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Songbearer posted:Which body kit is this? I'd love to take the canopy off my car but the preview screenshots for 1 and 2 don't show it with it removed. The open top is in Compact Kit 1.
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FYI the Cel shaders I posted above, it replaces your current Shaders folder, not overwriting the current files. Rename your current Shaders folder to Shaders.old or something for if you want to switch back. Also if you have Depth of Field and Bloom disabled in APBMachineOptions.ini the effects won't work.
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ESC 2010 Never Forget
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Right, with that I renewed my CR5, my DMR-AV, bought four more Joker 2 boxes (Resulting in 40 days worth of a 3-slotted Obeya and two lovely 3-day lease guns), bought the Vaquero body kit, wheel and sound kit, and also the Moirai wheel kit. Oh Gamersfirst. You're going to drive me to ruin 
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 14:46 |
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I'm trying so hard to not buy stuff... But seeing as it's relatively cheap I might give in and get premium and a car kit, spend the leftovers on joker boxes... Edit: how do you turn depth of field off? It always annoyed me. I'm assuming I just stick DepthOfField=False in APBMachineOptions.ini? Meis fucked around with this message at Mar 24, 2012 around 15:10 |
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Has anyone released any details on how well Reloaded is doing? I'm kinda interested in hearing how it is doing after the spectacular failure of RTW APB.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 15:12 |
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Had an awesome time griefing this game. Get 2 criminal accounts running and use player owned vans to block the entrances to a spawn point. People will be stuck inside and rage due to being unable to participate in their automatically given missions.
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 In other news, something amazing happened. The blog got updated!
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Gasoline posted:
Wow, the only thing more shameful than owning that in real life is owning that in another video game.
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I hate browsing public game community forums like anyone else here, but if you want to see a lot of developer postings and information for upcoming stuff I suggest you read this thread here, starting from the very beginning (yeah I know  ), and enjoy the couple of hours you waste doing so. I don't know what happened in their offices but this thread has got a LOT of developers posting in it right now, and some of them aren't being listed on the dev tracker.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 17:13 |
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Gasoline posted:
Perm weapons for EVERY character? I might buy one.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 17:36 |
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I had a real good run with Aslog today, made around $7k APB monies without premium. Also got hackusated hilariously.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 18:22 |
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Broose posted:Has anyone released any details on how well Reloaded is doing? I'm kinda interested in hearing how it is doing after the spectacular failure of RTW APB. Well enough to be turning a profit and with enough of a playerbase to give them enough reason to make an update which adds significant changes to the game. RTW died on its arse for a very good reason, not only was the project completely mishandled and basically DOA when it did hit, it took them forever to introduce the most basic poo poo like recoil, decent weapon sounds and much needed weapon balance. They were going to implement other poo poo into the game to make it more playable but it died before they could even be considered. I remember running out of gametime a week or two before it collapsed, on doing a /pop you'd be lucky to have 400 - 700 people playing at the best of times. These days a /pop in my server, Obeya, will get you within the region of 3,400 people playing which is actually very good for one of the more lower population servers in the game. They've recently opened up Chinese(?) and Russian servers which have been fetching good population counts too. APB: Reloaded seems to be in a pretty healthy state at the moment and I wouldn't be suprised if it's generating G1 a pretty penny considering the rate that vehicle kits and pernament weapons sell at. Despite RTW APB's infamous history which soured many people on the game, I would call G1 APB a very solid game. It's not perfect, it's still completely impenetrable and unforgiving for new players, especially for those poor bastards who are playing on their own, but if you're running with a clan of established players who spend time communicating and helping each other out I can honestly say it's a very fun and unique game. This is why I get frustrated when people complain about a minor change G1 has made and say they wish they were playing RTW APB again. There's rose tinted glasses and then there's being completeky delusional, being forced to pay for gametime only to face endless streams of hackers who could play without being punished, while driving a car that handles exactly the same as every other car and being plinked by an N-TEC which is perfect at every single range, was not a fun experience in any stretch of the imagination. There are still hackers but at least they're relatively in the minority, for a F2P game people could do a hell of a lot worse. Songbearer fucked around with this message at Mar 24, 2012 around 18:40 |
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Broose posted:Has anyone released any details on how well Reloaded is doing? I'm kinda interested in hearing how it is doing after the spectacular failure of RTW APB. Well, it's a free shooter now. Those are always fairly popular no matter what. In Joker if you do /pop, you're going to see a lot of players, far more than when I stopped playing RTW APB. And if you know anything about F2P games, you know they can be more profitable than subscription based games on a per-player basis. Plus G1 isn't terrible so the game has improved drastically. Liberatore fucked around with this message at Mar 24, 2012 around 18:46 |
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I'd give more credit to Reloaded Productions than G1. All G1 do is publish it and handle the cash shop I guess.. RP are the people who are actively working on improving the game, and have done so much to that effect too! I like those guys a hell of a lot. G1 are kinda sucky though.
