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I REQUIRE MORE MACHO MAN GIFS. I'll be there, will the title be account wide or just character bound?

Looking good, shadows and that pop-in need to be looked at though. I'm excited for this. So, if SPCT are allowed to answer questions I'd like to ask one: How is the resolution of decals and symbols on cars and clothes? Currently a curve results in spme pretty gnarly pixellation.

Yeah, I'm not arguing that this shit's busted. Your team being eliminated really screws you over though. I got eliminated, made 70 standing. Teammate hid until the end, got 1k. That's no way to do this event, it encourages hiding. There is no reason to go for the truck, just hide.

I wonder if intentionally letting everyone survive to the end would be against the ToS. Your team being eliminated severely reduces the standing you get, which is my main issue with RIOT (besides the whole population thing)

We shouldn't have to do this, but I agree that it's something we need to do. I'd be down, how we going to schedule this? Create a Discord group? One issue, is it against the ToS to do this? I think assembling a group to play would be fine but farming the contact might not fly.

Yeah, with RIOT mode the roads pretty much are the boundaries for the zones, and I think that's perfectly fine. I don't know about a faction split, I'd say keep groups together but open matchmaking (faction doesn't matter in open matchmaking) I think the rounds have to end for progression purposes. I'm not sure on that, as getting eliminated from RIOT still gives you some progression. Not a lot, elimination severely reduces your standing reward.

I say take RIOT down and rework it. I'm personally in favor of making it a Planetside 2 style gamemode, I gave my thoughts as to how it would work here: I think APB would benefit from a change like this, but I'm not a dev. I have no clue if the things I'm suggesting is possible.

I don't understand how people don't realize that an artist, map designer, or even the person coding the game mode would be of very little help on the engine upgrade. Two different areas.

I personally think RIOT mode should have been a PlanetSide 2 styled mode. A constant fight for control of the district, with the ability to spawn at any held areas in the district. This is kind of how it's looking in my mind. Red Area = Team One Green Area = Team Two Blue Area = Team Three Yellow H = Home Base Pink 1 = 1 point for holding that zone Holding three points would win the match. Each zone you take must be connected to your held areas, so I couldn't just go take Red Team's point. You'd have to work towards it. The middle area is up for grabs at the start of the round. You can't take someone's home base, so if you lose all your areas you aren't out of the fight just yet. Obviously, each team's starting territory can and should be tweaked, as I know this isn't a perfectly balanced map. To hold the zones I'm thinking a flag like the refer-a-friend one, except it's dropped into a circle like a hold the item in your base style mission. Dropping your flag into an enemy's area would be like a take and hold mission, from enemy held, to neutral, to team held. This looks like a PlanetSide 2 Ripoff (because it kind of is). A giant 3 man team battle sounds like a hell of a good time to me.

That's true. APB is their main moneymaker as of now, because Fallen Earth is dead and Unsung Story hasn't actually come out yet. If APB dies they might be able to survive until Unsung Story is complete. I think employee morale dropping right now because of the community's reactions. In a funny way, it's kind of a self-fufilling prophecy. The game will fail because everyone thinks it will fail, and the employees see that. That's why I say we have to hold out hope that LO figures it out.

I'm not 100 percent panicked, but the outlook is not good at this point. The survival of the company depends on the survival of APB, so I think that means they'll try their hardest, even if it's not very good right now. If worst comes to worst and the game starts dying hopefully someone with the time and resources sees APB's potential and snaps it up, but I don't see death happening anytime soon. Gotta keep hope, right?

Aw hell yeah, hopefully that brings back some population, and also RIOT population.

You forgot one major point, at least for NA: there isn't enough people interested to even start a round. It only happens at certain times of the day and night, times that I'm not around. It's basically impossible for me to get the skin, and soon it'll be impossible for everyone on NA to get it just because no one will be playing it. I want to try for the skin, but it's just too dead. I mean, look at the current population of the RIOT district here(Unknown is RIOT districts.) I admit, it's midday on a Monday for NA players, but this is some of the only time I've got to play. I'm screwed until I hit a hot time, and even then there's about 4 rounds and it dies again.

Last night there was a match where a zone got ignored. It was surrounded by areas that were about to turn red. Everyone got the hell out of Dodge and no one grabbed it. We were all in the final zone but because an area across the map wasn't taken the round never progressed. Eventually the match ended after everyone ran out of cash and lives, but not after 15 minutes of fighting.

choose which district you want and connect, don't use the advanced tab

Se we can't connect to districts using the Advanced tab to select a certain server, but we can connect by just choosing what district we want.

Well, as they say shit happens. Better to delay it than release broken things.

Bricks are considered weapons in San Paro and cannot be purchased at the local Home Depot. Instead, they are smuggled in, resulting in the high price tag of 60k per brick.

IIRC there are a few 195 mods you can't buy from the JT store. Don't know if that was intentional or Reloaded just forgot, which is possible.

The 'Kitteh' is a gun that was awarded to the winner of a contest. It's a one of a kind gun and no one else can get it.

All in all, I had a good time. It's a fun gamemode with friends, and I like the final stage. It means you actually have to go for the RIOT devices. I still had some enemies respawn right next to me, but honestly I don't know if that can be helped. Possibly make a RIOT only character mod that acts like a mobile spawn point? You couldn't respawn if your teammate was too close to an enemy. In that case you would respawn normally. Another idea I had was for a "down" system. Dealing lethal damage to an enemy sets them in the arrested or stunned mode. They could then be helped up by a teammate, killed by an enemy, or have their timer run out and die. I did find a bug. It seems at the borders of some areas you get a little contaminated patch. I have a video uploaded, here's the link. It's not game-breaking or anything, just something I found odd.

Good to know, I'll probably be joining for both of them. I hope the spawn system has been messed with, possibly turning teammates into mobile spawn points?

No one knows what YooD means. Most just sort of nod their heads yes.

we done for now

1.How does RIOT compare to other APB game modes? It's a lot quicker of a gamemode. If you die early you're sort of just sitting on your hands without much to do. 2.Would you encourage your friends to play RIOT? I would, it's a pretty good mode. The guns are pretty easy to find. 3.How would you explain RIOT to someone who has never seen it? It's a battle royale styled mode where the players choose how the area collapses. 4.What ONE THING would you change about RIOT if you could? I think the color coding could use some work. For example, revives are orange, primary is a light blue, and so on. Also possibly make the player go into an arrested state to symbolize "down". They'd be "revived" when a teammate frees them, but if the timer runs out the person dies. 5.What is your favorite aspect of RIOT? I like the weapons system. Being able to buy my own loadout is nice, I can choose what I'm good with. 6.What about RIOT do you like the least? I don't like the spawn system. I know you guys said it'll be reworked, but maybe let us choose what teammate to spawn on. All in all, it's a fun gamemode. Nice work on it guys.