03/15 Maintenance Announcement (Build#1359)

[Ritual 629]

Hello, everyone,

 

Our regular APB maintenance for PC and Console will be held tomorrow (3/15). It will start at 9AM UTC and it is expected to take up to 4-6 hours. Here's what to expect with the incoming patch:

 

BUG FIXES:

- Implemented a potential FPS speedup with ALT-TAB,

- Implemented a potential fix for a hang experienced when re-initializing a GPU device on the spawn screen,

- Implemented a potential fix for the client issue resulting in lower performance (if the issue is still present, it can sometimes be fixed by swapping from Windowed/Windowed Fullscreen mode to Fullscreen mode, then swapping back to the desired display),

- The Obeya "Heartbreaker" Valentine's Day Weapon is classified as a Marksman Rifle outside of the holiday event,

- The "Valentine's" category no longer appears in-game in the deploy menu,

- The in-game support URL (F1) points to the proper URL.

 

GENERAL CHANGES:

- Rebuilt (and permanently set to nighttime) the Asylum map's lighting. Atmosphere!

- Districts with fixed time of day cycles now properly toggle (on or off) time-activated spotlights.

- Tweaked the Vegas G20's suspension to be more stiff.

 

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Applying settings in-game can also occasionally cause performance issues. These can be fixed by a restart.

- Some roles will occasionally show incorrect values (i.e., the "Mugger" role showing a progression of 1000/50).

- Explosions will go through some very thin walls (cars potentially can explode even if a rocket is shot at them from behind a wall)

- Minor instances of certain non-light source objects casting light in Asylum.

 

Thank you for your patience during the maintenance period.

 

See you in game!

 

P.S: The thread has been cross-posted from Game Updates

[ninjarrrr 255]

no joker machine audio spam fix?

[MonteJr 4]

5 minutes ago, ninjarrrr said:

no joker machine audio spam fix?

JOKER AMMOOOO!!!

WHEN YOU NEED TO KILL ALL THESE JOKERS!!!

JOKER AMMO!!!!!!!!

[ninjarrrr 255]

34 minutes ago, Ritual said:

Rebuilt (and permanently set to nighttime) the Asylum map's lighting. Atmosphere!

pointless change

[PLAYLUXE 54]

15 minutes ago, ninjarrrr said:

pointless change

It's for making the list look longer

[LilyRain 674]

3 hours ago, Ritual said:

GENERAL CHANGES:

- Rebuilt (and permanently set to nighttime) the Asylum map's lighting. Atmosphere!

 

KNOWN ISSUES:

- Minor instances of certain non-light source objects casting light in Asylum.

But why? The sun should light upon us every now and then.

 

Moreover, couldn't this permanent nighttime setting wait till the known issue is addressed?

[Meterora 20]

4 hours ago, Ritual said:

Tweaked the Vegas G20's suspension to be more stiff.

if this breaks backflipping imma scream

[Frosi 722]

15 minutes ago, Meterora said:

if this breaks backflipping imma scream

It does not and its only for the regular Vegas, not the 4x4.

[Hexerin 1140]

7 hours ago, Ritual said:

- Tweaked the Vegas G20's suspension to be more stiff.

Can't wait for the drastically negative effects this is almost certain to have on the already horrendously inconsistent stability of the Vegas.

 

3 hours ago, Frosi said:

It does not and its only for the regular Vegas, not the 4x4.

Which brings up the question of "why?"

[AsgerLund 1271]

11 hours ago, ninjarrrr said:

no joker machine audio spam fix?

Are we doing this again? Okay, here we go...

 

Racing district when?

[Yapopal 168]

1 hour ago, AsgerLund said:

Are we doing this again? Okay, here we go...

 

Racing district when?

 

[AsgerLund 1271]

1 hour ago, Yapopal said:

 

[Weaboos 89]

On 3/15/2023 at 11:51 AM, AsgerLund said:

Sadge

 

Merged.

 

On 3/15/2023 at 1:36 AM, Frosi said:

It does not and its only for the regular Vegas, not the 4x4.

Weird, I thought it's a fix to compensate for the 4x4 suspension becoming more bouncy after the 64bit update

[CookiePuss 5378]

7 hours ago, Hexerin said:

Which brings up the question of "why?"

The idea was to make the Vegas better when compared to the 4x4, similar to how you might want to see the Veo buffed but not the Coywolf. 
 

 

Edited March 15, 2023 by CookiePuss

[MACKxBOLAN 431]

Fix or Silence that damned Joker voice. I don't know how loud we have to be about this.

Everyone is asking for it, its louder than before n ruins any combat near a ammo machine, n blows your ear drums out if you're using a head set.

Then I wanna add that the Vegas issa pos cuz they nerf the wheelies. We used to have standing wheelies down the street with nitro.

  Ya nerfed it cuz a certain player that hung by double B used it to troll n flip other cars. That player is long gone.

How bout our wheelies back ?

 

Merged.

 

On 3/15/2023 at 12:40 PM, CookiePuss said:

The idea was to make the normal Vegas better,

ya the 2 wheel drive sucks, its like driving a damned U-haul truck or pullin a trailer, I'd rather drive a pancake growl that

the 2WD vegas. 

 Ya'all have no respect for what a muscle car is, for one thing any 4x is gonna be way heavier.

 The 2wd should be powerful, sprinty but be more unstable in turns or slides.

and due its lighter weight should do wheelies easier than the 4x without all the weight of the 

front drive train, and take off quicker

[Optimus_Crime 81]

17 hours ago, Ritual said:

- Rebuilt (and permanently set to nighttime) the Asylum map's lighting. Atmosphere!

Why? I liked day time asylum now i'll probably have to turn up my brightness settings everytime i enter it and then lower it when im out

[Nickolai 206]

17 hours ago, ninjarrrr said:

no joker machine audio spam fix?

Other than that, interesting changes. Wish you guys could buff the less popular vehicles like the Sentinel and the low end starter cars. Hope we dont have to wait years for these small improvements. 

[Ellix 415]

5 hours ago, Yapopal said:

 

 

This one was my personal project that was done for APB however it's unfinished and needs texturing.

Not speaking about setting up missions and general balance that needs to be done for this to actually work.

I mean I still have all the files and stuff but actually implementing this will be A BIG task...

[MACKxBOLAN 431]

Admin/ Moderator

 I have been sent by the populous to find out WHY we are being shut down.

Why why is all they want.

[Nerima 61]

So? I assume the maintenance should be done by now, but servers are still down

[Desumanu 32]

So there was no maintenance earlier around that 9am UCT as it was suppoused to and we are getting it now ? or its a minor patch / fix being implemented right now without any infromation for the community ? 

[Annette_Sasha 8]

For excessively long maintenance, it would be nice for players to be compensated in the style of 100 joker tickets or something like that.

[Frosi 722]

6 hours ago, Weaboos said:

Weird, I thought it's a fix to compensate for the 4x4 suspension becoming more bouncy after the 64bit update

I haven't noticed a difference whatsoever when it comes to the 4x4.

[El-Neko 30]

20 hours ago, ninjarrrr said:

pointless change

Not everyone plays on potato config settings. You'll be surprised good chunk of us do play at max settings... Since upgrade to 64-bit alot of places the baked lighting is just awful at alot of places in all the maps we play in.

[TheMessiah 430]

23 hours ago, Ritual said:

- Implemented a potential FPS speedup with ALT-TAB,

so if i hit alt+tab now my low end sht will become nasa computer?

edit:when press alt+tab and hold some window apear idk for what purpose

Edited March 15, 2023 by TheMessiah