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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.

About 2FA - we've had 2FA for forum accounts for quite a while now, and you guys have now introduced 2FA for the game accounts. I tried to log into my forum account on my phone today, and had to enter two different 2FA codes from both accounts, and only then could I log in. It's a little confusing - especially considering it doesn't specify which code you should enter, so you gamble between two codes, and only one works per "stage", and in the next 2FA code request, you do the same thing again.

They do, but they also have a massive disadvantage. Playing with a high ping won't make you a better player. If anything, it makes you worse.

We never had that. That's a fan made concept. I don't think we should get one either.

Bringing back SPCT is definitely a good and much needed choice, considering the public version doesn't really work out in the small playerbase, so we need some selected people that will actually test things. Solid choices for the team by the way!

Of course it got moved. Huge projects like this deserve to be in social to be honest.