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Hi all, There seems to be some confusion about Full screen mode, so I'll try to clear up the information we are working from, and then we discuss the issue further. There are two forms of Fullscreen - Exclusive and Borderless Windowed. As of DX12, Microsoft is no longer supporting Fullscreen Exclusive. Essentially this is going away whether any of us like it or not. It is worth pointing out that every game that runs on DX12 has already removed Fullscreen Exclusive and replaced it with a Borderless Windowed version. Fullscreen Exclusive literally doesn't work in DX12. They just weren't as transparent about it. Microsoft has written a pretty concise explanation of their strategy here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/demystifying-full-screen-optimizations/ They are basically saying that Fullscreen Optimizations under Windows 10 equalizes the performance between Windowed and Exclusive, which is why they are phasing out Exclusive. For those that don't know, Fullscreen Borderless Windowed mode looks just like Fullscreen Exclusive. It just interacts with the OS differently. Based on that information, we looked at the distribution of Windows versions across players. Here is what that currently looks like on Steam: Out of the 95% represented by all Windows versions on Steam, Windows 10 accounts for 85% (so 90% of Windows gamers overall). Even with all of that in mind, I recognize that still leaves 10% running Windows 7 or Windows 8 at a disadvantage because of increased input lag. I know that up until January 1 2020, Microsoft was still giving away copies of Windows 10, and believe there are still some ways to get a legitimate copy for free - even with a fresh install. But lastly, we are making this change for a specific reason: During playtests, we kept encountering a common crash related to a vague DirectX error where the DX device was "lost". After spending a lot of time researching this, we narrowed the error down to a combination of problems with Fullscreen Exclusive mode. In our last playtest, we had all the players run in some form of windowed mode. That test only had 1-2 crashes down from 25 for the previous test. I don't want to hold back the Open Beta any more than I need to, so for now based on the information at hand, we are going to remove Fullscreen Exclusive. If the team finds a way to make DX11 Fullscreen Exclusive work without crashing during the Beta, then we'll put that back in. Thanks, Matt
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so you telling me people would waste more money on joker box for Jts instead of actually buying account bound weapon? it didn't affect me one bit. btw kids don't have money. if they use parents credit card they be dead.
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Yeah, i didn't meant that, i meant Armas will not have Character items anymore, except maybe few items. JT Store will instead get Character bound items.
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I want to change my name, but i can't find that option in the account settings
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Cyrillic nick name change & Jericho/Citadel consolidation
Nev replied to MattScott's topic in General Discussion Archive
No. This would create a huge mess and most players who levelled their chars to a high level are bound to come back at some point and it would be a kick in the teeth for them. if someone hasn’t been active since launch sure I understand. But most old players don’t play the game because it’s been managed poorly and they want to see a change before coming back and they shouldn’t lose their names because of that. -
@MattScott How will name changes work for characters with the same name on both servers that are on the same account too? Do you get to choose which character keeps the name or does one of the two get the namechange applied randomly? Furthermore I'm happy that I can play on EU with my mains soon, I have been waiting a long time to do so! -
Cyrillic nick name change & Jericho/Citadel consolidation
Sophiie replied to MattScott's topic in General Discussion Archive
Why do you have multiple accounts? Serious inquiry. -
Depends on where you live. If you live in the EU, or certain more progressed states in the US, then yes you can have your account deleted along with all other data they have related to you. -
Posting on a guest account about a gun thats already been beaten into the ground? Seems like a troll post to me. On the off chance this isn't a troll thread the ntec should be reverted pre-Rp weapon balancing.
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Nerfing the ntec twice in 7 years didn't drastically lower the skill cieling (how is supposedly making a weapon "harder" as so many people claim "lowering the skill ceiling?), removing jump shooting didn't do it because that was a glitch and broken beyond belief. Have cover? Cool now i jump aaand you die (how's that competitive?). Nerfing the so called "high skill ceiling qsing" (yes people did call it high skill to qs back then), and buffing a few weaker weapons and nerfing overtuned ones surely won't zerg the games skill ceiling. Don't pretend that APB had/has a high skill ceiling. Firing an NTEC at .19 intervals isn't a difficult feat. Jump scout and QSing weren't hard, CSG prenerf wasn't hard. Firing an obeya or obir isn't hard. Most weapons aren't "hard" or even "high skill" unless they actually suck, like the ODIN's, the OSCP, the Harbinger, ltl, ISSR-a, and current Tommy gun. The holy trinity aren't hard, oscar and carbine aren't hard. I can't say that I know any weapon that isn't an actual trash tier weapon that can be "high skill" But i guess that's because actually using them takes more effort and more skill than "meta". Lol, i spent like 2-3k on the game, own most weapons char bound and can use pretty much all of them effectively (except like, ISSR-A because i havn't really bothered with it), because I get bored using a single weapon 24/7 and have to switch it up every few matches. Have 3 primary weapon roles max (including pistols/grenades ofc) and the rest at 15. Do I qualify? Those "crutches" wouldn't even be an issue if people played around them properly. Playing competitive shouldn't mean playing stupid (like sitting in the open on a road). Besides, if people are so competitive what's the issue with "crutch" weapons or tactics like car pushing? If competitive players are so good why are they an issue? They shouldn't be. I don't have issues with atacs, jgs, medusas, nfas's or hvrs. But then again, I pay attention to every enemy location that I can and the timing it takes from point A to B for them, and me, as well as weapon ranges of each person. I "may" only die to carbomb once or twice a match. Once because I push into the vehicle like a dummy, the next time because I wasn't watching my radar while on the road. You'd be hard pressed to have me die consistently to a car bomb, or any explosive that isn't a volcano (while im getting point)
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I mean, yes you can farm that, I have kinda forgotten, but they also farm the event rewards.. Besides, farming 20k? I think it would take forever even there, especially that I don't think you can camp with friends forever, it's crowded and chaotic and everyone's bound to run into other enemies.. But ty for the reply, better than all those random dislikes keeping me puzzled so as to why people hate the idea :))
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1.5/1.2 milions, dropped pretty badly and it fucked the entire economy, the marketplace was full of FFA R&D and since the bans don't actually delete a character but simply block the login from it's owner and whoever isn't the team of the game, LO unbanned most if not all of these trash bags and they have their accounts back with 40/50+ FFA inside them.
