So APB is utter rubbish then ..

Saw my brother playing it and thought "that looks ****" he then let me play it for myself and I was like wtf is this ****.

Driving at high speeds I jump out of a car standing up, trying to shoot a guy in the head who is stationary in a vehicle does not work as you could not shoot through glass! and then I tried to pop a guys tires out and yeah that does not work either.

San Andreas online all those years ago more of a was a laugh and offered me more freedom lol.
 
Ok been playing all day, after the 15th time of getting matched against a 100+ player i give up, this game has zero balance, the driving and combat is so bad its not even funny.

Match making system is pants, game is total pants, and yeah i guess that means im a noob and also pants, whatever..........
 
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Metacritic have given it 59.
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I do love reading bought reviews.

"APB was fun, but not for long enough to warrant me to buy more time, or to even use all of what came with the game. If, six months from now, a great deal of content has been added to the game, then APB may be a great buy. For now, it’s stuck in limbo."

And that review that basically states the game wasn't good enough to play through the given game time and it needs major improvements gave it... 77.
 
It's certainly not a classic mmorpg. It's more of a place where you can go dress up and play cops and robbers with your mates.

It is fun but it would be much better if it was free after the initial purchase. It doesn't really need a peristent world. They could just have the social district for customisation and team forming then just have a team of enforcers vs a team of criminals go at it on a smaller map. Much like Global Agenda or any online fps or tps shooter out there.
 
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Ok been playing all day, after the 15th time of getting matched against a 100+ player i give up
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You can decline mission you know.

Also, were you playing it solo, rather than with a group of three firends? If so, major fail on your part.
 
Anyone feel like trying Mortal Online so long as I can try APB (new char of course so I don't ruin your stats!) E-mail me in trust if so.

I take it this is against no rules as this isn't a trade just offering to use my MO account?
 
Well i decided to get it and i have to say i'm quite enjoying it, ok so a lot of it is broken but there is massive potential, it certainly doesn't deserve the poor reviews its been getting.
 
its not a 40% score game like some reviewers have given it, ive played a lot of games that have a higher metacritic score that are a lot worse.

I would say wait for a steam sale and get it in :)
 
Despite the bad reviews I liked the idea so I bought it.

It's really fun :D Half the reviews I was reading were slating it because they couldnt max it out on 32 their bit system, a bit unfair to slate the game if you don't have the reccommended requirements.

The character customization is truly insane, at first I made a pretty standard char:

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Then I wondered what I could make so I tried to make Haruhi Suzumiya for lolz :p (Anime char)

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Hilarious. Seen loads of really well made UK police on there :D When you get a nice party and roll around the city fighting criminals it's pretty fun.
 
Ive had fun with it...well the social district. Hopefully the patch they are promising will fix the horrible unbalanced groups and op weps
 
The weapons are the biggest dissapointment for me. Practically everyone using Ntec's or orca's, so many different guns to draw on from the real world and make them worth using, they have totally failed in this area. No hit locations doesn't help either so spray and pray wins the battle nine times out of ten.

Also I want melee weapons. Guns for show, knives for a pro ;)
 
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Heh, most of the guns are fine, at least compared to beta anyway.

The problem lies with that 80% of the encounters lie within the optimum ranges for certain weapons, this leads people to believe that these weapons are superior.

Lots of communication coming from the devs, which is good.
 
I might pick this up later when I've built new PCs for my flatmates at the start of the uni year. Could be fun with a group.

If it is bad I will take it down there and give it back to them.

I don't know if RTW are going to be handling this game in the long term, they have another massive project in the works already. That is a good sign though because there are some good small dev teams based here that tend to pick up side projects handed out by larger devs and handle them well (porting big releases, making dlc for big titles).
 
Bozebo said:
I might pick this up later when I've built new PCs for my flatmates at the start of the uni year. Could be fun with a group.

If it is bad I will take it down there and give it back to them.

I don't know if RTW are going to be handling this game in the long term, they have another massive project in the works already. That is a good sign though because there are some good small dev teams based here that tend to pick up side projects handed out by larger devs and handle them well (porting big releases, making dlc for big titles).
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Actually their new project has the potential to work amazingly well with APB, and I'm looking forward to see how they'll use them together. For anyone who hasn't seen the announcements, it's basically a social networking MMO set in the real world (well, maps of the real world). So you can alter or destroy real-world buildings, erect new ones, set up impromptu kart races around your city, and presumably other stuff.

Their pitch was "What if Nintendo had built Google Earth?" and superficially it bears about as much resemblance to APB as Farmville does to Gears of War, but imagine if they can bring their nifty little editable and interactable maps of the real world into APB, and let you play virtual cops and robbers in the streets around your house and stuff? And once they have maps of enough cities, what if the APB servers became location-specific, and you could hang around with and shoot at people from your rough area (or nearest city), smash a car into your bank's shop front and steal the virtual loot that scatters about, or hang around your favourite pub and mug the pedestrians passing by? :p

Then there's the marketplace benefits too, buying and selling clothes, graffiti, designs, music tracks, modded cars and whatever else they integrate into it would be way more interesting if you could get them from local folks. Imagine some dude who's in a cool unsigned band driving his car past you, you like the music that's playing out of his stereo and whisper him to ask what he's listening to, and he messages back with the date and place of their next gig? :) Then local businesses could pay to have themselves put into the maps as a little bit of advertising.

I think in the long term APB is gonna become like Facebook, but with guns. And we've all occasionally wished that we could shoot someone in the face for posting annoying status updates or spamming you with Farmville invites, so I think it's a match made in heaven! :p
 
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Haha, that's really well-made! :D A plaited skirt would've been better I reckon though.

I'm rolling around as The Wire's Lester Freamon, and my mate made Bunk Moreland (complete with his "tweed affectations"):p There's a guy called "Lt. Daniels" on our server too but we've never managed to get together with him.

I made PropositionJoe as a crim alt, but the hardest of all was Omar: dude has such a weird face, it took me hours to get it right, and now I hardly ever play as him cause I made him on the other server.
 
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