APB: Reloaded AMA with Matt!

[MageLO 325]

Hello everyone,

 

We're excited to announce that our CEO Matt Scott is going to be holding another AMA tomorrow on Tuesday the 21st of October at 11 AM PST!

Submit your questions ahead of time in this thread, mark your calendars and join us as we talk about the last couple of months of APB: Reloaded and what is coming up next!

 

See you there!

[Basti0 1]

Since the leaderboard isn't working properly, could we bring back the old ranking system or something similar?

[Pedroxin 115]

Regarding anti-cheat .... WTF ????

[Westford 197]

GFAC, Sanctions & Stats

On the 3/15/2025 AMA concerning the implementation of GFAC,
the following was mentioned;

 

Rules Engine: – Sanctions (Removing or Locking out Features)
You had mentioned that players using 3rd party tools and have accrued “Cheat Points”
would be pulled out of the primary pool of players for matchmaking,
with the assumption being that they would then be matched up with other players
who were also using 3rd party tools and had accrued “Cheat Points” .

- Can you give some examples of what other features a player might be locked out from ?
- What is the duration for these loss of features, or lockouts, and how does a
   player regain these features they lost ?

   (a player that does not use that “Sanctioned” account for 3 months
    would not be considered for any relief I am guessing)

- Is the player notified that they will be locked out of these features,
  or is “no notification” a better and intended approach?

 

STATS:
You had mentioned that you were considering providing STATS on
“Detections Identified” / “Sanctions Administered”

Is this still under consideration, or have you made a final determination as to
publishing this information to the player base ?
-  If yes, where will it be published, and how often ?
- If no, what led you to this decision ?

 

[Ardita 224]

Will your in-house Anticheat GFAC soon work as intended? 

[UltraMES187 19]

Whats the future plans on APB to bring back player numbers and actually keep them for more than just 2weeks? It makes me sad to see the current player numbers for apb and Im honestly worried about apbs future with not even 300 players.  I didnt play much last years but apb will always be one my favorite pvp games no matter how outdated it gets. Im just waiting for reasons to play more again and spent some money on the game again.

Also how is the anti cheat doing? Is it possible that player count is that super low because more people cant properly launch the game with the Gfac?

Also I remember you telling us about bringing apb to unreal 5. Is it beeing worked on and when yes how realistic is it that you actually can complete this in the next years? Because the legendary engine update already didnt go well 

[MACKxBOLAN 481]

zero confidence in ac, still same people in na. 

STOP charging me for spawn car tax for cars destroyed by hackers and thugs you matt dug up to bring into my district. 

Ya give gold to the preferred people n crap on legit players by freezing the threat level of accounts. 

Stop doing this, wipe the losses. You desegregated without wiping accounts of losses therefore insuring noone 

not hacking could achieve gold. then you dug up thousands of old banned accounts for me to fight. 

I'm gonna do everything to those people that You let them do to me, i wont hack but i will take out their cars. 

Whats good for your favored golds is good for mack. You wanna charge people game cash and let the trolls get away 

with it, even boast about it in your discord. 

 That said I don't expect anything to change, your ac is rubbish, but i'll be around to hear what U have to say. 

[SixxstagesofMajik 7]

Is there plans to rework missions?(changing the time per stage, adjust areas of objectives and so on)
Is there plans to add new missions to the pool?
Will we see VIP missions come back with a rework?