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Hi all, We have been waiting on Innova for any kind of player payment history, but they have finally come back and said they can't find any of the data we requested. Here was the original proposal for migrating Nekrova players: With the exception of a handful of accounts which were boosted above the normal amount, your APB$ and JT will be coming across with your characters. For those specific accounts, the ones we are removing APB$ and JT from, we will also not be bringing over their titles. All other accounts/characters get their titles brought across. Legendaries that are from Joker Boxes will be brought across with the character they are currently on as long as they are those exact weapons. This does not include any items that are limited by a lease time. These items will also be trade locked. Created symbols, themes, songs will be brought over. For symbols, there is a very small number of primitives that are not coming across. If your custom symbol was created using one of those, then the symbol will be missing that part of the symbol. Most preset Symbols and Themes will be brought over but there are some that will not, as they are not currently available on Citadel. When it comes to Nekrova ARMAS purchases, we will be redelivering all Account and Character bound items that were bought. We will be sending Joker Boxes to the character they were purchased on. If that character no longer exists, they will be delivered to the oldest character on the account. Any item purchased from Nekrova that has a lease time will be redelivered with the current lease time intact except for trial weapons, those will not be brought over. In an effort to compensate players for old purchases made through Innova, we have decided to use total account play time from before the Innova migration to Nekrova. G1C will be credited as follows for total Innova account play time: 0-10 hours = 0 G1C credit 10-50 hours = 500 G1C credit 50-100 hours = 1000 G1C credit 100-300 hours = 1500 G1C credit 300-500 hours = 2000 G1C credit 500-1000 hours = 2500 G1C credit 1000+ hours = 5000 G1C credit We know this is an imperfect measure of how to award G1C, but we are all in the same boat. We need to merge this server, we don't have the payment records, and it's not feasible to migrate everything 1 to 1. Hopefully you will see this as the gesture of goodwill that it is. For context, the total value of G1C that we are issuing for all ex-Innova accounts is over $22 million in G1C value. While I don't have the exact payment records, I find it highly unlikely that Innova players actually spent that much money on APB while it was under their control. Thanks, Matt

I have played this game since it released from beta. And it had alot of problems, graphical and network. The game came a long way since then is now playable. Since littleorbit took over, they got us a new anti cheat sistem and trading, two things the game desperately needed. Ive been keeping tabs on the forums and the videos make by MattScott, including the one with Kempington. I understand the game needs to provide $ to stay alive. BUT, prices were already ridiculous and people still bought stuff, I have personally spent over 150€ or more on it, my brother over 500€, crazy right? So I hoped the prices on guns would be lower, and I mean affordable lower. So when I get in game, after some years away and I find the changes and playability so nice now, i felt happy, until I openned armas to give it a look, and I was disappointed. 22-30€ for a single weapon, a SINGLE. WEAPON. Thats completely ridiculous, I would understand 10$ maybe 15$ for the 3 sloted weapons which take a long time to unlock in game, but the pricing right now is just filthy money grab that G1 had. I hope things change in the future, and we actually get a playerbase going because 250 people playing (EU) a game isnt a playerbase, and that people can actually buy some guns that are essentially SKINS for less than 20$. To Matt and all the team, keep up the good work and do what you need to stay afloat, but honestly? Make the pricing decent, because at the moment it's a complete cash grab, and the fact it was that way before is no excuse. From a frustrated old time player who loves APB

hello i have some staff to talk about I will pin there @MattScott 1. why i see at top left corner 22% ? if i already got all rewards obtain not count boxes each 1000G1C and 15 day premium voucher each 5000G1C if thats discount then it should be described 2. maybe some loyality rewards after spending more then Euryale ? like some random boxes vouchers ? let me tell for example 10 boxes of random number to obtain after each 5k or 7k G1C spend ? maybe some 5 day premium ? for 1250 G1C spend etc. propably some wepons, cloths etc.

Hi all, I appreciate Cookie pointing out the actual rules, as he understands them. I’m not honestly sure if we are obligated to disclose the odds or not, but it’s the right thing to do, and I’m glad publishers are supporting this effort. I acknowledge the awkward timing of my decision with the new requirement from Microsoft and Sony. Sometimes you just can’t move fast enough. We had already launched JMB 22 with a significantly different drop rate for the New Glory to see what kind of impact it would make. We went from .5% up to .8%. Based on the reports I was given, I felt we could do better. The news on loot box requirements simply forced us to announce the change sooner than later. Thanks, Matt

I would like to see the administration posts. This is a warm topic. Merged. looking like me 22 . november

You don't need to, financial have 16 ppls in it, waterfront 6, is closely playable. Social the only one that got 22 ppls.

