07/23 MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT

[MageLO 281]

Hello everybody,

 

Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (07/23) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 6 to 8 hours.

 

Thank you for your patience.

[Bruhd101 31]

[Ardita 194]

And the 15th Ann. Patch… uhm nope :c

[fastmode 8]

still no anti cheat ?

[lesbianrus 6]

C

24 minutes ago, fastmode said:

Все еще нет античита?

They should put an anti-cheat on the 30th anniversary :))

Edited Wednesday at 03:59 PM by lesbianrus

[MageLO 281]

Hello everyone,

 

as we're nearing the 8 Hour mark of the maintenance we have decided to extend the maintenance to give our Team more time to finish their remaining tasks. 

 

Thank you for your patience and keep an eye our for more news as we get closer to unlocking the servers.

[MACKxBOLAN 470]

Thanks for the update Magelo.

 The Jackals will be mad, they have paid for tools of evil, yet the person who they paid ddos them, 

in the name of revenge against LO. In effect Frauding his own fraudsters. 

Only a handful of legits are collateral damage as he attacks his own customers. 

I also think LO should shut down the forum for a couple weeks, halting the trolls from 

spewing their hate. Gee What'll they do for self satisfaction of spewing salt upon the few. 

Mack Smiles. 

[Ardita 194]

20 minutes ago, MageLO said:

Hello everyone,

 

as we're nearing the 8 Hour mark of the maintenance we have decided to extend the maintenance to give our Team more time to finish their remaining tasks. 

 

Thank you for your patience and keep an eye our for more news as we get closer to unlocking the servers.

So the patch will be released today!!! ... nope :C

[Ardita 194]

4 minutes ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

Only a handful of legits are collateral damage as he attacks his own customers. 

[Victoria97 31]

@MageLO if there is anything most annoying its the silence. 
I can accept event and patch being announced and then postponed... thats perfectly okay.

But what is not okay is that you dont say a deadline.
In every normal civilized grown up company in 2025 and last 20 years of management and marketing and administration of every serious company works with deadlines. 
We dont need from you to say event and patch were postponed for 15th of july and then nothing... we dont need from you to say event and patch have been postponed until 1st of august...and then we will wait to that day just to hear it has been postponed again. 
We understand everything lasts on one two persons in your company and its physically demanding and very hard to do anything. But it is what it is. 
What we dont understand is that you guys cant give us at least an aproximate date of everything. 
 

Its insane that we all have to pretend Matt hype us all for event/patch and then out of one single "it has been postponed" ...we got nothing again next entire month.
Now its already 24rd...meaning 1 month has passed in complete silence.

I remind you guys that not all members of this community can be on discord or want to be on discord and camp there 24/7 like some nolifers can.
This is official forum of APB...meaning forum should be first source of information!

Is it so hard to write or say that patch /event have been postponed until xmas event? Just tell us. So we dont wait like donkeys every single week and have to ask every Wednesday maintenance day...is this the day of event or patch!! 

Just speak to us! Say it! Patch and event wont happen before september...give us at least correct month! 

Because this waiting and silence is torture and its not fair for us dedicated veterans and rest of community who is left in this game. Thanks in advance. 

[Ardita 194]

4 hours ago, Victoria97 said:

@MageLO if there is anything most annoying its the silence. 

Funny part is, he is supposed to be the Community Manager... Even GamersFirst were more communicative than this

[Nagletz 227]

17 hours ago, Victoria97 said:

@MageLO if there is anything most annoying its the silence. 
I can accept event and patch being announced and then postponed... thats perfectly okay.

But what is not okay is that you dont say a deadline.
In every normal civilized grown up company in 2025 and last 20 years of management and marketing and administration of every serious company works with deadlines. 
We dont need from you to say event and patch were postponed for 15th of july and then nothing... we dont need from you to say event and patch have been postponed until 1st of august...and then we will wait to that day just to hear it has been postponed again. 
We understand everything lasts on one two persons in your company and its physically demanding and very hard to do anything. But it is what it is. 
What we dont understand is that you guys cant give us at least an aproximate date of everything. 
 

