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I really am enjoying All Points Bulletin. Don’t believe all the bad reviews. The game is fun. One of the problems I do have however, is the lack of documentation. So I thought I would try to figure out how some of it works. These are just my personal findings on this subject, if you have more information, please share it. Because I am not sure if I have it right.

Threat level has 15 levels. I think it measures how good a player you are. If you die a lot, and fail missions it goes down. If you are the next Godfather or Magnum P. I., it goes up. I also think the only bearing it has on the game is matchmaking, but I am not sure. It also is not an actual number, but a symbol.

The blue vertical bar next to your name with the five stars next to it measures prestige; I am not sure what the criminals call it. This can change during each gaming session. I am not sure exactly what makes prestige go up. I can tell you on the enforcer side, running over a pedestrian makes it go down. I think stealing a car, or kicking someone out of their car, also makes it go down. I am guessing killing bad guys makes it go up. I also think making an arrest instead of killing a criminal will get you more prestige.

The next two are rank, and rating, they work together a bit. Your rating is the number next to the letter “r” in your character info. This number is the closest thing you are going to what actual level you are in the game. I do not believe it goes down, and I have no clue how high it goes. The highest I have seen is in the two hundreds.

Rank is the most confusing of all. Let’s say you are an enforcer and your rank with the Praetorians is 13. You have run missions for this organization, like returning stolen cars, money, that type of thing. Each successful mission gets you a point total, which adds to your rank. I know that rank and rating work together to get you better weapons and gear.
The higher both of them are the better gear you get.

So that is as much as I know. Again a lot of this is theory, so if you know more, please post.

I have recently started playing Cross Fire. It is a great, free, FPS shooter. If you ask me, it is the best free FPS out there. It has a lot of advantages over the competition

1. It really is free; you do not have to buy any thing extra to be successful in the game. You do earn points for items, but just cost you time, not money.

2. Once you earn a weapon, it is yours forever, not 1, 7, or 30 days. You will have to pay to repair it after each battle, but it is yours forever. So you really can have a pretty good arsenal of weapons to use.

3. It is hacker free for the most part. I really do not recall seeing any hacker in here, unlike some other free first person shooters.

4. It seems to be pretty well balanced. In some others the hand grenades and some of the other weapons seemed to be overpowering. The grenades and weapons in Cross fire seem to be more balanced. You are not always dying from grenades like in some of the other games.

So you can download the client.

Cross Fire Download

We have started a Clan, Engineers, and despite my terrible kill to death ratio, they let me join. So if you to join. put in a application from the link below. You will have to reach the rank of Corporal in order to join. Oh yeah, if you see Soulrocker in-game, throw a flash-bang grenade his way, he loves those things.

Engineers, Cross Fire Clan