12/24 MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT

[MageLO 350]

Hello everyone,

 

Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (12/24) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 6 to 8 hours.

 

Thank you for your patience.

[raging 10]

Six to eight hours for maintenance and for what.. when will there be patch notes i mean its not like you're banning the known cheaters in the game so why would it take that long.. I mean as it states "standard" so patch notes would be helpful so we know what was done and what was fixed say like GFAC ie: get it working or maybe the match making considering it is considerably broken..

[sweetLemonade 133]

11 hours ago, raging said:

 i mean its not like you're banning the known cheaters in the game so why would it take that long.

Let's assume the "cheaters" (95% sure it's just players who beat you at that given time point of you drawing your conclusion or are mechanically better than you altogether) get banned.
What you expect to happen afterwards? Do you think that they'll simply leave the game? You're only fueling / creating a blatant reroll and potentially removing a financial resource that sustains the game.
There's nothing they can do, especially not since those "cheaters" (95% sure you're referring to decent/good players) are willing to sustain the game financially.
Simply get mechanically better, find good teammates and play the game.
If you're not willing to do so, leave it and let the game run it's course.
 

11 hours ago, raging said:

maybe the match making considering it is considerably broken..

The game's population is made up of 200 users at best (spread across NA & EU)
How do you expect matchmaking to not be "broken"? The game is being kept up by veteran players.

Both of these complaints are rooted in the fact that the game never separated the competitive & casual crowd in separate queues since it's inception.

I sincerely don't understand these complaints every time someone writes them. They're borderline delusional & lack any concrete thought.

Edited Wednesday at 08:49 PM by sweetLemonade

[raging 10]

I apricate your thoughts and will take them on board..

[EC2Jonathan 28]

My apologies for the late approval, my mom got me 6 mcdoubles for christmas(McMas).

MCD APPROVES THIS POST!

 

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[MACKxBOLAN 487]

On 12/23/2025 at 12:07 PM, MageLO said:

Thank you

Magelo will there be any more Elf sightings this weekend ??  

[Yapopal 212]

On 12/24/2025 at 11:49 PM, sweetLemonade said:

I sincerely don't understand these complaints every time someone writes them. They're borderline delusional & lack any concrete thought.

Do you need specifics?

Specifics: The general point of view is that the average player dies from gun five shots.

The point of view of the average gambler: I was killed with a pistol using one shot.

The killer's point of view: I put five bullets in him.

Why do these two players describe the situation differently? Because this game is broken, rapid-fire pistol shooting breaks moving animations. The server does not provide information to the victim gradually, but in an instant. The health interface doesn't have time to work.

All the players at the top of the leaderboard are essentially bug users. They exploit all kinds of vulnerabilities in the game, turning the gameplay into the contents of a cesspool. But the administration ignores this, they have more important things to do. They're busy shoveling another pile under their feet. They don't have the resources. All their efforts to improve the game are destroyed by the players themselves.

A streamer mode has been added to the game. The developers spent time on this. To advertise and promote the game. Have you seen the streams of this game? It's just impossible to watch. This is anti-advertising!

That's why this game has such a bad reputation.

That's why the most popular reviews about this game contain complaints about cheaters.

Edited Friday at 10:23 PM by Yapopal

[cowhorseman 458]

2 hours ago, Yapopal said:

Do you need specifics?

Specifics: The general point of view is that the average player dies from gun five shots.

The point of view of the average gambler: I was killed with a pistol using one shot.

The killer's point of view: I put five bullets in him.

Why do these two players describe the situation differently? Because this game is broken, rapid-fire pistol shooting breaks moving animations. The server does not provide information to the victim gradually, but in an instant. The health interface doesn't have time to work.

All the players at the top of the leaderboard are essentially bug users. They exploit all kinds of vulnerabilities in the game, turning the gameplay into the contents of a cesspool. But the administration ignores this, they have more important things to do. They're busy shoveling another pile under their feet. They don't have the resources. All their efforts to improve the game are destroyed by the players themselves.

A streamer mode has been added to the game. The developers spent time on this. To advertise and promote the game. Have you seen the streams of this game? It's just impossible to watch. This is anti-advertising!

That's why this game has such a bad reputation.

That's why the most popular reviews about this game contain complaints about cheaters.

Remember. there not cheating. they just have x years of game player and just know exactly where you are 24/7 and thats why they never miss a shot. The anti-cheat works fine! and there isn't isn't any bugs or exploits at all. Trust me i got a pilot license off of temu. 

[sweetLemonade 133]

3 hours ago, Yapopal said:

Do you need specifics?

Specifics: The general point of view is that the average player dies from gun five shots.

The point of view of the average gambler: I was killed with a pistol using one shot.

