APB: Finally, I Can Be A PUNK!

[kaid]

Yes, that is true - however, the maximum frequency of a single 5-15 second ad being played as you enter a district is once every 3 hours. Therefore, you should not hear an ad in the VoIP system unless you zone and it has been more than 3 hours since your last zone/ad play.

If 3 hours is too frequent for your tastes, the options listed above can ensure that you don't hear any ads.


We also offer voice fonts for 40 points for 90 day use per font - that's $1.00 per 3 months of use.

Honestly I don't mind these in a modern day era game. Video billboards that showed ads in planetside never bothered me at all and in a game like this could easily sew them into an in game radio channel type deal or video billboards. I would be horribly against it in a fantasy setting but for something like this there is nothing wrong with it.

[TripleDES]

I'm against ads out of principle, if I'm being made to pay for access (subscription or gametime).

I'm likely already going to spend some monetary value into this game I don't think it is worth yet. There needs to be more game world diversity, i.e. at least two more districts. If possible, with some fucking geographic altitude (those silly cramped partial highways in Financial don't count). So I don't want something automated yapping at me in regular periods, probably even ads that don't even apply to my region.

[Mrbloodworth]

Very awesome starter guide by lords of the dead. a great read for anyone playing.

[Ghambit]

When Star Wars: The Old Republic comes out with its massive, massive amount of PvE content, it may very well destroy this game.

APB will live or die long before SWTOR releases.  But, I have the feeling there was some clever sarcasm in your statement? 

[Chinchilla]

I'm hoping this game will grow and get better and better.  I'd love to see how they put in PvE.  That sounds like it would be fairly tough w/ a game of this type.

[LK]

When Star Wars: The Old Republic comes out with its massive, massive amount of PvE content, it may very well destroy this game.

APB will live or die long before SWTOR releases.  But, I have the feeling there was some clever sarcasm in your statement?  

If there was, point it out to me so I can feel smug about myself. I'm just saying the early adopters / oh look it's new crowd aren't exactly the competitive PvP type but can have serious retention if you have a fuck ton of PvE content. Even if you assume that it takes 50 hours to get one class story finished, there's like 4 - 8 of them, which is a lot of fucking content to have out the gate. That's before they make any improvements to the core and exploit the hooks to improvements.

APB is a game where I got frustrated that I was grinding from Lv. 1, like when I tried Lineage 2. Note I do not have these same feelings when playing a game I know and associate to be a competitive online FPS.

[Koyasha]

Bloodworth, or anyone else that's going to be playing, have you made a decision on server yet?  I don't believe I have anyone else I know that's going to play, so I might as well roll with whatever's popular here so I can join up with you guys.  Zombie is probably going to be the overpopulated one, although with their district setup I have no idea if that's going to mean anything or not.  Honestly with the district setup I'm not even sure why there need to be separate servers at all.

[Azazel]

Good luck finding twitch-capable f13ers.

 

[Azazel]

Entering a district is going to trigger an advertisement over VoIP...  

Interesting. If it were F2P I don't think anyone would have an issue, but since this is a game where you pay by the hour...

Especially with "pay to turn this shit off" as an option. I actually agree with BW - I think ingame billboards for real things that fit would be less obtrusive. Saints Row 2 has them, and I don't mind them at all - usually I have a "huh, new ad" reaction to them.

[Mrbloodworth]

Bloodworth, or anyone else that's going to be playing, have you made a decision on server yet?  I don't believe I have anyone else I know that's going to play, so I might as well roll with whatever's popular here so I can join up with you guys.  Zombie is probably going to be the overpopulated one, although with their district setup I have no idea if that's going to mean anything or not.  Honestly with the district setup I'm not even sure why there need to be separate servers at all.

Ill let you know in a moment, I have a few people to notify. Anyone is more than welcome to join, the more the better as its a group heavy game.

Side (for now): Enforcer
Server: LaRocha
Name" Trucegore

[Chinchilla]

Damn it, GF just told me we gotta go to the beach because her cousin and her aunt (from Virginia) plus a few other ppl just went.  Ugh, usually I like the beach, but today is launch day damn it! (that sounds funnny doesn't it)

[Lantyssa]

Go enjoy the beach.  1) It's launchday, 2) the game will (probably) still be there when you get back.

[Ghambit]

Damn it, GF just told me we gotta go to the beach because her cousin and her aunt (from Virginia) plus a few other ppl just went.  Ugh, usually I like the beach, but today is launch day damn it! (that sounds funnny doesn't it)

You're gonna get back, everyone will have N-Tecs, and you'll be shit outta luck dude.  Sorry.
Hey... get some payback from your GF below the surface where no one can see.  Your twitch skills might be lacking a bit when you get home, but at least you'll be smiling.

[caladein]

I'm Cal on LaRocha/Criminals.

This came about at the beginning of the last beta phase, but I was again reminded the initial set of models available in the Wardrobe is truly pitiful.  Couple that with not seeing what rank unlocks what and the only sensible course of action is to leave the game running overnight at the Wardrobe Kiosk at least once.

Edit: Clarified when the customization gating was added.  Also, the above deals with female characters.  I'm not sure if things are any less ridiculous for the guys.

[Lantyssa]

At least you aren't docked time for leaving the game running in a social district.

[Koyasha]

I find that method of unlocking things through time spent in the wardrobe creator so utterly stupid exactly because of that.  That's what people are gonna do, and what's it gonna do?  Put extra bandwidth costs on the Social server for absolutely no reason whatsoever.  What the hell were they thinking?

