Just because we are feeling generous (and because our downtime and maintenance took much longer than usual) we have pre-loaded ALL ACCOUNTS with free 1-day Premium Codes. These can be redeemed anytime in the next 7 days, and after that they will magically disappear from your account again.
To redeem your 1-day free Premium Code, just log in to the game, then launch the Armas Marketplace, and then click "Redeem Code" at the top of the page.
After navigating to the Redeem Code page, select the code at the bottom of the screen, then click "Redeem"
Enjoy a Premium Day (and enjoy the automatic 20% discount for all the new items)!
The endless war between cheaters and gamers continue. In the last few days (along with the release 1.8) we were able to mass-ban everyone who have ever used one particularly annoying cheat. Our inside mole that has infiltrated the inner workings of this particular operation reports the following from their private message boards... Utter pain and confusion...
Remember - there is no such things as 'just a little bit of cheating'. You will get caught. And you will lose everything on every account you have ever played. Sure you can re-roll. And get caught again...
Or - how about - just don't cheat...
Your TechMech
And to be clear - the ban affects not just APB but all games where PB is used.... (as illustrated in this post):
With 1.7.0 out of the way, we thought
it's about time to talk about what we've been working on with the next big
update. While there will be a number of items and updates in 1.8.0, the big
talking point that I'm going to discuss is the introduction of Weapon Skins.
Over the past couple of months we have
added a number of uniquely textured weapons as part of various promotions, both
in Armas (The Sitting Duck and Hazardous Tommy Gun) and in-game as Fight Club
Challenge Rewards. While we are big fans of these unique looking weapons, we
felt that it was a bit unfair to have to purchase new weapons each time you
want to have a unique skin, and a bit clunky to have to pull mods out of one
gun and into another each time you want to change your look. To solve this,
we're adding the ability to choose your weapon skin as a drop down option for a
lot of the weapons in the game.
How Do Weapon Skins Work?
By default when you unlock a weapon skin,
all skinnable weapons in the game will gain access to that skin. In some cases
however this will be unique to the weapon, available to all weapons of that
type (Shotguns for example) or archetype (Pointman weapons etc). When you are
near an ammo zone, you can choose from a list of all weapon skins, mousing over
them to preview the item. If you select an unlocked skin (shown highlighted in
white) your weapon will immediately switch to the selected object and if you
mouse over a non-unlocked skin (greyed out) you will be told how to attain it.
Why aren't all weapons skinnable?
To get this feature to you guys as soon as
possible, we'll be initially rolling out a limited selection of weapons
(generally one from each weapon group). Adding the ability to switch the skins
quickly and with a minimum of network traffic / memory has required us to
completely switch how the textures on the weapons work, and it takes time to
convert from the old version to the new. As such, the first release will
include the following weapons, with more to follow as they are converted:
While we understand that there are a
number of other weapons in-game that are much loved by you guys, we wanted to
ensure that we had an even spread to start, and felt this was the best
selection we could make for an initial release.
In addition, any unique weapons (for
instance the Fireball from the Challenges, or the Sitting Duck from the Joker
Random-Box) will be unable to have their skins changed.
Why can't I completely customize my
weapon?
The massive amount of customization in
APB is a feature that makes us stand out from the crowd, but it comes at the
cost. The amount of customization over the large number of players in any one
district means that sending and building of customizations is one of the most
resource intensive parts of the game. Full customization of weapons would
increase the number of items being built per character from 2 (Vehicle +
Character) to 3, an increase of 50% of customization data being sent. The
increased bandwidth here would put too large a strain on the clients and
servers, so is unfortunately infeasible, despite how cool it could have been.
By selecting from a large selection of pre-made options, we keep a lot of the
benefits of visual weapon customization while only sending a tiny amount of
information across and removing any customization building.
How Do I get Weapon Skins?
Firstly we will be adding an extra level
to each of the Weapon roles. Completing these will unlock a unique skin for
those weapons. On top of this, some weapon skins will be available through Armas. Each
faction also has a special skin that is unlocked through completing a new
achievement that is triggered from completing the boss contact with that
faction. This will likely mean that for players that have completed the organizations / killed a lot of players with certain weapons, a number of skins
will unlock when you log into the game following the patch.
