06/06 MATCHMAKING PATCH ANNOUNCEMENT

[MageLO 136]

Hello everyone,
 

Our standard weekly maintenance has been postponed and will instead be held this Thursday (06/06) starting at 9 AM UTC. We expect this Maintenance period to last up to 10 hours.
 

PC CHANGES/FIXES
 

This Patch introduces major changes to the Matchmaking system. To get the full picture of what has changed and why please read our Blogpost about it here.
 

Matchmaking:

• Moved all Matchmaking services from the World server to its own dedicated server.
• Reintroduced Backup calls for overmatched teams.
• Added a new form of Backup call called “Escalation” which allows missions to expand up to 10 players on each side.
• Fixed multiple bugs with the Matchmaker.

 

Thank you for your patience during this period.

 

[iRawwwN 283]

no patience here man

 

i had to log off tonight

 

just log on to asylum

 

real eyes realize

 

these players are not real, they see through walls

 

r255 no shame

 

 

Edited June 4 by iRawwwN

[MACKxBOLAN 431]

I suppose there is no immediate plan or intent to finish or fix the mirage anytime soon.

Pity. Matt said the fix, or software modules were just sitting there waiting to be put in. 

I feel like making some insult like, I'll be dead long before LO fixes that car, will not help 

anyone or the issue at hand.

 It doesn't seem to be an exaggeration though. 

Beings that LO generally has completely backward priority's

You first have sales of the broken items.

Then we break MM so noone can get mission quickly.

Ya let golds and hackers who are mostly gold into bronze district.

Then you blame the MM for having golds fighting bronzes and T's.

Then You wanna call foul of EAC when We (Legits) told you it wasn't gonna work.

Ya won't resegregate keeping the hackers with hackers and legits with legits and fixing MM 

all in one whack. Nope Were gonna make sure every match has not just golds running it, but 

were gonna call the entire district of hacking golds into the mission to farm legits

After a couple years we'll find some pos anticheat to replace eac as a token AC, to make 

the legits shut up, then sometime in the 2030s we'll get around to putting cop lights on the mirage 

that are just sitting there waiting.

DESEGREGATE/DEVEST STOP REWARDING HACKERS WITH GOLD 

REMOVE THREATS AND FIX THE CAR 

[BLAGODAREN 0]

when will the server open?

[Yapopal 168]

As expected, the missions were broken. There was also a loss of performance, similar to the one that appears in Asylum. Great job LO.

[BlatMan 711]

The performance loss is Windows 10. It's garbage at translating DX9. Little Orbit should add the latest version of DXVK to the game, so we can use Vulkan. It works great on Linux, but for some dumb reason it's blocked in Windows by EAC.

 

On Linux with DXVK, the game runs consistently. No loss in performance over time. It still stutters due the garbage collection, but that's unavoidable. On Windows 10, it starts out at 145+ fps, then slowly goes down till it's unplayable. Can't play more than 2 missions before it's too low.

 

Same problem on two drastically different PCs.

 

PC 1 - CPU: Xeon W3680, RAM: 24GB DDR3, GPU: GTX 1080
PC 2 - CPU: AMD X5700X3D, RAM: 32GB DDR4, GPU: RX 6600

Edited June 7 by BlatMan

[Yapopal 168]

And let's make sure that 40 people participate in the mission.  Great plan Walter, reliable as a Swiss watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJXYiMNtyo&t=36s

Edited June 7 by Yapopal

[ninjarrrr 255]

16 hours ago, BlatMan said:

PC 1 - CPU: Xeon W3680, RAM: 24GB DDR3, GPU: GTX 1080

 

 as if this game even starts on x58 platform

[TheMessiah 430]

feedback: limit the escalation/missions in general till 6v6 like max

[Queen of Love 453]

Best MM ever.  

Now there is a lot of fun and there is more chance to defeat the cheaters !
THANK YOU  
I love APB as usual  but now more ! 

 

Merged.

 

On 6/7/2024 at 8:52 PM, TheMessiah said:

feedback: limit the escalation/missions in general till 6v6 like max

NO.
Increase it to 12 vs 12 instead  

[BlatMan 711]

2 hours ago, ninjarrrr said:

 as if this game even starts on x58 platform

It runs surprisingly well for what it is, at least on Linux. Rarely goes below 120fps. It makes sense. This game was released when X58 was considered the high end platform. Only thing lacking on X58 is AVX, but from early testing, compiling with AVX support didn't improve performance, so Matt decided to not use it so people with old platforms, like those in South America with less access to high end PCs, can still play.

