with some smoke by default since that is a natural aftermath of the explosion. The exception being half-brick, 8balls and snowballs which aren't really grenades.

Imagine an option in Counter Strike that lets players switch off Smoke Grenades and Flash Bangs. Fairness will only exist if smoke is either visible or doesn't exist for EVERYONE.

Not this forum. Literally the first rule. One does not simply socialize by saying whatever comes to mind.

OCA Players are everywhere.

The Sun doesn't know shadows exist.

Couldn't even revert & tweak RFP, Shaking My FireBomb.

Egg salad is still chicken salad.

Horses would be the first-step towards bikes

“Nobody has the power to take two steps together, you can make only one step at a time.” ― Osho One week at a time LO. Yes, you can Your objective for next week: Revert RFP, then replace RFP-Fang's Improved Rifling 3 with Improved Rifling 1.

#Frosi4Dev

It is definitely something to look forward to because according to "APB 2022 Roadmap": 1- x64 client would allow more resources to be used, meaning potential for better performance (unless someone is still playing on an ancient x32 hardware). 2- There are a lot of people who got shafted from having 10th series as well as RTX GPUs. They either play on molten-icecream graphics or their client would crash much more quickly. potentially, more people would be able to play by then. The more, the merrier. 3- Backporting the Cooked Package System will allow for faster loading times. A big annoyance with APB is how long it takes to start the game. Opening UI elements such as inventory and lockers would also be faster. 4- Backporting the Newer Network Code, which allows for cross world play, effectively merging NA and EU. I look forward to this the most. Players would be able to play with friends overseas without having to start over on a new character. Some people like raising new characters, many do not. 5- While having new vegetation may or may not happen, Directx11 will be backported and hopefully Directx12. I just hope they don't destroy lighting because many games that upgraded from Dx9 to Dx11 were in need of revising Lighting sources. Many just shipping the games looking borked. LO might not but it may require some time to revise. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- My only concern is that Weapon Balance, Missions or enhancing core-gameplay to make it appeal more to non-veterans is not even anywhere on the Roadmap. New Blood will come to try the game and then leave after realizing that it is a chess-game with water-guns that won't make sense without actually knowing numbers that aren't even presented in-game. Whether APB goes to 1.3 or to 2.x yields the same outcome in this regard. The improvements are nice but a "game" can't just delay improvements to core-gameplay and expect things to go nicely because after the update is done, it would take LO months to improve the game, while it takes a New Player a singular day to try the game, uninstall and never look at it ever again.

Any chance we will get to see Beacon rotated in instead of Baylan?

Thanks for sharing. Your thread is a meme.

You just came back at yourself. You made a thread that literally talks to your past-self, which clearly didn't change. State your in-game nickname & server. I'll find you soon enough.

Been there, done that. The game is literally over a decade old.

I'd like to believe you but this very thread-complaint says that the truth was otherwise.

It is not that simple. Do you know of a way other than actually going to their homes and sending them to jail? Please give LO the golden-recommendation that nobody before you knew was possible.

I figured as much. You spoke as if you understood the weapon-series earlier. I guess it is time for you to actually learn how it practically works in-game. Work hard, good luck

Yeah well, the problem isn't with me. It is with you. You simply lack basic understanding. Like, how will you exactly change their mindset? You said it yourself: "but a dethreaters doesnt want anything else than a scummy win because of being scared or lacking what it takes to be a real gold yet wanting to be on that level". Someone who doesn't want to improve themselves & instead simply resorts to cheating, WHICH IS AGAINST THE RULES, is not worth considering.

Ironic questions coming from one of the people who wanted LTL nerfed, literally the weakest weapons in the game. It has been a while, I hope you have improved since then.