100% agree. I think this is totally the better way to go with the tournaments now because the leaderboard option isn't really viable any more. I think I was some where around 6000 in the Ferrari one and while not an example of my best time, I did give up considering giving a good shot with boosters when I saw the hacker times. Would have been a waste of boosters. So while the 1:05 (edited: time was 1:02 when I first opened it on my own device I thought, must go to Specsavers, 1:05 now is much easier) might seem tough and will be tough for a lot of people, at least this way its much fairer to everyone. Still not easy but definitely fairer. I'm quite hopeful it is adopted as the standard way of doing it. Edit. As Shmoopy said, he is right, I must correct my post. After checking, a flat spin on the bridge is too time consuming so he is 100% right there. I think waiting for the next update to bring back leaderboards would the best bet because as they stand, they are pretty useless but with the next update removing the hackers, they'll become relevant again then. I'd still like to see times of people on my friends list though as those are the real times I'm trying to compete with and they are not present for that tournament.
I got 1:04 with the bugatti I did really tight drifts at the start they were perfect that was my main problem at the start plus my car wasn't fully upgraded I like how we could choose any car we want and the time limits made it achievable to get 3 trophies I swear the hackers ruin it a lot of the time
Must try the Bugatti. People seem to be putting in good times with it there. I didn't think it would do it and was leaning towards the Sesto, 458, Gallardo, something nimble really but it looks like high end speed down the straight before the boat and then the straight line run beside the tunnel might actually benefit the high top speed cars with decent grip. Must buy the Pagani and try it out as well tomorrow. And yeah, hackers do like to ruin everything for genuine players. I'm thinking I'll prefer this new format if they add some thing to see friends times because we do need that extra competitive element that genuine players add.
Yeah it would be good to see other peoples times I'll try it with a few other cars now that I beat the time and see how I go
I find it funny the game's title is "airborne" yet every single ramp in this game is designed to SLOW your car down, especially those damn barrel roll ramps which has a high chance to even wreck your car. Whenever I race I avoid every single ramp unless I absolutely have to go on it, such as for those stars. Two cars side by side, one goes on a ramp and the other stays on the ground, the one on the ground will always be further ahead. Those flat spins? They will slow your car down EVEN MORE (basic physics common sense), and if you manage to face backwards after landing... We'll that just means you pretty much gotta accelerate from 0 to max speed again, costing you at least 3-4 seconds. Don't trust the those recommended car rank you should have for a race, opponents are WAY above that. I usually enter a race with a rank of about 50-100 over the requirement, yet enemies are ALWAYS much faster, have longer nitro capacities and accelerates faster. Though I didn't reay expect they'd make this game any easier due to being freemium. Cough up the cash if you wanna win obviously, or grind levels until you can't feel your fingers anymore. Not like you have a choice when like half of all the stages requires you to waste money to buy a car to even be eligible for it. Spend 20k to buy a ONETIME use car then win 2k if you finish the stage... Yup makes a LOT of sense.
Right after the jump — true. Factor in the nitro you get from going on a ramp, and you'll often end up ahead, especially after going off one of those damn barrel roll ramps. That doesn't mean I use every ramp in every race, but some of them are indeed worthwhile. They're also fun, but that's obviously a matter of taste. As for the recommended car ranks, I've always found them realistic and even a bit on the conservative side. Practice and get to know the race tracks, and the recommended car rank will always be enough to win. Yes, the AI cars seem to accelerate faster than they should, but it's easy to catch up to them — their top speed strikes me as slightly reduced, they take detours, and they miss out on generating nitro from barrel rolls.
To follow on from running bird, in several races I have had a car way under the recommended and still won the races (some of the early seasons this is like upto 4). It comes down to knowing your car, and the track you are racing. The AI doesn't tack the fastest track all the time, so even if they have a higher top speed you can complete the lap faster.
I have found that if you know the track and drive well without crashing, it's usually easy to beat a race with a car that has 50 or so points under the recommended ranking. If you are more than 50 or so points below, it's still possible, but you get what I call "challengers." Basically, even if you are doing well and ahead of everyone, AI cars will come out of nowhere and try to pass you. You have to knock them down as they pass you. This is kind of tricky, but it's possible if you have good reflexes and pay attention to the dots on the map, so you can tell when to be ready to execute a side knockdown on a passing car. How many challengers you get depends on how much your ranking is below recommended. It starts to get really hard more than 100 points below but it can still be done if you are lucky. I've also found that cutting a really fast line through tight corners is the best way to get past AI cars. Top speed and nitro don't seem to help as much on straightaways. It also helps to knockdown the AI cars as you pass them. It seems like you get less challengers if you have more knockdowns early on. The game respects you for it lol. Another thing that helps is to always be firing nitro when you hit ramps. You won't slow down as much. Hitting a ramp at the right angle also keeps you from slowing down. You just have to get a feel for it. But it is usually not a good idea to hit every single ramp. Depends on the level.