Mr Scott could you please give a check on the Raptor 45.? Is not broken per se but it has more ttk (0.75 with 7 bullets to kill) than any gun in its category and can only compete with short or medium range guns by flanking and shooting first, else it has no chance. Also it has just one free slot with makes it annoyingly hard to mod, and barely enough bullets to kill people in normal server conditions (22 for 7 shots to kill is quite short)

Name: Arthur (or Matt's choice) Backstory: Arthur was born in 22/10/1928 in Mexico. He was the brightest student of his time. At the age of 10, Arthur was fluent in other three languages: French, English, Urdu and was learning Japanese.His mother later on caught an unknown lung disease that she told no one about On 1939, his mother gave birth to his younger sister, Lucy. Arthur was extremely caring and protective of his little sister. But it was later revealed that his mother was sick with an unknown disease and that his sister inherited that unknown lung disease from her mother And He then became genius doctor who wanted nothing more in the world than to save his mother and younger sister from that unknown disease, but he was later betrayed by his business partner Karl who told him that he was the one who infected his mother with that lung disease and Arthur turned into a cold-hearted assassin to assassinate his partner Karl, and he succeeded in 1945. After that he remained a assassin for the rest of his life and earned millions by killing. My English is bad and my brain is now exhausted. Probably hardly even a 0.001% chance of winning though lol, but i love my outfits especially the first one no matter what yall think.

https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2021/1/22/apb-2021-roadmap

Did you see the roadmap? I guess he is less active because of stuff that is happening in the background https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2021/1/22/apb-2021-roadmap

https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2019/7/31/jt-store-update https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2020/6/22/legendary-beta improving upon the joker distribution store system and allowing legendaries to be progressed towards are pretty big changes.

Past year was the same.On jan 22 2021 was posted the roadmap and he said: after that the roadmap: I guess he can copy pasted.. https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2021/1/22/apb-2021-roadmap (full post)

unless my macro is broken on my keyboard.... Below- my test failed - somewhat I did a -clock lap- on my phone timing with the sound while using my macro, and the average i got was .22-.25s which equates to about a 1.1ttk with perfect accuracy, which aligns much closer to your calc, if we add in human error. I dunno but it appears my macro is unreliable af xD. Not that I use it for anything other than copy/paste and work stuff. But it's good to know.

I don't quite understand the 02/16/22 maintenance post saying that maintenance would be from 09 AM UTC time. Well that converts to 0200 AM MST. The servers just went down just before 0800 AM MST time. So is the time posted for the 02/16 maintenance using the wrong time zone (UTC)

Merged. I miss you everyone (none of the toons are belong to me, just a memories share from our community)

Hi all, We've hit a snag with the updater service that builds the patches. Obviously this infrastructure hasn't been used in a long time. The team is continuing to work on this through the weekend, and I'll give updates as we move along. At this point it looks like we stand a good chance of missing the 9/22 with this event. Regardless, we're going to run it anyway as soon as it's ready. I appreciate everyone's patience, and I hope everyone enjoys the various player-run anniversary activities tomorrow. Thanks, Matt

