History YMMV / AllPointsBulletin

* BrokenBase: The people who have played APB are either disappointed at how it turned out or defend it fanatically because there isn't a better game like it. There are few people in between.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BKBIOtRXw Showdown]]" by Music/{{Pendulum}}. This is arguably the best song in the game.

** Also from the official forum "Racing District Comfirmed", whenever hints towards new content are revealed.[[labelnote:*]]The racing district was one of the new additions mentiod when the game was reborn as Reloaded. However the new developers never reported about it again, despite the forum asking and talking about it for months, until they revealed via the forum that the District had been long since scrapped.[[/labelnote]]

* BrokenBase - The people who have played APB are either disappointed at how it turned out or defend it fanatically because there isn't a better game like it. There are few people in between.

* GameBreaker - As weapon tweaks and rebalances are applied liberally by the developers, the list of 'overpowered' weapons is constantly in flux. But traditionally, it's been the Joker Carbine, OCA Whisper SMG (a G1 credit-only variant of the OCA-EW.626 with a suppressor), N-HVR Scout, OSMAW rocket launcher, Colby M-1922 (a Thompson SMG clone) and Obeya [=CR762=] that gets the most flak.

* HilariousInHindsight - In series 11 (2008) of ''Series/TopGearUK'' the presenters were tasked with the challenge of buying cheap cars and turning them into improvised police cars. The result are comical painted cars, close to what some players come up in APB aswell. Hammond in particular picked a Suzuki Vitara, which the ingame Enforcers-only Packer Vaquero resembles quite a lot.
* MagnificentBastard - Luke Waskawi is implied to be this. He is the person responcible for the civil war like state of San Paro, convinced self made millionair Arlon Benjamin into turning a street gang into a private army and has united most of San Paro's criminal elements into a co-supporting anarchic movement, all while barely anyone even knows he exists. Michael Simoen downright warns the player of him.
* MemeticMutation - Wilson [=LeBoyce=]'s "hey" and "get out of here" comments have become very popular kill themes and appear in many variations.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - the extensive (and we mean it!) soundtrack contains some real gems, like ''Music/DimmuBorgir'''s "Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse" (if you need to ride in like a BlackMetal Franchise/{{Batman}}) or "Bitch Plz" by Pop Erotiq.
** If you like electronic music, then APB has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKgKgbOsbno Carbon Kid]]" by Alpinestars (featuring Brian Molko from Music/{{Placebo}}). This song is more than 10 years old, but it's still 24-carat gold.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BKBIOtRXw Showdown]]" by Music/{{Pendulum}}. This is arguably the best song in the game.
** You can also import any of your own tracks into the in-game music player, and anyone else who has imported the same tracks as you will hear it when you play it from your car (and vice versa). Last.fm provides this functionality.

* HilariousInHindsight - In series 11 (2008) of TopGear the presenters were tasked with the challenge of buying cheap cars and turning them into improvised police cars. The result are comical painted cars, close to what some players come up in APB aswell. Hammond in particular picked a Suzuki Vitara, which the ingame Enforcers-only Packer Vaquero resembles quite a lot.

** Also from the official forum "Racing District Comfirmed", whenever hints towards new content are revealed.[[labelnote:*]]The racing district was one of the new additions mentiod when the game was reborn as Reloaded. However the new developers never reported about it again, despite the forum asking and talking about it for months, until they revealed via the forum that the District had been long since scrapped.[[/labelnote]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Realtime Worlds promised a lot for the game which in the end could not be delivered.
** The second trailer showcased Zombie dual wielding machine pistols and LaRocha picking up a minigun. Neither of which made it in the game.
** One of the early presentations showed melee weapons, these aswell did not made it into the game.
** Old concept art shows that it was original planned for weapons to be faction seperated to increase diversity between the sides, both visualy and in terms of gameplay. Likewise for better versions of guns to be visualy different from the lower version.
** Multiple districts with different themes had been planned, there were also two social districts planned one for each faction. The social districts themself were planned to have a movie theater where players could upload recordings from missions.
** Miko Wong, who is mentiod in the fluff E-mails and some item description actualy had an ingame model. It's unknown what her purpose was planned to be.
** There are youtube videos showing unused animations that never made it into the game.
** From Reloaded Production comes the APB: Vendetta Kickstarter. The concept was for a fast paced arena shooter in style of Quake 3, using LeParkour movement and being able to play the contacts of APB Reloaded, who would each come with different abilities. The developers further promised updates each week and for additional stretch goals, including being able to import your APB:Reloaded character and being planned to come to Playstation 4. However despite positive reports by gaming sites, the overall reaction of the APB playerbase and various comments was cold at best. The Kickstarter barely got support and no updates were made after the first week. In the end it only reached 25,000 dollars of the 300,000 they needed.

** A new break occured between the current developer and the fanbase, when Reloaded Production started a Kickstarter and announced that they plan to create a new game based on APB's lore, a fast paced parkour moves using first person shooter named APB: Vendetta. While they promised that no resources will be diverted to create or maintain the new game, the APB: Reloaded fanbase was less than thrilled. In the end the Kickstarter failed after making less than 20% of it's minimum goal.
** The Scout Sniper Rifle was allready a base breaker for a long time thanks to it's uncanny ability to allow perfect sniping shots while jumping, allowing to bypass enemy cover or giving off a shot while running, byassing the necessary drawback all other sniper rifles have (being slowed down when wielding them). The fact that it was a chash shop only gun didn't help either. When the devs finaly removed the ability after 2 years, aknowledging that it was a bug, the old debate became even more heated.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - the extensive (and we mean it!) soundtrack contains some real gems, like DimmuBorgir's "Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse" (if you need to ride in like a BlackMetal Franchise/{{Batman}}) or "Bitch Plz" by Pop Erotiq.