As someone who has played this game for about 10 years, it truly saddens me to see one of my favorite video games die out like this. As messed up as this game is, it'll always be something I look back to with overall good memories. 😓
I have like 1500 hours in this game and I hate it with passion. I stopped playing about when Little Orbit got involved, who stated that updating the engine is their top priority. When I booted it up recently, literally nothing has changed. They never really added any new stuff, the version of the UE3 engine is 12+ years old at this point (possibly older, I think I've read it might be as old as UT3, if not Gears of War) with no optimizations for modern hardware, hackers still roamed free on a weekly basis when I left and it overall felt really stale even if I were to pay for premium content (which I fortunately didn't, otherwise I'd regret it). Big potential, little interest in expanding on it. Shame. I've moved on.
@@TommyAgramonSethengine upgrade got scrapped, they are trying to upgrade the game to 64-bit, and changed how joker boxes and joker tickets works, now its less pay2win
This game had such a good idea. I remember being in highschool with friends playing this and we had so much fun. It just didnt become popular, not enough players. A sad story.
Good character customization but bad balance in PvP. I instantly uninstalled the game the moment I saw the enemy team was full of 1 shot pay to win snipers.
@@Toxic2T So? It wasn't that big of a deal. You could get premium for almost no money and do all that shit and it was permanent. Cosmetics aren't pay to win lmao, and the loot box guns were not better, in general. The default guns were great, and the starting pistol is one of the BiS, and the STAR is good, too. Pay to win didn't kill it. The problem was shitty micro transactions and no marketing.
This was nostalgic. Me and my buddy played this a lot back in high school. We'd semi-roleplay as two cops for months until my buddy used me accidently crushing him between a wall and our squad car as a reason to stop since he died. Fun times
I have over 3000h played on this game , I started playing it on Easter 2012 and stopped at around 2017 when most of my friends left the game. I still keep up with the updates on their forum but that’s about it. I am glad I had the privilege of experiencing the game when it was arguably at its peak. It was truly an unique experience, people have no idea how unique this game is , the pvp, the enormous skill gap it had , the absolutely mindblowing customisation and the creativity some people had. Ultimately what killed off this game was the lack of content and the monetisation followed by an engine upgrade that never happened and G1’s lies and lack of transparency to the community. I hope Little Orbit somehow brings this game back from the dead , I highly doubt that but if somehow we got some new content in the game like a new map or something , I would definitely come back to this game and I’m sure a lot of veterans would as well.
@@Breakbeat. I kinda wish someone would pick up the Too Human rights. It's a really great concept and could do very well for a game in this day with current technology.
90% of the comments: I remember playing this for five minutes like ten years ago 9% of the comments: This game was so cool when I was younger. 1% (Me): I had no idea this game even existed until now.
P2W really hits hard when the majority of weapons in the game have the same accuracy as a toddler shooting an ak-47 with one hand combined with an insanely high TTK
@@angreft43 ^^^ game was not p2w at all and only people that didn't play more than 5 minutes thought it was. Only thing that came close was release Nano. Game died due to horrible mismanagement by G1.
@@angreft43 I have over 1k hours played in this game. Even, I have a gameplay video on my channel which is 11 years old. If you weren't so stupid, you would take a look before saying some dumb shit. Have a good day.
@@angreft43 i played alot back then and it was p2w (both play and pay to) You had no chance to kill a team full of nanos or ocaws, the less p2w model is more recent and still is moneyhungry as fuck
The one thing that kept me coming back to APB back in the day was my character's Totally Inconspicuous Van, which I did up in company liveries like We Got Crabs seafood emporium, or Auntie Ethical's organ wholesalers.
It's so eerie watching something you remember as bustling with life and chaos, now completely deserted. I wonder what's going on with all the cool people I met in this game 10 years ago.
If Kev keeps playing apb, honestly he could possibly revive the game. What the game needs is a community to not only enjoy the game, but to push the devs to hopefully make the game what it should’ve been from the start
He's not going to bro lmao. His entire channel is doing 1 offs of terrible games with his friends, hes not suddenly going to try and revive this dumpster ass game
With this dev team, this game is not worth reviving tbh. Yeah it has some interesting mechanics and i loved it as a teen, but crappy devs ruined everything.
The engine the game is built on isn't even configurable... The fucking dumbasses fired the original dev team so the best they could even do was optimize it for 64bit systems .. aka everything post-2015 lmao still a shame. I spent hours upon hours (and $$$) on the car customization options 😢
Its crazy how much history is in this game. Servers that no longer exist, clans that faded away, entire drama arcs never to be remembered. So long Colby.
This game was so fun when you could get a massive group of people all doing stuff. That's the catch, though. You need a massive group of people WILLING to play APB Reloaded.
I remember this game like it was yesterday! When I was a kid I used to be in a clan and everything and despite the pay to win aspect I would still have so much fun fighting against everyone with my free to play gear. Especially since customisation was so drippy
You still had access to all of the joker box weapons in the marketplace. I was running my own music, outfit and symbol store that made me millions to spend on anything I wanted. And since you can copy paste everything you've created you will never run out of stock. They were handing out free premiums so I never had to buy one.