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I will say that G1 is incredibly lucky to have gotten their hands on APB when it was cheaper than a box of raisins, though. You can say what you like about RTW APB's gameplay, but ignoring that, the game is actually incredibly impressive on a technical level. Consider that each instance has to keep track of 100 players, around 50 vehicles (I can't remember if this includes player spawned vehicles, but I don't think so), it has to stream player customisations for all the clothes, vehicles and sprays, it has a built in art and music creator, it handles physics and most of the weapon dynamics server-side and it needs to be able to do this all at a rate that allows players to remain competitive and you have a game that handles more poo poo than most games could ever dream of doing. Even though RTW's gameplay was bad, even if it was at a decent standard they'd have an impossibly hard time recuperating the costs of actually making the game. I was overjoyed to hear that some other company had snatched up the game, but not knowing anything about G1 I was skeptical that they'd make it a super furry/anime game and start charging you real money on a per bullet basis. Credit where it's due, then, that Reloaded Productions has done an absolutely fantastic job at taking the bleeding wrecked of APB and reforging it into something that's legitimately fun to play. There are still a lot of people who, when told that they have to play in a reliable group to have fun, say "Well that's the same for all games IDIOT" but they're completely missing the point. APB more than any other game I can think of on the market ensures that for the most part, the team with the most cohesive communication and balanced weapon loadout with specialists for each different occasion will always have a huge advantage. Teamwork factors so heavily into whether you'll stomp people or die on your arse that it's pratcially unavoidable, and I like that. Being able to run off solo and murder people without batting an eyelid is viable in every single other game and it just feels kind of dull if you know your teammates are doing nothing but slowing you down. I'm not saying that you couldn't run off in APB: R and murder everyone, it's just that compared to most games you'll have a much harder time of it. Having a good team and knowing your allies just as well as you know your enemies is what makes this game feel so different for me.
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Meis posted:I'd give more credit to Reloaded Productions than G1. All G1 do is publish it and handle the cash shop I guess.. RP are the people who are actively working on improving the game, and have done so much to that effect too! I like those guys a hell of a lot. G1 are kinda sucky though. Yeah, but Reloaded Productions is a subsidiary of G1 so ultimately it's G1 that decides the direction the game should head towards. They aren't the best but the fact that they've improved the game so much and didn't butcher it into a terrible F2P title shows that they aren't so bad either.
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For what it's worth, the current CEO of G1, Bjorn Book-Larsson aka TechMech, was originally just another member of Reloaded Productions and he also played a fundamental part in laying down the groundwork for when G1 acquired APB's IP, including but probably not limited to getting the networking set up and all that grand boring technical biz. So I feel that right now G1 as well as the RP developers should all be receiving credit especially with a guy like Bjorn in charge. That's just my opinion though.
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An Unoriginal Name posted:For what it's worth, the current CEO of G1, Bjorn Book-Larsson aka TechMech, was originally just another member of Reloaded Productions and he also played a fundamental part in laying down the groundwork for when G1 acquired APB's IP, including but probably not limited to getting the networking set up and all that grand boring technical biz. So I feel that right now G1 as well as the RP developers should all be receiving credit especially with a guy like Bjorn in charge. That's just my opinion though. TechMech is the CEO of G1 now? I didn't know that. Well that explains why they're so not-poo poo. He's a pretty cool guy, seems to be running things well! I take back what I was saying about G1... I guess I just had a relatively negative first impression, what with the whisper being OP and so on...
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Meis posted:TechMech is the CEO of G1 now? I didn't know that. Well that explains why they're so not-poo poo. He's a pretty cool guy, seems to be running things well! I take back what I was saying about G1... I guess I just had a relatively negative first impression, what with the whisper being OP and so on... I guess it would sort of need to be, if anyone was going to buy it and pay that much. Though I'd drop like $5 if that was just a skin I could put on any OCA I did own.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 23:54 |
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How many people are on the APB G1 team? I never played in RTW days, but it really seems like they've been making the game better and better, if a bit slowly. Having a former dev as your CEO sounds like it would be nice as a designer.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 00:07 |
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TechMech used to be COO/CTO of G1 I think. Reloaded Productions is about 20 people.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 00:16 |
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Grenade launchers: Still ownin'
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 01:49 |
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Great Beer posted:Grenade launchers: Still ownin' Stuff like this is like porn for me.
