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Look, Matt.. the condition of the game is abandoned. SARD, isn't even active or doing anything. If you added a two-tier sub, with a free option... 1. Free (no support). 2. $2.50/month (support + 250 Joker tickets with 2.5% chance of legendary) 3. $5/month (support + 500 Joker tickets/w 5% chance of legendary)... Then POSSIBLY, you could afford to bring back FairFight. I get that no one "really" knows for certain (unless blatant) if someone is cheating... and you haven't wanted to be UNFAIR. NO PROBLEM! The game population is really small, and besides bans are pretty punitive, uncertain, and permanently destroy an account someone cares about or has invested in. SIMPLE FIX! Don't BAN. Just make it where someone who's performing well above normal (could be legit and highly skilled... but it's enough ABOVE the general population to be disruptive.)... Have them TEMPORARILY KICKED from the game. That's not evidence of a hack (though it could be).. and it's a CLUE to that player... he needs to tone down his playstyle or cheats.. to stay in the game. LISTEN, you can't eliminate cheating at this stage of the game, and it opens a can of worms for the superbly skilled playerbase. BUT... if one guy, whether an APB genius pro... or a cheater... is rick rolling EVERYBODY, nearly EVERY MISSION... that playstyle is disrupting the small matchmaking population and causing a lot of players to stop playing or quit trying and never log back in again. ONE PRO... or cheater shouldn't be given that right... to ruin the game experience for everybody. Fairfight was good at detecting out of norm actions. And the serverwide KICK announcement was actually GREAT FUN! Just list an official caveat to the players the kick is NOT for cheating... but for being far enough ABOVE NORMAL... that the PLAYERBASE needs a time out. Some pro's might understand and wear that as a badge of honor... PLUS, they lose nothing but a little time.... In a 24 hour span (to be reset daily) 1. first kick - 15 minute lockout 2. second kick - 30 min lockout 3. third kick - 2 hour lockout 4. Every kick thereafter in the 24 hour span - 2 hour lockout It really doesn't have to be punitive or permanent... to moderate a game and make it "somewhat" fair... and would be a darned sight BETTER than ZERO MODERATION AT ALL.

If I understood the blog post correctly, you (indirectly) want to tackle the griefing problem with cross-district matchmaking? If so, that'll be great. However, this quoted line could be a big issue if this is enforced on everybody. I don't want to play against 150ms players personally, as with anybody who wants to play this game remotely serious. But I fear that this won't be a consideration for LO in any way, cause that's their way of solving the dying game population (as remarked by LilyRain) I do think there needs to be a bigger emphasis in more easy to-do things, which require basic changing lines in a file. I'll give you an easy one: There's absolutely 0 reason to play any gun in the game right now apart from the Scout, Coroner, Oblivion, all ISSR guns (especially ISSR-C). Why? Because they are the only 0 to none bullet spread guns in the entire game. The arguement of "BUH UH NTEC IS FASTER TTK" is also irrelevant since ISSR-C exists, which has no movement penalty in MM mode and has almost pixel-perfect total bullet spread regardless of firerate. All guns should behave akin to the mentioned guns above, it's ridiculous to implicitly enforce longer TTK by "SKILLFULLY CLICKING BETWEEN SHOTS" while not even having the base accuracy of the aforementioned guns. Why does this matter? Because this game is a TPS game and it's the only way to counter someone pixel-hugging you from a certain distance. You need accuracy & a longer TTK together, they come in a package together to form the bigger picture. The game ACTIVELY tries to harm any kind of incentive to grind it fully because of this. This was the main issue people had with the game for years now. Not cheaters, not content, but actual core gameplay foundations not being well-thought-out. Oh and the fact the server is stuck at these low tickrates doesn't help it either. I'd even go as far as increasing the overall character health of the game to 1500 or 1750. It would allow for more leeway for balancing the sheer amount of redundant guns you've brought into the game. Drastic changes are needed: - Mods that change TTK, range, rate of fire, MM accuracy should not exist (CJ3, IR3/LRR, HS3 - hs should only change FoV), - Vastly different sprint to run modifier is also just unnecessary bullet spread / randomness added to the game, - Slow crouch speed and the lack of any movement mechanics in fights completely make this game linear and boring. It's as bland as it gets. - MM modifier = 0 and elongating TTK to 0.9 - 1s range across all guns is a must, it would make the game playable. - Removing broken / redundant mission selection in districts (anything that isn't capture point or plant bomb on Fight Club is just ridiculous) - Balancing the broken spots in districts which have been an issue for years (roofs near the west side of Waterfront close to police station, German Fortress etc.) - Adding melee weapons or a melee attack (the animations are there, ever since blowtorch came out people have been wanting it. as easily seen with goomba stomping) Then you can worry about things such as UI unification (Kismet & Scaleform are still intertwined, opt for ImGui if any of those are an issue), tutorial, adding new game modes (a 5 vs 5 mode bomb plant mode, BR, PvE modes which you've seemingly been exploring for next set of contacts if I understood Matt correctly), a new map (the groundwork for Midtown has been done by forum members), clan war content Even trivial things such as finally adding the missing vending kiosks in Social's Gallery would be a welcome QoL addition to the game, or just unlocking all equipment slots. Why does it matter if cheaters realise they've been shadowbanned? Now that you mention it, it would be funny if they only apply cheat points to accounts in action districts... Can't wait for all the false bans in a 300 pop game, just because someone was mad over getting stomped by other players (indirectly just APB's RNG) ^_^

