APB - All Points Bulletin

Fatal Exception wrote:I spent 15 minutes trying to get the first mission I was stood above the hangout wondering why I couldn't see anyone. Several other people made the same mistake too

The Crimson Clown wrote:

JiggerJay wrote:If I get mine, I'll pass on the code on here due to it not working in a million years on my dads pc!

Can I reserve this code?

BID0 wrote:They were only testing how many people they could fit on each server before it died last night. Hopefully in a week or so that will be over with. It's hard to do anything really when that's going on.

So I wouldn't really worry about it being crap just yet.

Fatal Exception wrote:I spent 15 minutes trying to get the first mission I was stood above the hangout wondering why I couldn't see anyone. Several other people made the same mistake too

I used all my pistol ammo up on random civilians, when it came to doing a mission I had no ammo and an agent turned up with some kind of M16 thing. Needless to say I died

abcd wrote:Is it obvious to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad guys?

abcd wrote:I had trouble trying to get a big box of drugs in a car.

Turns out I should have put the box in the boot. It makes perfect sense now.

I'm so used to GTA doing it all for you.

BID0 wrote:

abcd wrote:I had trouble trying to get a big box of drugs in a car.

Turns out I should have put the box in the boot. It makes perfect sense now.

I'm so used to GTA doing it all for you.

Yeh things are not very clear. Any help prompts seem to flash on the screen for a few seconds, before you've managed to read half of the tip.

I was mugging AI pedestrians mostly, and collecting phones/jewelry/bags etc. I was told that I should take these items to drop off points for rewards, but when I got to one I couldn't figure out how to drop the items off.

The 'F' key seems to cover most things I've found. If you run around while spamming that, you can get into all kinds of trouble.

Fatal Exception wrote:So who's up for this tonight?

My name on it is Barksdale.

Andrew Mills wrote:Unless I turn my res down to 800x600 (which incidentially has no graphical slider, reported as a bug already), I get about 3fps! (hates his HD3200 ). I didn't get any music playing either and I tried to get Out of Bounds on the social area but to no avail after about 20 mins of dicking around. REALLY can't wait to get that HD4770 card soon, will be a HUGE help on unoptimised code like this!

BID0 wrote:

Andrew Mills wrote:Unless I turn my res down to 800x600 (which incidentially has no graphical slider, reported as a bug already), I get about 3fps! (hates his HD3200 ). I didn't get any music playing either and I tried to get Out of Bounds on the social area but to no avail after about 20 mins of dicking around. REALLY can't wait to get that HD4770 card soon, will be a HUGE help on unoptimised code like this!

I'm sure the graphics are locked to either Low or Medium, depending on your card. No one can change them right now, it's not a bug.

Audio I've found to be an issue. If you ALT+TAB you seem to lose sound, unless you restart the game again. Music only seems to work in cars, and then that seems to be hit and miss.

The upcoming action MMO will have the most sophisticated in-game music creation tools ever seen

"The music studio in APB lets you create two things: songs and themes," Stuart Ross, Senior Sound Designer said on the latest APB podcast. "Themes are short five-second pieces of music that are applied to your character and played back in-game, and songs are longer pieces of music that you can export from the music tool into your track list - then you can play them back in your car."

The level of control enables players to create a range of complex music, and works much like professional software. "The music tool itself is based on real music editors, so if you're already familiar with these things you should be ready to go," Ross explained.

“The music tool is based on real music editors”

The music tool gives players just as much control as the character customisation options that have already been demoed for the game. As well as plenty of cops-and-robbers type action APB will enable players to create in-game wealth with their own brands as a tattoo artist, fashion designer, vehicle painter or musician. Way back at last year's Develop Realtime Worlds' Dave Jones demonstrated the musical themes, which can play everytime you kill an enemy...