09/10 MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT

[MageLO 298]

Hello everybody,

 

Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (09/10) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 4 to 6 hours.

 

Thank you for your patience.

[EC2Jonathan 23]

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[Ardita 214]

14 hours ago, MageLO said:

Hello everybody,

 

Our standard weekly maintenance will be held this Wednesday (09/10) starting at 9 AM UTC. The game should be back up and running in 4 to 6 hours.

 

Thank you for your patience.

New contacts when?

[Victoria97 50]

4 hours ago, Ardita said:

New contacts when?

at this rate probably never -_- 

I assume they decided to wait out for Halloween event to make their big announcement. Sadly i had a lot of free time this august which wont be case for october and november. 

[Yapopal 204]

The popularity of the game has noticeably dropped recently. Perhaps this is due to the fact that developers are throwing dwarfs at the target in the office? The problems of the game are solved for a very long time, or they are not solved at all. Adding new content adds new challenges. The game is dying just like the Russian version of the game was dying. Exactly the same.

[ColorBauss 75]

More buffs to bad weapons! Better ARMAS+G1C purchase rewards! Max rank to 300! (eventually)

[Victoria97 50]

19 hours ago, Yapopal said:

The popularity of the game has noticeably dropped recently. Perhaps this is due to the fact that developers are throwing dwarfs at the target in the office? The problems of the game are solved for a very long time, or they are not solved at all. Adding new content adds new challenges. The game is dying just like the Russian version of the game was dying. Exactly the same.

The problem will be the same, after new content is added and grinded within week or two we ll go back to stalled nothingness. Solution is that new content in shape of new cars clothes weapons are added regularly every 3-4 months with more often events. Even if the event is not big it would still give motivation to people to come around and go by check what is new. 
The event can be simply 500 jts and maybe new title every 1st in every 3rd month. Anything really. 
This way we practically got only 3 events per year, Halloween, Xmas and Easter. And that is about it. 

Popularity of the game has noticeably dropped not recently but ever since february when APB was down for almost 1 month and when they added cross districts MM. 
Waiting half an hour for a mission just so you will get opposed against premade 4 golds, whilst your team mates are unfairly under capacity, makes you rq the mission and attempt to get 2nd mission which repeats itself and that ultimately makes you rq the game and simply move on to next game. 
Cross districts MM is ultimate last nail into the coffin of APB. Its time consuming, during wait all you can do is stare into the screen, the MM is still unfair with entire mission balance, you get three level 50 ranks against 4 rank 270 golds and that is happening non stop. 
At this time only more often new content and fix of MM can help the APB to maintain this 400 people. If this 400 people drop to <100 population I myself will stop bothering logging into APB and APB goes off my pc. 
 

[Yapopal 204]

5 hours ago, Victoria97 said:

The problem will be the same, after new content is added and grinded within week or two we ll go back to stalled nothingness. Solution is that new content in shape of new cars clothes weapons are added regularly every 3-4 months with more often events. Even if the event is not big it would still give motivation to people to come around and go by check what is new.
The event can be simply 500 jts and maybe new title every 1st in every 3rd month. Anything really.
This way we practically got only 3 events per year, Halloween, Xmas and Easter. And that is about it.

Popularity of the game has noticeably dropped not recently but ever since february when APB was down for almost 1 month and when they added cross districts MM.
Waiting half an hour for a mission just so you will get opposed against premade 4 golds, whilst your team mates are unfairly under capacity, makes you rq the mission and attempt to get 2nd mission which repeats itself and that ultimately makes you rq the game and simply move on to next game.
Cross districts MM is ultimate last nail into the coffin of APB. Its time consuming, during wait all you can do is stare into the screen, the MM is still unfair with entire mission balance, you get three level 50 ranks against 4 rank 270 golds and that is happening non stop.
At this time only more often new content and fix of MM can help the APB to maintain this 400 people. If this 400 people drop to <100 population I myself will stop bothering logging into APB and APB goes off my pc.
 

What do you think influences the players' interest in the game? New content? Not for ever.
The new content is a beautiful glowing invitation banner.
Newcomers come to this game thanks to a screaming banner about a unique customization system (which the developers have long given up on). The opportunity to express oneself through creativity, the opportunity to demonstrate this creativity to interested people is APB. Skirmishes, factional rivalry - all this is the background. I don't understand why developers put the background ahead of the main action. Perhaps a bunch of close "experts" can be blamed for this. The discussion on the number of rounds in the AP 45 and similar nonsense has been dragging on for years. 
APB is a very crappy online shooter. This worst part of the game has become the main one. An unoptimized, lagging piece of shit, the victory in which depends only on the degree of modification of the client, mouse settings and the conscience of the player. 
Developers openly support third-party applications that affect performance, and therefore advantage. This is the bottom of the swamp.