Oh man. I haven't played this game in many years now. I used to play it quite a lot actually. I don't even remember liking it that much so I don't know why I played it as much as I did.
I remember playing that game each day for almost 2 years between 2011 and 2013, and hell I had soo much fun then with people I met… We had like a 25 people "clan" and you always had friends to play with... often updates, fixes, events... damn the game was amazing then :"< tried to play that game again, and I won't lie, I had some fun, but it is just not the same without a group of people to have fun together with :(
I remember biggest advantage this game had was customization which was good but sadly if you had premium it was even better since you could make much more advanced pattern and much better looking vehicles since you had also more slots for patterns
yep, first microtransaction model in a game that was that intrusive... not only you had more mods, your weapons were better, levelling is boosted, yadda yadda...
Game might be mocked and ridiculed by new players, but it always remains in my heart. It's all about the cool friends and community you met along the way. The game was legendary back in the day...
I used to play this game with my best friend when I first started getting really into open world games. Looking back, I had very low expectations to my open world games. :')
The game was honestly amazing, after it was finished it had a great gameplay loop but the constant selling of it to random companies so they can try to milk as much money out of it pretty much ruined it
Ah, good ol APB Reloaded. I got two stories that happened to me on this game. First one is. I got into a mission that ended on a VIP hunt, I was on the Hunt team. Downside is that me and my whole team were Bronze, and we were grouped up against a full team of sweaty High Tier Golds, my whole team left, but i decided to not give them the satisfaction of winning that way. So...i got into my car and got TF out of there and drove to the other side of the map and hid in an alleyway, if not enough Hunters die or the VIP dies enough, the timer is like, over half an hour. So i wrote in district chat "since i cannot win anyways because my whole team ditched, i'mma just waste everyones time and hide in a corner" where like basically everyone on that map was laughing their asses off...except for my opponents, they were not happy to say the least xD They never found me, and eventhough a few of them left, they waited out the time, but the time of theirs i wasted, they could've done several full missions, so eventhough i lost, i call that a total win xD Second story is. I was once again grouped up against a full team of Golds, i was still Bronze, and unlike the previous one, this was not a VIP mission, but an Elimination mission, the side with the most kills, win. My whole team ditched...again. And so i decided to hide in a train yard building which has barely any good view points and Very obvious entrances. And unlike every other sweaty try hards, they did NOT have RPGs, much to my surprise. I was only armed with an LMG...and i wiped they all out several times, they only had to kill me a single time cause thanks to my ditcher of a team, they had died so many times that our life counter was at 1. I outshot them so baddly, that one of them accused me of Cheating, which i responded with "yeah it's this new insane cheat called AIMING, thanks for the compliment though" and this was sad in the map chat, so everyone on there saw it aswell. They all laughed, and he did not say anything after that. I did not win however, cause they got so pissed at losing 1v5 against a Bronze player, that they whipped out the RPGs. Which i said in District Chat "wow, you guys lost to a BRONZE player so baddly that you had to whip out the RPGs to win, huh?" And they got roasted beyond belief by other players. All in all, a good day xD
@@ForemostCrab7 lol ok little dude. Like upvotes really matter. What ab the unknown amount of people that scrolled past which outnumbers the upvotes. 🤔
@@jamaaldagreatest2748 just because you won't don't mean nobody will, what's with the lazy attitude people have these days where they cant be asked to read anything? ugh...
@@jamaaldagreatest2748 Little dude? Really? You have absolutely no idea how old i am, for all you know, i'm twice your age. The people who scrolled past my comment probably had no intention of reading it in the first place, and another 7 people has read it since last, which proves that this "nobody is going to read all that" is just You being lazy or just wanting to start sh*t for the sake of attention, so which is it? Cause if you were not here to start sh*t, why even bother commenting in the first place? Even wrote that i had two STORIES, not a post-it note, idk what you were expecting stepping into it.
My friends and I played this for thousands of hours back in high school. It's a real shame that this game got killed by hackers, pay-to-win, and an inactive development team. I believe this game could have a lot of potential even nowadays especially if it were mobile-compatible and cross platform.
I wish you guys would have played this back in the glory days. This game used to be so awesome when there was still a player base. There is a reason I got over 4k hours in to this game
Started watching you two months ago, and since then have almost watched all your content once and few videos multiple times - never been fan of content like this - but you made it so much fun! You are my go-to-guy for videos like these now! Here to next year and more videos from you! Take care!
I still enjoy this game in various ways. For the gameplay, the open city aspect, making music, and watching chat rage at the most miniscule things. The game is hilarious. I once sniped a dude from under a car and he called me a hacker. A dude who has been playing the game since beta had no idea people can shoot under cars. Needless to say the entire server laughed at him. People take this game so seriously like they are projecting their failure to become a cop in real life, so they tryhard in this game. It's hilarity at its perfection.
