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@MattScott So do to this person being false banned, and seeing known blatants still playing on my last visit to apb, I will not only not pay apb for anything, I will also not pay any game that uses EAC, including War Thunder. Regardless of If You do the Right thing and give Kerry his account back. Any Firm associating or consorting with EAC will not get a dime from me.

No fun allowed. Enjoy having no counter play when someone decides to run in the final segment. And if your response is "better designed missions" you missed that window by 10+ years. I don't care how jank it looks, I enjoyed nuking babies with a DMR that think they're safe in their sports cars. You can hardly do anything fun in game anymore since its been neutered to hell and back. We can't even launch ourselves onto roof tops any more outside of missions because they implemented the out of bounds function.

We reached a settlement with PLAION to end the *current* versions of APB Reloaded on XBOX ONE and Playstation 4. Both versions of the game are plagued with severe performance and gameplay issues. There is very little we can do directly. Most of the updates have to be done through PLAION. The XBOX version has already reached a point where several items are no longer supported and the system cannot be brought back online. Unfortunately, there is no way for PLAION to transfer the games to Little Orbit's control where we can better troubleshoot issues. There isn't even a way for us to directly message the console players due to GDPR rules. We're just hoping this announcement reaches as many people as possible, so they can explore migrating their characters if they want to. This was the only way to reset things. Just so I answer Skitty's question clearly. Little Orbit is clear to republish the games at any time under our own publishing account. However, we have a pretty full plate at the moment, so I don't see that happening any time soon.

That's what I was thinking. There used to be a Market for the black market for apb, back when the prices were much higher, the pop was much higher. Back when legends only came from random J-Boxes, n then they would pass the key code around. But now legends can be bought. The hacker has much less marketing opportunity now, than in the past. I mean look at me. Everyone hates me, i have lots of legends and a full whale boat full of stuff. Nobody has ever hacked my apb account. I have never D.L. any hacks, because not only is it Lying to myself, but I learned from facebook games that script writters/Hack sellers need to put a cookie on your pc for it all to work. That means that he can worm his way into your pc, Gee I wonder if thats how the EAC By-pass works.

Supports help is like getting rammed in the rear by a 2 ton bull. In all honesty it's more then likey screwed as support has a "who gives a shit" approach to handling everything around here, I'm shocked that they didn't out right threaten to ban you for account stealing

Nope, Thats what They did, they banned kerry one of two legits in all NA, I'm the other one. Still Golds in Bronze district so EAC don't ban actual hackers. So beings LO never listens to legits and only hax that wanted bronze unlocked. We don't address LO, We simply don't pay funds to any game using EAC. They give back Kerry's account n I'll consider paying again, if the game in question has anything worth purchasing. This also means that any game using EAC is full of hax, based on what I know from this game. They like Why are you always calling everyone hackers in my other game, n i'm like Well isn't it obvious, they use EAC so ya know most players have bypassed it and are hacking.

First things first, massive thanks for breaking the silence and coming forward with an AMA stream (though I do understand the reasons behind the silence as described in the recent blogpost; again, my condolences, and I wish the best for the future). As for the actual questions I would have, trying not to repeat the ones I've already seen here: For all of the love I have for the game as a whole, I'm also eager to point out that APB's first time user experience (FTUE) is absolutely abysmal. The tutorial system is clunky and uninviting; some time ago I'd managed to get a friend of mine to give the game a shot and he said he found my advice a lot more comprehensible than the tutorial menu. I remember that plans to improve FTUE were already brought up in the past, but approximately speaking: how much of a priority is improving FTUE? One of the things from APB's past which I would actually say was a good idea is the Refer-a-Friend system... on a conceptual level. Its implementation left a lot to be desired, owing largely to the fact that the actual invited players saw no profit from the system and the inviter got to reap the full benefits, including some really good items to get as account-bound. Would LO be willing to reintroduce the Refer-a-Friend system in some shape or form at some point? Otherwise, are there any plans to encourage or incentivize players to recommend the game to others? The interface of the game is honestly a bit dated in various ways. Besides having mechanical issues (the UI running on both Scaleform and Kismet being probably the biggest one, but there's also the reliance on non-descriptive bars instead of exact values) I think it's also showing its age visually and aesthetically. Are there any plans to modernize or otherwise update the game's user interface? I think that's it from me. Looking forward to the Q&A!

