APB Reloaded — patch notes and updates
Stored observation / content update:
Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| The Legends Update: New Contacts, New Weapons, and Progression | 2026-03-27 | The streets of San Paro are evolving. The Legends update has officially arrived, bringing a massive expansion to APB Reloaded. With an increased rank cap, the introduction of long-awaited contacts, new weapons, a suite of tactical gear, and even a minor map update, this update marks a significant milestone for the APB Reloaded community.New Blood in Financial: Zombie & LaRochaProgression has been blown wide open with the arrival of two iconic contacts: Zombie and LaRocha. These power players are now active in the Financial District, offering Enforcers and Criminals alike the chance to push their careers further than ever before.Rank Cap Incre |
| Steam PvP Fest + APB Reloaded! | 2026-02-09 | Starting February 9th and running through February 16th at 10 AM PT, APB Reloaded is stepping straight into the spotlight as part of Steam PvP Fest and the streets are about to get a whole lot louder.This is the perfect time to jump in, squad up, and experience APB at its most chaotic and competitive. Whether you are a returning veteran looking for that next adrenaline rush or a brand new player ready to make your mark, PvP Fest is all about fast action, fierce firefights, and unforgettable moments in the city. Expect nonstop battles, rival crews clashing for dominance, and the full APB experience on display for players across Steam. V-Day ev |
| Elf Inflicted Wounds | 2025-12-21 | Hello everyone, The Elf has been spotted roaming the streets of Financial EU West 2! Track him down and jump into his mischievous Minigames to earn Joker Tickets and compete for a chance to unlock a unique Title. Keep your eyes open, follow the clues, and don’t miss your opportunity to grab these festive rewards while the Elf is on the move! |
| APB: Reloaded End of Year Update | 2025-12-18 | Hello everybody, We’re long overdue for an update, so as we close out 2025, here an overview of what has been going on behind the scenes.Networking UpdateLate October was a rough month for APB: Reloaded in terms of Networking, so starting November we’ve made the rough decision to swap providers (again) in an effort to stabilize the game so all of you could play without being affected by massive attacks on the old provider’s network unrelated to APB. For the most part, the initial migration process went smoothly and didn’t come with all too many hiccups. But since November, we have had intermittent issues. As of mid December, we have resolved |
| Epidemic Returns: Halloween 2025 | 2025-10-16 | Epidemic is returning this year for another run and the dangerous objective remains unchanged: three rival corporations are competing to unleash their deadly pathogens and infect the city's population, turning citizens into mindless zombies. It's a fight for domination, but only one virus will prevail. The question is: which corporation will reign supreme? Meet the Epidemic Teams: The battle lines are drawn, and three corporations are trying to unleash their deadly toxins across San Paro: Who do you think will come out on top? How Epidemic Works: Epidemic Daily Activities: Daily side tasks and rewards will be randomly assigned when you enter |
| 15-Year Anniversary Launch Party | 2025-08-16 | We’re excited to announce that the 15-Year Anniversary Patch launches today! This post will prepare you for what is in store as part of the patch as well as what you should expect going into it. 15-Year Anniversary Event Better late than never! To celebrate 15-Years of APB: Reloaded we’re introducing the 15-Year Anniversary event role, packed to the brim with Joker Tickets and exclusive Titles. Additionally log in between now and the 13th of August to earn the "Ladder Climber" Title as a login reward! Gamersfirst Anti-Cheat (GFAC) This patch also introduces our in-house Anti-Cheat GFAC - This project has been months in the making and we’re ex |
| EU Outage | 2025-06-05 | Hi everyone, Yesterday, we took the game down for standard maintenance and to switch Anti DDoS providers.This was supposed to be a pretty simple procedure... but like all things APB, it quickly unraveled and turned into a cluster. Our fiber connection in Amsterdam has had some issues, and it went out midstream.They got in back online, but an issue with other hardware prevented the EU World from fully functioning.We sorted out those issues, only to have the optic fiber connection go bad again.At this point, we have worked with our Amsterdam host to replace all the hardware giving us issues. The goal is get EU back online as soon as possible.To |