Edit: Tested each US East district server. IP address, port, and latency are taken from the /latencytest report. I only ran it for a few minutes. I restarted APB and rejoined Waterfront-1-US-East. The IP address is the same between Financial-1-US-East and Waterfront-1-US-East. There is only one Waterfront US-East and 1 Waterfront US-West, but there are two Financial US-East and two Financial US-West. Automatic district spin up is not working. Fight Club-Ambigton Towers-1-US-East: IP Address / Port: 205.220.227.73:12595 Latency: 31ms to 39ms Fight Club-Baylon Shipping Storage-1-US-East: IP Address / Port: 205.220.227.77:10467 Latency: 31ms to 39ms Missions-Financial-1-US-East: IP Address / Port: 205.220.227.75:10555 Latency: 23ms to 70ms Missions-Financial-2-US-East: IP Address / Port: 205.220.227.71:10563 Latency: 31ms to 39ms Missions-Waterfront-1-US-East: IP Address / Port: 205.220.227.75:12793 Latency: 265ms to 273ms Extra info. Here's my Original Post: It's even worse after maintenance. Did you fire up the servers in China? There's something wrong with your anti-DDoS provider, Path Network Inc, or your servers are starting in the wrong physical location. I don't see any incidents opened: https://status.path.net/history District: Missions-Waterfront-1-US-East IP Address: 205.220.227.75:12778 In-game Latency: 230ms LatencyTest District_Server Latency: 260ms-280ms /latencytest latency: Line 5: 30/08/2023 22:12:22,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,268,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,19,22 Line 16: 30/08/2023 22:12:23,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,268,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,19,22 Line 26: 30/08/2023 22:12:24,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,265,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,19,22 Windows Trace Route (removed IP from first hop): Tracing route to 205.220.227.75 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms XXX.XXX.XX.X 2 2 ms 6 ms 6 ms lo0-100.CMDNNJ-VFTTP-325.verizon-gni.net [72.82.234.1] 3 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms B4325.NWRKNJ-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [100.41.3.252] 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 14 ms 11 ms 12 ms customer.alter.net [152.193.0.114] 6 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms ae10.cr3-nyc3.ip4.gtt.net [89.149.140.182] 7 * * * Request timed out. 8 14 ms 11 ms 11 ms 205.220.227.75 Trace complete.

The connection to US East is screwed up internally. This is obviously not routing to a US East location. Did you start the district server in the wrong datacenter? Regardless, that doesn't explain the +70ms variance and these random +200ms latency spikes. District: Missions-Financial-1-US-East IP Address: 205.220.229.40 In-game Latency: 30ms to 90ms Edit. Added Cloudflare traceroute to prove it's not an ISP issue. Obviously traceroutes don't show the whole picture, but they do show that both my ISP and Cloudflare WARP VPN are functionally the same. Both route to gtt.net on the west coast and then to 205.220.229.40. Cloudflare Trace Route: 1 9 ms 12 ms 11 ms 104.28.0.0 2 9 ms 11 ms 12 ms 104.29.106.1 3 20 ms 17 ms 8 ms 162.158.156.2 4 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms ae5.cr2-nyc4.ip4.gtt.net [208.116.240.225] 5 69 ms 70 ms 85 ms ae12.cr4-lax1.ip4.gtt.net [89.149.128.174] 6 * * * Request timed out. 7 72 ms 70 ms 69 ms 205.220.229.40 Home Trace Route: 2 4 ms <1 ms 5 ms lo0-100.CMDNNJ-VFTTP-325.verizon-gni.net [72.82.234.1] 3 11 ms 7 ms 7 ms B4325.NWRKNJ-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [100.41.3.252] 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 12 ms 13 ms 11 ms customer.alter.net [152.193.0.114] 6 63 ms 64 ms 62 ms ae12.cr4-lax1.ip4.gtt.net [89.149.128.174] 7 * * * Request timed out. 8 63 ms 63 ms 64 ms 205.220.229.40 /latencytest District_Server: Line 5: 26/08/2023 18:59:09,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 17: 26/08/2023 18:59:10,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 26: 26/08/2023 18:59:11,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 29: 26/08/2023 18:59:12,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 38: 26/08/2023 18:59:13,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 43: 26/08/2023 18:59:14,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 46: 26/08/2023 18:59:15,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 55: 26/08/2023 18:59:16,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 60: 26/08/2023 18:59:17,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 63: 26/08/2023 18:59:18,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 72: 26/08/2023 18:59:19,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 77: 26/08/2023 18:59:20,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 80: 26/08/2023 18:59:21,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,25 Line 89: 26/08/2023 18:59:22,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 94: 26/08/2023 18:59:23,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 99: 26/08/2023 18:59:24,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 106: 26/08/2023 18:59:25,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 111: 26/08/2023 18:59:26,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 115: 26/08/2023 18:59:27,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 123: 26/08/2023 18:59:28,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 128: 26/08/2023 18:59:29,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 132: 26/08/2023 18:59:30,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 140: 26/08/2023 18:59:31,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 145: 26/08/2023 18:59:32,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 152: 26/08/2023 18:59:33,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 157: 26/08/2023 18:59:34,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 162: 26/08/2023 18:59:35,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,253,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 169: 26/08/2023 18:59:36,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,253,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 174: 26/08/2023 18:59:37,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 179: 26/08/2023 18:59:38,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 186: 26/08/2023 18:59:39,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 191: 26/08/2023 18:59:40,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 196: 26/08/2023 18:59:41,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 203: 26/08/2023 18:59:42,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 208: 26/08/2023 18:59:43,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 213: 26/08/2023 18:59:44,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 220: 26/08/2023 18:59:45,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 225: 26/08/2023 18:59:46,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,26 Line 230: 26/08/2023 18:59:47,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 237: 26/08/2023 18:59:48,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 242: 26/08/2023 18:59:49,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 247: 26/08/2023 18:59:50,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 253: 26/08/2023 18:59:51,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 259: 26/08/2023 18:59:52,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 264: 26/08/2023 18:59:53,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 271: 26/08/2023 18:59:54,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 276: 26/08/2023 18:59:55,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,66,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 281: 26/08/2023 18:59:56,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,66,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 288: 26/08/2023 18:59:57,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,62,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 293: 26/08/2023 18:59:58,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,62,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 298: 26/08/2023 18:59:59,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 305: 26/08/2023 19:00:00,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 310: 26/08/2023 19:00:01,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 315: 26/08/2023 19:00:02,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 322: 26/08/2023 19:00:03,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 327: 26/08/2023 19:00:04,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 332: 26/08/2023 19:00:05,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 338: 26/08/2023 19:00:06,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,93,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 344: 26/08/2023 19:00:07,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 349: 26/08/2023 19:00:08,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,101,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 356: 26/08/2023 19:00:09,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 Line 361: 26/08/2023 19:00:10,DISTRICT_SERVER,,,70,,Packet loss:,0,CCU:,25,27 ... Ping to 205.220.229.40 from PC, APB client during /latencytest: Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=118 Reply from 205.220.229.40: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=118 Ping to 205.220.229.40 from router during /latencytest: Min: 59ms Max: 75ms Avg: 63ms.