[Furiously]

That you would always be able to log into that area to see what your friends are doing? And hopefully convince you to pay to play some more.

And I'm Katiri on both servers. (Enforcer on both).

[Threash]

Threash on larocha, criminal.

[Chinchilla]

How is the game playing?  Laggy or just fine even though is opening day?

[Mrbloodworth]

Seems fine to me.

Also, looks like someone was paying attention:

[Chinchilla]

Could I install the game from the beta installer I have?  I haven't purchased it yet from Steam so I haven't downloaded anything yet.  I uninstalled it previously as I figured they would want a fresh install from the "final release" version (as some other games have wanted).  Reason I ask is because the North American installer I have is giving me a weird error which it never did before.

The version of the installer I have is v1.1.0.538715.  It never gave me this error before and it worked fine.

[Threash]

If you haven't purchased it yet then you wouldn't be in the headstart anyways.

[Hoax]

Seems fine to me.

Also, looks like someone was paying attention:

That was the only unlock that had a tooltip AND was unlocked by something players could understand easily. The character upgrades also have a tooltip just nobody in beta knew how to raise the skills because finding info on them was very much not obvious, new clothing items, new car items etc those do not have any tooltip for them essentially all that stuff that unlocks as you progress that you never know how/why it unlocked? That stuff.

[caladein]

Could I install the game from the beta installer I have?  I haven't purchased it yet from Steam so I haven't downloaded anything yet.  I uninstalled it previously as I figured they would want a fresh install from the "final release" version (as some other games have wanted).  Reason I ask is because the North American installer I have is giving me a weird error which it never did before.

The version of the installer I have is v1.1.0.538715.  It never gave me this error before and it worked fine.

From what I understand you do need to use a retail installer.  Past that you can copy over most of the data files and just run a repair to save yourself at least part of the download.

Also, the unlock requirements at Contacts has been visible since as long as I've been playing (that's how I knew that a lot of upgrades were tied to Car Thief).  In the Wardrobe kiosk, at Fashionista 13 after about ten hours or so:

[Koyasha]

Yeah.  "You have not unlocked this item yet."  Thanks for that.  Now how about giving me some info on what I need to do to unlock it?  That's what I've been complaining about with the tooltips, the fact that many of them give no useful information.  Others give theoretically useful information, such as the ones that say you need level whatever of some role that you have no idea how to advance because it's not on your Roles tab.

Edit: Just logged in a bit ago, Aveline on LaRocha, and I'm probably going to sit around and be semi-afk in the wardrobe thingy in order to get some levels and money.

[caladein]

Looking around the social districts the only things that spring to mind are: ostentatious, ghastly, and what-a-horrible-breast-augmentation.  I'm not even sure the most of the good stuff is good in the abstract or only appears good because it's standing next to a stripper with a shelf-for-breasts and tattoos of guns pointing at her crotch.

I knew all of this in Beta, I knew all of this when I bought the damn game, but somehow, having paid real money for it, it's all worse.  It's all that much more annoying that at Max Fashion Designer (Fashionista 15) I can't buy something that costs $24 at American Apparel.  I imagine it's locked away on a Contact somewhere, but which one?  Who knows?

I kept saying to myself that "The customization is good, the gameplay is bad." but really, I'll never be able to make even half of Bang Bang's outfits...



because there are no scarves, ties or long coats!  (There are navel piercings and a leather choker.)

The customization is good, if you want to make a stripper with a rack-for-breasts and gun tattoos that point at their crotch or a fat man wearing only a diaper and police cap, but for me, nah.

Ostentatious and ghastly.  Ugh.  It's mostly the players, but the systems themselves don't help one bit.

/rant

[Furiously]

You should have rolled an enforcer to be.... "The Fashion Police".

[Chinchilla]

If you haven't purchased it yet then you wouldn't be in the headstart anyways.

I know that bro.  That wasn't my question.  I already purchased it.  I got a weird message about needing some .net whatever file when I was installing from STEAM download, but it went through anyways and is patching as we speak!

[caladein]

You should have rolled an enforcer to be.... "The Fashion Police".

I deserved that.

Stepping back a bit though, the reason I was even out walking around the social districts was that I was out of damn ideas.  My old penultimate-beta-phase outfit used those matte Capri Leggings (and Skate Shoes) that now require some Contact grinding.  My thoughts went to The Brothers Bloom, which I loved, and its great wardrobes for Rinko Kikuchi and Rachel Weisz... and then to disappointment.  The APB forums did show off some amazing work, but it was all tattoos and kitschy car liveries.

So the last resort was taking a walk around the social districts (which now load characters reasonably quickly) and that was a bit of a mistake.

That said, I really would like to be able to make more than a few outfits I'm happy with, but I can't because the only customization depth is in the decals and tattoos.  Again though, I kind of knew that going in .

[Chinchilla]

I'm in at Larocha server. Character name is Chinchila ( 1 L someone took it before me grrrr )

[Lantyssa]

That said, I really would like to be able to make more than a few outfits I'm happy with, but I can't because the only customization depth is in the decals and tattoos.  Again though, I kind of knew that going in .

Ahhhhhhh!  I love the smell of Schadenfreude in the morning.

[Threash]

For any criminals wondering it takes level 6 with bloodroses to unlock the N-TEC.

[LK]

 

[Malakili]

For any criminals wondering it takes level 6 with bloodroses to unlock the N-TEC.

[Mrbloodworth]

Takes level 6 for enforcer side too i think. Also, looks like they put the first stun gun for level 1 anything now.