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So what can we do about Cheaters in APB? Well there are a ton of "cheat-busting"solutions out there such as NProtect, HackShield, PunkBuster, XTrap etc.

none of them are perfect

easily circumvented

To register for the beta, we have decided to take a pretty "simple" route in order for you to take the first step; (1) simply submit your email here: http://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/ in the "stay up to date" box. Make sure you give us one that we can actually reach you on - and not the 14 minute email variation :). (2) Create a GamersFirst account (preferably with the same email, though not required)

But then it gets a little trickier. About 2 weeks before the closed beta (which probably means on or about the first week in February), you will receive an email sent to the address you submitted above. That email will have a unique link where you will go to activate your beta request. In order to do so you will be asked to submit a lot of additional data, among other things your DxDiag (if you don't know that is, then you might not be a great closed beta candidate) and some additional information about you, as well as about your system and your own background as a gamer. Once we have verified the data, we will then send you back your actual beta key.

NO PRE-EXISTING ACCOUNTS will be part of the closed beta. During the closed beta you will create throw-away accounts. That's the purpose of closed beta.

APB is "one of the first online games that has cars with physics and collisions for 100 players."

Do you want just a district dedicated to racing, or would you rather have a district with 250 players but no vehicles?

EA told Kotaku that they will not be releasing APB in Australia. The reason is local servers. Or rather, the lack of them.

This week time to share a key deadline; in order to be considered for the first wave of Closed Beta keys, you need to submit your email at http://www.gamersfirst.com/apb/ by midnight PST on Tuesday February 15.

You will receive an email with this ID along with a custom link that will take you to the actual Beta Activation page

first Closed Beta during the week of February 28

Beta Application Keys will be sent this coming week.

To redeem you Beta Application Key you must first create a GamersFirst account and then log in with the account on which you want to activate your beta access.

Beta Application Keys guarantees that you will have a chance to APPLY for access to the APB Reloaded Closed Beta, regardless of how you received your key

Catching and removing cheaters from the game remains our top priority.

major overhaul to vehicle handling to make cars more responsive and less slippy overall

We''ll be addressing a number of the worst camping spots in the game in an upcoming patch

Click here to download it.

five hours of gametime in the Action Districts

All APB game servers will be offline between 09:00 GMT until 12:00 GMT on 17/08/2010. This is to deploy 1.3.1 (55). This is a small patch to fix ''I''ve Friends in High Places'' achievement and an exploit. Full patch notes will be available on Tuesday.

Players are now able to enter the Exec Saloon or Dolton Broadwing when touching them.

The ‘Supermag’ weapon upgrade no longer upgrades both the clip and the magazine size.

The ‘Steel Plating’ vehicle upgrade level 1, 2 and 3 now correctly adjust a vehicles armour value.

Johann, who originally had worked on the PB integration for the original release, and is now responsible for the overall anti-hack/anti-cheat detection for the game as a whole

while it may be virtually impossible to ever win the war against cheaters completely, we certainly intend to give it our best shot

We originally integrated PunkBuster into APB in January 2009. After this was completed, it was disabled and essentially left untested until near the end of Closed Beta (~ April 2010), since it was not deemed an essential feature to enable before launch.

So - as of last night at the cut-off time we had received 150,763 unique Closed Beta application emails. Clearly this puts us WELL ABOVE the 8,000-10,000 people we had estimated were a good initial closed beta group.

Thus, in the next few days (and it hasn't happened yet), we will send out part two of the application, and after logging in with your G1 account, and filling everything in along with your unique Beta Application Key (which will be mailed to you), we then presume some percentage of the above number will be activated in the actual live closed beta.

Early Access begins on Monday 28th June 8am GMT (9am BST)

Early access allows players to use a bonus 10 hours of Action district time and unlimited Social district time leading up to release. Please note that you cannot use your additional 50 hours of Action District time until then.

EU World Servers Obeya Patriot

we're seeing a much higher decline rate for Dispatches and Calls for Backup than we expected

prevent players being added to matches in the final stage with only seconds to go (that's a change we intend to make anyway), since no-one wants to be forced to join a mission where they have no chance to influence the outcome

When players enter the district, they're 'Off Duty' or 'unavailable' or however you want to think about it.  Once they're done with checking mail or sorting their inventory, they hit a key and switch to 'On Duty'.  From that point on, they are at the beck and call of their Organisation, and the matchmaking system decides who goes where and does what.  Participation in individual missions is no longer a choice.  Your Organisation is sending you to do a job, so get with the programme.  After the mission, if you need to get more ammo or respawn your vehicle, just flip back to 'Off Duty' and nobody will bother you until you're ready to go again.

Cash rewards for witnessing have been removed as a temporary solution