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You're gonna get a lot of kicks out of what I plan to do with my 3-slot varzuga, my osmaw, and the new brick mod once 1.7 comes out. Let's just say it involves explosives 3 
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 05:58 |
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Grenade launcher VIP is truly the greatest VIP of all. My only regret is that I have no screenshots of the aftermath, but Fiorah got some, I think.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 07:58 |
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I have no idea what I'm doing. And its hilarious
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Novasol posted:Grenade launcher VIP is truly the greatest VIP of all. My only regret is that I have no screenshots of the aftermath, but Fiorah got some, I think.  I was the evil bastard with a lcr at the pagoda. Zenhon was a beast with the silenced pistol though I need some suggestions for new perm weapons, especially an assault rifle. Also trying to decide between the 3 slot oca and the whisper. QQmore fucked around with this message at Mar 25, 2012 around 08:16 |
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QQmore posted:
I think I had my biggest smugface of all time when I lobbed a grenade 70m out and got two of them behind the statue in the park. Also, 3 slot OCA is supposedly much better if you can get the mods for it. EDIT: A realization occurred to me just now. Under the specific circumstances of that fight I basically became the final boss of APB. Novasol fucked around with this message at Mar 25, 2012 around 08:23 |
| # ? Mar 25, 2012 08:19 |
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How do I get better weapons than what I have at the moment? Do I just save up cash and buy them?
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 08:19 |
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Solus posted:How do I get better weapons than what I have at the moment? Do I just save up cash and buy them? You unlock the basic weapon from various contacts, which will run you about $3000 ingame money to lease for 10 days. Getting kills with a specific weapon type (LMG, assault rifle, etc) will level up that weapon's "role." You can get slotted versions of a weapon for ranks 5, 10, and 15 for a weapon type's role. Slots in weapons can be filled with various things like Hunting Sight, which increases your accuracy in marksman mode, but makes your accuracy while moving around go to poo poo.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 08:25 |
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 He then went offline. I wholeheartedly recommend joining the bottom districts with a handful of crims and no enforcers around. You get good pay, both in cash and in warm words.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 09:30 |
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39/8/9 for the first time ever using a Whisper? Sure why not. Granted, the opposition was pretty bottom of the barrel thanks to dethreats but still the Whisper is just mindless stupidity.
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Apparently the 1.7 patch notes got leaked from the test world on the forums, but the mods have already stepped in and squished the leak.. I wanted to see  I don't suppose anyone here happened to see it and save it for posterity? Edit: Oh, seems they're talking about this video. It doesn't really show anything new, just some of the fixed camping spots and the new area on top of the parking garage in financial. Also it's got really loving loud and obnoxious music, so mute this video before watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EysscbCsJ0Q Edit 2: Apparently there's another vid out there somewhere where a guy shows off a new preset bishada by pulling some OTW client files and putting them in the live client. Obviously doing that lets you look at the cars, but it's all client-side. Meis fucked around with this message at Mar 25, 2012 around 13:34 |
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Trogdos! posted:And this is why playing an enforcer is greatly superior.
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 14:58 |
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less than three posted:Get a PlaySpan account here. and use coupon code APB when buying G1C. Can I use a linux box for this or is it strictly windows?
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 15:18 |
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You might have trouble with all the adware installs but if youre just doing a shitton of surveys you should be fine. Related, it turns out Avast actually scans files in VMWare even if you dont have it installed in the virtual machine. It ends up blocking half the downloads as malware. 
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 15:38 |
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Great Beer posted:You might have trouble with all the adware installs but if youre just doing a shitton of surveys you should be fine. Well I've got a laptop here with Ubuntu 12 on it that I use for just random linux-ey stuff. Might just have to use a virtual machine on it with an old copy of xp or something
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| # ? Mar 25, 2012 15:50 |
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Can someone sell me Heavy Barrel 2/3 or 3-Point Sling 3 at cost? Not many people seem to use snipers and I don't want to have to get a thousand kills or whatever.
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E: Got it, thanks!
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Made Finn in the designer today, now I gotta work on a Jake!
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