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  2. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Cr0 said:

    I promise you, people are not going to start using the DMR-AV noticably more just because the dog ear was nerfed.

    ISSR-B did have a tad too much hard damage, yes, but the reason people don't use DMR-AV is more because of how impractical it is (along with the other reasons I mentioned) than how good the ISSR-B is. DMR needs a buff (not in terms of damage though).

     

     

    Yup, it's almost like it's intended that AV weapons are incredibly good at taking out vehicles but rather meh against people on foot.

    ISSR-B was very good in both classes, so one had to go - the one that didn't make sense.

  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, Cr0 said:

    It shouldn't be able to substitute dedicated AV weapons, sure, so a hard damage nerf was in place, but such a complete hard damage nerf takes away a tad too much from the selling point and fun of the weapon which is its versatility.
    The actual DMR AV snipers are too situational, seeing how the changes in mission stage types changes back and forth so much and so quickly, so that taking the time to equip a DMR AV for instance is too often not worth it, seeing as you have to change back to a normal weapon again, which doubles the time you have to spend with weapon swapping just to use it in one specific situation. Lowering the equip time by about half for DMR AV (for instance) is needed, as well as making it much more portable.

     

    That's the point, the ISSR-B gave us little to no reason to use the DMR-AV.

  8. Posted

    38 minutes ago, notMateo said:

    Sorry man, but I'm calling fat bullshoot on this. CA3 is overwhelmingly popular, and if that's not indicative of "dominant strategy" I don't know what the hell is. If it were "fine", it wouldn't be the only really meta green mod. That's not fine, at all; having exactly one useful option is not fine for game balance.

     

    There's two "meta" mods, one being CA3 and the other CA2.

     

    The other mods aren't bad, just overshadowed by CA. The deployable changes were intended to help here.

  11. Posted

    10 hours ago, NotZombieBiscuit said:

    I want a new ram bar for my pioneer. A really big one. One that goes above the hood too so it can catch dead bodies I run in to.

     

    We already have one of those.

     

    Well, two actually.

  13. Posted

    28 minutes ago, PingOVER9000 said:

     

    What I have in mind is to add something similar of the grenades, or better adding the same mechanic for damaging depending from radius players or vehicles.

     

    Their damage is due of how much you are far from center of where the grenade explode.

     

    I dont see it too applicate with detonator+ Explosive 3, also predicting it if the opponent is decent, very rarely I survive at the edge of the presumed blast radious if I dont have a excellent cover, and especially  a lot of times you arent enough so fast to espace cause of the big blast radious.

     

     

    Cars have the same explosion drop off range as grenades, just further away.

  14. Posted · Edited by GhosT

    3 hours ago, PingOVER9000 said:

    Detonator need absoluty a little rework, then I have to add the damage radius is very high and oneshot you also being at the edge of the explosion radius.

     

    The things you said aren't fault of the detonator.

    The only change remote detonator needs is a cooldown so you can't spam it as much.

     

    Now Explosives 3 however, that is a little problematic seeing how the effect of the explosion ends way sooner than the damage radius.

     

    //Edit: Add a reverse gear to the Moirai, then it might see some use.

  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, Mikiy said:

    Those car changes... the 4x4 vegas used to be the goto car cause it has great handling, can do nice jumps, doesn't get stuck easily due to 4x4 and has better acceleration then the non 4x4 vegas, but slower max speed. Now after those changes theres max speed AND more hp speaking in advantage of the non 4x4 vegas, considering the 4slot 4x4 was the harder to get car (aside of the refer a friend program ages ago) that seems kinda like a weird change. Funny how the coywolf got a cargo upgrade but no nerf to its running away speed with a vip inside yet.

     

    Blowtorch changes.. i really see how the blowtorch needed a damage nerf.. it was such an effective weapon and so hard to dodge by people that forgot where their WASD keys were.

     

    ISSR-b vs DMR-AV any reason left to use a dogear after those changes?

