So when do we revive APB?

[VanilleKeks 752]

Dumb title aside; from existing plans I have seen I would really like to know when you'll actually make an attempt to gather new players.

I don't see any large "wow moments" happening without newer engine capabilities 

 

Many issues would be solved by a larger playerbase (fairer matches, less disproportionate amount of cheaters among others).
With the full engine upgrade being the original key to start marketing and that now being scrapped, what's the plan?

 

If I missed some info about this please show me (and no I won't join your discord, publish your news properly)

Edited April 1 by VanilleKeks

[Yapopal 195]

I once owned a Toyota Lite ace minibus with rear-wheel drive. He skidded on any surface. For example, he could slip on wet grass for no reason. This game reminds me of him. The developers are working hard, delving into the task. But it always turns out to be a minibus that is stalling.

[sweetLemonade 123]

5 hours ago, VanilleKeks said:

Dumb title aside; from existing plans I have seen I would really like to know when you'll actually make an attempt to gather new players.

I don't see any large "wow moments" happening without newer engine capabilities 

 

Many issues would be solved by a larger playerbase (fairer matches, less disproportionate amount of cheaters among others).
With the full engine upgrade being the original key to start marketing and that now being scrapped, what's the plan?

 

If I missed some info about this please show me (and no I won't join your discord, publish your news properly)

According to Matt's comments from the last AMA, advertising is planned after next content patch which is due in May–June this year.
The content patch will include 2 new contacts, a (very likely) new PvE district, Epic Game Store launch, Cross-World Matchmaking and the new "GamersFirst Technology Platform" (A in-house client & server anti-cheat) along with a supposed Monthly Leaderboard (from the description of it, it'll be akin to Battle Passes in other games)

Considering the state they plan to advertise the game in, the constant mention of a potential UE5 release (but explicitly mentioning that they won't repeat a "engine upgrade" scenario) in the AMA.... I don't have any hopes of this game gaining attraction again from new users, especially with the current gameplay mechanics.
They've seemingly transitioned all their news updates to Discord, which is quite bizarre considering they host these forums and that's what forums are for...

Edited April 1 by sweetLemonade

[VanilleKeks 752]

14 hours ago, sweetLemonade said:

According to Matt's comments from the last AMA, advertising is planned after next content patch which is due in May–June this year.
The content patch will include 2 new contacts, a (very likely) new PvE district, Epic Game Store launch, Cross-World Matchmaking and the new "GamersFirst Technology Platform" (A in-house client & server anti-cheat) along with a supposed Monthly Leaderboard (from the description of it, it'll be akin to Battle Passes in other games)

Considering the state they plan to advertise the game in, the constant mention of a potential UE5 release (but explicitly mentioning that they won't repeat a "engine upgrade" scenario) in the AMA.... I don't have any hopes of this game gaining attraction again from new users, especially with the current gameplay mechanics.
They've seemingly transitioned all their news updates to Discord, which is quite bizarre considering they host these forums and that's what forums are for...

Thanks for sharing. It's something at least. Lets see where it goes

[Gro 108]

You're gonna need necromancers for this, pal.

[Mitne 728]

Taking how G1 killed population in past with nonaction and false promises and then LO stepped in and both took too small fishing rod for too big of fish and also decided to limit their actions to the point they pretty much G1 v.2 in nonaction. I remember when I joined this game we had EU with populations of 20k on each two servers, two instances of NA for both East and West, equally filled to brim, Asian server called Han and Innova which was seperate one but russians at least had their place too. And over years population dropped, servers had to be merged one by one by one so we arrive here... with roughly 500 players at best hours. It's safe to say all the potential was there and was absolutely wasted. And popularity was absolutely ruined. You go to YouTube - type "APB: Reloaded" and the top results are about "Why it's 100 million $ disaster".

 

So safe to say, that ship already sailed. We just facing inevitable.  LO would need to do major... And I mean really major changes which would astound players. (Facepunch did that miracle with Rust but I doubt LO is capable to replicate what Facepunch did)

Either that or release new APB in background (of course hyping it up first). Problem is franchise was sold to company called "Unit Game" which appears to just sit on title and present it like some trophy.

 

So this game lost it future and really I blame developers (also game population didn't do any favours with cheating in rampant amounts for "people who love this game" and there's also people who treat newbies like "unnecessary evil" and decide to go full ham on them...)

[VanilleKeks 752]

20 hours ago, Mitne said:

Taking how G1 killed population in past with nonaction and false promises and then LO stepped in and both took too small fishing rod for too big of fish and also decided to limit their actions to the point they pretty much G1 v.2 in nonaction. I remember when I joined this game we had EU with populations of 20k on each two servers, two instances of NA for both East and West, equally filled to brim, Asian server called Han and Innova which was seperate one but russians at least had their place too. And over years population dropped, servers had to be merged one by one by one so we arrive here... with roughly 500 players at best hours. It's safe to say all the potential was there and was absolutely wasted. And popularity was absolutely ruined. You go to YouTube - type "APB: Reloaded" and the top results are about "Why it's 100 million $ disaster".

 

So safe to say, that ship already sailed. We just facing inevitable.  LO would need to do major... And I mean really major changes which would astound players. (Facepunch did that miracle with Rust but I doubt LO is capable to replicate what Facepunch did)

Either that or release new APB in background (of course hyping it up first). Problem is franchise was sold to company called "Unit Game" which appears to just sit on title and present it like some trophy.

 

So this game lost it future and really I blame developers (also game population didn't do any favours with cheating in rampant amounts for "people who love this game" and there's also people who treat newbies like "unnecessary evil" and decide to go full ham on them...)

"I remember when I joined this game we had EU with populations of 20k on each two servers, two instances of NA for both East and West, equally filled to brim"

 

The game has never been beyond a 6k population peak in total on Steam and we did not get 20k per server from launcher users lol.

 

By all means G1 and LO have let the player-base decline but let's not act like APB Reloaded was ever a major title that was killed or anything.

The population was always abysmal for a free online title.