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most people have no idea what goes into making an anticheat or cheats, they are extremely expensive and statistic based anticheats aren't effective for most cases. LO cannot afford a decked out industry standard anticheat, i'm sorry to break that news to people who did not guess it. secondarily to that, investors aren't likely going to fund it for them because there is no guarantee people would return and provide a return on investment. this game is also very dated making it prone to many security vulnerabilities because it is, by it's age, very easy to reverse engineer. this is unfortunate but it is true. I think LO is running razor thin margins and is stretched pretty thin just from casual observations. if it were me, i'd personally focus on modernizing the entire game engine wise, do a balancing repass, throw on some minor content additions, go back and see demanded suggestions such as returning ladders/threat etc and try to do what they can. seek investor support and relaunch the game with a better anticheat. all of this over the course of about two years provided that timeframe is even enough to modernize the engine. but what do i know, i'm kinda tarded.

you're still around too? hello friend

@CookiePuss @Aserii i still miss and love you guys goodbye old friends, enjoy the last of my unreleased footage from the last time i played ~five years ago shoutouts to all the people i wasn't able to stay in touch with, RAOV, 8bit boys from EU (mostly karyl, blaze, remedy, and akha), obv my Africa City/MBAH/BL boys, tuav/seiser/dopykiller/neze/provocate/agust/taj/jso/crisis/mordecai/kevvv/macy/boozy/preslei/motorola/balrog/selfish/C I L L/jimmy/jk0h. i love and miss all u boys, especially u zelly and #teamkorea gang even back in the g10 and ladder days. i miss you nocturnal/kellyq/epicgoat even though you guys routinely removed me while blatantly cheating from the top KD positions on NA E. you still gave me fond memories. thank u LO for trying to save a beloved game and screw OG G1 for neglecting it. @Hordeau never forget

coming back to the forums after like 8 years and seeing this thread is hilarious what world do we live in

no you didn't. a cheat/macro that does that would LITERALLY make the game unplayable outside of the situation where he is barely peeking. more than likely you went into that match with an implicit bias the guy was cheating and then you used situations like that to confirm your belief and forgot about all the other times it didn't happen. arguably the biggest problems with this game has been the removal of the appropriate threat system so players genuinely had a gauge of how good someone was (yes, g7+ players fighting g1-5's is the equivalent of a gold fighting a bronze in skill difference.) how unclear the third person camera can make certain engagements, the poor servers g1 threw up about 3 or 4 months into their ownership of the game that have caused hitreg issues ever since

Why would you make this?

I'm still waiting. I miss some of you. I hate the OP.

You seem to misunderstand something. Most good players, i'd even argue and say "good" players play like that because it is the most optimal way to play. They aren't tryharding, it's just the natural way to play the game. After a point playing like that is simply habit. APB has devolved into this: Stomping morons who can barely operate a mouse 95% of the time, and getting good opp the other 5% of the time.

I'll be eagerly watching and hopefully returning because of this. Thanks. @CookiePuss Missed you bud.

how are you even bronze my 60+ year old dad was gold after a week of playing by himself when this game was 3x its size and you encountered better players far more you only improve if you get your shit pushed in, and you only improve if you want to

ITT: preteen with an overabundance of free time complains loudly on public forum to the surprise of literally everyone, apparently.

It's actually pretty obvious how to handle this, stop seeking attention OP and reporting bottom of the barrel players, as you used to do. Does nothing but waste support staffs time.

why 255? why not 195 for top tier mods? why not 80 for certain vehicles? lol

no they don't. if you're gonna be a shitty pers, or you have a poor attitude, or you rage you will get streamsniped. there are some people who will do this off stream frequently, and leaving people that aren't in the know wondering why they get streamsniped. summit was one of those people who would shittalk people who beat him, off stream, in whisper constantly. using my personal experience here, at least from the last two years, every time i streamed as a "known" player (prime "streamsniping target", especially with my ego), i've been streamsniped one time. everything else i agree, this streamer was a shitty pers, got what he deserved. company he kept was moronic at best too.

the apb community is so clueless it literally blows my mind what Zombiebiscuit posted: Step 1. Go to bronze District Step 2. Destroy Greens and Bronzes Step 3. Hit silver Step 4. Go to Silver district Step 5. Get destroyed and whine Step 6. Go back to Bronze district Step 7. Destroy Greens and Bronzes again Step 8. Get opp better than you Step 9. Complain then rage quit was what the guy was doing guy deserved it, new players actually get the help they need when they arent assholes. refer to @Asu @claude youre about 4 years out of meta buddy

itt: idiot who has played the game for 10 years and is barely gold accuses someone of moderate skill level of cheating other people talk about previous idiot who got a staff position because of idiots above him

more likely they have different development teams working on different things

i agree just call it All Points Bulletin

this thread is dumb

FTFY also you aren't aware the disadvantages of a macro, who is max ROFIng you? a silver? secondly how you dying to it? you a speshul?

No. It was immediately obvious it was going to be a no. This community harbored extreme negativity towards battle royale, and thats what RIOT is, a slightly changed battle royale. On top of that, it doesn't fit in the game. Once we get down into the grit, it showcases everything wrong with the game, like the spawn system. I had actually wrote a five paragraph reply as to why RIOT is a heaping pile of garbage, and just changed it to this. I like LO, but I don't understand why this decision was made at all.

It's uh, pretty obvious that players maintaining a monthly subscription will be your ideal majority income. I, at least, think it should be, and in order to make it so the benefits should be appropriate and not as they are currently... The current benefits of premium: You can get an insane advantage with orange mods Can actually customize your character properly XP + Money boost. Heres what i propose: Increase the symbol limitations for non-premium players a bit, to at least 10 so they can properly dip their feet in the kiddie pool here. Add a customization limit to the music studio (this will be vastly unpopular, but hey, most of the wealth in this game is controlled by theme makers, who aren't premium, who also spend most of their time ingame, making themes.) Make the current premium CD on orange mods base, and do not give premium an advantage in this regard Increase base joker ticket gain a fair bit overall, add 25% more for premium players. - Go back to adding community material to the joker store, and guess what, you can now only get the community made material if you're premium. Extended marketplace listing times for premium players A selection of three skins that rotate monthly that premium players are free to use on their weaponry. (They don't get it permanently, just random skins each month) Suggestions requiring a lot more work: Premium players getting priority district entry (if a queue system is introduced) Automated relisting of duplicated item upon sale (Would require UI/Marketplace rework) As for making the current benefits more valuable: Decrease amount of $ required to purchase weaponry across the board, as it's pretty much impossible to maintain multiple 3 slot weaponry as a non premium. Instead, make it possible, and make the ammo more expensive.

ok, please leave faster and without a thread next time

shotgun spread does not work the same anymore. you actually dont have a single remote clue as to what you're talking about. and i am done posting here