APB - All Points Bulletin v3 - You killed me you hacker!!! - Games

[QUOTE=FalcoLombardi;29923062]So when is the free version coming out again?[/QUOTE] A few months ago.

[QUOTE=Jack Trades;29923516]A few months ago.[/QUOTE] I meant Open Beta

THey havent found it, the problem.

Before you decide to download the game let me go over some things that made this game die in the first place. - Driving is similar to driving on ice - VIP missions are an instant lose for the people hunting the VIP - Match making is god awful - Most missions become a race - Holding checkpoints only matter for the last 0:01 second, you can hold it for the other 4:59 and still lose the mission. - They will give you ESP in some missions so you know where the other team is. - There is a horrible storyline and the missions are repeat after repeat. - There a many glitches/exploits - The game is in third person meaning, you never have to actually peak a corner to look around it, this is a major major flaw. - *NEW* It is a gamersfirst game and they don't update ass for their games.

Almost all your points are invalid, good job bashing a game for things that work fine while there are many broken things!

[QUOTE=Subwayy;29923724]Before you decide to download the game let me go over some things that made this game die in the first place. - Driving is similar to driving on ice - VIP missions are an instant lose for the people hunting the VIP - Match making is god awful - Most missions become a race - Holding checkpoints only matter for the last 0:01 second, you can hold it for the other 4:59 and still lose the mission. - They will give you ESP in some missions so you know where the other team is. - There is a horrible storyline and the missions are repeat after repeat. - There a many glitches/exploits - The game is in third person meaning, you never have to actually peak a corner to look around it, this is a major major flaw. - *NEW* It is a gamersfirst game and they don't update ass for their games.[/QUOTE] Most of those are either retarded or just completely wrong. [editline]19th May 2011[/editline] Also I have no idea why people are bashing driving all the time. I think that it's great.

The driving physics are pretty cool, but there is still a bit of a delay in the driving that makes driving a bit difficult sometimes.

[QUOTE=simkas;29923844]The driving physics are pretty cool, but there is still a bit of a delay in the driving that makes driving a bit difficult sometimes.[/QUOTE] In that case there's nothing wrong with the driving itself, instead those are ping issues.

I just find it odd that the driving delay is STILL around though, it's definitely gotten better since RTW beta...

I don't notice any delay.

I only feel the delay if I have over 200 ms ping, which doesn't happen to me anymore for some reason.

[QUOTE=Subwayy;29923724]Before you decide to download the game let me go over some things that made this game die in the first place. - Driving is similar to driving on ice - VIP missions are an instant lose for the people hunting the VIP - Match making is god awful - Most missions become a race - Holding checkpoints only matter for the last 0:01 second, you can hold it for the other 4:59 and still lose the mission. - They will give you ESP in some missions so you know where the other team is. - There is a horrible storyline and the missions are repeat after repeat. - There a many glitches/exploits - The game is in third person meaning, you never have to actually peak a corner to look around it, this is a major major flaw. - *NEW* It is a gamersfirst game and they don't update ass for their games.[/QUOTE] TL;DR "Im an idiot and Im bad at this game"

The driving is fine, I play with 200-250+ ping and i can drive easily.

[QUOTE=Subwayy;29923724]- The game is in third person meaning, you never have to actually peak a corner to look around it, this is a major major flaw. [/QUOTE] So all third person games are shit? Ok. I've heard that "You can abuse the camera" argument used before and it's bullshit. As much as I dont like APB anymore, I will defend it here. All of your points are invalid.

They ever fixed the realtek issue caused from the patch before last?

Once open beta is going, which server will most of you guys be in?

EU1 Obeya, anything else got a max of 2 FPers.

Obeya is also the land of FACEPUNCH ENFORCERS OBEYA (unofficially) endorsed by Hezzy but he needs to come on so I can actually add him to the damn clan

Fucking hell. Been waiting for OB for months, this is like a damn dick tease.

So, when is this game going to be (re)released?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMkBwHJaSkw[/media] Does anyone know what song that it is in the very beginning?

is there anyway to fix the crashing for 32 bit players? my friends keep crashing and it kind of sucks.

[QUOTE=killz2much;29932107][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMkBwHJaSkw[/media] Does anyone know what song that it is in the very beginning?[/QUOTE] That would be Johnny Got a Boom Boom.

