There are about 9 thousand keys available for you so grab them while you can.

I thought if people are still having trouble finding something to do, maybe they can play this beta while we wait for the other beta heh! I personally will be playing this just to waste time and hopefully it'll be good, from the things I heard. (It's like 8gbs dl [overnight DL] and the client downloader DL is like 70mb and they capped the dl speed to like 100 Kb/s)

Source: http://www.alienwarearena.com/event/apb-demo-giveaway/

Bub

United States3518 Posts

June 11 2010 21:20 GMT

Wow man I remember starting a thread about APB four or six years ago.... I've completely forgotten about it since.

Got my key. Thanks!

DeathByMonkeys

United States742 Posts

June 11 2010 21:44 GMT

What exactly is APB? Never heard of it before

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

June 11 2010 21:45 GMT

Woah, sweet. Got a key, thanks for sharing!~

jimminy_kriket

Canada5522 Posts

June 11 2010 21:49 GMT

Did the developers forget this game will be played mostly by 12 year olds?

This looks FUN! lol not T_T

Edit: Didn't catch that this was from the last few minutes of the beta. Can't find any good recent beta footage though

DeathByMonkeys

United States742 Posts

June 11 2010 21:51 GMT

Ok I checked it out, looks pretty cool. Only problem...

The current minimum hardware requirements for APB are as follows:

Intel Core2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent
2GB Main Memory
Geforce 7800 256 MB or equivalent
256kbit/sec internet connection

My laptop is basically just meeting the minimum requirements, but these seem pretty steep and may deter a lot of people from playing.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

June 11 2010 21:53 GMT

Apparently the game is atrociously bad, just rushed / poorly developed

Senx

Sweden5901 Posts

June 11 2010 21:55 GMT

APB is a very high end game which requires good amounts of ram, 4+ and a good CPU to run around 40-50 fps+

That has been the number one complaint during beta, the subpar performance on alot of high-end PCs.

So if you barely even qualify for the min spec: DO NOT waste money on it. It'll be near unplayable.

hoborg

United States430 Posts

June 11 2010 22:05 GMT

Cool, thanks for the info merikh.

I have extremely low expectations given that every other mmo/action beta i've played has been terrible... but it might be worth it to fool around for a couple hours.

edit: FYI my download speed has been consistently around 285 kb/s, so they aren't capping speed at 100

Deux

United States159 Posts

June 11 2010 22:07 GMT

#10

Grabbed my key, thanks

Merikh

United States918 Posts

June 11 2010 22:20 GMT

#11

No probs :D

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

June 11 2010 22:22 GMT

#12

wow, 7.32 GB worth of updating o.O

Cadgers

United States514 Posts

June 11 2010 22:27 GMT

#13

Thanks for sharing.

Alou

United States3748 Posts

June 11 2010 22:31 GMT

#14

Seems like the kind of game I'll either like a lot or despise. Probably the latter, but why the heck not? I got nothing to do but Track Mania right now

eNoq

Netherlands502 Posts

June 11 2010 22:43 GMT

#15

TFS, downloading O_o

I_Love_Bacon

United States5765 Posts

June 11 2010 22:50 GMT

#16

5 hours of action.... after downloading something for probably longer.

I think I'll pass. I've been looking forward to APB to see how well it plays, but I have little interest in dipping my toes in the water unless I get can waist deep in it.