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13 hours ago, sweetLemonade said:Maybe because the previous management (RP, from Revoemag to Tiggs era) has not listened to a single complaint that his game has had for 13 years now?
You can look at Youtube videos of this game in 2013 and now, it's the exact same game.
mmunity hosted events, no visual change, no map changes, no severe gameplay changes to better the balancing, no proper competitive & casual crowd separation...
0 incentive to grind in this game whatsoever. It's wasted time.
Completely false. All 3 eras of this game (RP, Tiggs & LO) have been plagued with no feedback taken from veteran community players.
I cannot convince you otherwise as you're clearly unable to comprehend that someone can be better than you
Such is life in games without a separate queue for the competitive & casual crowd.
I described the general situation in the game. I explained the essence of the failure. Explained why this game has such a bad reputation. Explained why the population is declining. I don't understand why you're explaining the obvious to me.
I don't strive for victories and I don't complain that someone is playing better.
My goal is to develop the project, improve the quality of the game, eliminate a bunch of bugs, and restore the population.
Evaluate the current situation:
The developers have spent months of work on creating inter-district segregation, anti-cheat, fuc.. escalation, and streamer mode.
Money and time have been spent, but nothing comes out.
All these new developments were brought to the table by "professianal" players. They did not affect the attractiveness of the project in any way, they added a new batch of bugs. In most cases, the stream of this game will be anti-advertising. No one is interested in looking at a blockhead in blurred textures.
Tell me, is it worth listening to professianal players after that?Anti-cheat has banned cheaters (silvers who think they are the smartest), but it has not eliminated the problem with a bad reputation. Because the new matchmaking continues to mix "professianals", and as you called them, casuals (who make up the majority of the gaming community). Inter-district matchmaking should aim to place players in different copies of districts, focusing on their skill level. Instead, the players got loading screensavers and the same unbalanced matches. I don't see a fix for the problem here, but rather the addition of new problems. One of them is escalation. It is beneficial only to "professianals". And it is a source of pharma. It breaks the structure of missions.
Everything that has been added to the game lately does not make it better, on the contrary, the game is getting worse. Visually, this can be assessed by looking at the "new car" and taking a ride on it. A schoolboy-level job making a car mod in GTA SA on Saturday evening. Another problem is that after adding new features, they don't try to bring them to mind for many months. -
8 hours ago, sweetLemonade said:Sounds to me as if you're having a severe network latency & system latency disadvantage and aren't able to keep up with better players
Yes, the tick rate is abhorrent and archaic by today's standards, but that's not the issue you have.
Wow, a PvP game has players which want to play the game at a competitive level! Such a shameful act!
This write-up of yours reinforces my idea of them not separating casual & competitive crowd early on to be a fatal mistake from the RTW & later RP team even further.
those things you've mentioned are the main or side culprit of the "bad reputation" this game gained.There is such a thing as common sense. There is a lack of common sense in many things in this game. If we describe the situation using the example of chess, the situation is approximately as follows:
- The developer made a chessboard.
-An ordinary player who wants to play this game places the pieces on the board and makes the first move with a pawn.
-"ProfessiAnal" players sweep all the pieces off the board, grab the board and hit the skull of an ordinary player.
The professionals won the game. The game is over. An ordinary player goes to the forum and writes about the problems of the game. Or he concludes that he was beaten by cheaters. installs cheats, log in to the game, and goes into a ban.
ProfessiAnals, in between battles on the boards, go to the forum and start laughing and accusing an ordinary player in comments that he does not know how to play, he has problems with the network, and so on.And another problem is that developers listen specifically to "professiAnals". Literally, all the innovations added to the game recently are focused on "professiAnals". Developers create an environment that is beneficial to professionals. That's why the game has been forgotten for many years. A normal player with a sense of common sense and at least some respect for others will not play this toxic piece of an incomprehensible substance.
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On 12/24/2025 at 11:49 PM, sweetLemonade said:
I sincerely don't understand these complaints every time someone writes them. They're borderline delusional & lack any concrete thought.Do you need specifics?
Specifics: The general point of view is that the average player dies from gun five shots.
The point of view of the average gambler: I was killed with a pistol using one shot.
The killer's point of view: I put five bullets in him.
Why do these two players describe the situation differently? Because this game is broken, rapid-fire pistol shooting breaks moving animations. The server does not provide information to the victim gradually, but in an instant. The health interface doesn't have time to work.
All the players at the top of the leaderboard are essentially bug users. They exploit all kinds of vulnerabilities in the game, turning the gameplay into the contents of a cesspool. But the administration ignores this, they have more important things to do. They're busy shoveling another pile under their feet. They don't have the resources. All their efforts to improve the game are destroyed by the players themselves.
