Did anyone have a particularly good result in yesterday's engine-card grab? Not too bad on this end a few power plants for the K1. The two new TLEs (Wednesday), though, aren't that exciting.
what cars are you using for S class events? I`m thinking of buying the Hennessey Venom. I know it's not that good at nitro and accelaration, but it`s cheaper and has a good top speed. It is a good car to finish in top 100 in class S events? I`m using Ferrari 308 for D class, Felino for C class, Rimac for B class, RUF RT 12 or Nissan GT-R for A class, and Ferrari Evoluzione for S class. What are your suggestions for each class?
I can only answer for the pre update version, as I'm on Windows and still don't have the goodies of the latest patch. So I would say : Dezir or 308 for the D class, Felino for the C class, Biome for the B class, McLaren P1 on long tracks or Savage Rivale GTR on short tracks for the A class, and K1 for the S class. I like the Hennessy Venom a lot , but I'm not sure it's the best car to get in the top 100 in TLE or MPTLE events.
Yes due to the update: D class: Dezir C class: Felino B class: F50 A class: 330 P4 S class: I think here depends strongly on what is everyone able to pro in realistic time.
Bye guys Hopefully Asphalt 9 is a smaller file than this lol. With my 8gb phone with no SD card slot this thing takes up a quarter of the storage XD
what about this week cup? I see that almost everyone from the top 100 are using Mercedes, some are using koenig, and no one Bugatti. Is it Bugatti that bad for this event since it has better acceleration and top speed that mercedes?
Yes, the Bugatti, like so many other cars, has proven to be pretty much a dog from Day One. The TLEs, more now than ever, seem to require the use of cars players don't use much at least I don't. If you're not sure what to run or what to pimp with Pro cards, you pretty much just take a look at what's hot on the leaderboard and go from there. Stats can be misleading. That and the card system has turned everything on its ear. These days, I'll run five or six MP races, make three or four TLE passes and I'm out. In the past, two hours of MP and 100s of TLE laps was the norm.
I have to say: the new cloud system is really what will kill cloud abuse once and for all. The instant synch without being able to choose might be restrictive, but it gets the job done. Thanks for listening GL, and I applaud your slow but efficient efforts in order to make this game cheater-free.
There are pros and cons to this system you know. The positive thing is that it can be useful against cheaters. The drawback is that if they have an incident on the cloud, they'll have to revert back to latest backup they have at hand. Depending on their backup strategies (daily saves, weekly saves, ..), you may have to say goodbye to your hard earned goodies (cars, tokens, cards, etc ...) that you won in the latest TLE/MPTLE. People that applaud GL's initiative, could also be the first to lash out at GL for losing their items over a cloud crash. Personaly I konw I would be really upset about it , and because of that you've guessed that I'm not a big supporter of this new cloud system. @Fabien : Why not allow payments directly to GL to buy credit, cars, tokens, etc instead of going through the Windows Store / App Store / Google Marketplace ? I'm kind of rebuked by the idea of giving my credit card number to Microsoft/Google/Apple. I'd rather pay directly to GL. Also why not use the current SMS payment system, that's already implemented by GL to purchase mobile games, and use it for Asphalt 8 goodies ? I know it's already done on other F2P games. Why didn't GL implement it ?
I like the system. I can switch instantly between my phone and tablet without forgetting to sync the last status. Very convenient. It will be now very interesting to observe, how many of those constant ET players are really investing money for them. Anyhow, I also read those many messages of people that lost all of their progress. Here Gl has to prove why this happens, make backups of the cloud accounts and also give the people a better compensation if it happens. I heard from people that lost accounts with more than 50 cars but received 720.000 credits as compensation. Another drawback are accidental activations of boosters, accidental price claims or buys. Here I would really like to see an additonal confirmation screen.
Great lap Eric, I hope you go back in next updates, because I think A9 could be delayed a lot... Go for K1, is the best choice after VMAX. Enzo is really bad in tracks that require a good nitro duration... Yes, but of course it depends on car rank, especially against K1, VMAX or Enzo... I want a classes battle as soon as possible Not sd card? I still can't understand how some phones don't have it...
