Unexpected Downtime Update

[Talla 89]

4 hours ago, Queen of Love said:

i guess is time to talk about APB: Open Source.
That had should be done when we had 10k of players. with a good 1 % with nice coding skills.
New content and New gameplay.

I wish too,
but I guess we underestimate the amount of spaghetti in this codebase.

Edited 14 hours ago by Talla

[Ardita 96]

6 hours ago, Talla said:

I wish too,
but I guess we underestimate the amount of spaghetti in this codebase.

[StevenDeckard 283]

@Queen of Love, @Talla, @Ardita - I absolutely agree, but somehow I doubt this will ever happen. :(

One thing I did notice while chatting with other veterans is the prevalent duplicity in connection with APB, on the one hand they were sad APB was suddenly down (with like 99.9% quoting that they will miss their customisations, but not the messy rest) and on the other hand  they seemed to be relieved on some level (with many stating that it was a long time coming). It is so weird.

Edited 5 hours ago by StevenDeckard

[Ardita 96]

23 minutes ago, StevenDeckard said:

@Queen of Love, @Talla, @Ardita - I absolutely agree, but somehow I doubt this will ever happen.

One thing I did notice while chatting with other veterans is the prevalent duplicity in connection with APB, on the one hand they were sad APB was suddenly down (with like 99.9% quoting that they will miss their customisations, but not the messy rest) and on the other hand  they seemed to be relieved on some level (with many stating that it was a long time coming). It is so weird.

You referring to new content and new gameplay as QoL mentioned? Well, I kind of understand if that is your opinion, although to keep the vets "satisfied" as they're the huge supporters and donators at Armas Marketplace, there needs to be some new content.

 

I miss the customization every single day  

[Romique 19]

50 minutes ago, StevenDeckard said:

@Queen of Love, @Talla, @Ardita - I absolutely agree, but somehow I doubt this will ever happen.

One thing I did notice while chatting with other veterans is the prevalent duplicity in connection with APB, on the one hand they were sad APB was suddenly down (with like 99.9% quoting that they will miss their customisations, but not the messy rest) and on the other hand  they seemed to be relieved on some level (with many stating that it was a long time coming). It is so weird.

im 2011 veteran - and i will miss every single bit of this game and great people that iv met. 

UPDT - ARDITA is the best!

Edited 4 hours ago by Romique

[StevenDeckard 283]

@Ardita - Absolutely, the insane level of customisation options for players is THE best thing of the game (and to my knowledge unique in its scope, as I do not know even a single game that offers but a fraction of those options), this is also something that I think about everyone that ever played APB agrees on. I love my custom cars and clothes - so for me this will always be the BEST part of this game (and probably is the very reason why people still play).

I might be "jaded" in regards to gameplay though, as our very tiny police rp centred clan long, long, long ago stopped playing those (in our opinion) god awful normal missions. We only played and engaged in the tiny open world part available in game (always hoping that this might one day be a bit more expanded or worked on - but of course it never was and very likely never will). Do not get me wrong things were lots and lots of fun over the years (we had countless of awesome pursuits with fellow enforces and criminals alike, even doing custom pursuits with people just for the fun of it, matching our driving skills), but over the past year or so, less and less players engaged in any open world activities and these days, you literally spent hours just driving around the two districts with nothing to do in regards to the open world part, except maybe impound the odd vehicle left at the side of the road. So from that (granted narrow) standpoint things are not even a slim shadow of what things were like back in the day, when you really had one pursuit/chase after the other and never even chased the same persons twice during an evening. (We never found it even remotely funny to chase the same guys over and over and over.)

Sorry for the "wall of text", am just a bit sad about that...

@Romique - Oh I do agree! Case in point: Our little clan was founded in APB more than a decade ago, but eventually we started to play other games together as well, simply because we enjoyed playing games together. I would not want to miss a single one of those people 

Edited 2 hours ago by StevenDeckard