APB Reloaded News

Hello San Paro,

We are announcing five days of special offers to celebrate the hottest season of the year, APB's lucky 13th birthday, and the unavoidable 4th of July. From June 29th (8:00 am UTC) until July 5th (4:00 am UTC), you can get your hands on one of two themed bundles for each occasion for special event prices.

And that is not all! At the height of this week (June 30th), you will have a chance to participate in a day-long Gun Games event with our GMs and staff and earn some more neat rewards on the side!

The event will be held on both servers:
For NA: 11 am - 6 pm (PDT)
For EU: 9 am - 4 pm (CEST)

For more information, check out our news article: https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2023/6/27/2023-SUMMER

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Removing the Little Orbit Day event content and hibernating the 'Beacon' map.
  
• The default track count for themes and songs has been increased from 6 to 8 in the Music Studio.
  
• The usable mod reminder HUD notification now positions itself on the bottom of the screen instead of the center.
  

BALANCE CHANGES:

• Med Spray

Cooldown (45s -> 90s)

• Fr0g & Fr0g-SD

Ramp Distance (1000 -> 1200)

• RSA

Radius at Ten Meters (16 -> 14)
Walk Modifier (1.5 -> 1.3)
Sprint Delay (0.73 -> 0.625)
Refire interval (0.88s -> 0.80s)

• ACT44

Radius at Ten Meters (20 > 18)
Walk Modifier (1.2 -> 1.0)
Sprint Delay (0.73 -> 0.625)

• Apocalypse Pistol (Harbinger)

Recoil changed from RSA's to ACT44's

• RFP9

Marksmanship Modifier (0.32 -> 0.64)
Health Damage (110 -> 133)
Ramp Distance (4000 -> 3000)
Minimum Damage Range (1500 -> 2000)
Ammo Pool Capacity (120 -> 105)
Magazine Capacity (24 -> 21)

• RFP9' Fang'

Mod changed from Improved Rifling 3 to Hunting Sight 3

BUG FIXES:

• Re-enabled bUseTextureStreaming and mitigated an issue with white texture characters appearing.
  
• We have removed a duplicate, non-functioning listing of the DMR-AV for 30 days from the Joker Ticket store.
  
• The Shredder SB now has a 30-day rental option in the Joker Ticket store!
  

KNOWN ISSUES:

• Stalls can occur upon entering the Clothing Kiosk with "NEW!" items.
  
• Tattoo layers are inversed: Tattoos lower on the list will cover the ones above.
  

PATCH NOTES
General changes:

• "The Beacon" Map has returned as part of our new event: Little Orbit Day 2023! If you haven't seen them already, here are all the details on the event: https://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/news/2023/5/5/2023-LO-DAY
  
• The GM-initiated minigame "Butcher" now awards Joker Tickets!
  
• Balance Change for 'Fr0g': Damage increased from 200 to 210.
  

Bug fixes:

• An issue where sometimes arresting a player requires you to perform the action twice has been fixed.
  
• Activated items will no longer get canceled while crouched.
  
• We fixed a crash resulting from setting UnStreamAllTextures=True defaulting to UnStreamAllTextures=False in the INI files.
  
• Adjusted a location that could result in player textures failing to stream to the game client.
  
• The Female Hoodie (Hood Down) 's flags have been fixed to no longer force untradable, as it was acquirable early-game from Terri Quan (Criminal) or Violet Prentiss (Enforcer), respectively.
  

Known issues:

• Stalls can occur upon entering the Clothing Kiosk with "NEW!" items.
  
• Tattoo layers are inversed. Tattoos lower on the list will cover the ones above.
  

Hello, everyone!

Our standard weekly maintenance for PC will occur this Wednesday (05/03) at 9 AM (UTC). It is expected to last between 4 and 6 hours due to more extensive patching for PC. Check out the supplementary patch notes below!

Thank you for being patient during this period.

See you in the game!

Shader modifications have been disabled. Please uninstall any shader modifications made prior to this patch, as EasyAntiCheat will kick you for them.

A patch is going up on the Live servers for PC. This patch will be happening on Thursday 4/27/2023. The patch is scheduled to start at 2am PT / 9AM UTC and will last 4-6 hours.

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Easy Anti Cheat is now fully implemented in APB! Launching the game will install EAC automatically. Please continue to use the /report command to report cheaters, as always!
  
• Players can now choose to disable fog. This option can be found in the Advanced Video settings (note that keeping fog enabled slightly impacts performance)
  
• Day/Night cycle added back to Asylum
  
• Added the ability to disable Muzzle Flash and Magazine Casings. These options are in DefaultGame.ini, under APBGame.cVisualFX_Weapon called:
  
  • m_bEnableMuzzleFlash=true
    
  • m_bEnableMagazineCasings=true
    

BALANCE CHANGES:

• Previously when nerfing the Colby .45, an extra 5m was accidentally taken off the range. After testing we’ve decided to keep this, meaning the Colby .45’s range will stay at 45m.
  
• Vaquero Gear 5 Topspeed increased: 1700 -> 2200
  
• Coywolf VIP torque slowdown adjusted: 0.8 -> 0.94 (fixes ineffective modifier)
  
• FAR jump modifier changed: 20 -> 15
  

BUG FIXES:

• Implemented a fix for the ‘car bug' (the issue where exiting a car while drifting caused players to visually desync for everyone else)
  
• Fixed an exploit involving objectives and crouching at the same time
  

KNOWN ISSUES:

• The achievement “Kind of a Big Deal” does not increment if you are already gold threat and your character existed after your account achieved gold threat
  
• Stalls can occur upon entering the Clothing Kiosk with “NEW!” items
  
• Tattoo layers are inversed, meaning tattoos lower on the list will cover ones above