Honestly i used to play this a lot back in the day before they made it extra pay to win with some of the weapons and had a ton of fond memories.The customization was quite in depth the vehicle variety aswell and the guns felt great to shoot. The highlight of this game was the looting mechanic that i would constantly get as much stuff as i could before more that a dozen cops would try to arrest me and i would usually run lmgs so i can dissable their cars quickly. Game was an absolute banger
The game isn't really dead, you can find 2-3 EU servers that are full. Daily players are about 300+ players, don't let the low numbers scare you, that is still plenty of people to play with. I can see people in the comments saying it was a good game, I think it's time to give it a try again, otherwise, the reason for the game being dead is that no one shows support for it thus new players not willing to try the game. This game is Creative, fun, and not like any other game, as any games these days becoming less and less creative. I started playing APB recently because I lost my interest in gaming, mostly the reason being that new games don't interest me anymore, they are all the same. But this one is a gem to be saved.
I would've honestly recommend Tactical Intervention, but I just found out that it was actually delisted on Steam even in 2017, which means unless you had it from before that you can't even see it in your library. And no servers, but i'm not 100% sure about lan servers, which means it might be possible. And in that case, I really recommend the VIP car maps, they were hella fun.
The game was surprisingly fun, but I bowed out when it did the 'f2p' model. If APB were to release today, with updated graphics and systems, it would be the most popular game on PC guaranteed.
The potential APB has is amazing, it got did dirty with the companies, especially GamersFirst when they ran that shit into the ground. Kept hyping a engine upgrade for over 8 years for it to never come, everyone started leaving largely due to that.
I loved APB. I Was at it's first release and when I bought the game Hard case it came with a activation card code. Then they sold it and it became "reloaded". It was such a good game until hackers came... pepperballing all the criminals was so fun or shooting em with the heart gun so it showed "etc ♡ etc" in the kill tags lol.
I followed this game since it launched, and clocked well over 2K hours on it over the few years after. It really is a huge shame how poorly managed it was because it was full of potential, even by today's standards.
I remember when we jacked random dump trucks and blocked critical crossroads with em,completely fucking over everyone trying to "quest",a group of well organised players could basically force everyone into a stalemate and it usually turned the area into a warzone haha
I remember loving this game when it came out (yes, I played the not free version), and forgetting about it for a few years when my subscription ran out. I was also one of the rare cop players. Actually, cops and criminals were quite balanced back in the day.
I'm gonna be honest game was ok just the fact that every mission requires more people but there's almost always only like at most 3 people in any given server
I played ALOT of APB Reloaded on Steam. the amount of detail to clothing is crazy you can find some crazy things on youtube showing off power ranger fits, barney, batman etc.
This was such a fun game. I have like 20 physical copies of the game because buying them was cheaper than paying for both premium currency and subscription
I have 500 hours in this game, remember that the customization was wicked for back then, got some guns & cars then stopped spending money because it was wayy p2w. Shame really, was fun as hell.
I played this game with friends so many years ago. Pretty fun, had some cool, crazy, hilarious gameplay moments too. I didn't know this game still up last year 😂
I remember listening to the same song on loop because it was the only one I liked on the radio, and just robbingstores/arresting people with some pals. Good stuff.
This game has the funniest feature in that you can blast your own music from a car and my friend played the most obnoxious song while speeding down the road
This game still remains the most expressive in terms of customization in a third person shooter. Dunkin donut van in a dunkin donut uniform fighting cops.
I've been playing this game for a long time now. Seen all the ups and downs. The customization is the one thing that keeps me coming back to it. Enjoyed the video. No idea if it'll bring new players to the game or not. Something to note is that the Dev team is focused on an engine update, and outside of that the game is basically running on life support. The people who are actively playing it are the most diehard of APB Reloaded fans, but a lot of them can be very negative. Even I'm a little negative despite it being a game I actually enjoy.
A different dev team while the game was being run by a different publisher was working on an update in 2014. The Little Orbit took over and replaced the dev team in 2018, with a different engine update being started that same year. But that update was scrapped due to technical issues and difficulties moving APB to Unreal 3.5 in 2022, and replaced with the current APB 1.30 64-Bit update that they started working on in November of 2022. That's like criticizing Obsidian for bugs that were in Bethesda's Fallout 3 Engine when they used it to make Fallout New Vegas.
God I remember this game, played it twice then forgot about it till a few years ago thanks to youtubes recommendation to watch a random video...... the video was sick, had a great song in it and now it's happened twice, well the difference is i watch this channel.
Whats even wilder to me is GTA V still makes 500 mil a year off shark cards. When I first heard that I didnt believe it. but it makes it the most lucrative IP depending on your metrics.
"There are so many weapons but non of them are free." Perfectly sums up why I don't play this game more. I played it when it first came out, once early in reloaded, and then once actually in the last couple years. And both times I stopped playing Reloaded is because there aren't free (or reasonably obtained) permanent guns. There are some definitely some pay to win weapons, items, etc. But if you're good enough, I think you can work your way around that so I don't mind. The guns do feel very different from each other and therefore satisfying and unique, but not earning or using earned currency to get them permanently ruins the game for me. I actually enjoy this game besides that.