| Easter 2025 | 2025-04-16 | Get Ready - The Egg Hunt Returns! Starting April 16th, dive into our wild Easter-themed chaos in special versions of Financial and Waterfront. Your mission? Gather as many eggs as possible before time runs out by targeting bunnies, chickens, and other players! Complete challenges to earn new titles and valuable Joker Tickets. Watch for animals roaming the streets - mug bunnies for one egg, or chickens for up to five. The real excitement comes from player encounters: perform a full mugging to steal all their eggs, or take them down for half their stash (rounded up). To protect your precious eggs, deliver them to contacts throughout the distric |
| Back In The Streets | 2025-03-06 | We're back online and ready to roll! After some unexpected downtime due to unplanned maintenance, we worked behind the scenes to get everything running smoothly again. It took some extra effort, but now the servers are live, and it's time to jump back into the action! Back In The Streets Event The Back In The Streets Event is part one of our downtime compensation and aims to get players 2000 Joker Tickets rather quickly by just playing 10 missions with an additional 500 Joker Tickets awarded for a total of 30 missions played during the Event. In addition to Joker Tickets, each level of the Back In The Streets role also awards unique Titles th |
| Unexpected Downtime and Recovery Update | 2025-02-25 | Hello everyone, For players who may have missed our updates on social media and updates on our Steam Forums, we want to provide a full recap of what has been happening behind the scenes over the past few weeks and share the latest progress on restoring our servers. On February 2nd, all three of our world wide data centers went dark and all our servers went offline without notice. We were informed by our primary network hosting provider they had encountered a serious issue requiring an unspecified amount of days to fix. This forced APB:Reloaded and GamersFirst offline. Unfortunately, we were not provided with an ETA at the time, but we immedia |
| APB Reloaded v1.32 'Mobilize' goes live! | 2024-12-18 | As the year draws to a close, APB Reloaded v1.32 "Mobilize" delivers a wide range of improvements, new features, and seasonal content. After the significant New Horizon update in August and a return of the 2018 Halloween festivities in October, the focus now turns to refining matchmaking, strengthening anti-cheat measures, and celebrating the holidays in style. Below are the key highlights and additions included with the "Mobilize" update and the upcoming Holiday 2024 event starting December 18th. Cross-District Matchmaking What’s New: Removal of Threat Districts: Traditional threat-based district segregation has been eliminated. Players can |
| Epidemic Returns: Halloween 2024 | 2024-10-22 | The Epidemic Returns: Can You Survive San Paro’s Deadliest Infection? Hey everyone! After a long break, Epidemic has returned, bringing chaos back to San Paro! Though it hasn’t been seen since 2018, the dangerous objective remains unchanged: three rival corporations are competing to unleash their deadly pathogens and infect the city’s population, turning citizens into mindless zombies. It’s a fight for domination, but only one virus will prevail. The question is: which corporation will reign supreme? Meet the Epidemic Teams: The battle lines are drawn, and three corporations are trying to unleash their deadly toxins across San Paro: Epidemic |
| New Horizon Launch Party | 2024-08-14 | Celebrating the launch of “New Horizon” with exciting events, promotions and new offers. APB: Reloaded Version 1.31 “New Horizon” launches today — We’re excited to finally get some new content into the game and hope that you all enjoy New Horizon as much as we enjoyed making it. You can read our CEO’s introduction of the new patch here. You can also read more about our two new contacts and their free rewards here. This update is one of the largest updates that we have ever shipped, so we are expecting to run into some issues that we are going to have to address. We will keep you all in the loop about any ongoing issues in our dedicated “New H |
