TheAceNinja

Absolutely no one in the history of Youtube even looks at the "Game" in the description. Lol This also has absolutely nothing to do with LO. This would be with Youtube.

I'm still so surprised to see people playing the console version. You think the frame rate and lag is badon PC. Whole other story on console. Sub 30 fps and delayed as hell actions.

This whole post is just one giant cringe. You realize the reason you're constantly losing and getting beat is because you're just not good at the game, right? Can we please stop coddling the bad players and actually force them to either get better or just suck it up? The ONLY solution is LO fixing the matchmaking into something better. Still isn't going to change the fact that some silvers are on the cusp of gold and MIGHT get it once or twice and then lose it. That doesn't mean they're dethreating, that means they aren't good enough to play higher-skilled golds. On the same spectrum, just because someone is completely and utterly destroying you as a silver, and you're silver, doesn't mean they're dethreating. I know a lot of the "Low threat" players are new, but APB has had (And still does) a threat system that goes from 1-10. A silver 1 is exponentially worse then a silver 9, but because we don't see that additional information anymore, we all assume "Silver" is a universal skill when it's simply not. As @xFera said, I've also played in Bronze against silvers and golds on alt accounts. I can tell you first hand, after playing over a hundred missions in the past few weeks that dethreating is literally a non-issue. The "Golds" you think are the top-tier end all/be all dethreating gods are so amazingly bad at the game, they only have that threat because of playing other incredibly bad players. What LO honestly needs to do is just do what the Console Version does and completely get rid of threat while fixing the matchmaking.

Because the only people who complain about it are bronze and low silvers. They don't know what that term means.

... What's the point of this thread?

The problem with comparing it to Siege is that Siege has a much larger player base, and you'll most likely never, ever run into the same person again unless you're in the top 500 Diamond. Unlike Siege, APB is also free so people can just re-roll and continue cheating. Sure, someone can do that on Siege and buy a cheap CD-Key but again, you'll most likely never run into that person again even on an alt. So it's fine. 99% of the people getting banned or just random no names and just because you remember playing against someone, doesn't mean anyone else does. There's nothing to gloat about, there's no-one to talk crap to about it, it's just there to show that Siege is doing something. The reason it's not being broadcast anymore is because you will run into the same people day in and day out on APB. They will talk a lot of shit because of their ego, as will you (Not YOU, but in general terms) and it breeds more toxicity. Then you have people getting flak for playing with the person, or even being in the same clan, so on and so forth.

Now all we need is Ray to leave and maybe, finally, Support won't be flooded with "Report" tickets. Good riddance.

This didn't rhyme at all.

This. Again, not everyone is trying to dethreat.

Had the XIM3 for the 360 and the XIM4 for my PS4. Haven't purchased the Apex because my current XIM4 works just fine. "Feels like" is not the same as 1-1. Call of Duty and Battlefield are the "Closest" while games like Overwatch, Siege, Division, and a few other games have a slight delay/sluggish feel because of how the game does V-sync. It also drops input if you move your mouse too fast because (Again) you're emulating a controller, so you have the max turn speed of the game you have to worry about. The lower the frame rate, or the worst the game runs, the WORSE the XIM runs. As I said, APB on console has awful stuttering and inconsistent framerate so the XIM goes all to shit/whack. You're welcome to visit their forums which are open and search for APB.

Except it really doesn't. With how APB runs on consoles, trying to emulate a controller barely works. I've used the XIM many times on console (One of THE BEST adapters on the market) and it barely works with APB. These adapters don't give a 1-1 feel, even on games that have their smart translators for. APB doesn't have a smart translator, so using a mouse will give you extremely jagged and choppy aim. Plus, the stuttering and delayed actions of the console version would cause someone using a mouse/keyboard to CONSTANTLY lose input. Meaning they'd stop turning, stop shooting, stop running, so on. Some games like CoD and BF it's a decent advantage, but not in APB. Trust me on this one.

Just to be clear, the advanced launcher can get rid of smoke entirely.

Ahahaha, never thought I'd see APB as one of the games that people complain about this. Little Tip, None of the mouse/keyboard adapters have active profiles for APB. Literally every single adapter emulates a controller, and with how dodgy the frame rate is, trying to use one of these adapters is downright awful. Not to mention that even with maxed out turn speed, you can't turn that fast, so a mouse doesn't help.

Gonna guess no since trading weapons has always been a "do at your own risk" type deal.

Except that's literally how it works. If you do 50% or more you will still go up. That's why you can LOSE and still jump up threat. Just about every complaint I've seen mentions time played or level because of "game knowledge" or mods/weapons.

The problem with your pathetic attempt at sarcasm is that there are genuine 255 bronze and silver players who are ACTUALLY BRONZE AND LOW SILVER. Not because they are dethreating, but because they just aren't skilled enough at the game. New players don't know what dethreating is. It's the people who've been playing for a good while who are just bad that are blaming people better then (again) THEIR personal skill level as dethreaters. People forget that if you are 50% or above the whole team/op, your threat goes up. This is why you'll see golds in Bronze. They're good enough to rank up againt lower skilled players, but not good enough to level up against better silvers or actual golds.

Man, with all these threads and people crying, you'd think 90% of apb is just people dethreating to play in Bronze when it's just simply not true. You're bronze or extremely low silver for a reason. That reason being that you as an individual player are BAD. You aren't skilled enough to get out of bronze or extremely low silver. It has nothing to do with someone dethreating. A "gold" player who can lose threat in just a few games isn't Gold. Any ACTUAL gold would have to dethreat constantly for a few days or even longer. You're simply getting beat by someone who is better then YOU. Not in the sense of your threat, but In the sense of YOUR personal skill. Any threads about this whiny garbage need to be autolocked.

I don't know what to tell you, but they don't. If you've ever used a macro before you'll notice that you can shoot "faster", but if you pay attention to the ammo count you'll see you are ghost shotting a lot.

?? It doesn't. Why do people still think macros and hacks somehow make a gun shooter faster then it's programmed to.

Sorry OP, like everyone has pointed out, neither of your two claims hold any merit at all.

Was gonna ask if it still did this. Haven't seen one in a long time, but when it came out it was beyond abusable and practically had zero slow-down from VIP/Item Hold.

Are there any actual games that even do this? I don't see how it'd be viable with APB.

Because Gold districts were still entirely dead. People would rather join a full lower district then wait 45 minutes for the game to oppose you to the 5 other players in the gold district.

This. The whole point of FC is mainly to level up weapon roles.

At least you got to keep your forum account. When I logged in it made me make an entirely new profile. Even though I can use the same exact email and password on the old forums and still have my account from 2011.