Hence the hatred for Golds. I started in segregation. We were taught by Fire to Hate Golds and Hi Silvers that would as U say, Dethreat. Then join our Bronze district. But we would chase them and troll them out. Desegregation wasn't for our benefit, to stop dethreaters from farming us, it was because the golds had too low a pop, and had nobody to play with but each other. So LO let them All come in bronze and farm n hax us for the last 6 years. So in effect LO made it so non hackers could never rise over low silver because, they auto dethreat Us by putting golds in our missions. Gold will average 20-30 kills. The legit might get 9-10 kills on a good day. The golds and hackers continue to push the score average up, so only hackers could up threat. So now All the golds get to stomp legit players, newbies, lower skilled ect. Then this point system hasn't even started yet, so none of em will be punished for what they've done over the last year, or since the unbanning. I don't play to rise up or get kills (outside of gold killing). I play to irritate hackers who have come to What I still think is bronze district to bully Legit players. I don't believe you could get gold or hold gold with the vast amount of hackers, and such a large pool of player accounts. contributing to the Average in the pool. Not a matter of simply winning x amount of missions, or being top two on the score board. That score has to exceed the Average in the entire pool for you to move up. So sorry to say but when I see a gold, I automatically consider that person a known hacker. And likewise consider said golds intentions to be bullying legit players. Ok so this isn't so much a rant against golds, its a rant about the system of getting gold, and the desegregated mm that puts golds in missions with non golds. So I'll always blame the golds for their crying in forums to desegregate, But the decision by staff to do this more than likely boils down to Money. I think they had to pay more for segregated districts, so its not just a matter of pop, Its a matter of Paying. Additionally I might add that, If we don't have segregation, then why on earth do we have threat levels. most of toxicity golds make revolves around belittling silvers and bronzes, as if gold make them the big wizard. Just remove threat levels, wont effect mm because gold get into almost every mission anyway. DEVEST

I think @VanilleKeks has a point, concerning NO real ramifications for using 3rd part tools. On one point, the solution would be to ban the offender to insure fair game play. APB has followed this Mantra for a some time.. Just like any other gaming company. The other argument is to segregate the offenders to match up with other offenders, assuming that all have reached the “Cheat Point” threshold. Citadel, may very well survive this approach, as their population’s high point, on any given day is around 350 players. Probably less time to wait for a “K” up mission to start. Jericho will have a problem, as their population on a good day is around 120. I hope Jericho's population decline is not because of players using 3rd party tools...... Smaller pool of players to create segregation pools based on “Cheat Points” A legit player, or even a segregated player will probably have to wait longer for a district match up in Jericho. Penalties: Penalties for using 3rd party tools to gain an advantage. A) Perma ban.. Lose character and Inventory. with a possible unban 2 or 3 years later. (the unban is not a guarantee) (Goal of the cheater is to test the efficacy of 3rd party tools, and to forward all ill-gotten gains to the primary account - Non-cheating account) (alt accounts are throw aways) Pros: Clean district for a very short window of time for competitive game play. (window of time has been around 3-10 days) Cons: Banned player starts new account with anon email of 20+ waiting to start up. (need to direct proceeds to Primary (non-cheating) account.) (money, weapons, etc) Report discrepancies to “Tool Maker” for updates. As Matt Scott has explained.. “Rinse & Repeat” B) Segregation: Players using 3rd party tools to gain advantage earn “Cheat Points” to create a segregation pool for match up. Might be effective depending on what server. Server with a larger player base might work. Question: If players using 3rd party tools to gain an advantage will only be segregated and not banned, or at the very least, lose some inventory, does that not “promote” the concept of…. “When in Rome”.. I mean, everyone could use 3rd party tools with no concerns of being banned. Would that not bring us back to competitive game play ? Albeit with the help of some 3rd party tools ? (this discussion should be interesting .. haha) C) Inventory Loss: Player achieves a certain threshold of “Cheat Points” Segregation and the following potential losses. Let’s use a Cheat Point score to 100. 1) 25-50 Segregation 2) 50-75 Segregation Loss of money & 2-3 inventory items (player receives email of Cheat Point notoriety) (they have 20+ email accounts, will they ever see the email ?) 3) 75-100 Segregation Loss of money & most of their inventory items Maintains a threshold of 75-100 for a period of time. Bank Wipe.. Also, let us keep track of who they are trading with. Co- Conspirators… or maybe the Primary account. Yeah, no punishment… I dunno, maybe we should all just jump in the pool.