A streamer mode has been added to the game. The developers spent time on this. To advertise and promote the game. Have you seen the streams of this game? It's just impossible to watch. This is anti-advertising!
That's why this game has such a bad reputation.
That's why the most popular reviews about this game contain complaints about cheaters.
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If the development team has such experienced people, then why have they ignored the gameplay issues for many years? Perhaps their opinion is not taken into account in any way? Or do 20,000 hours of gaming experience have no effect on competence?
A simple example of a complete misunderstanding of the game: A common problem is that the opponent takes the briefcase away at the last stage of the mission. The obvious solution to the problem is to limit the task execution area. The developers are introducing a speed limit for loaded cars. That is, the problem of one system is solved by changing another system. Bottom line - all cars become useless, the Vegas car rules the ball. The original problem has not been solved, a stable system has been de-stabilized. A serious problem affecting the outcome of the mission has remained relevant for many years and has not been solved in any way.
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17 hours ago, Victoria97 said:
You have to be crazy if you cannot objectively see that number of players are doubling down each year as the year passes.
When was New Horizon launched? 6th of august 2024. Check the data. 1,186 players online. Look how long that number lasted?
Ever since, the player base kept dropping, every few months for literally 100 players less.
If player base was 10 000 we would not notice 100 players less... but since entire player base was around 500 you definitely notice when 100 ppl suddenly vanish. Then another 100..and now we are at 200 players. Most of which are veterans who cant let go.
This legends patch is the last resort you have and last chance to bring players back.But then after its release, we need events, we need new content we need to see that devs are actually caring for the game. Give job to more devs. Hire more devs. You cannot function with 1 physical dev.
I admire this man how he even decided to stay in APB. I am grateful for it. But this leads nowhere.
It takes too long, to see any change. People are not as patient as they were.You are prolonging inevitable death of APB if there wont be some serious changes.
You cannot attract new player base with having certain glitched weapons being in usage 24/7.
I invite the dev to play few missions, stay in FC. Look at the bs.
Don't get me wrong, take the critique, embrace it, improve.
Lets start working together on bringing the new population. Lets start with changes. It is now or never.
If this Legendary patch gonna be postponed again after this year, next month you will have player base of 100 people.
When patch finally comes, you will introduce it to those 20 people left, who remained waiting only to see, get disappointed and finally delete the game.Change the meta usage of ca3, change meta weapons usage, give chances to newcomers. Dont make them start with literally 0$ with 0 unlocked decals, that they cant even start to explore customization which is the only ace in sleeve this game has, but nobody waits that long to unlock the basics.
I started to develop new chars, I play for 3 months with completely new char, not daily, when I get the time. I reached rank 90 and I have to say if I weren't a veteran and in love with this game, I would have deinstalled it already 500 times.
nsane to compete with broken MM, without any starting weapon without any slot, without even char slot opened. Without being able to buy and use ca3 before you are rank 40. Do you have any idea how long it takes to reach rank 40 with star gun 0 slot, no grenade (since its not unlocked), no money, with basic useless car??
You wonder why there are no new players? ARE you KIDDING ME?!?!?! Seriously??? Someone there sitting in Little orbit wondering why pop is dropping or why we never get new pop??
Do you guys or your employees ever created a char? Ever tried to max your char? Do you even play???
There needs to be some serious changes in the core! Forget engine upgrade!Start working on a easier process for newcomers and maybe someone will actually stick along longer than 1 hour of complete traumatic experience and torture, after which they proceed to alt f4, format the part of disk their APB was installed on, right after they chopped that disk out of their pc and set whole thing on fire; type of game experience!!
Wake up!!New content, new events, all fine with that, but make not the tutorial process easier, but way shorter and ffs give people at least startup of 10k apb $, 1 char mod, 1 wep mod!
Lets brainstorm this! If someone has something against this, fine, do tell, elaborate, lets adapt.
But one thing is certain! This cannot continue because the APB is seriously this time dying for real, even though people kept saying game is dying since 2015...but this time, just observe the statistics. Numbers don't lie!
rn is there!
Lets try to keep APB alive at least for few more years! Please! Lets start changing things!
Otherwise shut the whole thing down tomorrow already and be done with it!And stop tormenting us further, and stop tormenting this video game program any further. Pull the plug and rest it in peace! Maybe one day somewhere sometimes someone will create APB 2.