     

    4x4 vegas has insane acceleration, can ram through anything, has an airplane mode, can tank rockets/concs, and just about had max speed.

    There was literally no reason to use the regular vegas. Now with the regular vegas having more HP, it has a place again, and it desperately needs that - unless you're moving in a straight line alread, you're a slow target that's easily killed. It doesn't matter how hard it is to get one. Let's just say that leveling up your contacts to unlock the 4 slot vegas takes longer than grinding out the JT for the 4x4, mind you.

     

    Blowtorch changes.. did you read the patch notes? It's purely hard damage, so it doesn't out-repair every single gun.

    It's still the exact same as before as a "weapon", nothing was changed with soft damage.

     

    ISSR-b vs DMR-AV, of course it still has its use - it's incredibly good at killing people, unlike the DMR.

    You can't have a gun that dominates AV and players at the same time.

  17. Posted · Edited by GhosT

    1 hour ago, N66 said:
    • High Burn Fuel will now reduce Vehicle HP by 15%, in addition to its current effect. - Overkill

     

     

    Weapon Changes

    • Reduced Blowtorch healing rate by 46% - Overkill
    • Reduced AAEPD 'Volcano JC' max hard damage from 1227 -> 800 - Overkill for a weapon that already needed a slight buff.
    • Reduced ISSR-B hard damage from 72.9 -> 45 - Completely unnecessary, the gun is already surpassed by other snipers, it's role balance is that you can do hard damage with it
    • Reduced SWARM hard damage from 50.7 -> 40.95 - - Same as ISSR-B

     

    Car Changes

      • Vegas 4x4: 1,350 -> 1,150 (HBF 977) - There is no reason regular Vegas should have significantly higher HP

     

    These stand out in particular.

    How on earth are these arguments justified?

     

    All of the changes made, especially those above, were very much needed to improve game health.

     

     

    @Nitronik

    SWARM hard damage was enough to be able to melt vehicles with the new health values, while still being a good gun against people on foot, this rendered guns like the ALIG or DMR-AV pretty useless.

     

    Unnerfed SWARM vs the new vehicles isn't fun at all.

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  19. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Hexerin said:

    Are you sure about that? There's no mention about (Medium) in the notes.

    Yea, we didn't get to test that, but removing the (large) in the name and making it a medium item wouldn't make sense otherwise, especially with seeing how all the consumables were added to Joker Store, which previously sold the medium box.

  20. Posted

    6 hours ago, Kiida said:

    Remote det slipped through the cracks again. Needs a proper cooldown on par with the 4x4 Firebomb so it can't be spammed. 

    All I have to say. Otherwise great patch. 🙂

     

    5 hours ago, Hexerin said:

    So this confirms that we aren't changing the yellow consumables into proper mods then. That's a shame.

    What's the logic on reducing the hard damage at max ramp for the AAEPD? If anything, it should have its health damage reduced to move it away from anti-personnel.

    Why is Remote Detonator still not heavily nerfed (or better yet, removed from the game)?

     

    Really good update though, fucking hell. It's nice to see the game actually being developed again.

     

    Also, did LO miss the existence of Resupply (Medium) in the JT shop? Cause that's literally what they just changed Resupply (Large) into.

     

    This was primarily aimed at vehicle balance and deployable reworks, so remdet was left out for now.

     

    AAEPD was too strong with the new values, being able to kill two chunky vehicles without reloading.

     

    Resupply Box is one item now, no more large/medium.

     

     

    Really excited to see how the community will react and adapt to these changes, it's about time to make APB fun again.

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  25. Posted

    On 7/16/2020 at 12:11 AM, Hexerin said:

    You might have had a point, if it weren't for the simple fact that I haven't opened a Fresno from JMBs since I first obtained the car. Many years ago.

     

    If you just got that mail, it means you unboxed one roughly 365 days ago.

    You probably just deleted it again thinking "i already have one".

     

    Boom, you get a mail that it's about to run out.

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