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  1. Posted · Edited by Senodus

    2 hours ago, CookiePuss said:

     

     

     

    As I understand it, when your appeal is denied it simply gets deleted both from EAC and Gamersfirst. So if your appeal disappears, that’s why. 
     

    This was talked about in the LO discord with a member of staff, but it hasn’t been stated officially so take that as you will. 

    Well the behavior from that time when Matt and Secrets were saying the system is broken, and right now, hasn't changed in any way. So there is no indication that it got fixed and works now, thus no way for us to know what's happening with that, especially without any kind of official public update from Matt for all this time

  2. Posted

    At the time of the last stream the EAC appeals were broken and would just disappear after some time and you said you guys are working on getting it to work. At this time they are still broken and just disappear. Can we please get an update on that? A lot of innocent people, some that literally just play for car meets, lost their accounts and all the money they spent on them unfairly so it would be grat if this was of a higher priority at LO...

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  3. Posted

    On 1/18/2024 at 5:51 PM, MattScott said:

    I've seen the couple of requests for controller support. I'm adding that to our "todo" list. I know it will help console players who are transitioning, and it will make the eventual port of 1.30 back to console easier.

    Please whatever you do don't bring aim assist to controller on pc. Controller players having humanly impossible perfect reactive tracking aim is already completely ruining games on pc like cod and apex, forcing serious competitive players to switch to controller...

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  4. Posted

    Yeah there is definitely something wrong going on right now. People that just completely not hyper comitative, genuinely casual, and would never cheat cuz "everyone else does" or anything like that are getting banned by EAC. And the worse par is LO is so ignorant that even tho they have been on EAC for so long don't seem to care enough to put pressure on them to list the game on their support page for ban appeals, yet LO still in support tickets tells those banned players to go to EAC support, when it's not possible cuz the game is not listed and there is no "other games" option, so the players are stuck in limbo. Like it's actually embarrassing for LO honestly. I really hope they are looking into this and will give us some proper statement on it soon...

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  5. Posted

    Genuinely amazing news! Also like every change here, especially the jumpshot buff! The more movement we get back into the game the better, especially since jumpshooting was never an overperforming tactic that shouldn't have ever been nerfed. GJ! =D

  6. Posted

    -"If two players from different regions are on the same district server, then they will temporarily display their region suffix appended to their name (@NA-West, @EU-East, @SA-North, @AU-East, etc) and players can use those to distinguish between the players."


    Honestly, not that happy about this as it will just look bad e.g. "Senodus@EU-West" or whatever. Wish you could come up with a way that's less intrusive on the name. Maybe only have a different color of the name for out of region characters? Or something else, just that it's not intrusive on the name itself. 

     

    -"Premium will also be able to queue in ‘Premium Only’ matches that we hope will free of reroll cheaters."

     

    This is imo a REALLY BAD idea. For example I don't think I ever bought premium in this game and I doubt I ever will, but vast majority of players that take this game seriously would most likely do that to avoid cheaters, so people like me would be stuck with those cheaters AND not be able to play with/against other serious players to have nice close matches. It also unnecessarily splits our already small player base even more. Even if it was not a separate matchmaking but a variable in it that places a bias on matching premium players with themselves, it would still be just as bad as I still would be matched with them only as the last resort. Just overall a REALLY BAD idea imo as negatives for the community just outweigh the positives.

     

    Overall tho the roadmap looks promising and I'm looking forward to the future of apb. =D

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  7. Posted · Edited by Senodus

    34 minutes ago, MrChan said:

    So you agree there's actually no real need from the point of view of balance to remove them and it's just that you don't like dying to them?

     

    That's my point exactly. If we start getting into what handfuls players subjectively feel is fair or fun, I'm sure we'd end up canning most of the arsenal.

    "it's just that you don't like dying to them?" No at all that. The game is not only supposed to be balanced, it's also supposed to be fun. If the game has something that makes it not fun it should be adjusted. And people playing in bronze or silver district thinking that it's fun does not matter. The game should only be adjusted around the top 1% skill gameplay and should not have any tools to allow players of lesser skill to kill/win against a better player ever. Skill should decide that cuz otherwise it will make the game not fun for anyone but the person ruining the fun for others. It's like a group is playing a basketball match using the official ruleset on some public basketball field, and then some casual joins in but has shoes that allow him to jump 30cm higher than he would otherwise and he gets a few scores because of that, he still got less scores any anyone else but he still got some cuz of the shoes instead of his skill. So it's not cuz I don't like to die to them or cuz it ruins the fun for me specifically. It's cuz it does that to anyone that's playing at a high skill level and pvp games should only be based around the top skill level. You don't see basketball being based around casuals playing at their local public basketball field. Balance is not only about if a weapon owns and gets may kills, it's about if the kills that weapon does get are earned. With explosive weapons they are not.

