Open Beta 20th-23rd

[Sakebee 2270]

Hey everyone,

 

Our next Open Beta test starts this weekend! It will start on a stress test the 20th and then open fully from the 21st until our normal Wednesday maintenance. We hope you can join us! There are a ton of fixes for issues you helped us find in the last few tests. You can find those details here. Please note, you will be unable to download the Beta client during the emergency maintenance this morning. 

 

See you there!

 Sakebee

[TheMessiah 430]

Nice i was hoping for one more till the end of the year and here it is.. 

[vsb 6171]

neat

[iRawwwN 282]

edit; neato

Edited December 17, 2020 by iRawwwN

[NotZombieBiscuit 3146]

Yall have fun with that.

[Uhtdred 238]

4:3 resolutions will never be available??

[Latsha 71]

does q1 2021 have traces of possibility to happen?

[Darkzero3802 611]

38 minutes ago, Latsha said:

does q1 2021 have traces of possibility to happen?

As much of a chance as Q1 2014 had

[Vexxous 18]

cool, i missed the last one, will join this one.

 

 

[xHenryman90x 129]

10 hours ago, Uhtdred said:

4:3 resolutions will never be available??

Why is that even needed in this day and age?

[yourrandomnobody74 106]

10 minutes ago, xHenryman90x said:

Why is that even needed in this day and age?

the ability of choice is a factor here, preferences. someone likes oranges, while others like apples.
the fact they won't make a exclusive fullscreen mode and are trying to chug down this attempt of a fullscreen mode is also not helping performance and the timeline.

[Deadliest 385]

So, what happens after when you fix all the performance issues?

 

will you be working on other improvements like the UI? because the HUD and font needs to be changed.

 

^ The reason they took out 1024x768 res in engine update, because of the UI was not compatible with lower resolution and they didn't bother to fix (it just too much crap on HUD with FAT ugly font and the most ugliest radar ive seen in a game)  imo needs a new look and much simple hud system.

 

do some good design changes please. 

Edited December 18, 2020 by Deadliest

[Spy 152]

24 minutes ago, Deadliest said:

will you be working on other improvements like the UI? because the HUD and font needs to be changed.

Eventho the font is just a small issue I have to agree with you. The font is utterly sh!t and ugly af, Roboto ftw

[wHisHi 206]

1 hour ago, Spy said:

Eventho the font is just a small issue I have to agree with you. The font is utterly sh!t and ugly af, Roboto ftw

<please>Roboto all the way!</please>

[Uhtdred 238]

3 hours ago, xHenryman90x said:

Why is that even needed in this day and age?

because I have been playing 4:3 resolutions for more fps (because I used to have a bad PC) since I started playing this game...

 

now I have a mid end PC and still use 4:3 just because It's what I always use....

[TheMessiah 430]

Quote from "Tracking the engine upgrade" october 10

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This has been an incredible difficult project to finish.  

Obviously we are massively off the timeline I originally set.

There are still bugs, and we are still not done optimizing the renderer, but weighing the pros and cons, I have decided we are hopefully "good enough" to launch.

There are simply too many other more important tasks that are blocked by not releasing APB 2.1.

I want to get into better district management, better matchmaking, and cross district play between worlds.

 

Post the 2.1 launch, the team is committed to continuing to optimize performance. 
There are definitely places where the 2.1 FPS significantly under performs Live.

We have some larger changes that we would like to make to the renderer, but they will require much more time to engineer.

My question is how advanced is that work?I think thats the key..

[Kevkof 806]

 As per usual, zipped copies of the beta client:

Both links give the same zip, just a different server you'll pull it from

 

Mirror 1: https://kevkof.be/beta5

Mirror 2: https://kevkof.be/beta5v2

 

These are a .zip archive of the entire current Open Beta Client (fully clean and default)

Edited December 19, 2020 by Kevkof

[Aeronaut 647]

22 hours ago, Vexxous said:

cool, i missed the last one, will join this one.

will you?

[R3ACT3M 489]

 

On 12/17/2020 at 3:40 PM, Uhtdred said:

4:3 resolutions will never be available??

Edited December 21, 2020 by R3ACT3M

[Uhtdred 238]

13 hours ago, R3ACT3M said:

 

 

I play all games 16:9 (1920x1080) except APB, if that's what you want to know...

 

 

[xHenryman90x 129]

Where are the players? I logged in twice today, less than 10 player were online all day?

[CookiePuss 5378]

11 minutes ago, xHenryman90x said:

Where are the players? I logged in twice today, less than 10 player were online all day?

Try again when people are home from school or off of work. 

Wont be much better but you should be able to play. 

[xHenryman90x 129]

25 minutes ago, CookiePuss said:

Try again when people are home from school or off of work. 

Wont be much better but you should be able to play. 

Live game was quite populated at the time i checked out open beta servers, i logged in there less than 2 hours ago and saw about same amount of players like 5-6 hours earlier i logged in.

[gogeo 38]

Just downloaded, all districts were empty lol. Then game crashed in social. I'd have expected some players around this time.

[Hexerin 1140]

5 hours ago, xHenryman90x said:

Where are the players? I logged in twice today, less than 10 player were online all day?

4 hours ago, gogeo said:

Just downloaded, all districts were empty lol. Then game crashed in social. I'd have expected some players around this time.

Not many people are going to be willing to download an entirely new client just to test something that has been repeatedly shown to be an unstable and broken mess. Especially when most of the ISPs in the world impose data caps and other bandwidth restrictions on their users (unless they pay exorbitant amounts of money to expand/lift them).

 

Edited December 22, 2020 by Hexerin