UnawarePolarBear

I'd rather they shut it down now and focus entirely on working on the engine upgrade. There's no way that APB is making them any cash currently, may as well focus entirely on the engine upgrade and not even bother maintaining the old version. A properly scaled relaunch with the engine upgrade and new content would probably do much better than the drip-feed that is the engine upgrade presently.

Same. Maybe they should fix the ear-screeches or loud tones over 5 seconds. :^)

Kind of sad, right? You hope you're wrong, but then you see this mess and all you can think is, "Well... that sucks" Hopefully they can right their sinking ship but from everything I've heard, this beta was rough af... I didn't even bother to sign on because the last one was such a disaster. Hoping they can get it fixed and ready quick.

ur positivity is infectious.

Wonder at what point they just shut down the live service aspect of this game and prepare for a re-launch under the "engine upgrade" - Wonder if it's even worth doing. Don't think much can save it now. Who knows

Can't speak for everyone, but I am waiting for the Engine Upgrade that has taken 8 years (going on 2 now under LO). No reason to play this mess of a game until that comes. Anti-cheat or not.

Bullet-point feedback from the 10-15 minutes I was able to get in before the initial shutdown: Look and feel is a bit rough. Multiple clothing items have black textures that crush all colors (the shinguards being one of them). I remember loving the lit city-scapes of San Paro. Yes, they were very bloomy, but the colors seemed a lot more tuned. This version is "realistic" but seems to lack the depth of previous iterations. I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. Character lighting in the editor is so dark that it's hard to really do much in the way of designing. I do like that your character isn't hyper-lit and it's more realistic for the game, but man... all my designs look rough now. Multiple layering issues with certain decals as well. For some reason they were coming in red/black. Game appeared relatively stable for me even when people were hammering the world-server. I was getting 138-144 FPS, 40 MS on all settings maxed with an I7-8700k at 5.2 ghz, Nvidia GTX 1080ti, and 32gb of 3200 MHZ GDDR4 ram. Man... the load times. What a dream. Instant character editor, district loads taking 4-5 seconds. It's just... wow. Hopefully I can try an action district next time. Thank.

Definitely do a support ticket. Your account is likely locked in an instance that isn't "up" and therefore likely cannot be released. This happened about 3 years back when G1 still owned the game, and they had to go in and manually purge peoples accounts from the hold.

According to Matt, this story is largely on the provider.

Dunno, can't tell if he's being racist or referring to golds as "yellows"

Disagree entirely, but sure.

I really feel for you, it really seems that you've landed with the worst provider in Europe. You've seemingly got the most incapable provider in all of Europe. In any situation that impacts customers, if I "misunderstood" and took your services down, I would be fired. Perhaps because of the higher stakes, but their track record is pathetic. In the past two months they've: Failed to provide hardware on time Failed to file necessary paperwork for hardware to clear customs Failed to install the proper software/operating systems Failed to schedule a proper downtime and took your services down a day early. I'm sure you're re-evaluating your business with them, but it's such a bad look for APB when the European provider is so wildly incompetent.

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Computer specs? Disk Space? Literally anything we can use to help you aside from you asking for help?

It's funny, because someone on the other thread explicitly mentioned this was probably going to happen. What a visionary.