I realise it has been brought up a number of times before, but it's hard to wade through the thread. After picking up the game quite a while ago, I only recently started playing and am wondering how I should progress with purchasing cars. Any ideas?
Ferrari F12, Lamborghini Veneno, Audi S4, Ferrari 458 and the Lotus. Those would be very good cars to aim for as they worked very well for me. You will obviously need more cars than that in order to complete but don't buy every car you come across or can afford afford each race. Buying selectively is key and the second or third car in each class will get you to those ones pretty fast. Buy in the order they line up in the garage as well because you won't need one in every class right from the beginning and that's the order they unlock in as you progress through the 8 series'. Class D,C,B,A and S. And the key is trying to get the 5 stars for each event. It's what unlocks the next series and pays you the most. Much more important than having a full garage into he game. There's also non real need to go beyond the second upgrade on any car and the upgrade that works the best is the handling one, then acceleration and nitro in that order. Top speed is the least important one but will come in handy in the much later series. Other great cars in the game are the Sesto Elemento and the Ruf R12 and the Ruf CTR. The Citreon Survolt is also quite good as is the Audi R8, Corvette, Aston Martin V12 Vantage and Mercedes SLS when they get the first two handling and acceleration upgrades, the upgrades that I found the most useful of the lot. But I would aim mainly for the ones at the top of the post.
To go along with Rip's post, I always refer people back to a comment from Bullwinkle. He outlined progression in an interesting way: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2947779&postcount=887
Did you try powering your ipad on and off? Also what ios are you on? I have an ipad 3 with ios 6.1.3 with no problems.
So just to make sure there's not a bug specific to my iPhone 5s, this game does not have anti-aliasing enabled? If they wanted the aesthetics of a pixel graphics game, they should have made one. Otherwise, the aliasing is rather jarring and largely undermines most the effort they put into the game engine. Hope it's changed in a future patch, at least for devices that can handle it.
Are there supposed to be any updates made to this game? Like tracks, cars, or seasons etc? Edit: and a real incentive to level in multiplayer? Lol
Thanks for those. I guess I'm at that low stage where it doesn't matter *too* much which ones I buy, so long as they pay themselves off again. I tried aiming straight for the Audi S4 but...was short by a few grand I've currently got the starting Dodge, Audi e-tron (had a few events..) and the Mercedes electric. Hopefully that S4 is next. I don't think there have been any updates to add extra effects for the 5S yet. It would be just running the game at the regular 5 pace. Be patient and an update will most likely arrive soon.
I can confirm that there will be cars added in updates. As for when and what else, that's unknown right now.
We are working on updating all of our games for iOS 7 and also to take advantage of the new hardware. Not sure on the ETA of those updates but I know the Dev teams for the games that can take advantage of the new hardware are working on it. We haven't had any content updates to the game yet. I've been told there will be several though
Looking forward to anything added to this game, it's a great racer. Has anything been done about online balancing? lobbies with mixed classes mean if someone in an A or S car joins they will usually win, it's why I stopped racing online because it's broken.
There's an upside to mixed-class multiplayer: If you're in a lower-class car (or just a car with a lower rank there are huge differences within each class), you can gain a lot of positions by beating a higher-rated car, and you don't lose a lot of points if you lose to them. Conversely, if you're in the higher-rated car, you can never just give up, because if you do and lose to a lower-rated car, you lose a lot of positions. That's kind of a real-life-like aspect in my book. It adds zest. That said, one thing I could do without in multiplayer is the infinite nitro cheaters. Getting knocked out by those when the race starts isn't fun. Catching up to them by the time the race ends is hard. But I always try to catch up, because see above my world series position is at stake.
We are definitely aware of some of the hacking issues plaguing the multiplayer. We are doing our best to take the appropriate measures to ensure a solid online playing experience. If you see any new hacking issues or things that you suspect might involve hacking feel free to mention here or PM me. I'm happy to pass information along if it seems like there are enough incidents of it
Wow, Asphalt 8 plays so poorly now compared to before. Something is wrong with the graphics, guess it is not retina anymore on the ipad 3 since ios 7. And it stutters and now has framerate problems. Wow, ios 7 is so disappointing. I might have to delete this until the ios 7 update, it is really hard to play. Edit: i can't play this anymore. I guess the ipad 3 is not retina with a8 anymore. So sad. Seems like a lot of games on ipad 3 are running not retina or something is wrong. Will have to delete this, it's frustrating, beginning to think that ios 7 with ipad 3's is a joke. Gameloft ryan, please ask the dev team to look at the ipad 3 version, thanks.
Wow, Asphalt 8 plays so poorly now compared to before. Something is wrong with the graphics, guess it is not retina anymore on the ipad 3 since ios 7. And it stutters and now has framerate problems. Wow, ios 7 is so disappointing. I might have to delete this until the ios 7 update, it is really hard to play. Edit: i can't play this anymore. I guess the ipad 3 is not retina with a8 anymore. So sad. Seems like a lot of games on ipad 3 are running not retina or something is wrong. Will have to delete this, it's frustrating, beginning to think that ios 7 with ipad 3's is a joke. Gameloft ryan, please ask the dev team to look at the ipad 3 version with ios 7, thanks.
