A General Update & 1.17.1
Welcome to the latest blog update for
APB Reloaded!
Today we'd like to share the status of our ongoing development efforts, introduce you to the latest member
of our design team, chat a bit about what you can look forward to in 1.17.1,
and give you a sneak peek of the our upcoming content pack.
Over the next few days we'll be
talking about the upcoming 1.17.1 release in more detail as we'll as revealing
the content for the upcoming High Roller Pack.
Unreal Update
Many have asked how the Unreal update
is going? - rest assured steady progress is being made. The technological
progress of the update has provided us the opportunity to start defining the
visual look of the game, in the upgraded engine. More visual material will be
shared, as progress on the upgrade continues - so you'll be
seeing less of this:
and more of this:
Overkill in the EU
Updating our EU servers to the
"Overkill" hardware is progressing, as we're currently sorting out a
few logistical issues. In the meantime, we've been making a raft of server
optimisations that we're rolling out with 1.17.1 - be sure and come back for
tomorrow's blog, where we'll go into more details on what we've been targeting.
Introduction to our New Designer
We are delighted to announce that industry veteran Ricardo Viana has recently joined the Reloaded team!
With 17 years of experience he has worked on such titles as Eternal Darkness, The Outfit, Company of Heroes and Army of Two. Ricardo has plenty of experience designing for third person action games, shooters and strategic gameplay. As fans of his games, everyone here is super exited to welcome him to the team and we're all really looking forward to seeing what exciting changes he'll bring to the world of APB:Reloaded!
1.17.1
We're currently hard at work putting
the finishing touches to the 1.17.1 patch and we plan to have it in your hands
very soon. More details on the content of 1.17.1 will be provided in
future blogs leading up to its release - but as a brief overview, 1.17.1 will
feature further performance enhancements, a broad range of changes
to the shotgun weapons as well as numerous bug fixes and tweaks.
High Rolling
Before we sign off on this blog we'd like to give you a
sneak peek of the next content pack we'll be releasing soon: the High
Roller Pack. It features a new vehicle kit for the
Bishada, new clothing assets, and a brand-new and totally unique weapon.
Come back tomorrow
and we'll present some of the server performance changes we've been making in
1.17.1 as well as reveal the new clothing assets from the High Roller Pack.
-The Reloaded Team
