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Don't get me wrong, this is a nice way to promote things, especially APBs customization where you can say "this car was made in the in-game editor", but out of all the cars with extensive kits to promote the game with, they hand out calabrias with a simple design, a car that everyone replaces as fast as possible, which offers no customization outside of wheels and police lightbars. Are they afraid a preset bishada/jericho/vegas would be overpowered or would reduce kit sales? The previous promotion that included a car was from Computerbild Spiele, a german magazine - G1 went all out with this one and gave players a cisco with a back then unreleased kit and a unique design, which made the car special and people actually wanted it.

Wow, really? And I thought the Computerbild Spiele promotion that gave people a Charge Cisco was bad.

I love when people whine about LTL. It really makes people salty, but they fail to realize that under all that salt, all LTL weapons are not only weaker than lethal weapons, but you also have to go and arrest them. The only argueably overpowered thing regarding LTL is pig+perc, but that's rather the fault of the percs, and that's not an LTL grenade.

Doesn't the console version also miss the theme and music kiosks?

Oh man I still miss the old vaquero. It was so much fun to drive. Now it's a mikro.

Its like a submarine. You open a window and the problems begin.

Back then we didn't have as many guns as we had now, and people stuck to the FBW for close range (back then 5 shots to kill) and RSA/ACT for longer range when they had an OCA or a shotgun. When the first batch of weapons have been released (Whisper PR1, Scoped N-TEC PR1, ACT44 GM PR1), two of these were vastly superior to their free versions. He's got a point, but most people still used the FBW, RFP or SAS, so the ACT never really stood out with its paid variant.

nvm i mis-read

Yeah, I agree. I don't have a problem with grindy things like achievements. But during a festive period, this seems weirdly placed.

I mean yeah, it did get better, but there's still *that* kind of stuff.

I think rebalancing all vehicles would make this a lot less of an issue.

I find this incredibly funny considering they said they didn't want to repeat this "you have to log in almost every day during the event and play" mistake. Not to mention that some people have work and spend their free time elsewhere. Especially on christmas!

...how are they out of balance? You probably don't understand for whatever reason, maybe you've never tried it - but we had access to the snowballs and hohohopgl for years. Even with the little buff it got, it's not gamebreaking and you're actually at a disadvantage if you use one, even with the buff.

Seriously though, we could use it all these years prior to this year. A little buff to it doesn't suddenly make it a butcher OPGL that absolutely ruins missions.

You won't stay around for long enough to become a regular member if you continue behaving like this though, so why do you care?

Still isn't a reason to disallow players from equipping it.

Car gameplay works surprisingly well in the snowball districts, didn't think that it's super strong against vehicles. After all the snowballs are still impact grenades with a very very small blast radius, travel time, drop and windup. Don't think it'd make mission districts unbalanced.

That's not really a reason to remove it from other districts, seeing as you're still at a massive handicap if you use one.

Why do you think I'm trolling?

.... whaaaat? I've had so much fun using these in regular missions. Aw man.

Exactly this. Though explosives 3 could need a slight nerf. The range on it for heavy vehicles is absurd.

Yes

I want the ursus skin on all guns :( Always thought that owning a legendary should unlock its special skin for all weapons for as long as you own said legendary, and the legendary itself should take all skins.

Ah, yes. Cheating in APB is a tough topic, and that is very hard to fight, if not impossible. APB being as complex as it is, it is VERY hard to determine if someone is cheating or not, even with video evidence from the perspective of the alleged cheater. Sure, you can go all out and aimbot and wallhack your way through APB, but you could also just play with a radar that shows peoples positions, or a very soft aimbot, or macros. And that alone gives you a massive advantage over others, and if you know what you're doing, nobody will ever know because it's easily stamped off with something like "teammate called you out", "radar tower mod on a car", "im patrolling all spawns" and many others. There are tons of ways to locate an enemy, and all these can be used as excuses for a radar/wallhack. Same goes to macros - yeah, one can be skilled and tap weapons at their perfect fire rate, but there's also people that can't and just install a macro to do the same thing. There are so many ways to gain advantage over other players, even besides actual cheats. Let it be a permanent crosshair (which to be honest, should be an ingame option) or manually editing your game files to get the lowest graphics possible to allow easier spotting, or removing animations from the game which causes characters to T-Pose, and they won't properly crouch anymore, or their T-Posing arm will stick out of cover and whatnot. It's also a tough one to stop any of these, considering how old APB is, and how open its files are compared to modern games, it's relatively easy to manipulate the game. I don't think any anti cheat software can really help our situation unless the game gets revamped and packed up into encrypted files like modern games.

If you need help with a problem, you might want to tell us what exactly your problem is. If it's about it being weak, it's because they nerfed it while it absolutely didn't need a nerf.