APB Reloaded 15-Year Anniversary

[MageLO 252]

APB Reloaded is officially turning 15!

Join us in-game starting July 2nd as we kick off our anniversary celebration with limited-time events, rewards, and a sneak peek at what’s coming in the upcoming Legends patch.

We’ll also be hosting a live AMA with our CEO Matt Scott on today at 5 PM UTC over on Twitch, where you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and hear more about the future of APB Reloaded.
 

Learn more about the 15-Year Anniversary Event in our newest blogpost.

 

Thank you for 15 amazing years of APB: Reloaded and here is to many more!

[Markz 0]

Thanks. That was lots of info about upcoming changes.

[koenyboy500 66]

The QoL change regarding the vehicle teleportation is somewhat sad to see.
As I've been making some guides to get people introduced into APB:R and telling them the 'Golden Rules' I've also spoken about how this glitch/bug is actually a feature.

Been hammering the idea of don't play fair in APB and this had always been a staple of it.

 

Also please make the OCA-Whisper follow the OCA variants and not the other way around. Nobody likes engaged a Whisper at 50M and possilby losing.

[Temporal 24]

Truly "amazing" years yeah.

[Yapopal 198]

Added many extra car spawning spots to existing Car Spawners around Financial. 

What kind of cars are we talking about? I hope we are talking about NPS cars. If that's not the case, then it's a bad idea. Numerous requests come from players who aim to increase efficiency. Of course, a Vegas 4x4 is better than a Moral picked up on the street.  Because of this, there are a lot of identical Vegas 4x4 cars on the streets. The mission of capturing the point becomes hell due to the constant spam of the revived players.

Hopefully, the appearance of the leaderboard will not lead to endless escalation and complete disregard for mission objectives. In my opinion, the main indicator of effectiveness in mission districts is the fulfillment of the mission objective and the victory in the mission.

Why are you ignoring performance issues related to graphics settings? Third-party applications and graphics configurations have become so commonplace that your game seems like some kind of garbage on twitch.

Edited 17 hours ago by Yapopal

[GhosT 1304]

Site is offline.

 

Adding leaderboards to the game is an awful idea, shows that the people working on the game don't have all that much experience with online PVP games. There's a reason why almost every game removed them again.

 

Removal of teleporting into vehicles by abusing blocked doors is awesome.

Edited 16 hours ago by GhosT

[Snubnose 652]

1 hour ago, GhosT said:

Site is offline.

 

Adding leaderboards to the game is an awful idea, shows that the people working on the game don't have all that much experience with online PVP games. There's a reason why almost every game removed them again.

 

Removal of teleporting into vehicles by abusing blocked doors is awesome.

Agreed. I don't even play this game anymore but hearing about leaderboards bothered me... it just leads to more competitiveness in a non-competitive, casual game. APB doesn't have the recipe for a proper competitive game... this leaderboard will just lead to more tryharding, cheesing and cheating. Development time for this should've been put elsewhere.

I appreciate that LO is still trying to keep this ball rolling... but yall should've sold APB Reloaded and kept the IP instead of selling it off to a rich chinese guy whos just sitting on it... we could've had APB 2.

[Yapopal 198]

How about refining what you've already added to the game. For example, an automatic call for help. The whole team is out of the game because they are playing against cheaters. I stay alone and just wait. Suddenly, the game itself calls for help. Although the mission counter is less than one minute.
Another example. I go to the area where the mission started, but I don't know where to respawn because I can't see the place where the mission takes place.

[BlatMan 726]

Will this kernel level anti-cheat run in userspace on Linux? I don't trust an in-house kernel driver, mainly from a system stability standpoint. I was one of many who had to fix servers when Crowdstrike released that broken driver. 

 

Removal of instantly getting into blocked doors is going to feel really awkward. Why bother? I guess fixing things that didn't need fixing is to be expected, and this is why I don't trust your kernel driver.

[GhosT 1304]

So now that the website is online again, i can't ignore this sentence:

 

"In fact, the update we had planned got too big, and we are now splitting the event into two back-to-back parts."

 

Are we really saying a new Anti Cheat, Servers, Leaderboards, the return of Premium, four QoL fixes and a "play missions to earn JT and yet another batch of Titles" event is considered too big of an update?

Most of the update isn't even game relevant content, or anything new.