| APB Reloaded v1.31: New Horizon: Meet Lucas and Lynette | 2024-08-14 | Meet Lucas and Lynette Introducing Lucas Van Rooyen and Lynette Casey, two fearsome higher-ups in their factions that are looking for new recruits to do their bidding in return for rewards that will help you stay on top of the ever-changing street wars of San Paro. Unlocking Lucas and Lynette Unlike previous contacts, Lucas and Lynette are not of the specialist tier, instead, these contacts are positioned a little more in APB Reloaded’s mid-game progression and have 15 levels each which means that these contacts can be unlocked as early as Rank 88 if you focus your efforts on maxing just Blood Rose or Prentiss Tiger contacts! Unlocking Lucas |
| Preview from Matt: New Horizon | 2024-08-06 | Hi everyone. It's been quite a while since we have had a new version of APB this large. So I thought I would take some time to break everything down that is coming over a series of blog posts. But before I do, I want to acknowledge a couple of things about version 1.31. First, and most importantly, we focused a lot on new free content. It's something I have wanted to do in the past, but for various reasons we haven't been able to. It's a bit of an experiment, as we're now giving away more free items than ever in the regular progression of the game. We took time to identify and fill in gaps for weapons and vehicles that otherwise weren't avail |
| OTW MATCHMAKING TEST 05/27 | 2024-05-25 | Hello everyone! Get ready to join us on OTW this Monday, 05/27/2024, at 6 PM UTC for an hour-long matchmaking test. We need your help to put our new matchmaking code through its paces and iron out any kinks. The more of you who join, the better we can fine-tune our system. Your input is invaluable, so please log in and lend us a hand during this crucial phase. Remember to create a character on the "NA Test" World of OTW for this test! Your involvement truly counts! Let's work together to make this test a resounding success! Check out the notes for Matchmaking Improvement below: With this build, we have deployed new code based on the existing |
| OTW MATCHMAKING TEST 05/23 | 2024-05-22 | Attention APB:Reloaded players! Join us on OTW tomorrow, 05/23/2024, at 6 PM UTC for a crucial matchmaking test that will last for one hour. We need your participation to test our new matchmaking code and help identify any instability issues. The more players we have, the more effective our testing will be. Your involvement is essential, and we greatly appreciate your support in logging in and assisting us during this critical phase. For this test please create a Character on OTW’s “NA Test” World! Your participation makes a difference! Let's make this test a success together! Here are the notes for Matchmaking Improvement: With this build, w |
| OTW MATCHMAKING TEST 05/19 | 2024-05-18 | Hello everyone! Join us on OTW tomorrow, 05/19/2024, at 6 PM UTC for a crucial matchmaking test that will last for one hour. We need your participation to test our new matchmaking code and help identify any instability issues. The more players we have, the more effective our testing will be. Your involvement is essential, and we greatly appreciate your support in logging in and assisting us during this critical phase. For this test, please create a Character on OTW’s “NA Test” World! Your participation makes a difference! Let's make this test a success together! Here are the notes for Matchmaking Improvement: With this build, we have deployed |
| AMA recap | 2024-05-05 | Where has Matt been? Matt has been engaged with a special Fallen Earth project funded by a 3rd party investor. Unfortunately, the project was way behind in its deliverables due to technical implementation issues, and has spent the last 4 months course correcting the project. Soon, Matt aims to lower his development involvement on this project so he can get back to working on other games such as APB and Unsung Story. Fallen Earth Update: The back-end rewrite is close to being done. The servers are running on an Operating system that is no longer supported and has problems that make the servers slow down over time. There is a core issue which i |
| CHAT WITH MATT! APRIL 16TH 6PM UTC | 2024-04-13 | We are thrilled to announce that our CEO, Matt Scott, will be hosting an AMA session on April 16th at 6 PM UTC on https://www.twitch.tv/littleorbit! This is a fantastic opportunity to ask Matt anything about anything you are you're curious about. Make sure to mark your calendars and join us for this exciting event. We can't wait to see you there! If you have any questions you'd like to submit in advance, please feel free to post them in this thread. We'll also be taking live questions during the AMA. See you on the 16th! |