APB Reloaded 15-Year Anniversary

[GhosT 1313]

On 6/30/2025 at 4:20 PM, Frosi said:

I've been going through the initial reactions and feedback about the Leaderboards and would like to address some worries.

 

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Are you guys really sure that in this time and situation of APB, a leaderboard is the right thing to focus 90% of your work on?

 

Because that's, and i'm sorry for saying it like that - probably the worst thing you could focus on right now. It seems so random with APBs current situation. And a few JTs won't make people like it. Add daily challenges like many other games do if you want to hook players with JT, but not a leaderboard that strictly requires turbo sweating and punishes people for playing casually or having fun.

 

The game needs actual content, not a leaderboard that'll just harm the average mission flow and player behaviour.

[SiiN 0]

1 hour ago, GhosT said:

 

Are you guys really sure that in this time and situation of APB, a leaderboard is the right thing to focus 90% of your work on?

 

Because that's, and i'm sorry for saying it like that - probably the worst thing you could focus on right now. It seems so random with APBs current situation. And a few JTs won't make people like it. Add daily challenges like many other games do if you want to hook players with JT, but not a leaderboard that strictly requires turbo sweating and punishes people for playing casually or having fun.

 

The game needs actual content, not a leaderboard that'll just harm the average mission flow and player behaviour.

this guy gets it 

[TackoGirl 130]

1 hour ago, GhosT said:

The game needs actual content, not a leaderboard that'll just harm the average mission flow and player behaviour.

 

what he says! 100% you speak from my soul.

[iRawwwN 290]

On 6/30/2025 at 4:19 PM, MACKxBOLAN said:

 

why not? all the golds say it's easy to get gold, so it shouldn't be a problem for them. 

Hi silvers and bronze would have all their losses removed from the pool of wins and losses, 

so they wouldn't have that to hold them back. 

because im selfish

 

elo reset should be a thing tbh, but i dont know if we have enough pop to actually calibrate anything half decent.

[GhosT 1313]

44 minutes ago, iRawwwN said:

because im selfish

 

elo reset should be a thing tbh, but i dont know if we have enough pop to actually calibrate anything half decent.

 

Nah, it's just anyone vs anyone now (which is the best kind of matchmaking - change my mind) because the average population of both worlds combined is about 300 players. There's nothing to properly matchmake. Threats can be removed and replaced with the character rank instead.

Edited 14 hours ago by GhosT

[cowhorseman 446]

For match making a girl i was talking to who has been playing apb (asked to remain unamed) had an idea feel would work.

 

For each player you fight a system would be in place keeping track of kills, only kills, This should lead to you getting into matches with those around your skill and should work with the fact only like 100 people play on NA alone. how she said it would work is that if you kill a player 50 times while they killed  you 1 or 2 times you would not get matched, and vice verus. if you kill someone 5 times and they kill you 5 times you will get placed with them more often. She was hoping this would places the hacks and sweats with each other while the caueasl will be stuck and the new players will be with new players to keep them from quitting. as it does suck when the ever loving match making thinks that i want to be stuck with two T crims agaisnt three golds. two of which are known hackers and the other is a major sweat.

 

I know LO won't read this but it's out there now so on the whole off chance they could get a monkeys patootie.

[koenyboy500 66]

I presume you take pride in stating that but for the future, you should just skip that first sentence.

Psychological tells there.

 

Just a universal tip ^,-

[Bruhd101 27]

53 minutes ago, cowhorseman said:

For match making a girl i was talking to who has been playing apb (asked to remain unamed) had an idea feel would work.

 

For each player you fight a system would be in place keeping track of kills, only kills, This should lead to you getting into matches with those around your skill and should work with the fact only like 100 people play on NA alone. how she said it would work is that if you kill a player 50 times while they killed  you 1 or 2 times you would not get matched, and vice verus. if you kill someone 5 times and they kill you 5 times you will get placed with them more often. She was hoping this would places the hacks and sweats with each other while the caueasl will be stuck and the new players will be with new players to keep them from quitting. as it does suck when the ever loving match making thinks that i want to be stuck with two T crims agaisnt three golds. two of which are known hackers and the other is a major sweat.

 

I know LO won't read this but it's out there now so on the whole off chance they could get a monkeys patootie.

You reminded had 2 matches where this exact situation happened, what even happened to 1v2s because the game paired me with a gold against 2 trainees, That gold was just stomping on them while I let them kill me when they came close.

Another one prior was much worse, when this time it was a low level silver and a green (green did play COD so he had that dawg in him with the N-HVR) vs me and some blatant cheater, there wasn't much I could do outside of being a blocker like in NFS carbon or pretending to be a free kick wall so that I take the hits and that green snipes his head off or the silver dude doing their thing

 

Just for the love of god, at least bring back handicaps

Edit:

What an talking about game doesn't even want to do a silver 2v2 especially when it was like me and a bunch of other silvers in a district and we never got a match at all

Edited 11 hours ago by Bruhd101

[vsb 6198]

17 hours ago, GhosT said:

 

Are you guys really sure that in this time and situation of APB, a leaderboard is the right thing to focus 90% of your work on?

 

Because that's, and i'm sorry for saying it like that - probably the worst thing you could focus on right now. It seems so random with APBs current situation. And a few JTs won't make people like it. Add daily challenges like many other games do if you want to hook players with JT, but not a leaderboard that strictly requires turbo sweating and punishes people for playing casually or having fun.

 

The game needs actual content, not a leaderboard that'll just harm the average mission flow and player behaviour.

the man literally said it’s not strictly limited to turbo nerds 

 

even if it was, a leaderboard with fight club challenges might actually get some sweaty players to switch off ntec/scout sometimes  

 

and leaderboards are probably just dusty rtw code that matt had to spend a few hours vibe coding to update - minimal effort for large(ish) return is a good thing

 

 

Edited 56 minutes ago by vsb