The killer's point of view: I put five bullets in him.Why do these two players describe the situation differently? Because this game is broken, rapid-fire pistol shooting breaks moving animations. The server does not provide information to the victim gradually, but in an instant. The health interface doesn't have time to work.

Sounds to me as if you're having a severe network latency & system latency disadvantage and aren't able to keep up with better players
Yes, the tick rate is abhorrent and archaic by today's standards, but that's not the issue you have.
 

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All the players at the top of the leaderboard are essentially bug users. They exploit all kinds of vulnerabilities in the game, turning the gameplay into the contents of a cesspool. But the administration ignores this, they have more important things to do. They're busy shoveling another pile under their feet. They don't have the resources. All their efforts to improve the game are destroyed by the players themselves.

A streamer mode has been added to the game. The developers spent time on this. To advertise and promote the game. Have you seen the streams of this game? It's just impossible to watch. This is anti-advertising!

That's why this game has such a bad reputation.

That's why the most popular reviews about this game contain complaints about cheaters.

Wow, a PvP game has players which want to play the game at a competitive level! Such a shameful act!
This write-up of yours reinforces my idea of them not separating casual & competitive crowd early on to be a fatal mistake from the RTW & later RP team even further.
None of those things you've mentioned are the main or side culprit of the "bad reputation" this game gained.

[Yapopal 212]

8 hours ago, sweetLemonade said:

Sounds to me as if you're having a severe network latency & system latency disadvantage and aren't able to keep up with better players
Yes, the tick rate is abhorrent and archaic by today's standards, but that's not the issue you have.
 

Wow, a PvP game has players which want to play the game at a competitive level! Such a shameful act!
This write-up of yours reinforces my idea of them not separating casual & competitive crowd early on to be a fatal mistake from the RTW & later RP team even further.
those things you've mentioned are the main or side culprit of the "bad reputation" this game gained.

There is such a thing as common sense. There is a lack of common sense in many things in this game. If we describe the situation using the example of chess, the situation is approximately as follows:
- The developer made a chessboard.
-An ordinary player who wants to play this game places the pieces on the board and makes the first move with a pawn.
-"ProfessiAnal" players sweep all the pieces off the board, grab the board and hit the skull of an ordinary player.
The professionals won the game. The game is over. An ordinary player goes to the forum and writes about the problems of the game. Or he concludes that he was beaten by cheaters. installs cheats, log in to the game, and goes into a ban.
ProfessiAnals, in between battles on the boards, go to the forum and start laughing and accusing an ordinary player in comments that he does not know how to play, he has problems with the network, and so on.

 

And another problem is that developers listen specifically to "professiAnals". Literally, all the innovations added to the game recently are focused on "professiAnals". Developers create an environment that is beneficial to professionals. That's why the game has been forgotten for many years. A normal player with a sense of common sense and at least some respect for others will not play this toxic piece of an incomprehensible substance.

[lesbianrus 7]

On 12/24/2025 at 11:49 PM, sweetLemonade said:

Предположим, что «читеры» (на 95% уверены, что это просто игроки, которые победили тебя в тот момент, когда ты сделал вывод, или вообще лучше тебя в механике) будут забанены.
Чего вы ожидаете потом? Думаете, они просто покинут игру? Вы лишь подпитываете / создаёте явный переброс и потенциально лишаете финансового ресурса, который поддерживает игру.
Они ничего не могут сделать, особенно учитывая, что эти «читеры» (на 95% уверены, что вы имеете в виду хороших игроков) готовы поддерживать игру финансово.
Просто улучшай механику, найди хороших товарищей по команде и играй по правилам.
Если вы не готовы это делать, оставьте игру и дайте игре идти своим чередом.
 

Население игры состоит максимум из 200 пользователей (распределено по Северной Америке и Европе).
Как вы ожидаете, что подбор игроков не будет «сломан»? Игру поддерживают опытные игроки.

Обе эти претензии основаны на том, что игра никогда не делила соревновательную и казуальную аудиторию в отдельные очереди с самого начала.

Я искренне не понимаю эти жалобы каждый раз, когда кто-то их пишет. Они на грани бреда и лишены конкретных мыслей.

Why are there 200 people online? Is it because there is no anti-cheat in the game? This is the only online game in the world where there is no anti-cheat!

[sweetLemonade 133]

9 hours ago, lesbianrus said:

Why are there 200 people online? Is it because there is no anti-cheat in the game? This is the only online game in the world where there is no anti-cheat!

Maybe because the previous management (RP, from Revoemag to Tiggs era) has not listened to a single complaint that his game has had for 13 years now?
You can look at Youtube videos of this game in 2013 and now, it's the exact same game.
No community hosted events, no visual change, no map changes, no severe gameplay changes to better the balancing, no proper competitive & casual crowd separation...
There is 0 incentive to grind in this game whatsoever. It's wasted time.
 