Fabien and Dev Team, could you please ban this cheater that appears on 38th place on the Race Against the Clock Cup? He finished Alps in less than 49 seconds, that's absolutely impossible with only a 1705 Ferrari Enzo. This guy also got the Ferrari 330P4 on last week top 30 Cup, he finished 4th or 5th I think. Could you please ban him and gift the car to the guy that finished on 31th place? That would be fair...I don't think I am asking too much. By the way on the same Cup the guy that appears on 1st place must be also using speed hack, his name is Steven K, he is 3 seconds ahead over the rest. I thought your anti cheating system was already able to detect speed hack quickly :/ (ios)
A9 we want... As we started to discuss the list of improvements for a possible A9, the first and foremost from my perspective would be to end once and for all with the particularly nasty freemium model currently practised by Gameloft. Fabien and colleagues, hear me well, I am more than ready to pay a reasonable price for A9 or to pay a small, monthly subscription fee and get access to all game features and all cars by just smoothly progressing in the game. I do not want to see again the absurd pricing system embedded in A8 and do not wish to spend hundreds of hours grinding, rather than enjoying the game. The freemium model as it stands is benefiting hackers more than anyone else, including GL. At the same time, the rampant hacking gives more and more incentives to GL to monetize the game even more, not caring that it makes A8 less and less balanced and less enjoyable with every new update. By now, if I cared any more about buying new cars and maxing/proing all my existing cars, I would need to grind 95% of my gaming time or spend a few thousand euros on the game. The prices of the last batch of Ferraris and of their upgrades reached the new levels of credit inflation - Enzo is more than 10 times more expensive to buy than the initial top car of the S class - Agera R and 9 times more expensive to max, even without mentioning the cost of PRO cards (the card system is of course another gift for cheaters). This is an astronomical amount of credits for anyone who joined the game in the last months and very high to come by for everyone but die hard A8 fans (and of course hackers). At this pace, by the end of this year, the price of a new top S class model will reach 5 million credits to buy and 10 million to max. D class will be still affordable at 1 million to buy and 1.5 million to max. I would have some starting ideas on how to make multiplayer and TLE in A9 more enjoyable and balanced than today, but since this would require GL actually committing to change the financing model for A9, I doubt it is time to discuss them.
Only 720000 credits for 50 cars ? Lol. If they did that as a compensation, instead of restoring the players previous progress, it probably means that they don't do backups of the cloud as I originally thought So now the game is no more a F2P (Free to Play) but a PnP (Play and Pray) just kidding
Really well done Gameloft. I have lost my progress on both Google And Samsung accounts. They offered to send me my purchases I made on samsung to google account I just have to send them screenshots of my possesions on samsung. HOW THE HELL can I do this if I lost my freaking account? Really anyone surprised that I'm quitting this stupid game?
I've noticed a lot of people talking on here and GL forums about the pro system being some sort of benefit to hackers, can anyone explain to me why they think that? As far as I can tell (and I've spent quite a lot of time looking for something direct to send to GL) it is actually so far showing that it is at least very hard to exploit pro items if not impossible. I should say now I'm talking about iOS in particular, I've been led to believe that windows is a different ball game. Most of the obvious cheats, like ykonweb that Juan posted about, actually still have low pro ranks. In all my searching online every single token hack I have come across is offline only, when you reconnect online to A8 the pro items and tokens you cheated to gain disappear and you revert to what is held on GL servers. I just find it odd that people seem to view the pro/token system as some sort of cheaters paradise but it actually appears to me to be the opposite, and much better at preventing abuse than anything before. Is it simply because people can't believe there are pro S class cars that so many believe this or is there something I am missing?
I don't see how they can cheat on tokens or pro cards with the new cloud system. The players progress is now stored on GL's side and not on the client side, and unless they hack GL's servers, there's no way they can change the amount of tokens/cards on their accounts (if they play online that is)
