BuckyTheBronco

oh my goodness that website is hideous.

this looks like you're trying to cook an egg on your video card, Jesus.

After reading this and giving myself a headache by all of the ellipses in your responses there OP, you're wrong. Little Orbit did something that should of been done a LONG time ago. That thing they did was unban players who were falsely banned or banned for no given reason what so ever, just something an in-game GM wanted to do. Little Orbit has done A LOT more than what you have said. Here are a couple examples of things they have done. 1. Patched the game This is something that the game has not seen in over 9 MONTHS, something that the people of APB (including myself) thought would never happen again. Little Orbit brought hope and promise back into this game with not just one, but two patches in the last month. While these patches are minor, they were something needed to bring the game back to speed. Minor bug fixes and a new anti-cheat come a long way to a community and playerbase that have been abandoned for months. 2. Being involved with the community The company of Little Orbit has been vocal with the community and open about issues. They own up to their mistakes and keep us posted on what is going on. They give us heads up, like the support ticket count and progress, state of the game updates, and updates on their progression with new updates and features they are implementing into the game. We all remember G1 who did absolutely nothing to help out the community but ban those who spoke their mind and had opinions who were against theirs. GM's are in game again, answering questions and helping out the community. Moderators are back on the forums making sure everything is running smoothly. These are crucial steps to get the game back on track. There are some of you guys who are saying that their priorities are out of order. That the stability of the servers should be top priority. I hate to break it to you guys, but the servers are an on-going issue that takes time to fix. Unbanning players is literally a flip of a switch. Unbanning players, who have left APB for good because of GamersFirst banning them is a great way to get the hype training going again for this game. Obviously this has worked, as the player count for the game on SteamCharts has increased by nearly double since Little Orbit took over (http://steamcharts.com/app/113400). You all can say what you want about Little Orbit, but they have brought hope and promise back to APB and have resparked the community. They're doing a hell of a lot better job than other companies. The most important thing I can say is this: GIVE THEM TIME! You can't fix a game that has been broken for years in a month. This is a long process and if you don't understand that, hopefully this post will make you think about it.

Maybe I have good luck, or maybe I'm wrong but I haven't seen a 100% confirmed cheater since I was unbanned in the wave of unbans. There's always going to be crazy good players who know the ins and outs of the game and do suspicious things. I've done some things by luck and I instantly think, "wow if I was on the other end of that I would think he's a cheater" but it's hard to tell who's a cheater and who's legit in this game.

I honestly prefer old technology over the modern stuff at this time, considering BitCoin and other virtual currency has taken such a huge toll on the computer market (RAM & GPU price spikes). For comparison though, before I bit the bullet to upgrade this is what I used to run APB on. Old Set-up CPU: i5 3570k OC @ 3.8ghz GPU: GTX 960 2 GB DDR4 VRAM RAM: 8GB of DDR3 - 1333mhz Plus the PSU, MOBO, and HDD, this was around 650 to build 3 years ago. Now since older i5's are hard to find for market price (>$150) I would recommend looking for something newer in this department or taking a risk finding one used. I did buy mine used, and it lasted me 3 more years before I decided to get something a little better. The i5 3570k is honestly still a usable processor today for gaming. I had no issues running Battlefield 1 or anything on Frostbite or Unreal with destructible environments. Running APB on this was steady 60 frames, only thing that lacked was the GPU with weird textures and rendering issues at some points. It would still be a good option for APB today. New Set-up CPU: i7 3770k OC @ 3.8ghz GPU: GTX 1070ti 8 GB DDR5 VRAM RAM: 12GB of DDR3 - 1333mhz Nothing really changed here besides my GPU since the GTX 960 was starting to lack in performance, so I bit the bullet and bought a new GTX 1070ti. No regrets in doing so by the way, its a great card. The game runs amazing since my "upgrade" (basically I got a hand me down PC from my buddy since he went to AMD with the new Ryzens). Really though, you don't need a top end computer to run APB, the 500 dollar budget you suggest is easy. I would recommend a newer i3, since they are much better than before, especially on single core performance (which APB only runs off 1 CPU core I believe). A mediocre GPU will get you buy as well, such as like a GTX 960 or even GTX 1060 if you find room in your budget. 8 GB of RAM will get you by, but if you're like me, you need 32 GB because you never close background programs. Also as stated before, make sure your voltages are correct which could lead to the issue of your PSU's exploding. Also make sure you're getting a large enough PSU to cover the power you need for your computer to properly run. I never buy below a 750w PSU becuase I'm a paranoid silly person who always likes to have give room with stuff like that. Also a surge protector is a must. Update yours because older ones tend to go bad overtime. (learnt that the hard way).

