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APB: Reloaded: Close to Final Live Launch
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
The APB Reloaded blog has been updated with information spanning the past four weeks. Topics include the team's visit to Gamescom last month and the news that the team is getting "very close" to a final live launch of the game which is currently in open beta.
The team has several bothersome issues noticed during open beta testing. Before live launch, devs will be addressing:
Lack of player control
Cheaters and the perception of cheating
"The evils of threat levels"
The addition of new contacts for high level players
The blog post is long and comprehensive on each of these topics, particularly the cheating issue. It's well worth the time to swing by the APB Reloaded blog and check out.
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Good luck with the cheaters, I have a feeling if they get rid of all of them the population will drastically decrease.
i think when they ban all hackers and put some normal anti hack program then 90% of my friends and me and most of normal players who quit this game cuz of hackers will back to game btw sry for my bad english
don't forget the awful lag
wow i hadn't even noticed it was in beta stil, i've been playing for the past 2 months and thought it was done.
Well, if by beta you mean you can pay a monthly sub fee AND buy lifetime weapons from the store then yes, it is in beta. IMO, once you start charging for the game, its not beta anymore.
Sure hope they come up with a more permanent method of getting rid of the hackers. As it is right now, a hacker who gets banned only spends 2 minutes to create a new account and they are back in the game. You can see their ban list each week and some of the hackers are too lazy to even change their names. You see names like Iownyou5 and then next week its iownyou6 and iownyou7.
When things work right, its a heck of a lot of fun but between some OP weapons like the rocket launcher which takes out your whole team when you pull up in a van, the hackers and the terrible matchmaking, things only work right about half the time. Every mission is a coin flip.
I can't think of an MMO that is more fun to just log into and "watch".
Its vastly superior in its visual entertainment than all others in the genre.
Server lag is gone.
The game is definitely more playable/enjoyable than it was but ruined again by an insane item mall.
im still hoping for a hack free live update... got my premium... cant w8 to paint my car... ;3
i forgot all about APBR.... hmm i was wondering why i wasnt so angry the last little while since i stopped playing actively.... guess thats why
game needs work IMO... decent game but alot of it pisses me off, good example is the match ups and some of the missions are really really annoying
The hackers are the only thing keeping me from playing this game. Hope they can do something for real about it, tho... I have a feeling it will always be a prob.
I totally agree about the aimbotters. Sad that people have to use it because they have no real skill or have a mental disability.
the game looks like an early beta but whatever...
what a half assed company. they dont want to tackle the issue of cheating so they label it "perception" of cheating. Disgusting company.
It..Burns..
perception of cheating is where people claim others are cheating.
that is not to say they are or are not cheating, but if a person who is not skilled at FPS games plays and gets rolled by a more skilled player a vast majority would claim the more skilled player is cheating (perception) where as they arent actually cheating its just they are more skilled then the person they just rolled.
i have been on the butt end of some pretty skilled players who had shop weapons. its got nothing to do with cheating unless you count deeper pockets or more money/time invested cheating..
but on the same coin i have also suffered at the hands of people who were most likely cheating with a client side wall cheat. as they could line up and snip you before you walked in a door, while no one was visible on radar..
but the main thing is they continue to claim no one cheats in their game and its 100% secure and so forth.. when its not and there really is alot more cheating then they let on
I lost count of how many times I was accused of cheating in the original APB and yet, I have not cheated once, ever, in any game. The same thing happened ever since there was such a thing as the internet and online gaming (well, quake 1 online, specifically). Never, ever cheated.
Apparently, the ability to aim, the understanding of game mechanics and the knowledge of how to use the terrain equates to cheating to some people, or: How to be a sore loser.
That's not good.. generally after a beta the servers and all of your progress gets wiped and you start from 0 - hope you are aware of that
They already wiped during closed Beta. Thee devs have said time & again there will not be another wipe. They have also been selling things like mad in the cash shop so I think they know that if they wiped now the game poplatuion would not come back post wipe.
TBH I am not sure how they will go with this game now. I login a few times a week still (having a month or more ago let my subscription expire) but the population of the US West Coast server I play in is massively down, its possibly down lower than it was during closed beat infact.
When you only have 50 odd people in the sole social (when not so long ago it was 2 social instances of 200 and say 60-80 people) district and only 6 action districts are up none of which are full..... you have a problem.
The ongoing endless rampant cheating is what has driven most players away, I will play some matches but the moment you come up against obvious cheats (and usually there is more than one in a group) I feel like quitting. I ussualy play to the end of the match (because you get penalised for leaving matches in progress) then logoff. The same cheats continue to get away with it while each banlist that comes out is populated with mostly names you ever heard of or names that are variations of known cheaters names & likely their dump accounts they use to test their cheats after each new patch.
Its fairly obvious the gamecode is easily exploited when they cannot seem to even control player access to content as demonstrated by all the people who were selling cars that featured unreleased body kits & modifications (cash shop items you cannot buy yet). So if they cannot control that which is a potential source of income (fom the cash shop) what hope do they have of stopping the cheats ?
The game play is fun but getting wallhacked & aimbotted every second or third match is not.
it was a great game and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Some things ruined the fun though. One is hackers, let's get that out of the way first. As the blog points out, people are probably thinking there are more hackers than there are, but it doesn't take many to ruin an evening.
Another thing that ruined it is inappropriate match making. Basically same as it used to be, I would be matched up as a basic character against people who far out leveled me and had far superior weapons. I might have a one slot weapon and one slot on my character going up against 3 slot weapon/character. well fuck me, I do have nice death animations.
Third thing was no rewards. My baby girl likes her bling and presents are nice, especially when you level. I didn't get squat 95% of the time.
Fourth thing was advancement seemed to slow to me. I even got the sub and was putting in some hours, but unfortunately I was pugging it quite a bit and not wining as I should have probably. But since I as a noob was being thrown up against fully modded characters they could atleast make the leveling a little faster so I could gear up and be on even footing.
Fifth thing has nothing to do with them really, but it was still irritating. This is a game where you really need to use vent or TS or something. And there was always someone that was too faint or too loud. I got sick of playing with my voice settings. I got tired of people breathing into their mics and music in the background. I got tired of people trying to conversate with me when i was trying to blow someones brains out. I want to either blow your brains out or talk about the weather, but not both at the same time, eh.
Game has changed only for the worse since G1 took over. Blatant cheaters running this game. G1 claims that there are only 3% of entire playerbase (they count all accounts made...near 1 million...well, 3% of 1 million is 30k and roughly thats the number of people playing on any given night). Most hacks still go undetectable. Just so frustrating to play against people who hack/exploit and little to zero ramifactions done to them. Been banned? Create a new account and hack away.
Totally ruins the fun of the game.
All that G1 has added is new weapons to buy in their game. Still a ton of broken missions. Still a ton of bugs (remember the "ejection from vehicle when mission started bug" back from RTW?) Still there.
Tons of people have left game due to these issues.
I don't see any reason to play unless you feel like constanly going up against hackers and cheaters. The community is downright awful.
p.s. legit players rarely get called out as cheaters. I've been playing since RTW and stay steady gold but have only been called a cheater a few times. Mostly when a person is accused, they are in-fact cheating.