Twitch is a good advertising platform. What kind of ads do viewers see for the game? Developing a new fashion or car design (self-expression)? Team clan work (social component)? No! Viewers see another jumping idiot with potato graphics and Nokia 3310 phone screen resolution. This is the bottom of the bottom of the swamp!
New content, another anti-cheat will not keep players in a game where everything that can be broken has been broken. 
Adding a leaderboard and God forbid clan wars will destroy the game completely. It will begin with the harvest and end with self-devouring.

[Victoria97 50]

8 hours ago, Yapopal said:

Newcomers come to this game thanks to a screaming banner about a unique customization system (which the developers have long given up on).

Lets be honest to each other, there is literally 0 and I will repeat this with outmost certainty a literal zero newcomers players who came to APB in entire 2025. 
There is not a single actual gamer in 2025 who even heard of APB game, even less wanted to try it nowadays. 
I am surrounded with gamers irl. People play Fortnite, League of legends, Apex, Valorant, CS2, Battlefield, GTA. Its 2025 and not 2010.
The only players of APB are us veterans, people who are here at least 10 years, because only we are bewitched with nostalgia and potential of customization that drew us into this game at first place.

So I do agree with you that at this point (which was always) is still broken MM, still broken AC, still broken config users...but if you didnt make amend and peace with the reality you are in denial.
Those things will never change as well as engine upgrade will never come. 

What can keep players of playing is solely imo more events and more new content, and by that I mean what is the way of KEEPING this 200 players that still play APB. Us. You and me and rest of foo's here. 

Forget about newcomers, this simply does not happen anymore. Whoever is lunatic enough to install APB first time in his life in 2025, will be alt f4 uninstall in less than 2 hours.
Firstly because you start with 0 money regardless the fraction. And lore is really not that intriguing nor interesting to keep you dazzled with APB if you see it first time. 
I am rank 270 I never bothered to read lore of every cop and crime contact nor I see point in it. Doubt much people did it even in APB's time peak.

If you are newcomer you start with 0 cash and zero unlocked decals (aside useless 1st page of cubes and circles) means the only ace in sleeve APB has, which is customization, real newcomer can only wipe his butt and do zero customization with triangle circle and cube. Zero cars, zero mods, zero weapons. An absolute zero. 
That is the game's default. So you will be thrown into 18 populated financial, yes I have been checking APB most of the day today, there was literally barely 2 half full districts roamed with again people who play APB for years. To progress your contact you need to win at least something with 0 char unlocked mods, even 0 unlocked slots of character, with star weapon in MM which has nobody to connect you with aside with 4 premade gold max ranks, because they are the only ones left playing APB. 

Stop dreaming and lets face reality. It is what it is. Nobody is coming to rescue our population, the only raise of population can occur is if you throw new content and then this nolifers might discord old APB veterans who quit the game in 2020s to come back and check it out.

Literal proof for this was earlier patch release with first new clothing after almost DECADE of nothingness, when they released swim suit, rain coat, rubber armor clothing etc. Introduction of first new levels after level 255 which was there since 2010. You saw what happened? I did. 
Suddenly APB pop those weeks were 700!! Yes... those 700 were not newcomers, it were all well known old veteran names I didnt see for yeaars. 

We are here to try to bring back old foo's not bring new ones. Its the only way to maintain the life of APB.

Not one more single normal NEW kid today wont change League of Legends or modern multiplayer games made for our age to compete with ice age that APB is nowadays. Of course in my opinion. You can agree or disagree. Whoever I had liberty to discuss with multiplayer games irl, when I asked to give it a shot for APB, after they curiously googled for exactly 2-3 minutes, they said thanks but I will pass lol. 
And nobody can blame them. Especially not us who know everything about APB because we practically grew up with APB. I started to play APB when i was 15 years old. I quitted APB somewhere in 2019 and I got back for Halloween event in 2024 out of curiosity to simply see if APB is still running and online after accidently stumbling on youtube on APB random video.  I am 27 years old today for f sake. 
That is the age span of APB. Its an old dying man figuratively. We can maintain its life only through patches and new content at this point. 
And its not newcomers that keeps this game running, its us who play it since 2013 and some who even play it since RTW 2010's. Not new kids cuz kids these days grow up with actual multiplayer games which run on most modern technology not potato like we run APB and always have ran APB.  
 

Edited yesterday at 02:36 AM by Victoria97