Review

After a long period of time, players are delighted to find out some details about the relaunch of the free vesion of APB Reloaded. Bjorn Book-Larsson, the CTO and COO of GamersFirst, has updated a post named “End of Week 7 Update : Two key "to do" items; CB Client Build and Network Redesign” in the APB Reloaded dev blog.

Since the dev team is working hard for launching the closed beta date for APB in late February 2011 along with the beta application planned in the next week, the post focuses on two main objectives:

(1) New Game Client

(2) New Network for GamersFirst

More info about the new game client will be revealed for another week, while this week a brand new network for APB connecting with GamersFirst will be redesigned before the launch. In addition, players are invited to discuss about the in-game features in next week.

Therefore this week I will focus the discussion on item (2) that has to be fully sorted out before APB can go live; a brand new network for GamersFirst, and that means a brand new network for APB as well. This will likely be my last post that exclusively deals with items "external" to the game itself, since starting next week our discussion will focus on in-game features (so for non-tech-heads, this might be a good place to stop reading ).

Separate and apart from the actual APB game development efforts, our top-to-bottom network redesign is now a prerequisite for the APB launch. The redesign is not a small nor simple task, especially as we are in the midst of launching several other new games, trying to minimize any downtime to all our existing games during the transition, and on top of this, are also poised to launch APB with its massive network demands. The best analogy is that what we are attempting to do is like changing the engine oil while speeding down the highway at 100 miles per hour. Really tricky stuff. And bound to cause some mishaps along the way.

Stay stunned for more details about APB Reloaded and CB signup info.

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