Its insane that we all have to pretend Matt hype us all for event/patch and then out of one single "it has been postponed" ...we got nothing again next entire month.
Now its already 24rd...meaning 1 month has passed in complete silence.

I remind you guys that not all members of this community can be on discord or want to be on discord and camp there 24/7 like some nolifers can.
This is official forum of APB...meaning forum should be first source of information!

Is it so hard to write or say that patch /event have been postponed until xmas event? Just tell us. So we dont wait like donkeys every single week and have to ask every Wednesday maintenance day...is this the day of event or patch!! 

Just speak to us! Say it! Patch and event wont happen before september...give us at least correct month! 

Because this waiting and silence is torture and its not fair for us dedicated veterans and rest of community who is left in this game. Thanks in advance. 

Rockstar have same habit tho, however most of the time its done to increase the hype... As an Online player however, it annoys very much.

[MACKxBOLAN 470]

Don't Shoot The Messenger'

The reason the GM hasn't given an update on when the update is coming, is because the GM has not been directed to do so,

or provided with the Official Date to release to us.

 Really The Question should be Directed at Matt Scott.

[Victoria97 31]

6 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

Don't Shoot The Messenger'

The reason the GM hasn't given an update on when the update is coming, is because the GM has not been directed to do so,

or provided with the Official Date to release to us.

 Really The Question should be Directed at Matt Scott.

Definitely not shooting the messenger, but it is good to remind that staff is not gm. 
Since each time i seen MageLO inside apb he did not have <GM> in front of his name he had <STAFF> title in front of his name and staff members are only ones with actual powers of banning on sight and having actual powers whatsoever to do anything. Something what Tiggs used to be. That level. 
You won't ask Frosi who is GM..or other GM's. 
GM's are merely players, who got only mute option and teleport option and thats about it....they got one command more than useless SPCT's who have absolutely no powers inside the game nor pretty much anywhere else. It is known. 
So basically only one who can know anything about update/event status is MageLO and he is only connection with actual knowledge and power between us and Matt who obviously wont ever chat with us at forums...he does one two AMA's per year and thats it. And its okay in some sense since Matt is owner so you dont talk with everybody if you are boss. Thats why you got staff you pay, to do it for you.
Hence why expect every info from only MageLO and i am 100% sure he is the only one who can give such info and should 've already given that info. 

I repeat we dont need date and milisecond...we merely want to know is that gonna be in august or should we simply shut down apb and come back 1st of november for halloween event because this silence and constant weekly check-ups are pretty stressful. If population drops more than it already is, soon you will have literally 2 people left standing in social and staring at each other and then you might just make it official already and declare bankruptcy and shut this whole thing up, because what is too much is too much. 

I can handle failed promises, i can handle entire lack of anti-cheat (not because i support or like cheaters but because at this moment of game decay i really couldn't care less anymore), i can handle everything... but i can't handle nor i can comprehend that after all this years of this community and this company...that we still didn't surpass basics of human civilized communication...such as goddamn news and updates regarding big deals such as new ac and new content but instead we get....silence.

You just cant announce something that would bring up liveness to APB such as new content and deeefinitely finally an anti cheat, then you postpone it next friday and not saying to which date you are postponing it to, then go entirely deaf and blind next 30 days of entire month and pretend we are all just mummies and that we have to ask every damn week maintenance "is this patch day?..is this event day at least?...is this is this?" and so every week.
Just say a bloody date mate or say we wont do it this year...but say it!! Is that so much to ask for?!?
There i dont know how "gentler" i could express my frustration and i am sure rest of us 7-9 people who i see on this forums caring for this game share same frustration. 

[MACKxBOLAN 470]

12 hours ago, Victoria97 said:

shooting the messenger

I have to agree that Matt shouldn't have given or released a date before testing and or what ever has set them back. 

Regardless of Magelo's rank or position, it still falls within a chain of command. Anything released to us must be approved 

by Matt. It would look really bad if they released a second date and failed again. 

 Believe it or not, it is not the AC that I am interested in, it is the content. 

This whole thing has bungled my routine and interest in the game itself. 