Well.. S**** this one is Episode 90.. This year.. 18minutes 22 seconds of JUST CHAOS !

Apologies for the late post,. this did launch last night. usual time 9PM Gmt. I was in bed Ahh FULL SEND - 25 UnCut Episode 25 of the Uncut series - Day 22/ 28 for the February daily Episodes. . Hit the Like , Share ❤ , Comment your thoughts - Please help get the Channel to 1,500 Subscribers

I gave m_bUseDiskCache=False a little go and the game was stuttering excessively and ran badly, this is under Fedora 37. I can confirm it was working as the AssetCache was empty throughout playing around on social and FC. Might give it a go in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or 22.10 see if works any better. Update 22/03/23 Tried m_bUseDiskCache=False in Ubuntu 22.10 and it introduces frequent stutters but not as bad as Fedora 37. Therefore in my experience it's not an option I would use.

Battleye just gives me a error message when i start the game and then the game doesnt start 22:15:51: Starting BattlEye Service... 22:15:55: Launching game... 22:15:57: Note: File blocks can be ignored if they don't cause problems with the game. 22:15:57: [INFO] Blocked loading of file: "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\winspool.drv". 22:15:59: [INFO] Blocked loading of file: "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dwmapi.dll".

Mitne Basic Newbie APB Guide Welcome in San Paro. In this guide I will answer many questions I had from newbies in way better form than tutorial in-game presents. It won't be just text but also prepared in-game screenshots. Of course I advice to try out in-game tutorial (by pressing T in-game you get inside it) but if you still don't know anything, this guide is intended to fill that gap. So let's get started - it will be done in form of QA - with possible question asked by any new player and answer to that: Q: Alright... I joined district... I click K to get ready... and I got no mission...? A: Simply click M and look up in the upper right - that's population of district [Picture 1]. [Picture 1] Ops... It seems it's empty. And even if it's not... - to start mission at least one side needs to have 2 people (either criminals or enforcers) - this also will start mission only for side meeting this requirement, if you are only one on your side you always will be called on defensive side of mission. Q: But how do I get to district with more players? A: Click esc and district select button [Picture 2] [Picture 2] Then after it you REALLY don't want to use basic view [Picture 3]... it's uber unreliable and will throw you at ANY free district of your threat... if you went gold or green that's totally not gonna work as both this servers are almost always empty... instead you press tab called "Advanced" [Picture 4] which shows you advanced view on all possible districts. [Picture 3] [Picture 4] You want to uncheck certain two ticks [Picture 5] so they won't hide server which are blooming with players right now. [Picture 5] PRO TIP: That's how you get to fight club with players too[Picture 6]! As basic view usually throw you into empty FC district (like one random player would help population of that server suddenly grow) [Picture 6] Edit: "Due to privaty concerns" - Sadly it sneaked in post-edit but i'm aware of grammar error. Thank you. Q: All enemies outshot me whenever I approach them. Are they cheaters? A: First of all. No - if everyone would cheat, this game would be long dead - for starter you need to accept fact that there are better players... it doesn't mean there are not worse than you, over time you will find that old enemies which dominated you, might fail to do anything near you in later stage of game. All it takes is patience. Second. Apply right tactic for right weapon. It's obvious thing that sniper rifle should be fired at range and shotgun in close quaters, rifles and ARs at mid-range and LMGs to be anti-personel and anti-car... but only if put in hotspots, well-covered. Some weapons also REQUIRE you to aim sight down (like sniper rifles, ARs, rifles) while other discourage you (like shotguns or SMGs). Third and last ALWAYS THINK. Enemies might try to ambush you, lure you but they got one clear disadvantage - they gonna understimate you. Especially after second or third try you might find that there was shift of powers... never give up and adapt to situation you are faced in. If you got idea you not sure gonna work, why not try it. It's only game after all! Q: I don't feel like playing missions... what else I can do? That depends on what side of conflict you are but contrary to popular belief, enforcers also can earn cash outside missions: Enforcers got three possible ways to gain money outside missions: 1. Witnessing criminals [Picture 7] [Picture 7] If you see criminal with symbol of handcuff, you can initiate witness mission (by clicking ALT) which is quick mission of who gonna secure dirty money from criminal in dedicated for that hideouts [Number 1 on Picture 7]. Beware though, you don't want chase criminal for few dollars, you can see how many money criminal have on him here [Number 2 on Picture 7]. As of now you can't witness criminals while sitting in car. 2. Hunting Notoriety 5 criminals [Picture 8] [Picture 8] By simply killing him you earn bounty put on his head, be on lookout on this. Word of advice though, this players are Notoriety 5 for a reason. This is also the only option here which earns you instant money. He/she is always shown on map and radar. 