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It's not a complaint but a breakdown of certain mechanics of the game that are detrimental to player attitude. Also, even with the game being as dead as it is, not everyone has a group of people willing to do stuff like what you're suggesting. It's a pretty insane counter just for ram raiding, and I really hope that's not your standard go-to counter argument for ram raiding troubles. Merged. Funny enough the orange parts that you call irrelevant change the context of his stance entirely, especially the secondary orange section. Then what would you have called it when he was specifically stating his post only concerned for the ill-behaving people? I think it's more a thing in general rather than for victims/offenders. Fact is that people behave poorly in video games, one reason being anonymity. But when a game actually rewards poor behaviour, can you really blame the offenders? Telling victims to toughen up or telling offenders to go away really won't help the game at all, for one (not implying you said such). How do you intend to tackle the problem then? The only way to tackle people behaving poorly is to punish poor behaviour instead of rewarding it. Right now the game's actually rewarding poor behaviour. Taking the rewards away is step one in the right direction. There's always toxicity involved in online games. I have seen games with literal mentally insane people while the game doesn't even facilitate nor incite such behaviour, but the difference between most of those games (PSO2 which I frequently play being one of them) and APB is that APB actually incites poor behaviour by rewarding it, whereas in the other games it's more of a when there's a will there's a way case. Again, when a game rewards you for being an arse, can you really blame the people being an arse for being the way they are? It takes someone morally deeply virtuous to not succumb to the joys of being a douche while being rewarded for it. APB doesn't need to be soft, PC or what have you, but some mechanics are really not thought out well, and are part of the reasons the game's population is as low as it is. Excuse me for the double post, I'd have used the edit button if I could properly move quotes from the new post input area to the edit post input area.

The cars look like they're made of cheap molded plastic as they are right now. Pretty much like everything else in the game. cough cough Pestilence suit cough cough

i'd be amazed if APB and its engine upgrade would be too difficult to manage for tencent "the game that even tencent couldn't handle"

I want APB to not be constrained or limited by its DNA in creative aspect (that includes gameplay).

so we have this new world order, alrite, NWO

I feel like the radius of each can be just slightly less. Say, 1m less radius on percs, frags and low yields. I think it would make things just a little more interesting, without nerfing them into the ground. Concs are fine. Percs need a stamina damage nerf. I also would like to see smoke grenades, flashbangs, incendiary grenades and even tear gas grenades. It feels weird to not be able to throw molotovs as a criminal. Maybe one day...

Then you misinterpreted the thread right from the start. I assume you didn't read the OP either.

I wish for this post to be highlighted. You're basically just going off-topic then. This thread has never been about the streamer's attitude, whether good or bad. Then again a lot of the APB forum crowd barely understands the topic of a thread. Like, even if your point is completely parallel from the thread's topic, that doesn't take away that what's going on in bronze has been detrimental for the game's playerbase and player-atitude for about half a decade now. APB's pop count also is not in a state where you can just cherry pick which streamer to give a warm welcome and which streamer to give the middle finger, be it for personal reasons or not. Instead of pointing fingers like a child, grow up and admit that you guys are participating for a good part in the demise of this game with your shit attitude towards each other and new players. Maybe try to look further ahead than nose lenght for once when it comes to this game. Just for once.

Oh look, it's the bronze district folks defending themselves with more bs. Maybe everyone should just go back to blaming each other until some new form of matchmaking is introduced, because these arguments are even more ridiculous than the golds in silver one.

It's always been this bad ever since I joined this game late 2013.

Or use IDs, ID names and character names and use them all for different things (eg character name for group and team, player ID name for clans, friends list and login, and player ID in the database) this way you also don't have to be restrictive on character name selection - you can have multiple characters with the same name, just tied to different player IDs.

I'm curious as to what happened to make the RFP-9 stray so far from its proposal? The main issue with the gun is that it's a pocket OBIR due to its insane range. Nerfing it to a 4 burst to kill weapon wouldn't fix it, especially not with margins that tiny (3 bursts from the new RFP and you're left with exactly 1% hp, the only weapon that falls out of this margin is the Stabba TG-8 (.5% soft damage per hit)).

I'm always open for a new challenge.

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It sounds maybe a bit wrong without context but I want APB to die with 3.5. I'd rather see some sort of spiritual successor of APB come out on Unreal 4. It would set the designers and dev team free from so many constraints they'd currently be struggling with. Right now LO can't come with all that many things to please the community it feels like, probably partly because the community doesn't know what they want the game to be or have in the long long term? Or it could be that people involved in this game, players or devs, struggle to let go of what they're used to, eg. mission district purists and FC addicts. Starting from 0 would set pretty much everyone free from most of the constraint they currently have - everyone can put their expectations back to 0 (until some flashy teaser releases).

I'd first want to know if the new engine can simulate clothing physics. And if yes, will anything ever be done with it (like renewing some content) ? Also, is the back of the head even rendered with a hairstyle on? Some games I know do that, meanwhile for example pso2 renders only the front of the face and the hairstyle (if you run the game for long and things struggle to render you can literally see faceless hair or hairless faces with no back of the head). In APB's case I'm not sure.

There are plenty of ways to design around that. In most MMO's I've played basically every form of ingame currency is stored account wide,. IMO ARMAS shouldn't be used for weapons in first place, but rather a place for cosmetics. Let's be real here, the whole game deserves a good redesign, that includes ARMAS. The current way the game and business model is setup is pretty outdated and very vulnerable to being exploited, and if 'too easy to farm' is a substantial factor to not implement account wide currency storage, then there's something fundamentally wrong with game/business model. I sure hope they completely redesign APB's spiritual successor in 20 years in UE4 (and please don't release it under the APB name).

I agree with that the new naming for open slots and occupied slots for weapons in the joker store is rather confusing as it is right now. I'd prefer weapons with occupied slots to have a nickname, like the premodded weapons you can get from contacts. The JT(x) being affixed to a weapon with open slots is fine. APB is one of the few games tagged as MMO where you can't store any kind of currency or items in some sort of account central storage. I would still prefer currency to be stored account wide. It's not like the game would enter an economic crisis if APB$ drop in value.

I do kinda wonder if the custom Unreal 3 engine for APB supports code for weather changes. Rainy/Stormy/Foggy weather in APB would be neat, not to mention snow.

what if both the game engine and the website are just digital black holes and everything they throw at it gets spaghettified

Very decent list OP.

Imagine Tiggs voice acting Lynette Casey.

At the same time, there was absolute silence from G1's side for at least a good year before LO took over, and I imagine at least a few people still being sick of Tiggs' communication. Or rather said the lack of it, over the years. Ofcourse it involved way more than just the community, but I can imagine it played a part in that lack of communication.

Maybe if people learnt to actually read before throwing around opinions like a bunch of headless chicken, the mods would have an easier job too. Moderating/managing a community as toxic as APB's is not an easy job, and you two sure showed a fine example as to why. But since you've kinda missed my post in response to Cookie's: I don't blame them that people are so toxic that it's barely manageable. Also pretty much the reason why I have a lot of respect for Matt, it's quite a feat to keep your head up and remain calm in a community like this, but again it's not as bad as it used to be.