I like to do side jobs for joker tickets, my current goal is a mini nade launcher for my main cop.

Which those launchers are not really game changers, but in a niche can be useful, I have mini launchers 

on all my other max ranks. Crim's can rent the big opg and afford it. Now my cop is not completely broke, 

but under 1 million game cash is broke to me. You need a padding, and for me it is 1 mil. 

Then news of the update comes and possibly an armas version of the big opgl (rumored).

But what other content will be maybe added to the joker store or armas, makes me put my rent to own 

plans on hold, because now i want to save up JT's not knowing what they will have when we get the update. 

 Then at the back of my mind I'm thinking I may not be around to use that million dollars or need it, and might 

as well rent the big opgl off the contact. Which is not a game changer either for me but I want it in my locker for 

when missiles which i have are not the best tool for the mission. That said, the MM is not nice to Mack.

And even with an opgl I'll lose anyway to stacked golds, which means a dethreat if I dont rq, if I rq I don't get paid. 

As a cop I have keep an LtL of some sort ready in my locker, in the case my team or mate is playing for arrests. 

So keeping my game cash moving up is an issue. In the end it means less interest in joker jobs and total time in game. 

 I don't know what is in store, and at times I simply don't care anymore. I know a new weapon won't change the tide, and 

I have very little faith in any anticheat, and don't see things changing. 

[JustLikeHim 10]

3 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

I have to agree that Matt shouldn't have given or released a date before testing and or what ever has set them back. 

Regardless of Magelo's rank or position, it still falls within a chain of command. Anything released to us must be approved 

by Matt. It would look really bad if they released a second date and failed again. 

 Believe it or not, it is not the AC that I am interested in, it is the content. 

This whole thing has bungled my routine and interest in the game itself. 

I like to do side jobs for joker tickets, my current goal is a mini nade launcher for my main cop.

Which those launchers are not really game changers, but in a niche can be useful, I have mini launchers 

on all my other max ranks. Crim's can rent the big opg and afford it. Now my cop is not completely broke, 

but under 1 million game cash is broke to me. You need a padding, and for me it is 1 mil. 

Then news of the update comes and possibly an armas version of the big opgl (rumored).

But what other content will be maybe added to the joker store or armas, makes me put my rent to own 

plans on hold, because now i want to save up JT's not knowing what they will have when we get the update. 

 Then at the back of my mind I'm thinking I may not be around to use that million dollars or need it, and might 

as well rent the big opgl off the contact. Which is not a game changer either for me but I want it in my locker for 

when missiles which i have are not the best tool for the mission. That said, the MM is not nice to Mack.

And even with an opgl I'll lose anyway to stacked golds, which means a dethreat if I dont rq, if I rq I don't get paid. 

As a cop I have keep an LtL of some sort ready in my locker, in the case my team or mate is playing for arrests. 

So keeping my game cash moving up is an issue. In the end it means less interest in joker jobs and total time in game. 

 I don't know what is in store, and at times I simply don't care anymore. I know a new weapon won't change the tide, and 

I have very little faith in any anticheat, and don't see things changing. 

After first 4 sentences which I agree 100%  , rest are all gibberish venting that you would speak with a therapist. I guess you are using this forum as seeing a therapist.

Edited 5 hours ago by JustLikeHim

[MACKxBOLAN 470]

2 hours ago, JustLikeHim said:

seeing a therapist.

Which Therapist do you want to tell about my gaming issues?

I goto Chemo Therapy on monday, already had radiation therapy, can't have it again, Oh 

You must be talking about the psychologist that resembles a childhood friend who I threatened to kill 

because he would be an imposter, or are you talking about my psychiatrist who is a soviet defector.

Both of the later have been informed about the APB game and its potential gold mine of sociopaths to study. 

Thing is I knew the one was a Soviet before ever seeing him or knowing him, How?, well he was in a dream or 

hallucination I had prior to getting on ADHD meds, or what I call my Hacker Pills. Which are at Max, They cannot up the dose. 

He was also the first Doc to suggest I had some sort of cancer back in 2k17.