Is the patch strictly the implementing of BattlEye, or are there going to be minor fixes as well? Specifically the splash browser screen when you launch. I absolutely hate seeing that pop-up and I feel like it puts a trashy image on the game even before launch. Being prompted to "like us on Facebook!" is not an ideal welcome in my opinion.

I must be dreaming, someone tell me this real!

I've never understood why car surfer is a mod, rather than just a feature in the game. From day one of me playing APB, I always hated how you can't stand on cars while they drive. If they should do anything, remove the car surfer mod and just have it be a feature in the game.

From what I'm gathering, the OP just seems impatient. Just be patient man, let Little Orbit do what they need to do. I would rather have a patch with BattlEye done correctly rather than a rushed patch with multiple bugs and issues. Little Orbit isn't a huge company, while I think many people think they have lots of staff, they're wrong. Allow them to work, constantly posting on the forums complaining isn't helping the process go any faster. It'll be done when it's done...I don't get why this is so hard for people to understand and be patient.

This made my day. Thank you for this.

This looks like a major bug that should be patched ASAP, considering you just posted this for everyone to see...

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of code that was completed by G1 is hardcoded. It seems like something they would do just to make things work and get by rather then doing them the correct way.

From the way it sounds from Matt and the rest of the Little Orbit team, they are most likely in the testing phases. They're most likely making sure everything works and runs smoothly before they release it. For you all who don't understand how coding works, this could take a couple days or could take weeks depending on their test runs. Coding is extremely tedious and one single line could cause everything to break. To make it even better, sometimes your tests don't catch this line of code so you could be in for a long, very tedious process. All we can do is be patient and just appreciate that Little Orbit is doing this right, rather than rushing it.

110% agree. It's not the largest advantage but it certainly is something that gives a small edge. I'd love to see the re-balancing of premium as a whole. The initial gain should be larger than the premium gain. Especially when it comes to cash income. It'll offer a friendly side to F2P players, so they don't feel hindered by not having premium. Also the customization limitations should be removed as well. Having to have premium to get the full customization access for the game is silly in my opinion as well.

I think these questions should of been posted here. I know it's a jumble of questions and the feeling of them being overlooked is high, but I honestly think they're reading through each post.

I feel like the advantage on cooldowns with premium is silly. It shouldn't be a thing and never should of been. It gives premium players an advantage over F2P players.

This pie chart is awesome, I didn't know this existed. I'm so blown away that this exists that I couldn't keep concentration while reading your response. However, I do feel like the change from RTW to G1 was in a way a complete transformation. The feel of the game in my opinion changed heavily and some was for better but some was most certainly for the worse. I do agree that APB has a small number of things going for it compared to modern day games. Customization is a huge one of them. Another is the unique style of game, nothing is truly like APB. GTA V in my opinion was garbage. The singleplayer was good (as most GTA's) but the multiplayer was nothing but hackers and children running around. There was no true purpose to multiplayer besides the heists. It has been awhile since I played GTA V online, so there could be a bunch new content since then. I got a bad taste for GTA V online from the beginning, simply because of the community and the hackers. I went from SA-MP role playing servers to GTA V online, so that's most likely why I didn't enjoy GTA V online. As for new content, I just mean content that isn't on Armas. Like a new contact, with new character mods, or weapon mods, vehicle mods, etc. A new weapon added that is completely new could be ideal, that is unlockable from a contact. I mean, we don't really ask for much as APB is content filled in my opinion, but something to keep the max ranks busy would be something interesting. For the gun usage, that I am so blown away by, despite the outdated information (props to finding this btw), I think it has to do heavily with the meta of the game. Everyone seems to use an SMG, or an assault rifle. Each weapon has it's unique situations, but the overall popular choice is an assault rifle or SMG. Snipers, Marksmanship rifles, and shotguns all have their situations and scenarios but I feel like the meta is more towards a run and gun which is probably while people use what they use. You touched on the slowing down of the pace in your OP which I wouldn't be against honestly. I feel like it would bring more weapons into play, such as the Obeya, OBIR, Scout, DMR, etc. I think the DMR needs to be reworked for sure. It never was good, unless your using it to troll stun or basically draw distance snipe (90-100m) where it's a two hit kill. Otherwise there are some weapons that do need reworked, I will agree but in a way that will avoid the constant reworking of weapons to reach a "balanced" state.

