Great for hitching a ride when there’s not enough seats, or when using a heavy weapon, it does however leave you heavily exposed and without the safety of the car interior to hide when you are hit. Car Surfer: A utility character mod, this allows you to ride on the roofs of moving vehicles.Simply activate and paint enemy targets to show them to all teammates, even through walls. Spotter: An activatable character modification, this works similar to tagger but without requiring you to hit an enemy.In addition all ammo suppliers will now automatically resupply any valid targets in range that are not actively firing. Field Supplier – Wide Radius: This field supplier can supply teammates from a longer range at the cost of a slightly shorter deployed time.With a number of very useful modifications in all categories, we hope to see a much larger amount of diversity on the streets of San Paro. With Birth and Templeton, we’re mainly focusing on character modifications. Along with a selection of vehicles, presets and Capacity increases, they also bring a number of new modifications and weapons to the table. Where will you stand in the battle for control? Discover unforgettable weapons, experience incredible customization and try to survive a frenzied battle for control of the streets.ĪPB Reloaded v10, aka New Breed Part 3, introduces two new T5 contacts, "Birth" and "Templeton," which will be available to anyone that has completed the two boss contacts from their faction’s organisations.īirth and Templeton bring with them a large number of goodies that players can unlock through pledging and completing missions with them. Powered by Epic’s Unreal 3 engine, APB Reloaded features a robust set of customization tools second to none, providing gamers the ability to create the exact look of their in-game avatar, personalized symbols, clothing, vehicles and in-game music. Be it on foot or from the driver's seat, APB Reloaded melds player-on-player combat within the immersive city teetering on the edge of total chaos. Players can take up the role of either a Criminal or Enforcer to commit or stop petty crimes and gain notoriety within their own organizations in order to control the city. This open-world environment challenges players to find their way through a city in a state of near anarchy. Scott said that the team will work out design ideas for that over the next few weeks and will welcome help from mentor players to help acclimate new players.There’s trouble in the city of San Paro, and players have to put an end to it – or maybe it might be more fun to make things even worse!ĪPB Reloaded is a Free2Play massively multiplayer online third-person shooter game taking place in the modern-day fictional city of San Paro. Unsurprisingly, launching a new version of the game will require another major improvement: a better new player experience. That will require a shared codebase that will also let players play across regions, giving Little Orbit the ability to potentially implement phasing and other matchmaking improvements.
The new version of the game will also come with a "detailed marketing plan with budgets, large partners, and targets," followed by a finalization of console builds. This year's roadmap, Scott's third since his company took over the game in 2018, came out a little late, owing to his decision to "largely disconnect from the computer" after the holidays and his desire to produce a better roadmap for 2021, following the "many road bumps last year and the year before that." That said, he did present a list of accomplishments for 2020, including implementing an in-game store and the removal of Joker Mystery Boxes.įor the coming year, Scott hopes to finally launch APB 2.1 and its new engine, and he's "in the process of signing deals with some Unreal 3.5 consultants that specialize in performance captures." The dev team is going "line-by-line" through the code, and Scott hopes to provide progress posts as the project goes on. Little Orbit's 2020 hurdles included "a major project that cost the company millions of dollars held up in litigation." The player base was high over the summer, but as the year closed out, the game's concurrency numbers were at an all-time low, Scott said. APB Reloaded had a rocky 2020 - but then again, who didn't? To his credit, Little Orbit CEO Matthew Scott owned up to the difficulties APB faced in a blog post where he also looked ahead to 2021 with a roadmap for the game's future.