Level of customization in this game is awesome. Also I love how APB doesn't have the same stupid problem with tons of lodaings screens, to launch mission, as GTAO
I haven't even started the video yet but I'm so excited to play this again. I haven't played this game since I was 12 and it's been almost a full decade now since I've played it
This game was everything to me on release, i worked long hours with my mom so i could afford a new PC JUST to play this. I went enforcer and had the best times for many years. the microtransactions(the NANO... IYKYK) and lies about a system graphic overhaul (promised by BOTH companies that owned this game at different times mind you) ruined this game. it had such potential... now we just play GTA5RP and reminisce
I remember people going ape about this game and how you could customise just about anything on your character but then it suddenly hit ground and never really got talked about again.
The game had such terrible balance at launch, and they just kept making it (and the grind) worse. I think my favorite memory of playing the game was unloading an LMG into a car driving towards me, blowing up said car and having it do a front half-flip about 30 feet into the air... Only to land directly on top of me and kill me. It's always been bad (but real fun back in the day), and it's only gotten worse.
I remembere waiting this game for YEARS to release when I was young. I used to plan tactics with my friends while waiting it to be released. It is sad to see the waste of potential.
Nah this game really was great back in the day! I remember socialising with different groups all over, it was all player ran aswell with the big clans all trying to snap up the most skilled players. Those were the days. Also thr customization and clothing was AMAZING
Video idea: I forced my friends into an irl hostage situation
“I forced my friends to play CSGO in real life.”
I forced my friends to join the army IRL and give their life to our country PART 2
"I told my friends that we were having a pizza party but I instead force them in gunpoint to be hostages"
Honestly I hope this turns into him playing airsoft with his friends
Another video Idea I forced my friends to play War Thunder IRL.
i remember thinking this game was so cool when i was younger lol
Lmfao me too. They could’ve did something so great but idek where they dropped the ball at.
Yeah i remember it being like that in my memories as well
I couldn’t play it because my computer was trash but i used to look at videos 😂
I still find the artstyle and fashion in the game cool tbh. Has that 2000's scene kid vibe. I miss those days.
@@LifeofBrad1 no other feeling like waking up in the morning & turning the old ps2 on waiting for Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons Of Liberty to load 🥹
As someone who has played this game for about 10 years, it truly saddens me to see one of my favorite video games die out like this. As messed up as this game is, it'll always be something I look back to with overall good memories. 😓
same here it could have been really fun when it had people but its such a shit show
This is the reason you're insane
I have like 1500 hours in this game and I hate it with passion. I stopped playing about when Little Orbit got involved, who stated that updating the engine is their top priority. When I booted it up recently, literally nothing has changed. They never really added any new stuff, the version of the UE3 engine is 12+ years old at this point (possibly older, I think I've read it might be as old as UT3, if not Gears of War) with no optimizations for modern hardware, hackers still roamed free on a weekly basis when I left and it overall felt really stale even if I were to pay for premium content (which I fortunately didn't, otherwise I'd regret it).
Big potential, little interest in expanding on it. Shame. I've moved on.
@@TommyAgramonSethengine upgrade got scrapped, they are trying to upgrade the game to 64-bit, and changed how joker boxes and joker tickets works, now its less pay2win
@@TommyAgramonSeth it had none you scammed yourself
This game had such a good idea. I remember being in highschool with friends playing this and we had so much fun. It just didnt become popular, not enough players. A sad story.
They focused too much on recouping that $100 million instead of investing more to make the game better.
@@chc2650 I wonder how much it made back
Good character customization but bad balance in PvP. I instantly uninstalled the game the moment I saw the enemy team was full of 1 shot pay to win snipers.
No. Pay to win killed this. You had to pay real money to even apply more stickers to a goddamn car.
@@Toxic2T So? It wasn't that big of a deal. You could get premium for almost no money and do all that shit and it was permanent. Cosmetics aren't pay to win lmao, and the loot box guns were not better, in general. The default guns were great, and the starting pistol is one of the BiS, and the STAR is good, too.
Pay to win didn't kill it. The problem was shitty micro transactions and no marketing.
This was nostalgic. Me and my buddy played this a lot back in high school. We'd semi-roleplay as two cops for months until my buddy used me accidently crushing him between a wall and our squad car as a reason to stop since he died. Fun times
8:53 "Did you see that trick I just did? I'm so impressive!" - says Kev as the driver casually does a backflip with a fucking muscle car.
Lolll😂
lmao i came looking for this comment
Now this was a nostalgia trip down memory lane
I have over 3000h played on this game , I started playing it on Easter 2012 and stopped at around 2017 when most of my friends left the game. I still keep up with the updates on their forum but that’s about it. I am glad I had the privilege of experiencing the game when it was arguably at its peak. It was truly an unique experience, people have no idea how unique this game is , the pvp, the enormous skill gap it had , the absolutely mindblowing customisation and the creativity some people had. Ultimately what killed off this game was the lack of content and the monetisation followed by an engine upgrade that never happened and G1’s lies and lack of transparency to the community. I hope Little Orbit somehow brings this game back from the dead , I highly doubt that but if somehow we got some new content in the game like a new map or something , I would definitely come back to this game and I’m sure a lot of veterans would as well.
I can't get enough of the forced friends videos. Absolutely love them.