[Bruhd101 26]

4 hours ago, Snubnose said:

Agreed. I don't even play this game anymore but hearing about leaderboards bothered me... it just leads to more competitiveness in a non-competitive, casual game. APB doesn't have the recipe for a proper competitive game... this leaderboard will just lead to more tryharding, cheesing and cheating. Development time for this should've been put elsewhere.

I appreciate that LO is still trying to keep this ball rolling... but yall should've sold APB Reloaded and kept the IP instead of selling it off to a rich chinese guy whos just sitting on it... we could've had APB 2.

Instead of a leaderboard, there could have been more things to do pve wise

[sweetLemonade 126]

49 minutes ago, BlatMan said:

Will this kernel level anti-cheat run in userspace on Linux? I don't trust an in-house kernel driver, mainly from a system stability standpoint. I was one of many who had to fix servers when Crowdstrike released that broken driver. 

 

Removal of instantly getting into blocked doors is going to feel really awkward. Why bother? I guess fixing things that didn't need fixing is to be expected, and this is why I don't trust your kernel driver.

I'm expecting them to completely forego Linux altogether, akin to other publishers...
In-house solutions from a small company such as Little Orbit sounds troublesome.
Even Valve & RIOT have difficulties with their in-house solutions, where they have a larger dev team & larger resources. 
What assurement can we have that LO won't abuse their system akin to the previous rogue GM?

I fail to understand how they'll circumvent the most common modern cheating method, which bypasses quite a few larger AC solutions... 

[SkittyM 293]

6 hours ago, Snubnose said:

Agreed. I don't even play this game anymore but hearing about leaderboards bothered me... it just leads to more competitiveness in a non-competitive, casual game. APB doesn't have the recipe for a proper competitive game... this leaderboard will just lead to more tryharding, cheesing and cheating. Development time for this should've been put elsewhere.

I appreciate that LO is still trying to keep this ball rolling... but yall should've sold APB Reloaded and kept the IP instead of selling it off to a rich chinese guy whos just sitting on it... we could've had APB 2.

Ultimately expecting this game to go the way Wildstar did.  Get good and grind or buzz off.  Then it shuts down a while later cause casuals are where the money is at and you alienated them.

[Westford 188]

3 hours ago, BlatMan said:

Will this kernel level anti-cheat run in userspace on Linux? I don't trust an in-house kernel driver, mainly from a system stability standpoint. I was one of many who had to fix servers when Crowdstrike released that broken driver. 

 

Removal of instantly getting into blocked doors is going to feel really awkward. Why bother? I guess fixing things that didn't need fixing is to be expected, and this is why I don't trust your kernel driver.

 

"Trust".... is a fickle beast they say.

 

I remember the discussion of "Trust" came up in the last AMA questionnaire for "Back to the Streets" update in March.

 

On 3/10/2025 at 4:12 AM, vsb said:

 

if you don’t trust that the devs are banning cheaters, why would you trust that the devs would post legitimate ban statistics? 

 

• Why would we trust that the devs are identifying and banning cheaters ?
• Why would we trust the patch notes are accurate ?
• Why would we trust 3rd Party Anti Cheat implementations are working ?
• Why would we Trust that an in house developed anti cheat will be effective ?
• Why would we Trust a client side in house developed anti cheat kernel will be safe ?

 

I think for many of us that have hung in there over the years, we all realize that it was 

not just "lack of content" or "performance" that drove many players away.

 

It's unfortunate, but "Cheaters" ruin the gaming experience for all players.

 

And many of us who have been here since Punkbusters was around, 

also know that the 3rd party Anti Cheat efforts were not the doing best.

• Punkbusters
• Fairfight
• Battleeye
• Easy AntiCheat
• SA....... (never mind)

 

One might assume that APB, being an older game was not high on the 
list of priorities for Anti Cheat makers to make whatever updates were needed for APB

in a timely fashion. 

/sigh

 

So yeah, I'm ok with an in house developed anti cheat.

Why not ?

 

They know the game code.

They know specifically what data to capture.

 

Cost effective.

Regular updates, cause.. why not.

 

Will we lose some "Legit Players" cause of this ?

Maybe.

 

Will we lose players that do not support fair gameplay with their use of 3rd party tools to gain an advantage ?

Probably.

 

And I am ok with that.

Myself, and I am sure many others, just want "fair" gameplay.

 

What has NOT worked in the past, more than likely will not work in the future.

So why not try something different.

 

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"

 

Namaste...

 

 

[Ardita 183]

On 6/28/2025 at 5:42 PM, MageLO said:

Thank you for 15 amazing years of APB: Reloaded and here is to many more!