What i got from the blog is dat theres not gonna be permanent ban accounts at all-all cheaters will get cheat points and they will be isolated from the rest of the community till they get rid of the points(stop cheating)and then will be able to play vs the rest once again The big problem i see with this is dat the trust inside the community about the fairness of the game will still be under doubt.Many players will still think dat most of the good players against them are cheating,simply because everyone already knows dat cheaters are allowed to play the game and they bounce back and forth-here and there..

Hello everyone, Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (11/20) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 6 to 10 hours. Patchnotes This weeks update ships a couple of balance changes as well as tweaks to certain time of days to decrease the brightness of the Skybox during those times. Skybox changes We have decreased the sun-light intensity during the following time of days to avoid cases in which the Sun could make the Skybox extremely bright. 5 AM 6 AM 9 AM 5 PM Weapon Balance STAR 556 'LCR' Health Damage per shot increased from 200 to 210. STAR 556 Health Damage per shot increased from 175 to 180. Reload time reduced from 2.8 to 2.4. Colby SNR Health Damage per shot increased from 334 to 370. Sprint delay decreased from 0.73s to 0.53s. Norsemen Accuracy at 10m improved from 33 to 32. Slightly reduced vertical and horizontal recoil. COBR-A Recovery delay decreased from 0.225s to 0.18s. FAR Maximum bloom reduced by 6%. ISSR-C 'Kingdom' Minimum damage range increased from 15m to 25m. Raptor 45 Reserve Ammo increased from 132 to 176. Joker SR-15 Carbine Accuracy at 10m improved from 24 to 22. RHD LS1 'Corsair' Reload time reduced from 0.7s to 0.5s. N-TEC 5 / Scoped N-TEC 5 / N-TEC 7 Jump modifier reduced from 30 to 18. Dev Note: In one of Little Orbit's earlier balancing efforts, we significantly reduced the accuracy of all N-TEC variants when jumping. This adjustment effectively addressed the overuse and effectiveness of jump shooting with the N-TEC, but it also made jumping with these weapons feel lackluster, even in close-range situations where it should remain a viable option. With this patch, we're bringing the jump modifier of all N-TEC variants back in line with other Assault Rifles, while still maintaining a noticeable drawback to account for the weapon's long-range capabilities. This adjustment is intended to be a modest improvement rather than a major buff. Combined with the other changes made to the N-TEC 5 over the years, this should ensure the weapon remains balanced and far from the dominant force it once was when jump shooting was overly effective. We'll closely monitor the N-TEC 5's performance following this change to ensure it doesn't overshadow other Assault Rifles, particularly those designed to excel at close range. Further adjustments will be made if necessary. Thank you for your patience during this period.

Then They Win. Getting Legits to quit, and making people angry or as you kids call it, 'Crying' . That is what they crave. So I would be taking away from my own fun and love of the Game, and giving them what they want. I also believe that the more legits that keep playing, albeit playing as cannon fodder, we are adding to the algorithm what normal people should be scoring or playing. I understand now why, certain people said sard was not active server side at that time. I understand why known hackers are still around and we are not seeing the results. I will admit I was furious at Matt over the unbanning. But after understanding what the end game will be for the hacker, I mean this point system is Better than seeing them banned. Ok so the points wear off after a while, So this means they either will not hack as much before being sanctioned, and afterward they will be forced to play legit, or switch accounts. So while playing legit they will get smeared and won't like that. They will either revert back to hacking or say the game is dead or boring and leave.