  8. Posted · Edited by Senodus

    10 minutes ago, MrChan said:

    This post is why the downvote option should still exist.

     

    Leaving aside Asylum for a moment, cos with the nature of gameplay on that map there's scope for reasonable disagreement about explosives, removing them from the entire game? What game are you playing? Doesn't sound like APB to me. They're highly situational and most of the time and in 95% of situations you'd be better off with a regular gun rather than a massive heavy rocket launcher that you can barely move with and has an audible wind up, or grenades with a set fuse that most people know how to avoid in anything but an enclosed area. But just because they annoy you they should be taken out?

     

    I'm sure if we listed off every gun that's annoyed a few players and banned it, we'd end up having to throw rocks at each other cos everything else would be banned. Until someone complained about rock gameplay ruining the game.

    It's not about explosive being annoying, it's about them ruining any fun the game can ever provide. I get annoyed when I get owned by players better than me, but I still have fun cuz I have a challenge I can try and over come by focusing on my aim, pushing differently etc. With explosive weapons, they are not OP, you pretty much always would be better of with some other AV gun, you won't get many kills at all in a match with them, but every time you die to an explosives weapon it's taking all the fun out of the game. You didn't die because your aim was worse, you pushed badly, are a worse player in general, you died cuz the player had a weapon that allows them to get at least some kills on their enemy no matter how much better the enemy is than them. You don't feel like you died fair and square.

  10. Posted

    Explosives on asylum ruin the game more than any hacker ever has for me before. I can still have fun when playing vs a hacker cuz I can take a weapon with faster ttk than his and challenge my aim by trying to min ttk them. Against explosives tho there is no gunfights, you just die with nothing you could have done about it and with 0 skill from the user to actually get that kill on me. Completely ruins any kind of fun the game can provide. Overall explosive weapons should be removed from the game entirely imo.

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  11. Posted

    4 hours ago, Frosi said:

    With the way things are currently absolutely not. If you like it or not the game has been balanced around Clotting Agent for many years, even prior to LO taking over, if Kevlar were to become Meta the way things are right now it would throw all this balance out of the window and make the game even slower. APB's movement is fantastic, any downside to movement speed will put you at a disadvantage in many scenarios. Kevlar also has recieved a somewhat direct buff with the buff to Med Spray, having instant regen that twice as fast syngerizes really well and it is on a low cooldown on top of that.

     

    I think in an ideal world Clotting agent and base regen should be looked at in a way that doesn't change how the regen speeds etc work currently. What I mean with this is to take the route of making CA2 (Currently the fastest regen in the game) the BASE regen, this is to primarily help out new players. On top of that Clotting Agent 3 simply turns into "Clotting Agent", this would mean that a lot of math would have to be done to keep CA3's regen speeds the same as it is now due to the base regen being the equivalent to CA2 now. This work however would free up a lot of potential buffs to underused green mods to not necessarily make them become meta but put them in a more healthy spot compared to Clotting Agent. 

     

    APB is a fast paced game and the base regen is incredibly slow and I think this is where the primary issues with Kevlar / Fragile / Flak Jacket lies, however, lets say CA2 regen speed was the baseline, this would obviously be too much, however, this way they could apply multiple changes to Kevlar for example without having to almost remove the downside of Kevlar which is the movement speed. Here's an example of what I mean.

     

    Currently Kevlar 3 gives you the following stats:

     

    +30% Player Health (1300)

    -20% Sprint Speed

    -20% Run Speed

     

    With CA2 being the baseline you not only help the new player experience but also open yourself up to giving Kevlar a slight buff by adjusting its regen time to be somewhere around CA1 right now. (Theoretical nerf because CA2 is baseline but having the fastest regen in the game on top of 30% health would be broken.)

     

    So a buffed Kevlar could look like this:

     

    +30% Player Health (1300)

    -12% Sprint Speed

    -12% Run Speed

    ~Regen Values: Clotting Agent 2 > Clotting Agent 1 

     

    This is technically already possible but my approach would tackle a few issues all at once, namely balance issues with Green mods, New Player Experience and Item Bloat. 