3. Looking for stolen cars (more rarely loot abandoned by criminals or vans containing it) [Picture 9] [Picture 9] Exactly here it should show what is name of car and what is actual state of it (it should be usable - stolen, due to wierd bug it don't show me that in screenshot but you can check it out in-game). I consider it the safest option to get money outside mission for enforcer and which should be done in full action districts. All you need to do is to lookout for cars, to see if car is stolen, look for marked reference in picture. You can't return commandered cars, only stolen ones! [Picture 10] More rare is that you find loot on streets, abandoned clearly by criminals (things like PCs, TVs, gold bars, jewelry itp.) Even more rare although possible is that you find stolen vans or other kind of cars with loot (see reference). If trunk of stolen car is filled it's most likely by loot which you can just take to near contact for pocket money Warning! After that always remember to visit evidence locker, money you get is money on hand until you visit evidence locker! Death means dropping "loot" on streets of San Paro where it can be taken by litteraly anyone. PRO TIP: Criminals don't have counter-option to get your "loot" so you can safely have on hand as much as you want... just make sure you gonna drop it. Criminals got four possible ways to gain money outside missions: 1. Looting shops [Picture 11] [Picture 11] Grab a van, ram the shop, load the car, unpack it at contact. Simple? Not much. You can be witnessed by enforcers (as described above in witnessing criminals). And if you just grabbed van from street, anyone just can sit inside and take it anywhere, taking your hard work with them. Consider using your own van. Packer Ceresco is the most spacious of all cars in-game which you can own. 2. Hunting Prestige 5 enforcers [Picture 12] [Picture 12] Litteraly the same thing as with enforcers. Kill bounty, earn instant money. He is always shown on map and radar. WARNING: Killing P5 enforcer AS enforcer will drop your prestige to 0, reducing your reward multiplier to 0,1. You really want to avoid that whatever you doing as this even affects how much you get for kills (in matches). 3. Mugging [Picture 13] [Picture 13] Go to any civilian walking on street, press F. Wait for timer to complete... profit. Also many of pedestrians drop small on-hand items which you can drop for additional loot at contacts. 4. Steal cars [Picture 14] [Picture 14] Infamous among criminals for being tiring and slow in comprasion to others. Grab car from streets, drive it to chop shop. Unlike enforcers you can grab any car (except player owned ones) and drop them at chop shop. Ka ching. Warning! After that always remember to visit laundry, money you get is money on hand until you visit laundry! Death means dropping "loot" on streets of San Paro where it can be taken by litteraly anyone. Warning! As criminal you can be witnessed with loot by enforcer, you can know if you are witnessable by looking here [Picture 15]. [Picture 15] Although after you got more than 2500$ of loot, you gonna be permantely witnessable until you drop loot at laundry - you get warning in chat if that happens too. [Picture 16] [Picture 16] Q: I keep getting mission from the same guy and I keep not advancing at all. Ugh... is there way to farm some other? A: You should ALWAYS pledge to one contact you desire to level up. By either interacting with contact directly [Picture 17] or via double-clicking contact on map using M [Picture 18] you can enter contact window and pledge to them [Picture 19]. [Picture 17] [Picture 18] [Picture 19] Also note that Financial and Waterfront contacts are unique and each needs to be pledged in their respectable districts. Q: What are this joker tickets, how I can earn them and what I can do with them? A: Joker Tickets are tokens granted for you for activites in APB. You can earn them either by completing objectives of FC (shown both at basic district selection screen, via FC window (f7) and in upper corner of screen [Picture 20]) or getting mission to earn them from fully completed contacts only [Picture 21]. JTs can be used to purchase items from Joker Distribution at Social District [Picture 22] to purchase many items (excluding permanent weapons, sorry! Although you can lease many which are in ARMAs Marketplace [Picture 23]) [Picture 20] [Picture 21] [Picture 22] [Picture 23] Q: I run out of ammo... also how I can change my weapon? This starter weapon sucks. A: For ammo - Go to any ammo distributor, press F to buy certain type of ammo (it will show if it's for your primary, secondary or grenade slot weapons [Picture 24]). You can also press I to get ammo for holded weapon immediatly [Picture 25]). Use whatever you feel better with. Edit: As of last updates, it's not longer true. You can't run out of ammo as long as you got money to purchase it. My advice though is to always keep some ammo on hand as you might run out of ammo after you lose your money in some way (like via purchase). [Picture 24] [Picture 25] To change weapon, you first need to have some or lease one. Since you most likely want to have free to play experince, you for now should only lease - do it by interacting with contact, going into buy tab [Picture 26] and selecting weapons [Picture 27]. After purchase it will ask you to deploy it. You can always swap weapons in any car spawner or ammo distributor using I [Picture 28]. [Picture 26] [Picture 27] [Picture 28] Q: My car sucks! I saw players having this muscle cars and... A: ...they pay for respawning it. 100$ since it's tier 3 car. As someone who is litteraly broke on start you should stand with your starter or so called tier 0 cars - it's every car which cost 5,000$ for zero slot version, they cost 0$ for every respawn but they are underpowered. All of them are used by civilians so you can get good feel about what you gonna get by just commandering or stealing cars and driving them around. Don't worry, you will find out how to get better cars soon - it just my starting recommendation for you. Edit: If you really want better car - the best would be getting some decent tier 1 car - their cost is 20,000$ for zero slot version, they cost 25$ for second and further respawn of car and among them are cars such as Packer Ceresco and as you work your rank up, so you should work your cars up (but in my personal opinion, you should always keep useful cars around - just like Packer Ceresco, just in case). Q: I want to group up with someone, how? How to create clans? How to ignore someone who annoys me? A: All of this can be done via pressing U. Each tab represent each problem, you get easily around it as everything is described [Picture 29]. [Picture 29] Q: How do I change my clothing? Or theme, symbol? A: Everything can be done in Social District. Use map to navigate to kiosk corresponding your needs [Picture 30]. [Picture 30] I hope you survived to the end as you grasped basics to get you started! Good luck out there! If there are any questions which are left unanswered, please ask them in this thread. Edit: Updated guide, checked for grammar errors.