Oooooo, saw Too Human on that list, haven't thought of that in a long time. Incredible game for the time.
Man responded to himself
@@Breakbeat. I kinda wish someone would pick up the Too Human rights. It's a really great concept and could do very well for a game in this day with current technology.
@@jasonthelxix1883 :D
90% of the comments: I remember playing this for five minutes like ten years ago
9% of the comments: This game was so cool when I was younger.
1% (Me): I had no idea this game even existed until now.
You're not alone
And 1% like me still playing this game today and enjoying it :) a looot of h in to this game iver the year's still amazing :)
Same
I'mma be honest, thought the servers closed down
How havent the servers closed down 😭
This dude sounds like he’s having a blast with absolutely everything he does. Legitimately my favorite gaming youtuber, keep it up man
I had much fun with this game. Its one of the best MMO concept IMO. Unfortunately it died cause of P2W aspects and lack of updates (also cheaters ofc)
P2W really hits hard when the majority of weapons in the game have the same accuracy as a toddler shooting an ak-47 with one hand combined with an insanely high TTK
It's not P2W... Don't talk about a game without even play it and know it
@@angreft43 ^^^ game was not p2w at all and only people that didn't play more than 5 minutes thought it was. Only thing that came close was release Nano. Game died due to horrible mismanagement by G1.
@@angreft43 I have over 1k hours played in this game. Even, I have a gameplay video on my channel which is 11 years old. If you weren't so stupid, you would take a look before saying some dumb shit. Have a good day.
@@angreft43 i played alot back then and it was p2w (both play and pay to) You had no chance to kill a team full of nanos or ocaws, the less p2w model is more recent and still is moneyhungry as fuck
The one thing that kept me coming back to APB back in the day was my character's Totally Inconspicuous Van, which I did up in company liveries like We Got Crabs seafood emporium, or Auntie Ethical's organ wholesalers.
12:18 when matt says 'hello father' and his dad says 'hello son' is the best moment
It's so eerie watching something you remember as bustling with life and chaos, now completely deserted. I wonder what's going on with all the cool people I met in this game 10 years ago.
If Kev keeps playing apb, honestly he could possibly revive the game. What the game needs is a community to not only enjoy the game, but to push the devs to hopefully make the game what it should’ve been from the start
He's not going to bro lmao. His entire channel is doing 1 offs of terrible games with his friends, hes not suddenly going to try and revive this dumpster ass game
That wont happen lol, it will be milked for money until it stops making any.
@GangBalls69_Estonia it’s late, but it’s not impossible
With this dev team, this game is not worth reviving tbh. Yeah it has some interesting mechanics and i loved it as a teen, but crappy devs ruined everything.
Not worth it whatsoever this game is trash
Is it just me or does Kev’s voice sound super satisfying to listen to?
You might like men it's ok😊
I don’t mean like that lol (I’m straight). I mean like he could read an audio book or something and I’d listen to it.
Yeah somehow both soft and gruff at the same time
@@blvckgvhan7704
Sorry, couldn't hear you, maybe if you come out of the closet I would hear you better?
That’s what a homosexual would say, you can come out the closet amigo
Man, the customization in this game is bloody wild - a shame they forgot to male the rest of the game... and microtransactioned it to death, too.
The engine the game is built on isn't even configurable... The fucking dumbasses fired the original dev team so the best they could even do was optimize it for 64bit systems .. aka everything post-2015 lmao still a shame. I spent hours upon hours (and $$$) on the car customization options 😢
Its crazy how much history is in this game. Servers that no longer exist, clans that faded away, entire drama arcs never to be remembered. So long Colby.
The EU servers are full a lot
MrEpicGoat days and his crazy cheating
@@Toxic2T that guy was such a loser
This game was so fun when you could get a massive group of people all doing stuff.
That's the catch, though. You need a massive group of people WILLING to play APB Reloaded.
I miss playing this game and loadout campaign
Get your trans flag off
I remember this game like it was yesterday! When I was a kid I used to be in a clan and everything and despite the pay to win aspect I would still have so much fun fighting against everyone with my free to play gear. Especially since customisation was so drippy
what was pay to win about it? The best side arm was the default pistol and an unmodded NTEC was the best general primary
It’s not pay to win lol
You still had access to all of the joker box weapons in the marketplace. I was running my own music, outfit and symbol store that made me millions to spend on anything I wanted. And since you can copy paste everything you've created you will never run out of stock. They were handing out free premiums so I never had to buy one.
It was lol@@Bloodmagikonmyblock
It was guns, cars and customization. Also payouts and progress. People with P2W had it easy back then@@iamcool544
Oh man. I haven't played this game in many years now. I used to play it quite a lot actually. I don't even remember liking it that much so I don't know why I played it as much as I did.
Loved this game. Unparalleled character customization, shooting and racing both together in PvP missions. It was awesome
I remember playing that game each day for almost 2 years between 2011 and 2013, and hell I had soo much fun then with people I met…
We had like a 25 people "clan" and you always had friends to play with... often updates, fixes, events...
damn the game was amazing then :"<
tried to play that game again, and I won't lie, I had some fun, but it is just not the same without a group of people to have fun together with :(
I remember biggest advantage this game had was customization which was good but sadly if you had premium it was even better since you could make much more advanced pattern and much better looking vehicles since you had also more slots for patterns
yep, first microtransaction model in a game that was that intrusive... not only you had more mods, your weapons were better, levelling is boosted, yadda yadda...