The game doesn't need a complete transformation, it just needs it's foundation fixed and repaired back to a stage of stability similar to RTW. The players that are still around from RTW can vouch for me, that the game was popular and had a large playerbase back then. Seeing Financial/Waterfront districts in the numbers of 40's and 50 instances was a beautiful sight before it all crumbled under the bankruptcy of RTW. If Little Orbit can just fix the foundation of the game, i.e. server stability, new content relevant to the standard players rather than Armas Marketplace, events, promotions, sales, new features, etc. The biggest reason why the game again crumbled under GamersFirst was because they were too focused on Armas content rather than the actual game itself. We all heard during the Q&A with Matt that the game has not had an actual patch for over 9 months. 9 MONTHS. You know how much new Arma's content was added in those 9 months? An outrageous amount. The time and effort used to add new Arma content (which wasn't even new, it was mostly files left over from RTW) could of been used to actually patch the game, add new content and features that would draw players back in. Instead, GamersFirst put themselves in a situation where money was more important than the players, which ultimately led to the downfall of the games population. The only thing Little Orbit needs to do is bring the game and the attention back to the community and the players. GamersFirst took the spotlight away from the players and shined it right on the dollar signs, nice and bright so everyone could see the "new" features that only costed them $4.99 for 30 days or $39.99 for a lifetime! Honestly, so far Little Orbit has done what they need to do. They've been in constant contact with the community, they've released more blogs with updates in the past 20 days that GamersFirst did in the past 6 months. They're implementing features (such as BattlEye) that are popular among the community and are offering second chances to all of those who were banned (for reasons or falsely) to bring back old players. They are open to the community about opinions and ideas that they take into consideration. Most importantly, they are more focused on the game rather than the Armas Marketplace. They are releasing a patch soon with the new anti-cheat and I would imagine small bug fixes. Once this first patch is released and the gaming world who may or may not of played APB in the past see it, the game is again in a good state. It's amazing what a single patch to a completely lost and forgotten about game can do to the player count. Even whenever Little Orbit obtained GamersFirst and APB, the player count spiked to nearly double. The game has hope again, and honestly its the biggest amount of hope since RTW owned the title. Edit: Since I can't figure out how to add a quote to an edit and it's making me frustrated, I'm just going to add another wall of text Your points about matchmaking is logical and is an issue in the game, you're right. I don't want you to think I'm disagreeing with you completely. However, I think matchmaking is a reachable goal to fix, especially with the rating system. I always thought the threat system should be completely removed, or should be something like RTW where it was 1-15, however matchmaking should been determined off of rating rather than threat levels. Having districts with rating ranges would be better than the threat system. For starters, you can't dethreat your rating. Your rating is the progress you have through the game and is impossible to reduce. This won't fix matchmaking but I think it'll make it better. Honestly, I don't know if there is a way to fix matchmaking and make it perfect, mainly because you can always create new characters and be back with the newbies (which is also a flaw with using rating). APB isn't really a friendly game, and it's going to be hard to make it friendly considering its a tedious game and it takes special people like all of us to play it (we all know it's rage inducing ) Honestly, I for one hate constant rebalancing. In every game I play that has this, it's always you break one thing while making another extremely overpowered and oh look, next rebalance it's the same issue. It's a constant never ending loop where some weapons/vehicles get completely ruined while some get buffed too much. While you always want variety in a game, APB has reskins for days. The ongoing debate on the N-TEC and CR-5 is silly. They are literally the same exact gun. One just looks different and sounds different than the other. However, the game has a large amount of variety, which is good. If you constantly change every single gun over and over again, the process is annoying and quite honestly dumb. Having little tweaks here and there isn't bad, its good. As you add new content into the game, others become less valuable in certain situations. However, the complete overhaul of guns to make them rebalanced I think is silly. Let things go, and simply don't add content that'll change the game for everyone. Although, the removal of juggling objectives I can 100% get behind of. It's a stupid bug/feature/who knows what it is, its a thing that shouldn't be able to be done. @Guartorias

I'd love to see a 100% authentic bowl cut hairstyle. It would be on every single one of my characters.

He very well could be, I've never been amazing with sarcasm

He's still in disbelief and denial of the actual work being done, he'll come around soon.

Anyone can get a high post count. It's just a number, it doesn't represent anything about the person and is completely irrelevant. These people are people who have been around for a long time, contributed to the community, and have a great understand of the game.

10/10 pikachu done the correct way

Lixil's job is to keep the community clean, respectful and on the right track. This job is already hard enough, considering the situation of the community. People like you are not making it any easier. So please do us all a favor and keep these thoughts to yourself and instead bring positivism to the community.

Love this, positive and caring names on this list you made. +1 especially for Genobee. A standing legend whenever it comes to the forums and the APB Community.