GamersFirst has launched APB Reloaded onto the gaming world in the form of the open beta. By all reports, huge numbers of players are taking advantage of the opportunity to see the game in its new iteration. MMORPG.com columnist Adam Tingle is one of those whose been entertaining his bad boy side in APB Reloaded and he's got some thoughts to share. Check it out and then leave us a comment or two.

In reality, stealing a car is wrong but in APB it feels so right. In the top right-hand corner of my screen I am told to indulge my automobile thieving skills and then bring the spoils back to a certain point; I'm like Nicholas Cage in Gone in Sixty Seconds but meaner and without such a punchable face. To compliment by criminal activities is a virtual comrade by the name of Jack Shandy; he wears makeup, has an afro, and rides shotgun whilst hanging out of the window shooting passers-by like he is on a wild game hunt. Call me crazy but he seems a little unhinged.

Read more of Adam Tingle's APB Reloaded Preview.

Nice preview.. Would have been nice to hear a bit more about what we can expect for the future.. Like the Zombie mode, the Turf wars, car races  or the new map they've been talking about in early closed beta...

As for end game, pretty sure they intend on doing something to make the high level folks come back.. Leagues are supposed to come back plus the new modes.. Think G1 is on the right track with this if they can manage to deliver everything they've teased..

as a F2P it's actually really fun. shallow but fun. it definately feels like they have a great base for an awesome game but a lot of stuff is missing. as long as they can keep the cheaters/exploiters under control and the "pay to win" items aren't too game braking i really think a lot of people will love this game.

i played the pay to play version wich got shutdow and i did not liked it and i even had graphical and sound issues on that version while is have a monster of a computer.

now i am playing apb reloaded and i am having alot of fun their are alot more players its alot more smoother the gameplay is much better the graphical and sound issues i had on the p2p version dont exists on this version and everything works perfect. i do hope they do something about the queues right now in the european server: Obeya theres a high change you enter a queue and the longest queue ive seen is 3 hours with over 6 thousand players in the queue  ( wich was not at the time they limited the eu servers)

Honestly I was pissed when they shut down APB, not because I loved the game but because I had just spent $50.00 on the dang thing. However the whole game confused me at launch, they wanted me to buy game time!? I had just paid for my first month (well if it was a normal MMO I would have), so after my first few hours that they gave me I promptly decided to wait untill they updated the game more before I jumped back in. To my shock, before I had a chance for round two the game was sacked and we wern't even given any form of refund or free game time before the shut down (not that I would have used it).

I don't know I feel upset going into APB Reloaded, like its my game, but not realy my game. I own it, but so does everyone else regardless of if they bought the origonal APB or not. I don't feel special when I feel like I should. I know it sounds stupid right. I guess I just realy feel like I didn't get any value out of the first launch of APB and I feel riped off by the game.

Overall I think I've moved on. I play Rift now and 'am waiting for TOR to come out. I think my days of driving around as a ganster in APB may be over. Sure I may download and try the F2P version but will I spend any money... probably not... for a while... if ever.

Hell yeah he has a comeback kid shirt on

Their cash shop will never be under control. If you have played any of the other games GamersFirst (more like GamersLAST) has administered then you will know the outcome of this game. They pretend to control hackers, like they did on MU Online when they ran it, but they can really care less. The game so far is completely infested with hackers. By now, they have a mass of reports and little to no action was taken against such reported hackers. The game content is stale, as it gets repetitive. As of now, it's not worth a investment of time for me. If you look in the Armas Shop (Cash Shop) they have OverPOWERED guns already and perks. Needless to say, anyone not willing to shell out 25$ a month or more is screwed. Hopefully it changes, but I will never come back to the game.

The game is not wortht the tim eit takes to download.

They still have not fixed the buggy aiming mechanics, driving is still as twitchy as ever, the ARMAS store items are all OP, and there are already people (cheaters) using scripts and hitboxes.

Originally posted by whiteskytigr

Their cash shop will never be under control. If you have played any of the other games GamersFirst (more like GamersLAST) has administered then you will know the outcome of this game. They pretend to control hackers, like they did on MU Online when they ran it, but they can really care less. The game so far is completely infested with hackers. By now, they have a mass of reports and little to no action was taken against such reported hackers. The game content is stale, as it gets repetitive. As of now, it's not worth a investment of time for me. If you look in the Armas Shop (Cash Shop) they have OverPOWERED guns already and perks. Needless to say, anyone not willing to shell out 25$ a month or more is screwed. Hopefully it changes, but I will never come back to the game.

I love the game its exactly the kind of game ive been looking for but like you said the game is indeed already overrun with hackers. Out of all the missions I did Id say about 50% of them had a hacker in them that pretty much ruined the whole mission. Many of them are very blatant with names like "icheatz" and the 180 degree turns that they do while jumping out of moving vehicles and landing every shot without even aiming down the sights. I'm a huge fan of the game and would love to play it more but until they start cracking down on cheaters I regrettably won't be retuning.

