protect your privacy online with the best vpn for gaming expressvpn and visit expressvpn.com gillymaster linked in the description to find out how you can get three months free when the apc tank first released in gta online it was kind of a big deal as it was the first ever dlc tank was added into the game before 2017's gun running update the only tank to exist in gta line was the rhino and we've had that one since 2013 since the beginning of time so needless to say players especially long-time gta fans aware of the vehicle's history in the franchise were very hyped unfortunately the apc that we got in gun running worked completely different than it did back in the day and for those of you who are maybe new to the franchise and haven't played the old games gta 4 is the ballot of gay tony dlc featured an apc tank with a new delivery working lights and most importantly a sweet fast firing cannon that ripped apart cars and was super satisfying to use this is a stark contrast to gta 5's abc which completely got rid of the weaker fast firing cannon in favor of a traditional tank cannon that we already have on the rhino and on top of that you can no longer operate the gun while driving the vehicle so you either need another player to use it at its max efficiency or you have to pull over and swap seats every time you want to fire the cannon a pretty massive change to the vehicle that really gets rid of the whole fun aspect that a tank and gta brings so then the question becomes why did rockstar even bother changing the apc so much were they afraid of it being too overpowered in the online environment do they not want us to have fun i don't know but i can tell you that in this video we are going to revamp the apc to give it what it once had many years ago [Music] now i think we kind of already went over where the apc went wrong but to clarify they just made some really unnecessary changes to it for no reason at all really one of the most fun things to do with the tank in gta is to go on massive rampages and you can't even do that with this tank because of its limitations also the apc can be fitted with a sam turret the only problem is that it doesn't really do its job very well you'd think that for something being named a surface-to-air missile it would be good at taking out aircraft but it's actually much better at annihilating people on the ground than it is at taking out aircraft the missiles don't even lock on which means you have to rely on free aim but they also aren't fast enough and don't have enough range for them to even be useful in a freedom scenario either so with that in mind the objectives of this rebalance are to number one return the apc to its former glory like it was in the valdega tony and number two revamped the sam turret to make it useful for taking out aircraft instead of ground targets let's begin by changing the main cannon to replicate the fast firing cannon of the old apc it's actually very easy since there's already weapons that exist in the game that have the same properties that we're looking for so we copied the coding from the valkyrie cannon onto the apc cannon making a few changes along the way first in the sound i changed it from the valkyrie nose turret to the bamboo shoo cannon which isn't that huge of a difference but i'm pretty sure the bamboos cannon has a little bit deeper of a sound obviously the explosion tag is from the valkyrie but now the only issue is that it blows up cars way too fast we're trying to replicate the effect of a car getting shot a few times getting completely wrecked before blowing up so we lower the damage from 200 to 30 to achieve that next is the rate of fire which we increased slightly by lowering the time between shot's value from 0.250 to 0.225 it's just a slight change but fits very nicely with how the apc can use to work the valkyrie canon range on the apc would have been a bit too overpowered so i lowered it from 200 to 140. to get rid of the annoying limitation where the passenger has to be the one firing the weapon i adjusted the weapon seats on the vehicle to allow the driver to shoot the weapons instead and a couple more touch-ups that we did were just visual improvements first the reticle it would have been just a plain old dot like you see when you're firing a pistol but we want this to have the tank cannon reticle so adding this weapon underscore tank line here fixes that second the muzzle flash now this is the last second change so for most of my cinematics you don't really see the muzzle flash because i recorded them before i made this change but i gave it the original muzzle flash for firing it to give it some more life and after all those changes the end result is a much better version of the apc that's a lot more fun to use take a look all it took was just a few simple changes to give the apc those old school vibes i don't know why they decided to change the weapons up when they had these old-school weapons that were perfectly fine this is so much better than the apc we have in the game right now i would actually use this all the time if we had this but now let's take a look at the other issue which is the sam turret now i tried as many things as i could but i could not find a way to get the apc to lock onto things so i went with a different approach of reworking the missiles this might not make sense at first but trust me it will later on the sound of the rockets i change to the firework audio which does look strange at first i will admit but it doesn't actually sound like the whistle of the firework it's just the firework launcher firing sound next we have the explosion tag which i changed to the rc tank rocket and this is to prevent it from being too strong given some of the other buffs we're about to discuss the vehicle damage modifier is lowered to 0.4 for some reason even with the rc tank missile explosion tag they still blow up vehicles instantly so this is kind of a fail safe to lower the damage even further to prevent that then we have the reload times the time between shots and the alternate wait time which requires some explanation let's start with the alternate wait time in this case it's how long you have to wait to fire another missile the time between shots is referring to the game switching which barrel the rocket comes from as you know with the apc sam it has six missiles so if you divide the three time between shot's value by the point five alternate wait time you get six and that's how it knows when to restart which barrel the rocket comes from at least i'm pretty sure that's how it works the reload time on the current apc doesn't really do much but on a revamped one it will so the old values are 1.5 for the reload time 3 for the time between shots and 0.5 for alternate wait time our new values are 4 for the reload time 0.6 for the time between shots and 0.1 for the alternate wait time and as you can see once again dividing the 0.6 by the 0.1 you still get the 6 for the 6 missiles in the apc sim and where the reload time comes into play is right here with the firing pattern aliases like i mentioned earlier the normal apc does not have one but the new one has the hunter barrage firing pattern which fires rockets in wrapped in succession and that four value in the reload time refers to the four seconds you have to wait every single barrage you fire lastly the lifetime or range of the missile was upped from 2 to 2.5 which doesn't seem like a lot but when you factor in the launch speed trust me it is and the launch speed used to be 5000 i increased it all the way to 30 000. so these rockets are really fast and here's what those new sand missiles look like in action the way i went about balancing the two cannons is that one of the regular apc cannon to have more dps and effectiveness against people on foot with its rapid fire cannon and shorter range and i wanted the sam turret to be the opposite of that and be less effective at dps on the ground but still be able to cause a hassle to aircraft which is why i gave it the rc tank explosion so it can't be abused that much against people on foot and also so it doesn't just delete aircraft in one rocket you'll have to hit an aircraft multiple times to take them out which given the speed buff and the range buff and the fire rate buff to the missiles i would say is pretty fair one last thing i changed was the armor personally i feel like the apc especially with these changes would probably be fine with how it is with its armor it normally takes eight rockets to blow it up but i increased it slightly to around 10 by adding the capped explosion damage flag and changing the weapon damage and engine damage modifiers i will say that in single player it doesn't have the same armor it's much weaker than it is in normal gt online so that's why i had to increase it much more to get the same kind of armor that it has a multiplayer so with this it takes around 10 rockets to blow it up which is a good amount for a light tank in gta the other tanks should take much more than this obviously anyways that is the apc with both of its guns reworked and they really do offer different abilities i personally like the gta 4 style apc canon myself it's just so much fun to mess around with but the new sam turtle would be an absolute beast at taking down aircraft let me know what you guys think about this new apc down in the comments section also let me know which vehicle you want to see me rebalance next and if you enjoyed the video or found it helpful feel free to leave a like as well as subscribe to my channel for more guide and pvp related content huge thank you to my channel members for support if you'd like to become a member for some exclusive perks you can either use the join button or the link that's down in the description and as always thanks for watching and have a great day [Music] you