Survivor's Refuge - Christmas Party Social Event Survivor's Refuge extends to you a personal invitation to their Christmas Party - all are welcome! ------------------------------ In celebration of recently surpassing 50 clan members, Survivor's Refuge extends to you an invitation to attend their annual Christmas Party. Everyone is welcome, and there will be many activities carried out on the day. The party will be focused around Christmas, with Christmas-themed giveaways, participation in the next Christmas event, and maybe some trivia and such too. Details: Countdown timer: Click here to view the event countdown timer! Location: Embry Crossroads, Sector 1. Date and time: Friday the 21st of December at 9pm GMT. Activities: Participating in the Christmas event / Giveaways / Instacrafts / Social time. Event: Survivor's Refuge members will be around beforehand to help levels 2-15 with the Embry First Night events. If you have a level 2-15 character, bring them along! More information on the event here. Event Layout: 21:00pm: Meet at the LifeNet bunker in Embry - assemble a team to assist with First Night events. 21:30pm: Camps will be set up near the Embry LifeNet bunker. This will be the event area. 22:00pm: Giveaways will start and Instacrafts will be set down. There will also be treats available, courtesy of Ella! The event will persist until 12pm GMT or until everyone leaves. Lottery Giveaway: To enter the lottery giveaway of the night, simply compose a mail to Ella Clinton ingame, and give a four-digit number between 0000 and 4999. The person who gets the closest to the actual number will win a little Christmas surprise! The winner will be announced at the end of the night. Other Information: Auctioneers, mailboxes etc will be accessible at the event area. Instacrafts will also be set up. Please park your vehicle / mount at the designated parking area, which will be made obvious to you. This is to avoid clutter and to make it stand out to other people approaching the area, incase they don't see the group. Donations for the event are welcome! Contact Ella Clinton on forums or ingame. Thank you for your continued support, it means the world to us! ------------------------------ I hope to see you there on the night! Please drop any questions or concerns below, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. /Ella Clinton and Badger Mac Director and Co-Director of Survivor's Refuge.