11 hours ago, Yapopal said:

And another problem is that developers listen specifically to "professiAnals". Literally, all the innovations added to the game recently are focused on "professiAnals". Developers create an environment that is beneficial to professionals. That's why the game has been forgotten for many years. A normal player with a sense of common sense and at least some respect for others will not play this toxic piece of an incomprehensible substance.

Completely false. All 3 eras of this game (RP, Tiggs & LO) have been plagued with no feedback taken from veteran community players.
But, I cannot convince you otherwise as you're clearly unable to comprehend that someone can be better than you 
Such is life in games without a separate queue for the competitive & casual crowd.

 

Edited Saturday at 10:27 PM by sweetLemonade

[BlatMan 737]

Ratio wise, PUBG has more cheaters, yet it still holds onto it's playerbase. Few people play APB because they can't just hop in and play. There's too much grinding to get to a point to where you're able to play.

 

Casuals can't customize because they can't unlock customization, because LO still haven't fixed the random mission rewards being blocked by joker tickets. They can purchase a $100+ bundle on Armas, but that doesn't unlock some clothing that's locked behind faction members.

 

Competitive players can't reach their true potential without grinding 1000s of hours. Purchasing the weapons isn't enough. You need in-game cash to buy mods. Each balance patch is a gamble if your favorite weapon gets buffed or nerfed. Same is true with PUBG, but at least you can grab any weapon off the ground. You don't need to have it unlocked first.

 

The above is true if there are even new players trying the game. Most streamers play at low resolution with modified files. Some openly cheat and pretend it's the aspect ratio. Who's going to see that and think it looks fun to play? Myself removes the color filtering just to make it bearable to look at. Everything has this weird blue tint. It's like whoever did the last shader changes has Tritanopes, a form of colorblindness that can't perceive blue. Or maybe they just never been outside, and think sunlight = orange, and night = blue.

[Yapopal 212]

13 hours ago, sweetLemonade said:

Maybe because the previous management (RP, from Revoemag to Tiggs era) has not listened to a single complaint that his game has had for 13 years now?
You can look at Youtube videos of this game in 2013 and now, it's the exact same game.
mmunity hosted events, no visual change, no map changes, no severe gameplay changes to better the balancing, no proper competitive & casual crowd separation...
0 incentive to grind in this game whatsoever. It's wasted time.
 

Completely false. All 3 eras of this game (RP, Tiggs & LO) have been plagued with no feedback taken from veteran community players.
I cannot convince you otherwise as you're clearly unable to comprehend that someone can be better than you
Such is life in games without a separate queue for the competitive & casual crowd.

 

I described the general situation in the game. I explained the essence of the failure. Explained why this game has such a bad reputation. Explained why the population is declining. I don't understand why you're explaining the obvious to me.
I don't strive for victories and I don't complain that someone is playing better.
My goal is to develop the project, improve the quality of the game, eliminate a bunch of bugs, and restore the population. 
Evaluate the current situation:
The developers have spent months of work on creating inter-district segregation, anti-cheat, fuc.. escalation, and streamer mode.
Money and time have been spent, but nothing comes out. 
All these new developments were brought to the table by "professianal" players. They did not affect the attractiveness of the project in any way, they added a new batch of bugs. In most cases, the stream of this game will be anti-advertising. No one is interested in looking at a blockhead in blurred textures.
Tell me, is it worth listening to professianal players after that? 

Anti-cheat has banned cheaters (silvers who think they are the smartest), but it has not eliminated the problem with a bad reputation. Because the new matchmaking continues to mix "professianals", and as you called them, casuals (who make up the majority of the gaming community). Inter-district matchmaking should aim to place players in different copies of districts, focusing on their skill level. Instead, the players got loading screensavers and the same unbalanced matches. I don't see a fix for the problem here, but rather the addition of new problems. One of them is escalation. It is beneficial only to "professianals". And it is a source of pharma. It breaks the structure of missions. 
Everything that has been added to the game lately does not make it better, on the contrary, the game is getting worse. Visually, this can be assessed by looking at the "new car" and taking a ride on it. A schoolboy-level job making a car mod in GTA SA on Saturday evening. Another problem is that after adding new features, they don't try to bring them to mind for many months.

Edited 22 hours ago by Yapopal

[MACKxBOLAN 487]

On 12/26/2025 at 12:05 PM, MACKxBOLAN said:

On 12/23/2025 at 12:07 PM, MageLO said:

Thank you

Magelo will there be any more Elf sightings this weekend ?

 

why yes mack, but we wait till you sign off after waiting all day. 

Thank LO for the xmas ban and no elf