#APB RELOADED NEWS UPDATE#
Now GamersFirst can set about implementing the huge engine update they’ve been working on in secret since July.ĪPB has been running on the same version of Unreal 3 seen in Unreal Tournament 3, and its team have repeatedly run up against performance ceilings as a result. “Slowly but surely, starting last week, we also started seeing players returning to APB, which has helped us breathe a little bit easier this week.” And still working on our ambitious long term plans. “Not to say we didn’t take a dent,” said GamersFirst. “More specifically, because APB Reloaded is also very similarly themed to GTA V with the same player demographic (even though APB is far more skill and map knowledge based, and far less ‘arcad-y’ and ‘aim-assist-y’ than GTA), we were pretty much standing on the GTA train-tracks waiting for a possible collision (and GTA of course having a much ‘shinier’ and newer engine, much larger development resources, deeper content and years of iterative development under its belt made it a hard challenge to face).”īut once things returned to something like normal last week, it transpired that APB Reloaded wasn’t any worse off than the average online PC game recorded in Steam’s stats. “Given GTA V broke the record for top grossing 24 hour sales in the history of ALL entertainment, one would expect the wind to get knocked out of the rest of the game industry for some period of time, especially for action-oriented games like Saints Row, All Points Bulletin and Planetside,” said GamersFirst is a refreshingly honest assessment of their situation.