APB All Points Bulletin

[Greebo]

Am on my 5th accusation of hacking now! Go me!

Am reserving judgement on the mission changes until I see it. In principle I'm all for anything that enables fairer teams.

[Boss Llama]

Haha, you go Greebo.

I had the inverse earlier - had a winner of a team mate who ran staight at a guy and got killed, then chewed me out when I got killed as well, /w'ing and /t'ing me that "dude, you're really not good" and "stop dying and help me." Of course, he didn't bother looking at the fact that I was carrying a Sniper Rifle, from a previous mission, and that he revealed my ambush position prematurely by running out from it spraying from his NTEC, and then insisted on standing practically on top of the opponent so I couldn't nade either. I don't pretend to be great or anything, but... yeah. Real winner.

As I mentioned in my post to them about their matchmaking system - sometimes refusal to answer a CFB has nothing to do with levels or fear - it has to do with not wanting to be on the same team as some of the utter morons who populate the game.

[Greebo]

6 accusations now!

I actually will have to reduce my play time a bit over the next while. Gotta start getting the apartment in order for my wife's return in a week and a half (yeah, while she's away I tend to let the place get a teeny bit messy), then I'm off on vacation for 3 weeks!

[Darklightr]

congratz, greebo!
And ya, u dont want to start up the wrath that is your wife! (no offense to her, im sure shes a very nice lady)

[BigBiker05]

Combat as a whole is undergoing a fairly extensive facelift at the moment. We''re looking to improve both the immersiveness of the combat experience and the overall balance between the various weapons.

First and foremost, we''ve started work on adding recoil to all weapons. Even the first iteration of this that we''re playing internally at the moment makes combat a much more intense experience and adds an extra layer of skill to the game. As well as recoil, we''re experimenting with Depth of Field, some new camera effects and beefed up VFX and SFX to round the whole experience out.

We''ve also done another round of weapon balancing which seeks to diversify weapons more and the addition of the recoil effect allows us to give each weapon much more individual character.

Various other improvements on the cards include new animations to allow players to jump directly out of vehicles from the combat position rather than having to go back in through the window and then open the door, a more fluid response from crouch and marksmanship controls and a revamp of combat messages to clean up the HUD and give players more immediate feedback about kills, stuns, assists etc.

We''re very excited about how combat is going to look and play once we''re finished, and we hope to have something for you to play with on PTW before too long.

We''ll be posting about plans for Upgrades in a separate post later this week.

Once again they're really upping the ante on their feedback. Well it seems they're changing a lot of the apparent stuff to better again tech support still seems lost. Though it is odd that test server is only for Euro at the moment. I think this is probably because the American beta failed so bad. From what I hear they didn't get much feedback from beta players.

[Greebo]

Makes sense. There's no way some of the issues players are seeing never cropped up during beta.

There's nothing worse than crappy or absent feedback from your users.

[BigBiker05]

Punk buster is now active, and as a lot of people in the APB forum say "Its amazing how now every sucks".

[chaffe[seagreens]]

When are we going to run around as a team? i have had to run solo this whole time... totally enjoying the game...

BIgBiker05...why did you ignore me?....was it my outfit?

[BigBiker05]

Not sure, whats your in-game name? Only times I ignore people are from gold spamming or talking trash in-game. If you're in the clan it may have been because you left your mic open with clan chat enabled. If thats the case I gotta un-ignore ya.

EDIT: ** Looked up both seagreens and peanut as you posted earlier, neither are on my ignore list.

[chaffe[seagreens]]

i am PEANUT...don't know how or what gold spamming is(but that sounds pretty good, I don't make much money, I'm just a cop)...my mic is push button only... not in any clan...but need to join one....

I found you downstairs in one of the police station garages...I was the busty girl in just underwear...I just bought some new panties and decided to wear them and nothing else....you were sitting in your car and i was on the hood, squatting up and down for a while..
I then spawned my car "The BONER MOBILE" and continued to burn out and do doughnuts infront of you...I sent you an invite to join, and said that I was Seagreens.....you joinded for about 2 min...then left the group, and would ignore the other invites i sent...
I have now put on my clothes but still drive the "Boner Mobile"...I would love to run around with you sometime... Im finally getting the hang of this game...how do I join a clan?

[BigBiker05]

Oh ok, lmao. Yeah, I remember you. I asked a few times what was up and didn't see any responses. If you tried to talk to me via make it was because I keep VOIP off.

I'll get that fixed up, well also get ya a clan invite. I'll be on in a few hours once I get done playing Alien Swarm with first person console command.

[Greebo]

Well I'm out of this game for a month now. I'm heading off on vacation a week from today and have rather a lot of crap to get organised before I leave. My action district time ran out last night so I figure I might as well not get some more until I return - it'll be one less distraction for me!

[BigBiker05]

Heads up, if anyone wants to try this game but don't want to buy it, they have started the referral system. I can send 7 free trial hours to 5 different emails. With that trials your account is open for 5 days with unlimited social district, and 7 action district hours.

[Greebo]

I also have the same as biker - but as I'm shooting off on vacation for 3 weeks, starting tomorrow, I probably can't send any out til I get back

[BigBiker05]

Patch coming Tuesday Aug 3:

As you now know, the 1.3.0 bugfix patch is imminent, and shortly thereafter we''ll be releasing 1.3.1 which contains a number of changes which we couldn''t quite get ready in time for release next week. 1.3.1 contains a number of small but significant changes which I thought were worth highlighting.
Changes to mission offers
As of 1.3.1, the following changes will take place:

* Criminal v Criminal matchmaking has been turned off
* System-generated bounties have been turned off - bounties can now only be entered into by witnessing unopposed criminals. This means that the chances of Calls For Backup being bounty missions will be greatly reduced, so those of you who have said that you generally avoid answering CFB because of the number of bounty missions should be able to relax a little and help out the poor souls who need your muscle.

Changes to weapons in 1.3.1
As ever, when we make changes to weapons, it''s not simply as a concession to people raising concerns on the forums. When weapon balance issues come up, we correlate these with feedback from our QA department and from team members who play regularly on the live service. After some discussion, we''ve decided to make the following changes:

N-Tec:

* Base accuracy has been reduced slightly.
* Movement penalty has been reduced slightly to compensate for base accuracy change.
* Number of shots before accuracy degradation is applied has been lowered (becomes less accurate faster).
* Maximum level of inaccuracy the weapon can reach has been slightly increased.
* Benefit gained via Marksmanship mode has been slightly reduced.


OCA-EW:

* Minimum damage percentage at max range has been increased slightly.
* Base accuracy has been reduced slightly.
* Max Range has been reduced by 5m & Effective range reduced by a further 2m.
* Number of shots before accuracy degradation is applied has been lowered (becomes less accurate faster).
* Magazine capacity of the weapon has been reduced from 34 to 28 rounds.

Both of these changes are an effort to reduce the effectiveness of continuous full-auto fire.

NL-9:
So I guess this is the hot topic. After some considerable discussion, we have decided to remodel the NL-9 to behave the way it looks - as a Less Than Lethal shotgun. The NL-9 has been reworked to behave almost identically to the JG-840 shotgun - short range, two-shot stun, with a pellet spread.