Don't know why I keep hearing about hackers and still I haven't seen a single one with more than 40 hours in...

Originally posted by Kebeck

Don't know why I keep hearing about hackers and still I haven't seen a single one with more than 40 hours in...

    I just started playing myself and I have yet to run into a obvious hacker, however maybe I have just been lucky.  Yet it seems like the major complaint at the moment is regarding the massive amount of hackers running around ruining people's play-time.  While I am sure many hackers exist, maybe it is not quite a bad as people keep on saying it is.

Its because these guys go into the game, they're not GOOD at it and so they blame hackers.

Then come here and try to denounce the game as been "overrun with hackers" when in reality, they're just bad at it.

I'm bad at APB, I don't blame hackers, I blame myself.

Players can opt to be allocated an automatic group and from here take on missions from the get go. It takes a special kind of developer to realise exactly what gamers want from their product and K2 Network really have hit this on the head. - This was already a feature before RTW went under.

"The missions within APB Reloaded are admittedly a little on the slim side, but all together they work a lot better than before." - Missions were never changed...still have the "press F to do [add action here] and G1 have pointed out that they weren't working on missions as of yet - so they have to be the same for now.

Also supprised nothing was mentioned about the camping spots that are still active - to the extent of someone saying "well how else am i supposed to win?!"

Makes me wonder how much backup reserach people do before talking about the "previous iteration" and reviewing their differences

I downloaded APB yesterday. and all i have to say is, WOW. I played the game i think from 7pm intill 6am and i've haven't played a game that long in forever. Seeing i usually can't. But everytime i would tell myself. "Ok, im getting off at 1:45". It pushed into "Ok, 2:45" "OoOk 3:45" and before i knew it. the sun had came up. It was reeally fun grouping up with some people, and doing dirt all night with them while Enforcers chased us. All i have to say is. If they keep up with the game and add some great content. This game is a great breather and finally somthing new and refreshing. I recomemend anyone burned out on the over worked Fantasy genre. Give this game a try for sure. You wont regret it.

Originally posted by JthX

I downloaded APB yesterday. and all i have to say is, WOW. I played the game i think from 7pm intill 6am and i've haven't played a game that long in forever. Seeing i usually can't. But everytime i would tell myself. "Ok, im getting off at 1:45". It pushed into "Ok, 2:45" "OoOk 3:45" and before i knew it. the sun had came up. It was reeally fun grouping up with some people, and doing dirt all night with them while Enforcers chased us. All i have to say is. If they keep up with the game and add some great content. This game is a great breather and finally somthing new and refreshing. I recomemend anyone burned out on the over worked Fantasy genre. Give this game a try for sure. You wont regret it.

Speaking of which. I'm going to play it right now!

I find it funny how the 1 official review completely contradicts what everybody else has been saying on the forums all week. Not only that, it completely skirted major issues like the lack of the promised matchmaking system, weapon imbalance, and game-breaking performance problems.

Is the game FPS style shooting or targetted?

is that the A-TEAM VAN!?!! APB wins an extra point for that

and yes pun was intended

Originally posted by whiteskytigr

Their cash shop will never be under control. If you have played any of the other games GamersFirst (more like GamersLAST) has administered then you will know the outcome of this game. They pretend to control hackers, like they did on MU Online when they ran it, but they can really care less. The game so far is completely infested with hackers. By now, they have a mass of reports and little to no action was taken against such reported hackers. The game content is stale, as it gets repetitive. As of now, it's not worth a investment of time for me. If you look in the Armas Shop (Cash Shop) they have OverPOWERED guns already and perks. Needless to say, anyone not willing to shell out 25$ a month or more is screwed. Hopefully it changes, but I will never come back to the game.

A couple of points.

The game so far is completely infested with hackers.

No its not.

Armas Shop (Cash Shop) they have OverPOWERED guns

No they aren't.

What the game is infested with is people like you who cannot comprehend that there are players who have been playing longer and are better at the game than you are, APB takes time to learn, its not a run of the mill shooter you need to understand the mechanics behind it, regardless, hackers are few and far between and they have been frequently banning them, read the sticky in the official forums and the blogs.

ARMAS guns are not overpowered, they are niche weapons, a scope does not make a gun overpowered in APB, which is what the ARMAS NTEC has, its no different than the normal NTEC, and regardless you will still be outranged by a sniper or out gunned against a OCA close up. I have been beating ARMAS gun owners left right and center with the newbie gun (STAR) since they came out.

You also dont need to pay anything at all to play and enjoy this game, its F2P, the ARMAS is optional and isnt required to compete or enjoy the game.

Originally posted by Xero_Chance

I find it funny how the 1 open beta preview completely contradicts what everybody else has been saying on the forums all week. Not only that, it completely skirted major issues like the lack of the promised matchmaking system, weapon imbalance, and game-breaking performance problems.

 

There. That's better.