for these higher threats...they(L.O.) can give a penalty for em killing and bashing in a district 2 threat levels BELOW their current 1s....based on your current skill lvl and gear levels to your opp in 1 match you can see as high as a 90% reduction in points/cash earned...and on your next battle you might be able to see a 20% reduction in points/cash earned.... for example...CHADCHASE a 255 rank CRIM w/ a MEDUSA in his 1st match is silver....no penalty needed.... in his 2nd match of the day he goes GOLD..again no penalty needed....(happens all the time)...Now hes considered a major threat to any 1 of low/now skilled players and new players in general in the BRONZE DISTRICTS... now match 3...CHAD here is a 255 GOLD MEDUSA USING PLAYER vs. a rank 22 Bronze ENF that still uses the STARTER gun.....lets call her Maggie.... you see Maggie dies 12 times a match gets 0 objs done and might get 3 kills if lucky for the assist....match maker is unkind to Maggie...now in this match CHAD should get a 90% reduction in points earned for killin Maggie...instead of 100 he should only get 10...if CHAD is on a DEFEND mission, he should get 1 point per minute while he's sitting on the obj...... Now for Maggie those points and cash earned should be doubled for doing OBJECTIVES and KILLING CHAD...instead of the normal 150 pts for breaking a door she should get 300...and again Maggie should get 200 pts for each kill on CHAD instead of the standard 100..... Lets increase the rewards to hunt and hurt bashers in the bronze districts while at the same time encourage the same bashers to play players of their own skill levels...not low skilled 1s.. and VIKI FOX, this game primarily a kill or be killed...so yes a KTD ratio DOES indicate skill level...most of the players i run across don't give 1 rats behind worth of screwballs about doing the objectives....they just want to kill you...THAT IS APB ....or like you just said, arrest you....and ARREST does count as a KILL... it might not have been that way 100 years ago when you joined this game and community.... but it is now... LIKE YOU KEEP TELLING ME....GET USED TO IT....ITS GONNA BE THIS WAY FOR A LONG TIME.... and to do this <<<<<<<< Besides anyone could get a OCA, or Joker Carbine and you don't need skills to just run and gun. you still need some skill in order to AIM your gun...these weapons don't come with built in aimbot.....or at least for me they never did....