First off, Your Time isn't worth a chickens cluck. You chose to waste your worthless time just by coming to this forum. Second off, the only peps who play that stupid event are rerolls or low ranks that haven't gotten the awards yet, and I do not see any proof to support your accusation. They have nothing worth exploiting for, and Kerry's been around a long time so he wouldn't need to exploit for some halloween hat or gun skin. Furthermore, He is Not a Hacker, He is Not an Exploiter, Period. APB will not see a Dime from Me nor a microgram of respect until Kerry's account is restored, nor will any firm using EAC get a dime from me. As far as I'm concerned EAC is Malware designed to accept and over look people with aimbots and teleports, and only targets Legit players who refuse to buy such hacks. Kerry was the only 'Other Legit' in Apb next to me, n U Dirty Crooks Banned Him. @MattScott Not a Dime not a penny until this mans account is restored. As far as I'm concerned its EAC Eazy Active Cheat. I will Boycott any Firm using EAC ie Warthunder or any other Firm.

Unfortunately that didn't help either, I even made a very simple password to eliminate the possibility of error, but the system still says my password or email is wrong. Support has been silent for 4 days, I've written three more emails to them but they don't reply. I think that I will not get access to my account anymore and it is very frustrating because I invested real money there and I have many memories with it. I will not create a new account because I don't want to go all the way back. I cared a lot about my character and I certainly won't be able to create the exact same one. It's a shame GamersFirst doesn't care about their players, the game is almost dead and they are making it even harder for old players to come back. Thank you for the tips!

unfortunately LO supports cheating, they unbanned cheaters and let cheaters play on stream even after being permanently banned. (one streamer has been banned over 40 times permanently, and still just makes new accounts and continues cheating and playing with cheaters) they only care about banning people for crashing their cars into people and blocking objectives (even though its literally an open world game where that is supposed to be a thing). the GMs are all weirdos and the dev too, they don't actually care about the game or know what they are doing with it. they are just happy to have a badge and power over this dead game. similarly SPCT has cheaters in it. and the "APB community tournament" has cheaters and cheater supporters as both judges and casters... pretty hilarious. but they all just circlejerk and pretend that they are legit, even though all the legit good players have already quit apb years ago. so now this game is just cheaters vs cheaters, and devs/admins are just all weirdos playing it for powertrip and passive income from ARMAS sales pay2win guns/cars, and overpriced clothes.

Strictly personal? What is that?? Just admit someone screwed up and banned my account for no reason. For EAC/support/moderators to say I'm using some third party tool, not show any evidence, and then effectively tell me to shut up? Nobody from support, moderators, or Matt has done one thing to help me out. A player for years that has not hacked. Thanks for nothing. Absolutely pathetic.

Lol, you clearly don't know how this kinda things work. The guy whole stole my data simply put my various social media/accounts login info for sale on a black market and those who are interested (i.e. your friendly APB dumbass) can buy whichever they want. The person how got the data prolly has not idea what APB is, the person who bought my login does though. Again, your comment just shows you've never dealt with this event in your life. Good for you ig. Also, I've answered all of their questions are accurately as possible and always mentioned when I wasn't 100% sure about my answer (and why I wasn't). Funny thing is my answers are the same (or even more accurate) as those of an earlier ticket opened like 1 year and a half ago, which was dealt with no issue at all. Funny how double standards work.

An update to the hacker issue. They have finally recovered my stolen weapons but I guess are not aloud to tell me who stole from my account and what actions have been taken apparently. But Im having issues with opening the the attachments they send me in my mail to restore lost items, Im getting error code 740009 everytime I try to open them and then the attachment disappears and no weapon in my inventory

I grabbed it account bound. Got a Huntress out of a gold box as well so money wise it all worked out.

I wanted Mirage for Dodge Charger look. Well... I dunno if I want it anymore, the more I hear about it... Broken customization (because not being able to install even police light is in my opinion criminal), it looks KINDA like Dodge Charger and not really at the same time (hell even GTA V did this better with their copy of that car), it's got the worst of two traits of both Moirai and Vegas aka. bad grip - it corners like patootie and is unpredictable at that... most of time you drift into corners even if you don't really want to (It's supposed to be AWD? Where?) and to add cherry on top it's exclusive to ARMAs so I couldn't even try out it for free (used my side account for that because I still wasn't sure if I will use that car at all on my main). They basically let out WIP of car into game and charge full price for it. Coywolf is 10x better alternative than it.