The gain/loss from drifting is very car dependent imo. My Scion FR-S (rank 766) does 231 km/h normal speed. When drifting its 225. Driving in perfect nitro takes me to 258 km/h. The 6 km/h I lose in a drift is worth the 27 I gain if I'm able to hit perfect nitro... Besides that I often pass an opponent that is taking a corner without drifting by making a sharp drifting turn. But that's also what makes the online multiplayer in this game so cool...8 racers, 8 ways to race that track...
I'm number 1 in the world in the Lykan hyper sport cup!!! Does it matter that I'm the only competitor at the moment? �� wish the contest ended now
Fresh open of the app, still no rewards. For sure I got all 3 cups of the "barcelona masters cup". What a load a bullsheet. Good thing this app is free otherwise with the paywalls and tournament prizes not given out I'd never put up with this crap.
If you actually read the post you're quoting, you actually have you're answer. Obviously you didn't but I'll reiterate. The reward does not show up immediately. The cup you refer to ended 40 minutes ago. Your post has a time stamp 7 minutes after it ended so accounting for opening Safari, this page, logging in and then typing the post, you actually checked about a minute after the tournament ended. There is a time gap between end of event and receiving rewards. It has to do with previously verifying times and also with the servers updating with the new info and then pushing it out. Once that process has finished, the two currently expired will no longer be listed and a "claim rewards" tag will come at the top and you will get the rewards you qualified for. There is no if/buts/maybes. That's the process. It always has been the process and if you've ever completed any other tournament, you've already experienced that process. The last time you expressed about this, you did so in exactly the same time span, ie immediately after the event had ended. Every thing that involves correlation of data, verification and the sending of data takes a little bit of time, more than a minute or two and once the "claim rewards" tab appears, you'll get whatever you earned for that event.
Of course ramps slow you down. The fastest way in between two points is a straight line. The ramp route is not a straight line, it's an arc, hence, it will take more time. Barrel roll ramps can be tricky, but once you get the hang of hitting them correctly, you won't crash as much. You're completely wrong about the ranks. They are usually much higher than what is actually needed.
Also there are no paywalls whatsoever. I feel bad but I haven't spent a cent on this game yet. I've completed the campaign and am near the top of the leaderboards. If you can't move forward in single player it's time for multiplayer. Once you level up in multiplayer and start winning races the boosts and money roll in. Most people who know this game agree that it's one of the best free to play games available. Sometimes it takes awhile to get the rewards...relax.
Cheaters all over the place in new lykan tournament. Fastest time you can reach without cheating is about 1:36 min. My time is a little under 1:39, so i think i make it under the first 2000 to get the lykan.
What is worse is that after the 599xx tournament ended, the bogus top times weren't even removed. Themarcoking's 1:10 was there for as long as I could see the leaderboard. Now lo and behold, look who has a top time in the Lykan tournament. You guessed it, same player. He obviously wasn't banned, and now he has a ridiculous time of 1:15 in the Lykan cup. Come on.
Ugh. That's disheartening. I'm not even going to waste my time with the Lykan Cup. I did one run just to test the car, and that should likely keep me safely in the top 20k. I might have done more, but the rental price doubled after my first run. No point in throwing away 6.5k per run (10k-3.5k for winning) when there's no chance of getting anything worthwhile for it due to cheaters. We need more cups with existing cars, especially some more time based cups. These long cups (5 days?) for new, unreleased cars with forced rentals aren't as exciting.
i saw themarcoking also in multi player this weekend. he was driving the pagani with infinite boost and his ranking was at 1350 points. I think there will be 1000 cheating times by friday. So gameloft will nothing do against them because the first 2000 will get the lykan.
*sigh* Even that very basic mechanism we speculated about recently would have caught blatantly obvious cheaters like themarcoking by now. Ryan, you guys at Gameloft should hire Rip73 to coordinate the fight against cheaters. By the way, who wants to guess why some of these guys (a.k.a. the dumb dumb cheaters) are so much faster than they should be? Here's my pet theory: They already own the car, thanks to an "unlock all cars" cheat. So they can race fully upgraded cup cars, while everyone else is limited to the base model.
