Last Thursday, APB: Reloaded entered into its second Open Beta Test, which will usher in some more changes to the F2P title from Reloaded Productions, including changes to the mission system, matchmaking, skill rating, threat levels and more.

So - after some initial delays (recall we had targeted June 30), APB Reloaded Open Beta 2 launched this morning.

The initial patch had a few stability issues at full production load, which meant we had to quickly re-patch, and now the team is working round-the-clock on another patch to solve the remaining disconnection issues in the next 24-48 hours.

Open Beta 2 (aka 1.5.2) contains the biggest changes to Missions, Matchmaking, Skill Rating and District Recommendation to date, and it's very difficult to simulate some of the effects of these changes in QA or even in the smaller "Test World" - so for the next week we will be watching all the data coming in from these changes very closely, so everyone should expect there to be rather frequent patches over the next week.

In other words - YES - between now and next Friday I expected daily occurrences of "15 minute warnings" to take districts down for patching. If you see one of those, then please just log in after the patch and continue testing.

Read all about it over at the Official APB: Reloaded Blog.