Wow, it took a while for an actual GM to respond this post. I'm not gonna waste my time reporting knowing that the average support ticket takes MONTHS to be solved, just for the cheater to dump his banned account and keep going with one of his many alts. I have the best option to solve this massive cheating issue and it only takes 1 step: Step 1: Use an anticheat that works.

Well, I did a support 2 months ago but like you said you did not see any problem. I'll try to explain what happened. One day I logged into my account and my weapon was gone, as I had bought for account, every time I create a new char, it goes to the email. After playing for inventory, the weapon simply disappears. Sorry for my english, I dont speak very well. I don't know when they come back, but I hope soon because I want my oca nano back.

There's probably some weird thing that the account of all those that should have gotten it, but didn't, have in common. Now it's just a matter of waiting until they find what that is.

All the premium should now have been sent out, should there still be missing premium please reach out to us as soon as possible. Matt posted about why it was chosen to be sent out to the accounts and not just as a code here: As this issue should now be resolved, I'll be locking the thread. ~@mayii

Hello. I constantly connect automatically. I was never manually connected. but I need to change the password because I can not join the game. but I do not know how to do it. because when I try with mail connected to steam, a new game account is opened to me. how I can connect manually. I have 2 characters. and I have cars. as high as level, please help -------------------------------------------- merhabalar lütfen bana biran önce yardım edebilir misiniz ? ben sürekli otomatik olarak bağlanıyordum oyuna hiçbirzaman manuel olarak girmedim. bir süredir oynamıyordum tekrar başlamak istedim fakat şifremin eski ve yeni bir şifre almam gerektiği hatası alıyorum. ben bu şifreyi nasıl değiştireceğim? mail adresim nedir? steam hesabıma bağlı olan mail ile girdim şifre değiştirdim fakar bana yeni bir oyun hesabı açılıyor

I agree. I found that I could login using my Steam u/p on the Armas store. But, my account is very new (past 2 weeks or so).

I dont think anyone is using our accounts. its probably a bug cause its impossible for my account to be used by anyone else since im the only one in this world who knows its password

I can't log in into my account 1. I allowed it thru the firewall 2.rebooted my modem(my phone) 3. I restarted the game. one thing is I use Advanced APBLuncher and when I updated the game it downloaded Direct X and installed it and after that, the error code 9# started showing up. is it the server or me? I couldn't find anything about server nor game update. so I assumed it was me so, please help me. I will Repair the see if it works.

"Computer scientist David Birti considered it fortunate at the time that their hacking activities have mainly been restricted to denial of service attacks and have not been as severe as password leakage yet." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derp_(hacker_group) DerpTrolling Hackers Leak Thousands of PSN, Windows Live & 2K Games Account Details

@L0pht "Error Code 10004 (The account is currently in use from another client)" Restart ur internet router and PC, should work. Edit// Or wait 30min might work too sometimes.

Tried to login today, the game told me i can't , showing the 11003 error code. I changed my password, still no way to login. Please fix this, it's a real bummer, i really wanna play :). I'm playing the game from steam, but my account might be older, i really don't remember when i made it. I can login to gamersfirst website just fine, only apb seems to act up.

When creating your Gamersfirst account, regardless if you log in via Steam or using your email and password, you should receive an email that allows you to verify the account. Did you get an email like that and did you click the link in that email? ~@mayii

If its the mobile authenticator thingy suddenly locking you out of your account after changing passwords, click the sync time button on the app on your phone. This worked for me.

He's been fast enough to remove the likes he gave himself to hide his accounts once again

Defeated? You mean the fact that you went as far as to relog multiple accounts? You disliked something for the sake of disliking because you didn't like that I stated my opinion on your post. Get your head if your patootie a wake up, you didn't defeat anything you just proved a point. Just keep up the stupidity, and you won't be around for long.

Though a Multihunter (or IP-Hunter) plugin to avoid multiple accounts for one person would be good tho.

That will barely work, and i never hidden myself. There should get ride of likes or dislikes, it can happen anyways but limited to 10 per account...

This happened at 12:13 Am, while I had a couple missions active over near Barret Manor. It wouldn't let me exit my vehicle, so I used the "mount" option and it didn't work either. I tried to exit the game to relog, that didn't work either. I force closed the game through taskmanager and restarted it. Now it says (Invalid account or password). I checked a few times to see if I accidentally spelled anything wrong but I didnt. I tried to reset my password and got this message after clicking the link in my e-mail Invalid Code The security code required to change your account's password is not valid or has expired.