Can someone please explain to me how this works, so if I (an ex average silver player) gets teamed up with 1 bronze, 1 freshly new player(still in their T stage of life) and another silver, thats 4 none golds, 2 inexperienced players and 2 semi experienced players, how is it that we have to face a full team of gold's, sometimes legitimate and sometimes questionable? With no means of winning or even enjoying the experience of playing? Like in what world does that make sense? And then if you choose to not play you're then considered to be "Griefing" and risk being banned... Like what are the choices in that situation? Play and have a very miserable time and not want to play again? or don't play and be labelled a griefer and get reported and banned? Or find a way to get kicked purposefully(I've been told that's also not really allowed so again you risk being banned)... Or do you call backup and get another less experienced player who now has to suffer alongside you? And even when you get a gold they can't carry the entire team and it's not necessarily their job to do that it's a team game, but what do you do when your team is consistently handed stacked opponents and again remember, sometimes it's a skill difference which MM is supposed to manage but doesn't and sometimes it's a suspicious advantage, macros, potential cheats etc... what do you as an average player do? Cause all the options seem to end with you risking your account or just feeding them kills, no middle ground. I personally don't need my account back as the game won't be any different if I were to return but I'm just curious on what they wanted me to do, quite? Cause that's all that's honestly left, a lot may not relate to this which is fine but for us average players who used to enjoy the game when there was actual balance I want to know what's meant to happen? You have players who shoot through glass, know where you are no matter where you go, don't miss shots and when I say they don't miss I mean they'll jump up over a ledge or something and still hit that sniper shot effortlessly, you can't tell me that you're expected to enjoy games like that? I mean that's effectively what the TOS seem to want, they want you to stick around for every game, including the illegitimate ones which to me doesn't make sense. A new player used to face similar skilled players about 4 years back but now regardless who you are, you'll potentially play the most try hard gold to ever have set foot on the game just cause you pressed K at the same time? My first ever game on a new acc was literally me as a T, a silver, a bronze and a gold(who didn't even want to play cause he had me... a T, a silver and a bronze vs 3 max rank gold's, to an extent I don't blame him but that then leaves the rest of us to do what? I just don't understand the logic behind punishing those who don't want to and can't play against people who have about 100 times the experience and or they're cheating... Like what do you do? I guess according to TOS I was rightfully banned... to which I say, it's been a fun 9 years for the most part, I hope the money I spent did some good for someone, it is what it is at the end of the day I guess...

in this type of situation i will reset my password, But i use one finger and word and write down each letter as i go and make sure not to hit space afterwords. That way i can ensure the password is right If that does not work my only guess is they locked the account for what ever reason. Support is ran by a bunch of children who have a "high and mighty" attitude when approaching anything

I don't know what to do. I'm new here now, but I tried the game way back. Sorry if this isn't formatted correctly or something. I wanted certain cosmetics so I put a few bucks into g1c points or whatever. When I go to actually buy anything with them it just says "Your account is not active" with seemingly no way to actually spend the credits I payed money for. Even though I just added credits to my account. Even though I've been playing the game. I tried to validate my email in case that's the problem, but it never sends a validation email, even though they'll send me emails for other things. It's the correct email. When I try to contact support, when selecting APB at the support screen, all it does is refresh the page. Nothing happens. I can't contact support for some reason. I've tried on multiple computers and laptops now. I don't know what to do. I feel like they just stole my money.

I'd like to add more to my post if you're okay with this, this is more of a question others want to ask actually. What would happen if someone else already gotten my name for example over on PC? Will I be given a free name change or will they have to change their username if they took it after I did register it on console? A lot of people care about whatever dictionary name they have since that's basically part of their personality over there so they just want to keep it like that. What if we provide transaction IDs for our G1C purchases? I've counted everything I've bought for APB and I have a rough estimate of 350$ that I've spent on the game, if anything what would that even give me when it comes down to Loyalty Rewards? This is also a question that needs an answer since you might already know about the fact that some people like to keep their stuff inside their mailbox, for example symbols and clothing. What if the player that wants to migrate from console to PC doesn't have a PC? Will that mark the end of their character or could there be some attempt by another team for at least not letting that happen? This is pretty much all I have on my mind when it comes down to questions towards migrating accounts from console to PC. Have a nice day

Players were banned for no reason, they have to return the accounts banned by the EAC, and then install a powerful anti-cheat, this EAC is horrible.

So what I'm about to say is not aimed at you directly. But as a whole its reflective of many people. Don't take it personally. To be fair it's not BE or EAC fault. People have become to ignorant (I say this politely) to the fact that "PC's / Computers" are all different. Be it house to house, and even country. They make a game or application to work to a set standard. Os version and hardware. Which is why they publish a "required minimum spec" to play a game, even at this spec there is "**" due to the minimum spec that the game was tested too. . It would be impossible for a games house (Devs) to test a game to every single possible variant of hardware and then again with every variant of os with updates and then all over again with every variant of antivirus and again with every.. . You see we're that's going.. it would be millions of variants to test. This is were if you as a person that doesn't want to bother with trouble shooting fixing etc to your own pc then get a console. That really is the simple answer. By all accounts any game launched on console should work on the console 100% with out failure and thus if it doesn't a refund should be awarded as its faulty. With "pc" this isn't so as you are knowing buying or signing up to a game what is not guaranteed to work for your sole "pc". Pc gaming community is and has always been about: knowing, understanding or learning the computer you built or bought and trouble shooting to correct or fix an issue. Educating your self and getting a sense of pride/achievement. Some people don't want to which is totally fine. Doesn't make it the companies fault. To many people now expect something to work or for someone else to find/make the fix and expect it to be over night. I would 90% of the APB players have no issues relation to what you do. So that says LO BE or EAC has no issues.

