Why is everyone calling it an FPS, when its a third person shooter?

If you mean to catagorise it as a "shooter" then thats cool, but there's no First-Person element about the game at all.

Originally posted by Kebeck

Don't know why I keep hearing about hackers and still I haven't seen a single one with more than 40 hours in...

I have as much time in as you and I met my first hacker within the first hour of game time. He was firing off shots randomly at our group and was killing everyone every single time!! I have shelved this game for the moment until they can control the hackers and fix the sloppy handling of the vehicles and aim of the weapons.

I started playing the open beta right when it became available, I must say it was something that caught my attention right away. The cops and robbers theme had me drooling, I downloaded it immediately in excitement and began installing. Creating my player was fun, you can random or go through an advanced feature, although the hair styles need a good look at, it kept me busy for a good 30 minutes.

Before I began to play I ran into a hitch. I had several conflicting issues with punkbuster identifcation and my antivirus, e-mailed support and used their fix and a few other solutions. Finally got it working, logged in and then 5 hours passed in a blink of an eye. This game is incredibly fun, between the gunfights, car chases, and hillarious failures it's easily drawing people in...

IF you can play it. Currently I was playing fine, but since it's open beta a lot of new features, tweaks, ect. has been added lately, breaking my client >.< This was about 2 days ago, I'm sure they might be on it. Anyway, I almost got to silver before I had these issues, a decent car, and a new look so I'm calling it quits until they announce a release.

As for the hackers, from what I've seen the new players who come into some of my groups will get tromped by people on the other team with far superior weapons, they still think they're facing people their own level so you get tons of chat calling one or another a "hacker" but in reality that guy dominating everyone is usually using a purchased weapon with mods.

There are hackers out there, I know of a few sites right now that are annoucing it over their forum boards. Just look for the obvious clues, what gun is he killing you with? The distance? Are they all connecting? Is it scoped? Rank? I've seen a few but not as many as people are claiming.

By the way, has the hacking community lost it's meaning? I don't see how using scripts to inject dlls are in any way a form of "hacking" there was a word that has apparently faded away called script kiddie, which defines these cheaters.

Do mmorpg journalists ever actually criticise a game?

I cant comment on this one; I never played it, but I dont think I can recall anything other than praise from mmorpg.com writers for anything they re/preview. Its not convincing.

Originally posted by markyturnip

Do mmorpg journalists ever actually criticise a game?

I cant comment on this one; I never played it, but I dont think I can recall anything other than praise from mmorpg.com writers for anything they re/preview. Its not convincing.

 

Would you prefer the inane ranting of the official forums?

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Originally posted by Sinborn

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Originally posted by markyturnip Do mmorpg journalists ever actually criticise a game? I cant comment on this one; I never played it, but I dont think I can recall anything other than praise from mmorpg.com writers for anything they re/preview. Its not convincing.  

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Would you prefer the inane ranting of the official forums?

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I tend to disregard the opinions of the staff here because it almost always contradicts the opinion of the userbase. They're very highly opinionated people in journalism and although this is definitely an undesirable trait for a journalist, they really have no other choice.

It's praise or be shunned. I feel sorry for the difficult position they are constantly placed in.

I tried both APBs, the original and reloaded, and i have to say it still has the same poor gameplay. The shooting system hasnt changed, its still horrendous. When driving it still feels slow and like you are riding on ice. Missions are pretty much repetive, same thing every mission. Health regen should be taken out so campers cant go back into hiding and gain health back. Movement needs to be faster and more responsive, by that i mean i want to be able to stop running and switch to my gun more smoothly so the game doesnt feel slow and uncontrolable to the player.

I pretty much think apb needs to be more controlable and needs faster gameplay. When i play a shoot i want it to be fast paced and tacticle. APB is slow and pretty much point and shoot.