[QUOTE=Median.J;29932842]That would be Johnny Got a Boom Boom.[/QUOTE] Thanks.

So I haven't played in the action districts a whole lot. I'm wondering, for those that have... I notice sometimes I'm getting shot by someone that occasionally shoots like, silver bullets, or they leave a trail of silver... this is mainly noticeable on one of the automatic rifles (perhaps the sniper rifle). Does this mean anything, or is it just a visual effect for that particular weapon? Also, I saw some people where when I clicked their name in the scoreboard, their weapon icon was gold. Does that mean they bought it, or is that just for certain NPC pre-configured weapons or something? I'll FRAPS this stuff if you don't know what I'm talking about.

[QUOTE=placeboing;29937990]So I haven't played in the action districts a whole lot. I'm wondering, for those that have... I notice sometimes I'm getting shot by someone that occasionally shoots like, silver bullets, or they leave a trail of silver... this is mainly noticeable on one of the automatic rifles (perhaps the sniper rifle). Does this mean anything, or is it just a visual effect for that particular weapon? Also, I saw some people where when I clicked their name in the scoreboard, their weapon icon was gold. Does that mean they bought it, or is that just for certain NPC pre-configured weapons or something? I'll FRAPS this stuff if you don't know what I'm talking about.[/QUOTE] Its blue muzzle flash and it means they have a custom upgraded version of the gun. No idea about the gold name.

[QUOTE=Nohj;29939131]Its blue muzzle flash and it means they have a custom upgraded version of the gun. No idea about the gold name.[/QUOTE] Blue Muzzle Flashes are weapons with a Modification in them. Gold Gun Icons are weapons you bought from the Armas Marketplace.

[QUOTE=Bytecry;29941212]Blue Muzzle Flashes are weapons with a Modification in them. Gold Gun Icons are weapons you bought from the Armas Marketplace.[/QUOTE] an upgraded gun that is not custom does not have blue flash.

[quote] [B]Here is Thursday's update - and the aim here is clearly to be crazy-transparent with what we are doing, so for those not that interested in the technical stuff, the short version is; Open Beta is on hold until next week. For Closed Beta users we are going to roll out patch 1.5.1.85 at 4pm PST / 7pm EST / 24:00 GMT / 01:00 CEST today[/B] For the longer version continue reading below; The Closed Beta issue we have run in to causes the disconnection of all players on a server. Unfortunately it happens to be of those vexing problems that only shows up at full production load, and an issue that leaves almost no traces of its origin in our logs. During QA and testing loads the issue doesn't materialize (throw 50 people on a server and everything seems just fine), even with large static loads and testing the game from multiple locations. Specifically the issue manifests itself where districts with 60-100 players suddenly lose IPC (inter-process communication) functionality which then leads to the district dropping all players and the district crashing. This happens anywhere from 1-6 hours from the district starting up. Normally this would be easily grabbed by our crash processor and it's usually a pretty straight forward to identify the location of any GPF, however with this particular issue, the logs don't show anything that helps narrow down the scope other than it's part of the changes for Open Beta. Rolling back several versions is certainly not the preferred option as it puts us firmly back into Closed Beta, but could be done (it would take us back to somewhere in the 1.5.0.7x range), so instead we are making one last push to get through the current issue with the production load, and we continue to ask our Closed Beta testers to help hammer the servers over the weekend so we can reevaluate where we are on Monday. Today we are also pushing ahead with release of 1.5.1.85 which further adds information to what is happening, fixes an unrelated client-side GPF that happened when a song changed tracks (a general Audio GPF), and potentially MIGHT solve the district disconnect issue (but again, won't be visible until it's on full production load for a few hours). Once we enter Open Beta, the patching schedule becomes very different (and slower). We will also at that point recruit our first "Test Monkey Crew" for APB - basically volunteers who will get early access to builds in return for running live tests on a public test world, specifically designed to catch these types of hard-to-QA issues. The TMC gets various in-game benefits for being early testers. But again - that system goes in to place after Open Beta goes live and Closed Beta has ended. I will continue updating this blog daily until the the game is in formal Open Beta. Also while this is being worked on, be mindful that very few of our tech staff will be active on the boards or blogs, since this is pretty much an all-consuming issue for everyone. [/quote]

lol ok the threat system is so fucked up I spent 15 missions at Bronze Level 1, and I JUST finished a mission with 5 kills, 3 deaths and now I am Silver Level 8