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I don't understand that people realize that the actual final number of people actually cheating were (still is, probably) in a low digit amount. Personally think a lot of people are delusional in thinking someone else is cheating or might be cheating who is a completely normal player. Even low ranks can be normal people too or older people/experienced people on a new char/account since they miss the sense of progression. But as Matt stated here:
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Joker Employee Design Challenge
SunnyMonroe replied to Sakebee's topic in General Discussion Archive
Since i dont wanna mess up my characters and also dont wanna see a copy of them in the jokerstore Is it needed to keep any of that designs on the account? And the winners can choose where the rewards goes to? Thanks -
Hi everyone, Today I had to make a tough call. Both yesterday and today, our internal network had massive problems causing long outages at a time which prevent staff from making a lot of progress on their work. This includes Customer Support, Quality Assurance, and Development. We had a number of last minute bugs we wanted to address that might have made tomorrow a bit smoother, but only one of them got addressed. The Open Beta final build has been released. Everyone should try to patch now. Against my better judgment, I'm sticking withtomorrow's test as planned, because I said we'd do it. So we're doing it. Details here: http://gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2020/6/22/legendary-beta I don't recommend anyone stream this build. There are bound to be lots of problems. It just isn't the build I had hoped for. Please also check the Known Issues here: Lastly, we will be doing more of these as regularly as we can. Sorry, Matt Edited to clear up questions.
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A word of caution about the Open Beta
Ashn replied to MattScott's topic in General Discussion Archive
Okay so the email i used to bind to my gamerfirst account then? -
A word of caution about the Open Beta
BrandonBranderson replied to MattScott's topic in General Discussion Archive
Having the same problem. Account Login has Failed! Please check your User ID and Password (error code 11004) -
The Silver Waterfront EU Is Empty
MartisLTU replied to valdentin's topic in General Discussion Archive
yea.... sadly our hated but still beloved game slowly fading away, But it could be good opportunity. 1. Remove threat bounds for dist's. 2. Reset threats ( so we could be free from dethreaters ). 3. Make threats harder to obtain. 4. add team balance system base on threats, acc. play time and rank. ( Gold vs gold ,but if gold threat match not full there is a chance that another threat player (silver) with high hours acc. and decent rank might be picket to join). ~ same goes to all threat matches ofc. Most of you wont agree to include acc. play time hours into match balance and threat system ,but if player have max rank lvl with over 2k hours and he plays vs bronze threats ... cmon .... -
yeah the cheaters are all playing on r255 accounts with over $200 spent on armas, because LO refuses to ban them even though its obvious who they are -
I hear you man, and if I haven't made it clear enough before, I think those who abuse themes should have their accounts taken away and heck while I'm making myself upset again - police charges brought against them, it's disgusting that anyone stoops so low to do harm to other people. But FWIW - they've addressed the ear-no problem (I think it was in the QA#2, (edit yes it was the 2nd LO Q&A)) and have promised to add in a "mute theme" option, most likely, definitely, maybe with the Engine Update. Not the ideal solution, because ideally the in game Theme Designer would have some sort of protection and be able to detect damaging sequences of """music""" and not allow the theme to be saved, but knowing the pond scum who do this, they'll constantly be trying to find ways to bypass that protection and we'll be back to step one and LO will have another form of abuse besides hacking to constantly have to be fighting against, so we get the solution we deserve - just ban all themes. If you do come back - I highly recommend deleting the Themes folder - follow Flaws' guide if you're having trouble, it's the stop-gap to saving your ears. I definitely agree, the stutters seem to be getting worse and worse. It's meant to be the memory cleaning or something? But damn I must have some spotlessly clean memory for the amount of stutters that occur in game recently. Even again following some awesome guides on increasing frame rates, the stutters are so frequent, and sometimes long and now they seem like they're big enough to notice occurring on other players, so clearly not equally stuttering everyone at once, which does, yes, feel a little dirty. I don't blame LO for this one though, it seems like trying to fix one thing breaks 12 others, I'd love for it to stop but at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