Another simplification of the gameplay will once again harm the game. The start-up capital and bonuses will not lead to anything good. This will not add interest to the gameplay. You're not interested in playing your old account, are you? That's why you created a new one. I agree with the fact that it's hard for beginners. It's not about a lack of resources. The point here is that all the game changes are directed at a bunch of jumping dummies with a machine gun, a rifle, and a fucking AP 45 pistol. I don't understand why we should interfere in the same fight between a chihuahua (bronze) and a bulldog (gold). It doesn't make sense. The lack of common sense has plagued this game for many years. The high dynamics of the gameplay is designed for a local server. Interdistrict matchmaking does not seek to organize players by skill level (then why is it needed at all?). The game doesn't work well on default graphics settings, and beginners don't give a shit about third-party applications that are completely unrelated to the developer company. APB is primarily attracted by the customization system, but its development has been completely ignored for 10 years. Matt Scott does not understand what he has in his hands at all. What the hell is a competitive shooter? APB is a competitive shooter to lick the minds of a bunch of bouncing dunces from the leaderboard! Chess will also make a great shooter, it's worth believing it.
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On 12/3/2025 at 9:52 PM, Ardita said:
We'll get a new AMA with another delayed timeline with more promises before that legend update gets out.
I hope that someone goes back here and prove me wrong soon (tm)
And so it will be. These developers don't have a goal to develop the project. This is evident from their actions. I can't imagine a beginner who might enjoy the game in its current form. And the gaming community cannot live without newcomers. Updating the Legend has no effect on the quality of the game. Just dust in the eyes. Copy, paste, tweak the settings, change the name - a typical content update of these "developers". The number of players will rise for a few weeks, and then fall back to the basement. The game is not capable of retaining players, it is not capable of providing a healthy competitive gameplay. The developers are not doing anything to improve the quality of the game. Well, who asked them to fix the bug with the car doors? Okay, they fixed the bug, but another one appeared. The character does not leave or get into the car if the door is half open. It is necessary to open the swing door as if it were the door of a limousine approaching the red carpet. Why not remove the cargo-carrying bug from the game? Just add a two-second delay before the sprint. Why was it necessary to slow down the speed of loaded cars? This did not improve the quality of the game. It just increased the number of Vegas cars on the road. Why did you add the "Autosprint" feature? It's not enough! Add the Auto-Aim feature It's awfully convenient! New players will enter the game in droves. I can name many more such holes. But who needs it? Matt Scott? Or Psydaka? Not funny.
Do you know why the population has declined so much? I'll explain. There are about 50 players with NTEC and AP 45. These players set the pace. You can find them on the Leaderboard that Matt kindly suggested (it's not clear why you need it). There are roughly 300 players who can't make 100,500 kills, but they want to be important. That's why they use all sorts of crap for which they were banned by a great new anti-cheat.
At this point in time, there are 50 Leaders left in the game, 50 twinkies, 50 idiots who continue to suffer for some reason, and 5 newcomers. -
On 11/22/2025 at 5:03 AM, cowhorseman said:So you failed to state how much g1c we will be getting. for all i know your slapping a single g1c in my pocket and saying "lol here you go"
This is provided for in the project development plan, but is not a priority. Unfortunately, the development team has to spend all their energy washing their pants.
(It is noticeable that even the regulars of this forum have lost all interest in it.)
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On 11/12/2025 at 6:38 AM, MageLO said:Hello everyone,
Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (11/12) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 8 to 10 hours.
- Disables the Halloween 2025 Event.
Thank you for your patience.
Tell us about the progress of work to improve the quality of the network. I have trouble interacting with other players. I don't understand when they start shooting at me.
The character's health decreases like this: ----_____
I have no problems with the network, latency is 60ms. There is no packet loss.
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On 23.10.2025 at 21:44, Ardita said:intensions are good - the actions are bad and/or catastrophic.
I agree with you. LO is constantly trying to jump above the ceiling and it spoils all their efforts. They clearly lack the ability to assess the situation, their capabilities, and time limits. I am sincerely grateful for the anti-cheat. It functions really well. But at what cost has this been achieved? And what it led to. I can't call it a good result.
Do you disagree with my opinion? Here are some examples for you:
1. the release of an unfinished car, ignoring the problem of light signals, poor quality of the 3D model, textures, and deranged characteristics. At the moment, the car is not of interest to players and developers. Why not refine the 3d model? Fix bad texturs? The players were just left with a piece of undercooked meat. It seems to be possible to eat, but somehow it doesn't chew well.
2. Inter-district matchmaking of players. They did what they promised. But have they made progress?. No. Are they doing anything to remedy the situation? Yes. They're just stomping around in an attempt to clear the pile under their feet.