So I ramble, don't like it, don't read it. Don't be a forum troll and fuzzy bunny about ramblings in a game filled with sociopath hackers.

You act like it's a surprise to find rambling idiots in the forum of a game full of rambling idiots.  

[Victoria97 31]

7 hours ago, MACKxBOLAN said:

It would look really bad if they released a second date and failed again. 

Honestly after joining this game in 2013 and being here most of the time i doubt there is any possibility for APB to look anything worse than it was past 10 years...and i wont even mention last particular 6 months.
I quit apb in 2019 and suddenly like a devil or magic in 2024 i ran at youtube recommended video about APB...and it flash backed me all way back and i decided to install APB again to see whats new. 
At that time only mirage car was added but then swimsuit and other new content...new contacts new levels... so i didnt fool myself i simply decided to stay to see maybe something works out.
And since january 2025...i have seen declining in population rapidly... i have seen another fake failed promises...and now this patch event the last among the ocean of wrong things.
Nothing and i repeat nothing can look really bad...from what already is. 

You know what was bad? Engine upgrade promises since G1 era... that i have been listening to for full 7-8 years of my life. Being the fact i started to play APB with 15 years of age i literally in mean time grew up and become an adult person..meaning 70% of my entire lifetime existence... i have been listening about engine upgrade from G1 first then from LO. 
That was bad and is bad. Worst what you can do to person is kill their hope... my hope died in 2019 when i uninstalled APB and said you know what...f y'all i am outta here.
Now lil hope has been awoken and i feel all the same resentment and disappointment. Nothing will correct that. 
Hence why i simply in free time transferred myself to single player games such as Assassin creed and Red dead redemption 2 and i got there 5-6k hours and i enjoy it a lot. 

So long story short...there is nothing really bad or worse that can be done to APB than things which were done to it already. A crown school example of once 150 million net worth game turned to shiit lead by incompetent devs and management. 

Someone should check out how Rockstar games keep throwing out titles and amaze people each time with it..thats company...ubisoft is company...this ...is bull crap. But again i will wait here for reply to see do i need to return for xmas event in 5 months or can i be maybe surprised with actual response from lo management. 

[MageLO 281]

On 7/24/2025 at 2:16 AM, Victoria97 said:

But what is not okay is that you dont say a deadline.

We have posted deadlines before and that clearly didn't work out for us. We thought GFAC was ready until it unraveled in front of us as we moved into the testing stages. The Team has been working on GFAC non-stop since the delays and we're making progress at a great pace but we are not going to post any more deadlines regarding GFAC.

On 7/24/2025 at 2:16 AM, Victoria97 said:

I remind you guys that not all members of this community can be on discord or want to be on discord and camp there 24/7 like some nolifers can.
This is official forum of APB...meaning forum should be first source of information!

Discord allows us to chat with players and inform them of short-term progress which is something that isn't really suited for the Forums. We use the forums for significant announcements, not small talk and sneak peeks into how development on X or Y are going. If you want to stay up to date on the important things that are going on in APB then the Forums will do that, if you'd like to see snippits of extra info that don't matter to most players then you may find one of our developers such as Frosi or even Matt talk about it on the Discord.

On 7/24/2025 at 2:16 AM, Victoria97 said:

Is it so hard to write or say that patch /event have been postponed until xmas event? Just tell us. So we dont wait like donkeys every single week and have to ask every Wednesday maintenance day...is this the day of event or patch!! 

Just speak to us! Say it! Patch and event wont happen before september...give us at least correct month! 

As mentioned above, we don't have an ETA either, we planned to launch the Anti-Cheat during this weeks maintenance but ran into a last minute quality issue that caused us to delay it - If we had announced that it is releasing this Wednesday and then had to delay it again the Community would have been rightfully upset. Development on APB or major new Systems like an in-house Anti-Cheat is extremely unpredictable so we are not posting deadlines for that very reason. Having had to delay GFAC the first time was a massive lesson for everyone on the Team and we learned from that, while we don't intend to keep players in the dark we think it is a better approach to announce something will release when we have greenlit the Release build internally.