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APB Reloaded’s Big Engine Upgrade Changes Weapon Monetization
Public open beta starts June 27.
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PSA: APB Players Need To Disable Their Macros/Scripts Before June 10
As game shifts over to BattlEye Anti-Cheat.
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APB: Reloaded Details Roadmap For 2020
Much like this eight year old header image of All Points Bulletin, APB: Reloaded is working toward a better future.
The APB: Reloaded team put out its 2020 roadmap this week detailing the kind of updates players can expect in the coming eleven months. Chief among the updates is the upgrade to Unreal Engine 3.5 which has been in the works for quite some time. CEO Matt Scott has been maintaining a thread on the official forums logging where the team currently is at with the update, as well as what still needs to be fixed before the upgrade can go live.
Further updates include quality of life improvements and balancing the shotgun. For more details, check out the official website below.
Source: APB Reloaded
GamersFirst Now Owned By Little Orbit
GamersFirst announced this week that it has been acquired by developer Little Orbit, with new CEO Matt Scott addressing the communities of APB and Fallen Earth to detail their plans for the future.
“There’s been a lot of speculation over the last couple months about who would be crazy enough to take on this game. And I’m not going to try and sugarcoat it, we know that the confidence in this game is at an all time low, and odds are you haven’t heard of us at Little Orbit. But that’s OK. There’s a lot of work to do, and I’m not writing this letter to make unrealistic promises or layout a grand roadmap. Instead, I’m going to ask for your patience as we get organized and that you give us a chance to show you that we are sincere in our efforts to make APB Reloaded the game we all know it can be.”
Scott lays out a roadmap for All Points Bulletin for the months ahead, including a new mode, maps, challenges, clothes, vehicles, and the much awaited move to the Unreal 4 Engine. The Fallen Earth post doesn’t go into detail on any planned updates, but Scott does wax nostalgia of his days playing the title.
“Nothing is going to happen overnight with Fallen Earth. But it’s clear to me that there is something special here worth rebuilding. We need to spend more time mapping out exactly what that looks like.”
(Source: APB: Reloaded, Fallen Earth)
Surprise! APB Reloaded Soft Launches On Xbox One
It’s been a while since Reloaded Productions first announced that APB Reloaded would be hitting consoles, so it came as a bit of a surprise when the announcement dropped last night that the game was now live. European Xbox One users can access a soft launch of the MMO while players in the US will have to wait a while longer.
The soft launch is being treated as more of a beta test than a live product, with users reporting major issues on the game’s forums. Cash shop purchases have also been disabled for the time being.
(Source: APB Reloaded)
APB Reloaded Compensating For Downtime
If you hadn’t noticed, DDOS attacks have become common enough that nowadays they’re just a regular thing that happens every so often. Pick any major game service, be it Xbox Live, PSN, RuneScape, World of Warcraft, etc, and odds are it has experienced service disruption in recent months due to these attacks.
In the case of APB Reloaded, Reloaded Productions has thanked its community for bearing with them over the course of recent attacks. As compensation, any player who has logged in between June 26th and today (September 10th) will receive two free inventory expansion selectors.
Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen DDOS attacks on the rise again for APB as well as other games. While we’re working with our Mitigation provider to combat these new types of attacks, we know that it’s an unpleasant experience for our players. As a small token of appreciation, we’ve delivered 2 codes for Inventory Expansion Selectors, this is for all players that have logged into a district from June 26th to today, and is good until September 22, 2015.
(Source: APB Reloaded)
APB Reloaded Server Merge And New Engine
APB Reloaded is on track and ready for the North American server merge this Tuesday, June 2nd. The recent merger of APB’s European server into Citadel saw increased activity from new and returning players, and Reloaded Productions is hoping that the same will hold true for the North American server.
In other news, work continues on the upgraded Unreal engine for APB, as seen in the screenshot above. When the new engine launches, APB will require a 64-bit operating system in order to continue playing, leaving a small portion of the community in the dust.
Making the game 64-bit only solves several long-standing memory management and performance issues that we are happy to finally put behind us. But it does mean that a small percentage of machines currently used to play APB will need a new OS in order to continue playing.
You can find out more at the official website.
(Source: APB Reloaded)
APB Servers To Begin Merger
APB: Reloaded will be merging its five servers into three over the next month or so in order to bring players closer together. On April 22nd, the two EU servers will be merged into one with the US servers merging into their own on May 6th. The third server Han, which runs for the Asian region, won’t see any change.
Character name priority will be given based on account age, playtime, and last login. The console (PS4/XOne) servers will run from the same locations as the PC servers.
(Source: APB Reloaded)
APB: Reloaded Coming To Consoles
Console players should get ready to enforce (or break) the law, as Reloaded Entertainment has announced that APB: Reloaded will release on Xbox One and Playstation 4. The console port is currently under development by The Workshop Entertainment, APB is expected to launch on current gen consoles in Q2 2015. Klemens Kundratitz, CEO of Deep Silver Media, stated:
“APB Reloaded has become a phenomenon on the PC with a very passionate and faithful community. We are really thrilled to help Reloaded Games and The Workshop bring this fantastic world to life on the new generation consoles.”
The game will still be free to play on both consoles, however Xbox players will need Xbox Live Gold in order to play. Playstation Plus was not mentioned as a requirement for PS4.
(Source: Deep Silver Press Release)
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