3. The anti-cheat is developed based on previous solutions and experience working with them. Lack of strength and resources. Rush. The result is a blue screen, antivirus blocking, and loss of audience.
One scenario in all endeavors is to jump over your head, shit yourself in flight, and shovel a pile.
I'm grateful that I can play this game. But I am sure that further development of the project in the chosen development vector makes no sense and will eventually lead to a commercial collapse. -
I wonder if there are still people who can trust him?
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On 10/19/2025 at 10:47 AM, ColorBauss said:Shooting a gun faster than it's fire rate is impossible, even with cheats, as the server only allows the gun to be fired at its intended fire rate, no matter how much you send inputs to the server.
And yes, the gun can in fact fire 7 rounds a second without any cheats.Yes, you're right, it's impossible to shoot weapons faster than the game provides. BUT why do sometimes the first three shots from the damn AP 45 merge together, I get a freeze frame and then I just see the death of the character? Perhaps fine-tuning or configuring Flavs will help me. But I always speak on behalf of a random player and a potential client who decided to download this miracle from Steam. A random player will simply delete this miracle and will not look into it. I don't understand why this bad shooter was given an upgraded customization system for the once great APB game.
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Please tell me why three random crappy players are equal to three gold players from the same clan? What is the essence of your work with matchmaking if this nonsense has been going on for many years? After your last "painstaking work", I get completely unbalanced missions with a huge team imbalance. You've redone this damn matchmaking many times to no avail. It only causes problems every time. From what I've been observing for many years, I can draw a conclusion. That you don't see the ultimate goal and don't understand what exactly the goal is to improve something.
You have been ignoring for many years the problems caused by the game's performance and the AP45 pistol. Many players don't use graphics configurations and fine-tuning of the client, they don't give a shit about it. There are most such players. Why do you keep listening to assholes for whom it is of great importance that something like this "Accuracy At Ten Meters decreased from 34 to 33"? All the weapon changes for this patch are just stomping on the spot.I'll add to that:
The real reason for the complete failure of melee weapons such as the OCA or the JG shotgun is the current characteristics of secondary weapons.
Carrying a suitcase or bag quickly is something that really needs to be fixed many years ago.
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Please pay attention to optimizing the particles effects of shotgun.
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Some suggestions for matchmaking:
1. Matchmaking should strive to sort players into copies of districts based on the player's abilities.
2. Full settlement of a copy of the area should not be a priority.
3. Prohibit the initial entry of single players into the district if the number of players of any faction exceeds 35. This will give the units a chance to move between areas.
4. If the mission timer is less than two minutes, block the possibility of calling for backup (escalation) from another copy of the district.
5. There should be no bronze and gold players in the same mission.
The opponent selection system is based on the threat level of the player. But the threat level does not reflect the player's skill level at all. Picking up an opponent works very, VERY poorly.
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1 hour ago, MageLO said:This issue is related to the servers not having come online yet and should be resolved by the time the actual game is back online!
Thank you for promptly updating the information on the forum.
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You are not alone in your problem. You're just the only ones who are looking for a solution with such tenacity.
The administration should roll back the client version to stable and then resolve the issue.
I am surprised by the loyalty of the community to this company of fans of poles and bicycle wheels.-
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It was a revelation to me today. Crouch hold and auto sprint have been added to the control settings.
I never understood the people who used it and equated them with cheaters. For example, Crouch hold is executed lightning fast. The animation is too fast.
Auto sprint, makes it easier to move from side to side when shooting aimlessly. The opponent using this feature practically teleports from side to side. OSCAR, AP 45 hello.
Stop turning chess into tic-tac-toe! It spoils the game, makes it not interesting. -
3 hours ago, Cheshire63 said:Found a solution: Completely uninstall GFAC using uninst.exe (C/Program Files/GFAC) and then everything in the Temp folder (Appdata/Local/Temp). Then restart the computer and delete everything that didn't get removed the first time. Then disable your antivirus, including Windows Defender, and launch the game launcher. It should work.
Thank you. It helped.
I wonder why the anti-cheat update that causes launch problems is not commented on by the developers. -
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The anti-cheat update failed, the game does not allow you to go beyond the character selection menu. The problem with Kaspersky anti-virus has not been resolved. I still have to turn it off in order to update the game.
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Oh, I come across this a lot. My nickname is written in Cyrillic. This can be translated as I got into trouble, or I hit the target. That is, this phrase can be interpreted in different ways depending on the situation. Every game session, they write me the same type of jokes or ask me a question about where I got to, meaning something from behind.