Game might be mocked and ridiculed by new players, but it always remains in my heart. It's all about the cool friends and community you met along the way. The game was legendary back in the day...
Yea I wish i got to play it back then
I used to play this game with my best friend when I first started getting really into open world games. Looking back, I had very low expectations to my open world games. :')
The game was honestly amazing, after it was finished it had a great gameplay loop but the constant selling of it to random companies so they can try to milk as much money out of it pretty much ruined it
Ah, good ol APB Reloaded.
I got two stories that happened to me on this game.
First one is.
I got into a mission that ended on a VIP hunt, I was on the Hunt team.
Downside is that me and my whole team were Bronze, and we were grouped up against a full team of sweaty High Tier Golds, my whole team left, but i decided to not give them the satisfaction of winning that way.
So...i got into my car and got TF out of there and drove to the other side of the map and hid in an alleyway, if not enough Hunters die or the VIP dies enough, the timer is like, over half an hour.
So i wrote in district chat "since i cannot win anyways because my whole team ditched, i'mma just waste everyones time and hide in a corner" where like basically everyone on that map was laughing their asses off...except for my opponents, they were not happy to say the least xD They never found me, and eventhough a few of them left, they waited out the time, but the time of theirs i wasted, they could've done several full missions, so eventhough i lost, i call that a total win xD
Second story is.
I was once again grouped up against a full team of Golds, i was still Bronze, and unlike the previous one, this was not a VIP mission, but an Elimination mission, the side with the most kills, win.
My whole team ditched...again.
And so i decided to hide in a train yard building which has barely any good view points and Very obvious entrances.
And unlike every other sweaty try hards, they did NOT have RPGs, much to my surprise.
I was only armed with an LMG...and i wiped they all out several times, they only had to kill me a single time cause thanks to my ditcher of a team, they had died so many times that our life counter was at 1.
I outshot them so baddly, that one of them accused me of Cheating, which i responded with "yeah it's this new insane cheat called AIMING, thanks for the compliment though" and this was sad in the map chat, so everyone on there saw it aswell.
They all laughed, and he did not say anything after that.
I did not win however, cause they got so pissed at losing 1v5 against a Bronze player, that they whipped out the RPGs.
Which i said in District Chat "wow, you guys lost to a BRONZE player so baddly that you had to whip out the RPGs to win, huh?" And they got roasted beyond belief by other players.
All in all, a good day xD
Nobody is reading all that.
@@jamaaldagreatest2748 He says with 7 people upvoting it which clearly indicates that they did.
Just cause you're lazy, doesn't mean everyone is.
@@ForemostCrab7 lol ok little dude. Like upvotes really matter. What ab the unknown amount of people that scrolled past which outnumbers the upvotes. 🤔
@@jamaaldagreatest2748 just because you won't don't mean nobody will, what's with the lazy attitude people have these days where they cant be asked to read anything? ugh...
@@jamaaldagreatest2748 Little dude? Really? You have absolutely no idea how old i am, for all you know, i'm twice your age.
The people who scrolled past my comment probably had no intention of reading it in the first place, and another 7 people has read it since last, which proves that this "nobody is going to read all that" is just You being lazy or just wanting to start sh*t for the sake of attention, so which is it?
Cause if you were not here to start sh*t, why even bother commenting in the first place?
Even wrote that i had two STORIES, not a post-it note, idk what you were expecting stepping into it.
My friends and I played this for thousands of hours back in high school. It's a real shame that this game got killed by hackers, pay-to-win, and an inactive development team. I believe this game could have a lot of potential even nowadays especially if it were mobile-compatible and cross platform.
Star Citizen says, "Most expensive game to make? Hold my beer!"
3:28 - Good lord, it's like the entire Lollipop Guild got hooked on drugs and fast food, then shifted to a gang to pay for their new vices.
I wish you guys would have played this back in the glory days. This game used to be so awesome when there was still a player base. There is a reason I got over 4k hours in to this game
To be honest when I played this when I was like younger I really didn’t think it was that bad. It still kinda looks fun
The reason it became bad was beacuse of the p2w updates.
@Demicleas it was bad before that, too. Just not as bad
Cause you were a kid lol
@gothbitch bro what language you speaking???
@@Demicleas Gamersfirst did that game dirty for the price they got for the game, dogshit company.
I remember all my friends being hyped about this game, then no one ended up playing it
Probably because no one wants to pay subscrption fee
This was actually my favorite game. I hope this video shines some light on these slightly unpolished gem!!! Please... I want to play again
Started watching you two months ago, and since then have almost watched all your content once and few videos multiple times - never been fan of content like this - but you made it so much fun!
You are my go-to-guy for videos like these now!
Here to next year and more videos from you! Take care!