[MACKxBOLAN 431]

It is a Good Update. Mission wait time is way down now. 

I think 12v12 is light, It should be at least 20v20 or more.

I also think everyone should be lit up and shootable, 

faction v faction at all times with the missions also like they are. 

NPC's should be lightly armed and have shoot outs with each other

and we should have a Melee and fire bombs so I can Burn them Alll 

[sajad 0]

make a reason to bring back the old players ... i want to play again

[Queen of Love 453]

21 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

It is a Good Update. Mission wait time is way down now. 

I think 12v12 is light, It should be at least 20v20 or more.

I also think everyone should be lit up and shootable, 

faction v faction at all times with the missions also like they are. 

NPC's should be lightly armed and have shoot outs with each other

and we should have a Melee and fire bombs so I can Burn them Alll 

Zombi district? 

 

[LAriHUE 0]

I love the big lobby wars (escalation)!

[Mitne 724]

Sounds good to me. I always enjoyed district devolving into pretty much fight club.

Make it less more problematic if cheaters are playing and win/loss is way more less predictable. Although that can be damning for win spree activity... still...

[MACKxBOLAN 431]

43 minutes ago, Mitne said:

if cheaters are playing

90% are blatant cheats, and there is no AC or Report.

So it is War it is not about the obj or mission.

Its about killing as many hackers as you can before the time runs out.

The sooner LO provides aim assist or LO version of smooth aim, available to 

all veterans the better. Until then I do things my own way.

So I risk my account, only legits are gonna get banned cuz LO 

favors the hackers, So Ban me then. Im gonna DO what I have to Do.

Tired of LO catering to criminals.

 They have nerfed kevlar so it takes the same number of bullets to kill 

with kev 3 as it takes to kill me on fragile, n ya need fragile cuz the servers 

run so patoottie that you run slow all the time, whilst the golds speed hack 

and get away with it. Then sit in chat n call names of people who arent hackers

or buying into their preteen retoric.

The Back up option is good but they dint fix the basis of mm.

its still a bunch of golds on one side starting out vs a bunch of bronze 

cuz LO let them into bronze district n then lets them hack with no consequences.

From the looks of it, they let all the actual hackers back in but not the legits they banned. 

U people get not a Dime until I am granted the same hax as u let them have, for free. 

[The Abominable GMan 5]

11 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

They have nerfed kevlar so it takes the same number of bullets to kill 

with kev 3 as it takes to kill me on fragile

funny you say that, I had some idiot roleplaying as a stereotypical chinese player while using speedhacks and godmode and he was smugly saying he "had slow" because of KI3. i didn't know such shit still exists


the playercount suddenly rising is nice. the matchmaking being basically removed and replaced with a 10v10 explosive deathmatch (whenever the automatically picked group leader decides to escalate) instead of playing 2v2 against a true gold catgirl and a newbie is nice. seeing more ntec play instead of braindead obir/oscar/manic/condor/csg spam is (somewhat) nice. seeing no shitty objectives on waterfront (although that might just be luck/placebo) and no german fortress is nice. all these changes make the game more fun, but only for sporadic reinstalls during seasonal events MAYBE, and even less so just for the fun of playing the game itself. there is nothing in the game to get you to keep playing.

 

i'm still sitting on some of my 2016 armas gift boxes from the last armas event, because there have been no more armas events. i'm still not level 185 on my second character (not to mention my third) because tier 4 sucks the fun out of progression and tier 5 sucks the life out of it. i just made rifleman 10 last night. i have never owned a legendary weapon in my life because the grind is too insane. hell, i only still play this game because a random dude mailed me $2m+, his coywolf and his growl before he quit. the only time i ever got gold was playing for fun in a full LTL squad with a german tryhard who'd cry hacks at anything. there's nothing rewarding about playing this game as it currently exists aside from gaining lots of JT very rarely

[Yapopal 168]

Please give the players a choice! Many team leaders do not understand the consequences of calling for reinforcements.
Please give the players the opportunity to leave the mission!