Way too late. I had moved my account to Nexon, but then missed the date to move it to Papaya. I don't recommend playing it now. The netcode was switched from peer to peer, to peer to server. There's no more kill trading, and hit registration is god awful. I loved the p2p netcode because when you killed the other player and you didn't die, it meant you reacted first on both your screen and your opponents screen. They removed kill trading. Now close gunfights comes down to who the server decides to favor.

It's been a while but the time wasn't wasted. I assume it would be fair to make an update and talk a bit. Thanks to everyone who replied (even these who was making jokes) - I believe it played a role First of all - my friend got his accounts back! It was indeed a falseban and every my assumption in the original post turned out to be correct. Image ghost remains in the grey area and I would not recommend anyone using it - but EAC wasn't supposed to ban players for such stuff. It was indeed setted up incorrectly and been protecting the game not from actual cheats but pretty much from everything. And yes, cases like "banned for opening telegram" Indeed took place. Investigation and sorting continued until the end of last year. I got in touch with many players with similar cases (image ghost specifically and other bans that looked random at first), and as far as i know, everyone got their unbans. So I'd call this a succes. Thanks everytone once again. Now a few commentaries: This is not "unknown", the oppsite - it is wery weill known in the creators community. Every single APB designer I know persnally used it at least once. About "free software" - image ghost was created in the era on windows 7 and basically had no analogs at that time. And been lying on everyone's harddrives every since. Imagine - creating stuff is the only reason you play this game. You've been inactive for a while and finally decide to hop into social and make some symbols, what would you do: A) Run the simple program you've been using for ten years that you have on your hands and there is never been a single case of it being bannable or prohibited OR B) For some reason go google the alternatives just becuase why not? I may be wrong, but I never seen any warnings. Just common "don't use 3d party software" is not a warning in this case. But I do agree with you on the "communication" point. This tool does not hook into anything. It does only 2 thigs - make an image above all windows and make the window semi-transparent. It doesnt even work when running the game fullscreen. As turned out - image ghost was just "one of" - many players got banned for other random stuff. Anticheat is not a magic button - you need to work with it. When you eat oranges for 10 years you dont consider sudden death from citrus allergy as a risk. I have like 20 3rd party programs running in the background every time a play, and every and each one of them has as much nothing to do with the game as image ghost. If i'm risking my account every time i dont use separate clean OS without anything but apb installed - i'd rather not play the game at all, you know? Yes, discussion of an existing and serious problem was the perfect place for silly jokes. To be clear - the vast majority of my creations throughout these years were original - i wouldnt be a tiny bit bothered if this tool became prohibited. This topic wasn't about whinning for my friend or this exact program specifically, but about overall incorrectly implemented anti cheat, poor communication, irresponsibility, and development team indifference. In the end all my guesses were confirmed and the problem was solved. But cookie being sarcastic and mocking everyone insted of trying to help is the perfect reflection of everything I was talking about. That's sad and dissapointing. Don't look for a double bottom here, that's called i n c o m p e t e n c e

1. they didn't ask me to provide any document and/or proof of identity. Were I had been asked to do so, I would've complied with no problem. 2. they can literally check on my account's trade log to see if the "story" I'm telling is backed up by facts. 3. again, I'm literally willing to give up all my money, cars and modifications if that mean I can at least have the legendaries I've grinded for for years back. How would this "scam" be on my favour? 4. sorry but it's a bit funny at this point. If someone breaks into your social medias and starts posting shit, your friends are gonna notify you and/or you'll get weird things happening everytime you try looking at your phone. Me knowing about the new features is simply me periodically checking the "news feed" section of Discord's channel and knowing about the game's updates. 5. what you say about scammers does unfortunately make sense but it's very sad that actual issues like mine are less likely to be aknowledge as a result. At the end of the day I'm fine without APB, but both me and the game company lose from this and only 2 pieces of shit gain a benefit from the story.

I doubt LO had any input on the recent bans. I know someone who bought an APB account. First logging in they were not trade locked. They were able to trade all the weapons and mods to their main account. The purchased account got banned a few days later, but the other accounts they have did not get banned. Same PCs, no VPN. If LO went by IP or HWIDs, you'd think all accounts would have been banned.