ABOUT All Points Bulletin(Pre-Crew Group)

All Points Bulletin Pre-Crew Gathering

This is a Public Steam Fan Group for Realtime World's title All Points Bulletin. Here is a summary of A.P.B.

APB is a massively multiplayer online action game from the creators of Grand Theft Auto. Players take part in a turf war between two rivalries, the enforcers and the gangs. The gangs are trying to get by in any way they can, at any cost, and the enforcers are tasked with thwarting their criminal actions through justice, honor and teamwork. Best described as a classic "cops n' robbers" game built for online play, the game features customizable characters, lots of fast-paced car chases and shootouts as the criminals and enforcers wage a never-ending turf war for control of the city. More turf means better weapons and equipment, ensuring that capture points are never unoccupied for long in this frenetic fast-paced action experience.
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Here is an updated A.P.B. FAQ from http://www.apb.com/faq/

What is APB (All Points Bulletin) and why should I be interested?

Introduce 100 players to this online city. Their mission is to gain fame and fortune, and gain them fast. Many will take to a life of crime, feeding on the city, its people and its businesses. Other players, the Enforcers, will feed on the Criminal players. What will the outcome be?

The great thing is, we don't know! It's an online sandbox. Many players will achieve celebrity or notoriety for their skills or style. Alliances will be formed, rivalries will be bitter. One thing we do know: every player will be unique. Thanks to cutting-edge technology, players can personalize their looks, clothing, vehicles and music.

Earn money, clothing, guns, and cars as you play.

Experience fast-paced third-person action.

Master different gameplay for each Faction.

Participate in intelligent matchmaking: you play against real people and the better you get, the better your opponents will be.

Work for Contacts, doing directed Missions, or complete open world sandbox activities.

Gain real-life celebrity through in-game displays of your characters, vehicles, music and symbols.

Become a top-ranking player or Clan in leagues that track Kills, Arrests, Mission Success rates, and many other competitive stats.

Welcome to the next evolution of action games into a persistent online space. You're going to love it.

Disclaimer: All credits and respect to the Realtime Worlds Studio, keep in mind that we are only a Steam Group for All Points Bulliten. This is also not a group that will talk about anything that the Terms Agreement has disallowed. Although we may talk about our expectations for the game, suggestions, etc. This group is not responsible for who its members meet. Any mistakes on this have been made unknowingly.

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10 April, 2011 - LegitPavilion | 0 Comments

The order of things being done in the development and re-release of this game are horribly coordinated. As a game development manager, let me enlighten you on how a release or re-release should take place.

First, you have your closed beta, during this you should fix your technical issues(bugs), and finish developing your game.

Second, you have your open beta, balance your game dynamics and open your cash or item shop(if intended).

Third, release your game with as little bugs as possible, then focus on weeding those out and developing your post-release content such as expansions or new features, release those, fix bugs, repeat.

It's generally not rocket science nor should you need to have more than common sense to understand. As an experienced APB player from RTW's client, all the way until G1's client(right now), I hate to say I know what I'm talking about when it comes to the games major issues and flaws.

Usually, when you release a game like I stated above, you weed out the technical issues. For a fact, Realtime Worlds held their beta's even before they were done developing which is a completely wrong turn, because instead of taking negative comments from beta testers, they were ignoring them and still developing the game.

Now, you Gamersfirst have the rights to the title. And instead of focusing on technical issues, you guys are pulling a Realtime Worlds (me and my buddies would say) and just f*ing up before you even get halfway there.

Instead of focusing on balancing the game and fixing spawning areas, matchmaking, and progression. Fix the damn technical issues that the game has including many of the damn objects and wall structures in the game not rendering until 10 seconds after you run into them thinking nothings there. It really ruins the players experience while in the game during an escape or chase which are also totally pointless missions when it should count who has the item the most in a certain period of time instead of holding the item for 4 minutes and the last 5 seconds of the game an enemy picks up the item and wins the mission.

But, that aside. Fix all of the technical issues first. Every time I look at your blog, I see nothing but equipment stuck in customs and what your *planning on doing* when the time comes. I'm not doubting for one second that your working your A**ses off on re-releasing this title, just take it a little slower. And fix the horrific technical bugs before the progression, because in the long run, that's going to haunt, not the progression or how balanced the game is.

But, just I stated above. You could be using all this time your EU equipment is stuck in customs, and release patch after patch. Which almost makes brings me to, instead of releasing huge updates once a month, fix a bunch of bugs and just do small updates. Most people would rather see constant improvement rather than gradual, because with the annoying bugs in this game, having the game update after you fix a few, will just make it so that less players will experience those, instead of having a player sit with an annoying bug with a month before your next huge update. But seriously, fix the technical bugs, they are horrible.

Best regards, LegitPavilion