CANADA...CANADA...CANADA
I still enjoy this game in various ways. For the gameplay, the open city aspect, making music, and watching chat rage at the most miniscule things. The game is hilarious. I once sniped a dude from under a car and he called me a hacker. A dude who has been playing the game since beta had no idea people can shoot under cars. Needless to say the entire server laughed at him. People take this game so seriously like they are projecting their failure to become a cop in real life, so they tryhard in this game. It's hilarity at its perfection.
Honestly i used to play this a lot back in the day before they made it extra pay to win with some of the weapons and had a ton of fond memories.The customization was quite in depth the vehicle variety aswell and the guns felt great to shoot. The highlight of this game was the looting mechanic that i would constantly get as much stuff as i could before more that a dozen cops would try to arrest me and i would usually run lmgs so i can dissable their cars quickly. Game was an absolute banger
The customization in this game is one of the best until this day
FINALLY! I’ve been lacking recently in asking for it in the comments, but i’m glad it happened!
I love the little history lessons he gives us before he begins the meyham.
The game isn't really dead, you can find 2-3 EU servers that are full. Daily players are about 300+ players, don't let the low numbers scare you, that is still plenty of people to play with. I can see people in the comments saying it was a good game, I think it's time to give it a try again, otherwise, the reason for the game being dead is that no one shows support for it thus new players not willing to try the game. This game is Creative, fun, and not like any other game, as any games these days becoming less and less creative. I started playing APB recently because I lost my interest in gaming, mostly the reason being that new games don't interest me anymore, they are all the same. But this one is a gem to be saved.
I would've honestly recommend Tactical Intervention, but I just found out that it was actually delisted on Steam even in 2017, which means unless you had it from before that you can't even see it in your library. And no servers, but i'm not 100% sure about lan servers, which means it might be possible.
And in that case, I really recommend the VIP car maps, they were hella fun.
at about 16:20 "Was that Andrew Tate oh my gawd.." got me good, I love Kevins offhand silliness!
The game was surprisingly fun, but I bowed out when it did the 'f2p' model.
If APB were to release today, with updated graphics and systems, it would be the most popular game on PC guaranteed.
The potential APB has is amazing, it got did dirty with the companies, especially GamersFirst when they ran that shit into the ground. Kept hyping a engine upgrade for over 8 years for it to never come, everyone started leaving largely due to that.
No it definitely wouldn't be
It really wouldn't 😂
Cap
I used to play this a whole lot. It's terrible, but you guys manage to make it look still kinda fun.
I remember this, was the first online game i bought that failed. The close range voice was cool
It’s like a fever dream. This games worst times made it the best times. With friends at least lol
Fun fact: The music at 10:20 is the song used in Oceans 12 when old mate dances through the lasers. Is actually a pretty cool song.
The A La Menthe
I tried it around 2014 and the game was never able to launch. Glad to see I didn't miss much.
Me "Mom can I play GTA"
Mom: "We have GTA at home"
The GTA and home be like...
Hope more players start to play this game again, it is a really good game.
I loved APB. I Was at it's first release and when I bought the game Hard case it came with a activation card code. Then they sold it and it became "reloaded". It was such a good game until hackers came... pepperballing all the criminals was so fun or shooting em with the heart gun so it showed "etc ♡ etc" in the kill tags lol.
Holy shit,i thought this game was out of the market,used to play it so much in the past,boy this makes me feel warm inside.
Easily the best character customization I’ve seen in a game. Doesn’t get much better than literally *photoshop*
I followed this game since it launched, and clocked well over 2K hours on it over the few years after.
It really is a huge shame how poorly managed it was because it was full of potential, even by today's standards.
I remember when we jacked random dump trucks and blocked critical crossroads with em,completely fucking over everyone trying to "quest",a group of well organised players could basically force everyone into a stalemate and it usually turned the area into a warzone haha
I'm amazed they have kept this game going since when I got it for Xbox I immediately uninstalled it. This video is hilarious.
I remember loving this game when it came out (yes, I played the not free version), and forgetting about it for a few years when my subscription ran out. I was also one of the rare cop players. Actually, cops and criminals were quite balanced back in the day.
Except for the cop's stupid-long range stun gun when the game came out lol.
I remember playing this game for like 10 minutes 2 years ago
this game needs support but overall got more stuff to do than most games out rn
I loved apb so much, used to run a criminal clan called grape soda factory. We were all named after ingredients found in grape soda. Yep weird.
I'm gonna be honest game was ok just the fact that every mission requires more people but there's almost always only like at most 3 people in any given server
This game is so cool man you just hit me with a nostalgia hammer
I played ALOT of APB Reloaded on Steam. the amount of detail to clothing is crazy you can find some crazy things on youtube showing off power ranger fits, barney, batman etc.
This was such a fun game. I have like 20 physical copies of the game because buying them was cheaper than paying for both premium currency and subscription
APB reloaded is that one game that’s in your library but you have no idea how it got there
I have 500 hours in this game, remember that the customization was wicked for back then, got some guns & cars then stopped spending money because it was wayy p2w.
Shame really, was fun as hell.
I played this game with friends so many years ago. Pretty fun, had some cool, crazy, hilarious gameplay moments too. I didn't know this game still up last year 😂
I remember listening to the same song on loop because it was the only one I liked on the radio, and just robbingstores/arresting people with some pals. Good stuff.