     

    There's a lot in this approach that would have to be thought through such as the math behind the whole thing and what to do with other mods but balancing the underused green mods is not an easy task and one would have to be extremely careful with what exactly is done because on paper mods like Kevlar being strong or possibly too strong could quickly end up as a terrible feeling for actual gameplay mainly because of weapon balance but also gameplay flow, muscle memory and game sense being thrown out of the window, however, if executed well the way all levels of Clotting Agent behave the exact same way and other green mods could have a slightly increased regen.

    Damn I actually love this idea. The current base regen is horribly slow so this would make the new player experience much better. 👍

  13. Posted

    Amazing patch overall. Only thing I don't really like is all the mobility nerfing recently (jumpshooting and accuracy when moving in marksman). This is a fast, arcade shooter so IMO mobility in gunfights shouldn't be punished much. IMO Jumpshooting was not op or problematic in any way since you lock yourself in a hyper easy to track and predict path against melty cqc guns so you didn't really gain any adventage in cqc fights using this move, just makes them more fun and less boring. For me being able to be very mobile in gunfights is what makes shooters fun (so for example IMO cs:go and valorant are extremely unfun shooters and quake or cod's with jetpacks are extremely fun) that's why for me decreasing mobility decreases the fun. But excluding the mobility nerfs the changes seem really good and can't wait to try them myself. 👍 If LO kept all the changes and just reverted all the mobility nerfs they did over the years, after this patch the game would probably be at it's most fun meta to date. But I'm just a filthy no brain pmg main so hold my opinion for whatever you want 🤷‍♂️

  17. Posted

    6 hours ago, CookiePuss said:

    Anyone muting themes isnt buying them anyways.

     

    But everyone that does buy and make them right now would most likely stop if a mute option got added. Cuz why would they keep wasting money/time on something that will rarely ever be heard by anyone. 

    5 hours ago, EvaPooh said:

    The difference between that is a symbol isn't blowing my eardrums out.

    There could still be something on it that could trigger something in certain people. But yes I know it's still not the same cuz it's not causing physical pain. That's why I think they should make a slider that allows to make them quieter without muting or introduce some kind of sound compressor like you can put on a mic for when you're screaming so it automatically lowers your gain. It could automatically lower a themes volume if it exceeded a certain threshold. 

  18. Posted

    On 8/7/2020 at 5:34 AM, Selali said:

    Hey all, 

     

    There is a lot to unpack in this thread but I wanted to directly address the issue with death themes. This is one of those things that is hard to police from our side so in the interest of trying to help combat this type of griefing we are going to be looking into adding an option in the game to just globally mute them all. Hopefully this will help out with that specific issue.

     

    Thanks,

    Selali

    That's a really bad idea. It will make the existence of themes pointless and most likely ruin their economy. Why would anyone buy or make themes (or at least good ones) if most likely Noone will hear them the vast majority of the time. It's as if you added a simular option like that for symbols, cars or character customization so their not visible anywhere in the game. It would ruin them too. There should be a volume slider that doesn't let you completely mute them and somehow make it impossible for them to be muted via file alteration like it's possible right now, on the new engine at least if impossible on this one. 

  19. Posted

    The only problem with pmg is that it's able to pretty consistently get min ttk's even at 30+ meters. Meanwhile for example the oca starts to miss shots already at 15+ meters. (0-15m oca and pmg are equally powerful imo) They only need to buff oca base accuracy so it ca be more reliable at past 15m, nerf pmg range to 30m, make the damage dropoff past 30m sharp and make the minimum damage after the drop off lower so it need a lot of shots to kill outside if its intended range

  24. Posted

    1 minute ago, Hexerin said:

    Once upon a time it was, but they forfeited the right to call themselves that when they brought the average TTK down below one second.

    What? Look at all other arcade shooters like good cod's like bo2 or mw3, ironsight, warface, they all have decently fast ttk. Imo apb's ttk is actually insanely long and making it any longer would make it simply feel awful and not fun to play. 

  25. Posted

    Thease changes seem awesome. Great job LO =D

    6 hours ago, Hexerin said:

    How about no. If you're jumping, you shouldn't have any accuracy whatsoever. That's literally the drawback to jumping. The fact that some weapons still maintain accuracy while jumping (high-velocity rifles are the prime example here, mostly the Scout/Pathfinder) is absurd.

     

    That being said, there's nothing wrong with the shotguns keeping accuracy while jumping. That's one of the perks they should have for being unusable past arm's reach.

    APB is an arcade tps. Mobility while fighting is what makes arcade shooters fun. Every gun in the game should be pretty accurate while jump shooting. Mobility should be rewarded, not punished. 

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