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My take on APB.
Mrbloodworth
Member Posts: 5,615
I'm still having an insane amount of fun. I think some people are worrying about what APB is not, and can't just play it for what it is. Sure it has flaws, but as I said before, its looseness is part of its charm IMO. There is nothing wrong really with how the shooter bits are, its just different and was never intended to be a hyper realistic Modern warfare shooter. Once you get past that this game is really its own thing, and not trying to be a pure RPG or a pure shooter, its extremely refreshing. I have never personally enjoyed shooters with head shots, so I prefer games with out them, games with head shots usually devolve into just one thing for me, unseen head shots. IMO most session based shooters are worse than MMG, they are a bunch of people playing together, alone just worrying about being top of the kill board. So I highly enjoy the large amount of emphasis placed on teams and working together, we had some brilliant examples of this going on last night.
I hear complaints about "content" and "repetitiveness", every time I read this I think about how in most shooters, they are the most repetitive things in the world, with only one game mode per session. Where as APB has every game mode I can think of from session based FPS/TPS games, and some unique to it, but randomly strung together in a chain of missions, only the maps doesn't reset when you are done, so downtime is really low (more so for criminals).
Game balance to me, has been fine. Sure, the match making isn't fair sometimes, you can be outnumbered. I don't have an issue with this because I don't have the need for everything to be completely 1:1 all the time, in fact its part of what keeps it exciting. Last night we have many matches that we were outnumbered, yet we still overcame in the end. Quite a number of times we were 3 VS 5, or 4 VS 5, including me continuity getting star rank 5 (entire criminal side can shoot me), we still won. We also lost many times too, sometimes in spectacular fashion!. But that just made the wins that much sweeter. Not because we are awesome, but because we worked together. If your sole goal is kills, you are missing the point I think. If your sole goal is winning all the time, I think perhaps you will not enjoy something as dynamic as APB can be.
I think in a lot of ways, games have become to congratulatory for nothing, APB is a game that continually throws challenges at you, including at times overwhelming odds.
We meet a good deal of tough opposition, some more than once, but just about every time witty banter, and lolz were had on both sides. While arresting some fools, some even pleaded with me that they had children to feed, so they could not go to jail (OMG Role play!!). I tried talking a criminal into just letting me arrest him at one point because I had him dead to rights in a standoff for a bit, it distracted him long enough for Aveline to sneak up behind him and murder his face. Hay, I gave him the option 
Honestly, I think the main problem for APBs acceptance is the fact that to many come in to it expecting it to be something its not, so somehow its inferior, and never see it for what it is doing and the merits it has. I do not think the 10 hours in the KTTC was enough times for people to adapt to the games game play, and it left many with the wrong impression, not to mention created a good deal of anxiety and urgency because of the limited time frame, that just lead to frustration.
On the subject of hacks: In beta there was a good deal, last night in a 5-7 hour session, I did not run into anyone I would suspect of cheating. Better shots than me? Sure, but nothing I thought was suspect. I can see a lot of things in the game such as the unified hit box perhaps being interpreted as a hack (you think you are in cover but are not). Game modes such as VIP or bounty that gives a side the player target location, ETC..
As far as ass hats, yeah, its a shooter, on the internets.
And just as a disclaimer, I am at best mediocre at shooters, I never claim to be supper awesome at them. And as some who have played various games in the past with me cant attest, I will gladly throw myself into the fray if it means delaying the opposition while you sink the goal, death does not overly concern me most times. I enjoy games that run hot and cold. I'm not posting this to get anyone to play, just to share my experiences.
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Comments
Yep! That so true! Exactly how I feel!
Good read.
I am having a blast in this game!
"I don't give a sh*t what other people say. I play what I like and I'll pay to do it too!" - SerialMMOist
I am an enforcer and I have to activate this objective on a rooftop. The criminal says to me over voice, "Hahahaha...I see you over there on the rooftop missy. You can play cat and mouse with me all you want but we both know you have to come over here and there is only one way up."
So I jump down into the alley, throw a grenade onto the roof and fly up the ladder. He sprays ammo, I kneel and shoot and damn if he doesn't go down. Then I get to hear his shock, disbelief and anger. God it felt good. For once someone else was dying, LOL.
Having fun atleast for now. I'm not gonna analyze it. It's just fun right now. Next month maybe I will be bored. But right now...fun.
Well put, Mr. Blood. I, too, am having a ton of fun with this game, and I definitely agree with you on how some people come into this game thinking it's meant to be something else. It is its own thing, and that's not necessarily a bad thing...it's just some will find it entertaning and fun, while others will find it doesn't exactly live up to what you'd expect from a GTA MMO.
I hear enforcers are good to play for the noobies because they take less skill. They get long range rifle tazers which is just too OP I hear.
Yup. Two shots of a taser stuns you, then they're free to kill you, cuff you, or cuff you then kill you. Best I've been able to do is throw a grenade down near me before stunned and hope they run up to me and get killed.
It never works.