Talk:Apollo Intensa Emozione/@comment-27980511-20180517204548

My fellow players. Today was a good day. For not just one, but 2 reasons!

Now the proud owner of the new Apollo Intensa Emozione, and not without experiences to share.

The R&D was a lot of fun from the get-go but oh dear god Lab .004 was an absolute TRIAL.

Some of you may recall that I spent 500 Tokens to open Lab .003 early, and that was mainly because I would lose around 24 Keys due to my conflicting work/life schedules. So unlocking it early actually enabled me to stay on track and catch up for the upcoming Lab .004.

It wasn't until I started Lab .004 that I understood how frustrating a lot of the Tests would be. From Test 49 onwards, I started to get considerable lag during the Tests. So I lowered the graphics from Medium in favor of performance, but that came at the cost of stability.

Tests 50 and 51 were horrendous, and the lag was the biggest killer here. The worst thing is that they actually weren't that difficult, but when you add in serious lag and suicidal AI racers, the whole game changes entirely.

You can imagine I burned through numerous Sets of Keys just to progress through most of this Lab, plus the odd Auto-Pass here and there. Patagonia's Knockdown + No Wrecks and Azure Coast's Flawless were definitely my worst Tests ever.

Mostly due to AI cars ramming me straight into oncoming traffic, or becoming deadly roadblocks and costing me quite a few QCs and Keys in the process.

That, and the IE's propensity to skid or just explode for no reason while racing on smooth flat ground. I really hope this won't be a problem in MP when it comes to it.

With over 1 day remaining and having overspent my emergency supply of 2500 Tokens to about 1200, I thought what the hell, let' buy Keys for the last 5 Tests and rely on pure skills to get them done in as few runs as possible.

The idea for Test 60 was to explore various Tuning options to beat the Ultimate AI after my initial Tuning of 0505 5050 wasn't good enough, because I'd be losing by a fraction of a second every time.

So each couple of races I'd tune the car a little more every time. Initially I was following Damon D.R. Style's setup, but it was insufficient to beat the Ultimate AI since my device doesn't run as smootly as Damon's.

Finally, I settled on 3505 5055 (rank 1695), slapped on an Extra Tank and beat the AI with a couple seconds to spare. I was sweating like crazy, my heart was racing and my hands were shaking just after crossing that Finish Line and sealing the deal.

I had to pinch myself to see if I was dreaming. To be honest, after waking up every 3 hours for 4 days straight and juggling work with that, everything was just a blur. I took a break from the game after completing the R&D, and came back to test out the new car in MP.

Little did I know, I'd be in for a surprise. When logging into the game, an update was available and I promptly accepted it. Then I remembered my graphics were still set to Very Low, so I figured, meh, let's try the High setting (note: this setting didn't work for us lower-end Android platform users since the last 3 Updates).

And to my absolute joy, I now have Metal graphics enabled! I can now see the cool flames shooting from the wheels of my car when I fire the Perfect Nitro! After 4 years of playing this game over at least 2 different devices, I've never ever had access to the Metal graphics feature.

I never fully realized what I was missing until today.

Two great things in one day, one being the new Queen of Asphalt 8, and shiny new graphics to enjoy! Plus it's my 4th completed R&D in the bag!

Resource-wise, I'm flat broke now but it was totally worth it!!

This car was going to make or break Asphalt 8 for me since it's killed all my best MP cars, so this goes without saying, there a lot of people I want to thank for their encouragement and support in this R&D:

@Enyby and Damon D.R. for their helpful YouTube guides,

@Feuerrm, Aris Cheese God and Mr. Mysterious Spyman for their extensive research,

@Niksasphalt8, @Spudanky , @Techiesportsfan , '''@[http://asphalt.wikia.com/wiki/User:ImTHATdude.. ImTHATdude..], @CarbonDated , @Fkw123 , @ZlatanS , @Azelfland , @BrentonThomas , @DOYPÑL , @Tobias mann , @Das Leeroy''' for motivating me to keep going and staying in the game.

And to the Asphalt community on this Wikia and the official Facebook group, a massive thank you to you all!

Race on, and best of luck to those of you still doing the R&D! Do everything you can to get this car, it is LEGIT!!