Was it that "be kind and rewind" song? Because that's literally the only song I liked lol
I remember it having a user radio where you can just put MP3 files & it plays them.
This game has the funniest feature in that you can blast your own music from a car and my friend played the most obnoxious song while speeding down the road
Lmao the memories of golds de-threating to stomp new players and make them want to quit. Who knew it would be hard to draw in new players.
This game still remains the most expressive in terms of customization in a third person shooter. Dunkin donut van in a dunkin donut uniform fighting cops.
What makes this game even weirder, freaking SeaNanners was in the live action trailer
This is quickly becoming my favorite UA-cam channel. Thanks for the entertainment my good man 👍
Kev I congratulate you as you got this game poppin after 10 years, never seen the opposite teams full
There’s definitely a charm to this game despite how ganky it’s always been
I've been playing this game for a long time now. Seen all the ups and downs. The customization is the one thing that keeps me coming back to it. Enjoyed the video. No idea if it'll bring new players to the game or not.
Something to note is that the Dev team is focused on an engine update, and outside of that the game is basically running on life support. The people who are actively playing it are the most diehard of APB Reloaded fans, but a lot of them can be very negative. Even I'm a little negative despite it being a game I actually enjoy.
I remember that they talked about that engine update that would fix all the issues last time i played aswell! That was 2014.
A different dev team while the game was being run by a different publisher was working on an update in 2014.
The Little Orbit took over and replaced the dev team in 2018, with a different engine update being started that same year.
But that update was scrapped due to technical issues and difficulties moving APB to Unreal 3.5 in 2022, and replaced with the current APB 1.30 64-Bit update that they started working on in November of 2022.
That's like criticizing Obsidian for bugs that were in Bethesda's Fallout 3 Engine when they used it to make Fallout New Vegas.
"It's just like GTA Online but without the things that make GTA Online fun"
I wish GTA Online had a smash and grab mission on the open world, though.
couple things from an APB vet, headshots dont exist, ADS only helps at long range and jumping while barrel stuffing is meta cqc.
It fills my heart with joy everytime I see someone beating this dead horse. What an awfully amazing awful game of bad goodness
'There's so much violence in this video game!!!!!'
LoL is there?!
God I remember this game, played it twice then forgot about it till a few years ago thanks to youtubes recommendation to watch a random video...... the video was sick, had a great song in it and now it's happened twice, well the difference is i watch this channel.
this is pure nostalgia
Love the bully bikeracing Soundtrack in the Background 😂👌🏻
Whats even wilder to me is GTA V still makes 500 mil a year off shark cards. When I first heard that I didnt believe it. but it makes it the most lucrative IP depending on your metrics.
"There are so many weapons but non of them are free."
Perfectly sums up why I don't play this game more. I played it when it first came out, once early in reloaded, and then once actually in the last couple years. And both times I stopped playing Reloaded is because there aren't free (or reasonably obtained) permanent guns. There are some definitely some pay to win weapons, items, etc. But if you're good enough, I think you can work your way around that so I don't mind. The guns do feel very different from each other and therefore satisfying and unique, but not earning or using earned currency to get them permanently ruins the game for me. I actually enjoy this game besides that.
Level of customization in this game is awesome. Also I love how APB doesn't have the same stupid problem with tons of lodaings screens, to launch mission, as GTAO
5:59 Dude. Can NOT believe I forgot about that awesome remix from Smash 4. Now I need to revisit it! XD
I haven't even started the video yet but I'm so excited to play this again. I haven't played this game since I was 12 and it's been almost a full decade now since I've played it
Of all the GRA clones, APB reloaded is absolutely one of them.
Thank you for putting a smile on my face on my bad days
This game was everything to me on release, i worked long hours with my mom so i could afford a new PC JUST to play this. I went enforcer and had the best times for many years. the microtransactions(the NANO... IYKYK) and lies about a system graphic overhaul (promised by BOTH companies that owned this game at different times mind you) ruined this game. it had such potential... now we just play GTA5RP and reminisce
I remember people going ape about this game and how you could customise just about anything on your character but then it suddenly hit ground and never really got talked about again.
Yoooooo gg I was in one of the missions with u!!!! 10:21-11:22
The game had such terrible balance at launch, and they just kept making it (and the grind) worse. I think my favorite memory of playing the game was unloading an LMG into a car driving towards me, blowing up said car and having it do a front half-flip about 30 feet into the air... Only to land directly on top of me and kill me. It's always been bad (but real fun back in the day), and it's only gotten worse.
This is fun to watch! You guys did good matches :D Keep doing!
I remembere waiting this game for YEARS to release when I was young. I used to plan tactics with my friends while waiting it to be released. It is sad to see the waste of potential.
bruh I have over 500hours on this game lmao... Used to love it
It was fun playing both sides of the meta conflict in the end. Had potential.
Nah this game really was great back in the day! I remember socialising with different groups all over, it was all player ran aswell with the big clans all trying to snap up the most skilled players. Those were the days. Also thr customization and clothing was AMAZING