Due to the fact that my nickname is written in Cyrillic, I often get into meaningless conflicts. The attitude within a random team of players is also not the best.
Never answer these fools, and don't prove anything to them. They are not interested in your point of view, they just want to assert themselves or your attention. I advise you to immediately add them to the blacklist and forget about them.
Why do you even care about the words of a person you didn't know existed 10 seconds ago? Why are you wasting your time on it by posting a post on the admin's forgotten forum? -
4 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:@MageLO My self and one other in district having trouble jumping, it jumps like if you walk and jump, the sprint speed is slower an jittery, if you walk you walk at a jogging pace, as you move at any speed the crosshair blinks, where as normal would disappear.
I have tried multiple characters, and launcher repair.
I play western Na Fin, with good frames and 7-20ms. so no lag seen on the meter.
Edit; This appears to be only in financial, characters work fine in wf.
They are aware of this problem, but they do not consider it a priority. Therefore, they do not provide any information on the forum. Soon they will be broadcasting online on Twitch at the same time as the cheaters' broadcasts. Matt Scott will answer Matt Scott's questions, but they won't discuss your question because they don't consider it a priority. They prioritize topics discussed in some kind of chat with a group of very important chickens (players). By popular demand (three important chickens and two bots), they consider disabling VIP missions or the number of rifle cartridges a priority. They do a very important job of recruiting players and fighting cheaters (they interrupt the game for months and ignore it). Thank you for your patience.
This is rofl.-
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5 hours ago, Victoria97 said:The problem will be the same, after new content is added and grinded within week or two we ll go back to stalled nothingness. Solution is that new content in shape of new cars clothes weapons are added regularly every 3-4 months with more often events. Even if the event is not big it would still give motivation to people to come around and go by check what is new.
The event can be simply 500 jts and maybe new title every 1st in every 3rd month. Anything really.
This way we practically got only 3 events per year, Halloween, Xmas and Easter. And that is about it.Popularity of the game has noticeably dropped not recently but ever since february when APB was down for almost 1 month and when they added cross districts MM.
Waiting half an hour for a mission just so you will get opposed against premade 4 golds, whilst your team mates are unfairly under capacity, makes you rq the mission and attempt to get 2nd mission which repeats itself and that ultimately makes you rq the game and simply move on to next game.
Cross districts MM is ultimate last nail into the coffin of APB. Its time consuming, during wait all you can do is stare into the screen, the MM is still unfair with entire mission balance, you get three level 50 ranks against 4 rank 270 golds and that is happening non stop.
At this time only more often new content and fix of MM can help the APB to maintain this 400 people. If this 400 people drop to <100 population I myself will stop bothering logging into APB and APB goes off my pc.
What do you think influences the players' interest in the game? New content? Not for ever.
The new content is a beautiful glowing invitation banner.
Newcomers come to this game thanks to a screaming banner about a unique customization system (which the developers have long given up on). The opportunity to express oneself through creativity, the opportunity to demonstrate this creativity to interested people is APB. Skirmishes, factional rivalry - all this is the background. I don't understand why developers put the background ahead of the main action. Perhaps a bunch of close "experts" can be blamed for this. The discussion on the number of rounds in the AP 45 and similar nonsense has been dragging on for years.
APB is a very crappy online shooter. This worst part of the game has become the main one. An unoptimized, lagging piece of shit, the victory in which depends only on the degree of modification of the client, mouse settings and the conscience of the player.
Developers openly support third-party applications that affect performance, and therefore advantage. This is the bottom of the swamp.Twitch is a good advertising platform. What kind of ads do viewers see for the game? Developing a new fashion or car design (self-expression)? Team clan work (social component)? No! Viewers see another jumping idiot with potato graphics and Nokia 3310 phone screen resolution. This is the bottom of the bottom of the swamp!
New content, another anti-cheat will not keep players in a game where everything that can be broken has been broken.
Adding a leaderboard and God forbid clan wars will destroy the game completely. It will begin with the harvest and end with self-devouring.-
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The popularity of the game has noticeably dropped recently. Perhaps this is due to the fact that developers are throwing dwarfs at the target in the office? The problems of the game are solved for a very long time, or they are not solved at all. Adding new content adds new challenges. The game is dying just like the Russian version of the game was dying. Exactly the same.
APB:Reloaded Networking Update
in Social District (General Discussion)
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Is the game working? After selecting a character, I get to the main screen. There are 200 online players on Steam charts. Repair, removal and old methods of solving the problem do not help. And most importantly, there is no information about the status of the game anywhere. The forum, discord, and steam page do not provide any information.