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Or you could just.. you know.. go through years of apb history (which they did), or check the current outrage against that gun, and balance it with feedback in mind. Almost everyone that complained about it adressed its accuracy and range. Even LO/Matt acknowledged that it has too much range. Now what do they do? Increase bursts to kill and give it a massive range buff, which absolutely no one asked for. Oh, and they've chosen such a huge buff that it actually has more range than the OBIR, too. Like, what? On the topic of public testing with such a small playerbase, that simply doesn't work if you don't reward the players in one way or another, and actually force them to play the new guns. If you give players a free choice of weapons, they'll make sure to meta loadout the hell out of everyone, completely negating the actual purpose of the district. Has happened in every single prototype district under G1 and LO now. //Edit: Oh, and as others have said - these RFP changes in particular don't need to be tested. You can already see it's a horrible change just by reading what they've done to it. You don't always need to test something to see the obvious issue.

Did they even patch the redhill skin into the game yet?

What I REALLY don't understand here is that the main outrage over this gun was its range, yet you guys said you're now listening to the community more, and then decide to further increase the range? Something doesn't add up.

So yeah, there's a video on discord that shows the new RFP at 75m. Really no need to actually test this thing. It's broken and should never, ever be introduced into the game with those stats.

Let's not forget that they actually gave it 10m more range than the OBIR.

I wanna see the post that said "increase bursts to kill" or "increase range so it has more than the OBIR" What the hell lead them to these decisions? We all know APB is their first shooter, but really, who in their right mind thinks these are okay changes, especially for a SECONDARY?

If I find the time, I definitely will. But even with the burst to kill increase, it makes absolutely no sense to give it that much range. That thing's supposed to be a close range gun. Long range is what the ACT, RSA or H-2 should be there for, not some burst cqc gun. Can we make those guns relevant first, please?

Pardon my french but, what the fuck? Those RFP changes make absolutely no sense at all. All it needed was less range and accuracy. Also, why try to experiment with the OCA when all it needs is a fire rate revert to the pre-buff stats?

"It's exactly like a star, but isn't!"

Mobile Cover - Some minor balance flaws with that. I absolutely despise people playing mini fortnite in apb. Resupply Box (Large) - Major balance flaws Resupply Box (Medium) Less, but still major

Never was

The idea was to give the N-TEC more range and zoom, and they had to give it a little downside to not make it pay to win. It was the first armas gun besides the Whisper PR1, and they were experimenting.

Matt already tried to market the game before 3.5, with the RIOT release. Kinda backfired as it was delayed a week shortly before its release. Think they understood that marketing should only happen when the game is in a healthy and good state. Speaking of streamers, summit does want to check out APB again when the upgrade is live, no need to pay him into that.

Well, the FAR is like an N-TEC but balanced, it's definitely a good gun. Just zero reason to use it when the N-TEC exists other than being unique. Out of those three I'd take the FAR. Scout is a solid choice, too.

They're fixing a bunch of stuff alongside the engine upgrade, so there's that. I expect that all the little things will be taken care of when the chunky thing is out of the way.

If anything it'll make the game less playable. How do people still not understand that you can't simply fix matchmaking with a playerbase that low?

0.5%? Man, this just shows how greedy GamersFirst was. Thanks for making it a little more fair.

Yay can't wait for some more tacticool stuff. ...

Am I the only one who thinks adding casual/normal clothing as free content would be more than welcome? It's been a looooooong time since we got something that isn't armas exclusive.

Flaws config aka I turned everything to low in advanced launcher and called it mine

Couple years ago, probably 2011 to 2015 or so, until people started discovering all the powerful metas like ntec, car gameplay or only driving pioneers/4x4s. While broken guns were a thing then too, the bigger playerbase and lesser known meta loadouts made people use basically every gun and vehicles in the game.

It seems like the "community manager" job in APB is a cursed thing. They shortly appear when they're new, try to interact with the community, then just disappear forever and only stick to posting patch announcements and events.

Variation in gameplay. I miss seeing different weapons and cars every mission.

These two are the oldest I could find. There were older ones but I deleted them at some point, and only kept unique ones. One is the perm 0 slot RFP from some event, and the other... the hell do I know.

But the removal of everything else like smoke or explosions is fine. I don't get LO sometimes.