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As stated before my only possible sin was getting out of bound once. There is one problem, it was on completly different account - and that account didn't faced any consequences. Instead Mitne (my main) did. Strange red flag it would be, isn't it? Other than that I can say with clean heart. I didn't used ANY external software while playing game. I had pretty standard background programs list (Explorer + some additional background ones, like Discord or Steam). Used advanced launcher but if that red flagged FF, then sorry - do you find FF reliable then? I'm pretty sure any abnormality was red flagged. Who the fuck knows criteria, I assume FF was just going haywire in last years and G1 did shit to prevent that. Instead they used it as tool to ban people to show that "ye, we onto your cheater problem". As I pointed thousand times when G1 was developer and after, it was incompetent beyond belief. But if you research G1 background with others games - you will know why. Sadly that thread disappeared along with old forums (there was that golden news that Matt FF got banned while testing FF - and if I remember correctly he done everything WITHIN game ONLY to get banned)... Here is though first Q&A of Matt With Kempington and SKay made transcript of it on this forums. Here's chosen fragment related to FF: Q&A Archive: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/265424620 Q&A Transcript:
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Few years ago I got Kissaki kit for one of my accounts in this case my enforcer character, as a reward (don't remember what was the occasion) but didn't activated it because I realized really quick that enforcers still don't have a Bishada as a unlockable car. So I asked back then G1 what is the deal with that and as in most cases back then I didn't got any answer or the answer was completely irrelevant or simply link to the armas shop which also is useless pretty much because this variation wasn't available in armas and far as I checked it still isn't. This is coming from the darkest age of APB where support pretty much didn't exist. So this is sitting on my account for years and now dug it out again and I wonder if I can do something with it or kiss it goodbye. Same question applies for other cars that are restricted and many people got these random kits but not sure about the cars. Some got the cars with it some didn't and if a enfo can't get a bishada or a crim cant get a V20 then what is the point getting the kits for the opposing faction. It would be great if we get a car that we can modify and then sell it or gift it. If it's locked character bound then in this case this is completely useless and I wish we got something else instead as rewards. Also was thinking for example if it's account bound then I can make a crim and maybe use this kissaki kit there anyways? So people what is your experience with this, did anyone remembers this, got one of these and did you manage to get this working somehow or should I just forget it.
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Warning: This is what I got so don't take it all as canon since there were different packs-rewards, just sharing my experience. I got a account bound Mako-Kissaki kit bundle that included the 4 slot car on for both factions and got this for two accounts. But considering I didn't had a enforcer on neither of them I was limited to the Mako kit alone which worked for me since I could dupe it and sell my creations because I had a Bishada unlocked on those crim characters. One pack was limited for 3 months (this was a direct gameplay event randomly rewarded, no clue what event it was, it was long time ago circa 2015), the other one limited for 6 months (this was also a reward but opened through a Joker Box). So I used the 3M first then when that expired I activated the other one. On both accounts the 4 slot car expired alongside the kits. You couldn't use them, they remained in your inventory but were greyed out -blocked. Same example as when you try a car (or weapon) from Armas and it remains in your inventory after it expires but you cannot use it anymore. Luckily I kept the cars and now they are unlocked and available for use. Now I do believe this is something LO enabled upon someone's request because I am pretty sure those cars were unusable for years up until LO took over. And I am glad to have those cars again so thank you. The car cannot be sold but can be duplicated so you can make other personal versions of it and it costs 1,500 in-game $. The parts cannot be altered just the livery and color options. Provided a picture of it. And yes some information could be more clear, specific and refined in some cases but equally it can be just as easily ignored in a wall of text that the user might skip or miss out or even forget it and cannot be re-read because some information is only available once during the read. So it's a win-lose situation in both...and need to be addressed somehow to appeal more the user with notifications that can separate themselves and be more clear to read and see but not be over the top so the user ignores it. So in conclusion if you (OP) have the same package you probably got a car with it and can make at least your personal vehicles that you can keep and use later on even after the pack expires, and these cannot be sold or shared. So choose and create wisely.
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>passwords in any form other than vintage good old reliable stone tablet, hammer and chisel YIKES dude what's so hard about remembering a 8-15 character password that you have to create these intricate ways of entering them? ever heard of a .txt file? yeah someone could get unauth access to your pc and steal the .txt but honestly who wants to steal an apb account with an ugly weeb character and 40 bucks worth of a firehawk 4x4 and an oscar lol as for me i just pen and paper my passwords, and the seriously important stuff i keep on portable drives now.
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watch a single internet breach reveal the same password that you use for all your online accounts. https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is usually what makes people wake up about their passwords, people realise after "oh so that's why my account got hacked..."
