"=== 22/10/2010 ===
It’s looking like there might be light at the end of the tunnel for APB. The end of the administration process is apparently close and there appears to be a buyer for the game. "
Fuck yes. :awesome:
more info? wtf is APB?
Some sort of GTA4 and WoW crossover AFAIK.
only decent thing about that game is modelling and creating your own bitch. curvy hips and big jugs.
which is 93% of the reason youll buy it.
Apart from the shit pay for hours.
oh I think I remember, whatever since pspdisp came out I just enjoy playing GTA 4 on my PSP
that game was crap
the thing that instantly turned me off from it is having to pay per hours for the ability to play it, same thing that turns me off from OnLive. i expect to buy a game once and actually own it, and not have it expire if i stop paying.
And here, 2 months after release, it gets shut down. Sure it may start up again, but sucks for those who actually bought a subscription.
let the game die, the dev team was fired for a reason.
Nice, I’ve been itching to play this for the last little bit, even if it made me rage pretty hard most of the time. It was still fun with a group of four friends just dicking around.
Well thanks wheybags, but I’ve already got an account there.
The point of this thread was that it may be coming back as a properly updated and advancing game.
I wanted to try the game out, but my desktop sucks and I couldn’t upgrade it.
This is good news.
(I liked Crackdown, so I wanted to see where they’d go with APB, hopefully most of the problems will be gone if/when I get a chance to play it.)
TL;DR this. I just felt like talking to myself.
If you can stick with it, and don’t ragequit after the first twenty missions, you’ll start to get the hang of the game. It has a HUGE learning curve because of the massive emphasis on chokepoints, flanking and teamwork. You can solo it (I prefer solo missions excluding ten V ten) but it is an entirely different ball game and I found I started to lack in small teams because of it.
I absolutely loved the game to pieces, for the customization and the very unique gameplay. After a while, you will get the hang of reading your opponent based on absolutely everything from their name to what their wearing to what upgrades they take and be able to (to an extent) predict their tactics and stay one step ahead of most of them. The only way to describe it is a “Chess mod for CounterStrike”.
If it does come back, do not expect to win your first mission or ten, because you will still be getting used to the controls and district and everything. Think of it as playing Unreal Tournament against master bots. It’s frusterating when you expect to win, but you will become a much better player if you don’t and just relax. Once you do get better (which you will) you will pull off stunts you will remember forever. 
Last note: I cannot strees enough how much this is a thinking game. You cannot win everything just by being a good shot. (I’ve on occation beat aimbotters, you just have out brain their brawn 
) If you are tired you will play poorly, and if you don’t like to battleplan, you will never like this game.
Sorry about that, you really probably don’t care, but so many people tried the game expecting to headshot their way to victory, and ended up very frusterated. Also, I just like to talk about it. I’m glad your interested in it, if it comes back, are you in europe or north america?
APB has a place in my heart as being the only MMO I’ve ever played. If they do bring the game back, I’d better get my characters back. I logged around 12 hours on Crims and five in Enforcer. Had some nifty guns unlocked. Of course, as a testament to how badly I played the game, I was making more money and xp stealing dump trucks and smashing storefronts for cash than actually doing the missions. The physics engine was also rather bouncy.
The game’s customization options were admirable- it was just as in depth as the editor for Forza Motorsport, only you could do the same paint jobs with player clothes and tattoos as well. Very nifty. Apparently the devs had a plan to add a cover system to the game later down the line, which would have significantly affected the tactical gameplay. I personally think it could have been an upgrade for the better if properly tweaked with destructible cover to keep things even, but it would place a lot more stress on the game’s renderer and the physics events necessary to make such a system work would have to be synced across players in the district server, of which there is usually at least 30. Server capacity was up to 100, so this kind of an update could have lagged it worse than when they tried to add Punk Buster. (Which was an ABYSMAL failure- all the servers were nigh unplayable due to lag, unless of course YOU were hacking, in which case the game would give you a stern rebuke but if you know what you’re doing you can defeat the system. In other words, it made the update completely pointless and very damaging to the player base in the crucial first few months of the game’s release.)
Even so, I still enjoyed playing it. I just enjoyed playing it more when the servers were close to shutting down, because fewer hackers were on and the people left genuinely enjoyed the game and were trying to have some fun before the servers were gone for good.
NA, but I’d be willing to play on different servers as long as the lag wasn’t too crazy.
No that’s cool, I’m NA aswell. hahaha Canadia.
Kenny, did you ever run across StanStanman while you were playing? Big white cowboy hat, Neon blue White stripe jacket?
Something like this :
I was selling used weapons, you may have seen my propaganda or car at one point.
I was playing two characters- “Silica” for crims and “Rockwell” on Enforcer. My Keys to the City character “Roberts” got deleted when the game went live for some reason.
Ho-lee shit, you are awesome.
I also play(ed) on the NA servers. Pretty sure my enforcer name was Snaw, and my Crim was something like Cougar. I mainly played as an Enforcer, if only for the Jericho. Loved that car.
If the game does come back though, I would be more than willing to group up with people here. I really wouldn’t care either way if I was a crim or enforcer.
APB was garbage. No one liked it. It had a good concept though, hopefully some other gaming company will eventually revive the style.
Despite the gameplay needing a lot of improvement, you gotta admit, the loading screenfor the server was awesome.