The 2018 Spring Update, is the 26th update for Asphalt 8: Airborne. The update was announced on Gameloft's Facebook page on April 6th, 2018 and launched on April 11, 2018 with a YouTube livestream on the same day. [1]
Announcement
Asphalt 8: Airborne is blooming this spring! The new update is coming soon and here is a sneak peek of what to expect:
DAILY TASKS STREAK
Revamped Daily Tasks now come with brand-new Streak Rewards. If you've got what it takes to complete a full streak, you'll win big prizes!
NEW RIDES
Unlock 5 new vehicles, such as the Apollo Intensa Emozione and the Zenvo ST1 GT.
SPECIAL EVENT SERIES
March into spring by pushing your skills to the limit in an all-new Special Event series. Don’t forget about our special offers!
SPLIT BOX
Double your chances! The Split Box drops twice as many cards, so you can choose the best and leave the rest.
SHUFFLE BOX
Can't track down a particular Blueprint or Pro Kit Card? Try a Shuffle Box! Each one gives you a full set of card slots, and allows you to exchange them several times for different cards.
New Vehicles
Class C
- Vencer Sarthe (Championship, BP car)
Class B
- Apollo N (Championship car)
- Ducati XDiavel S (R&D bike)
- Class A
- Class S
- Kawasaki Ninja H2R (Championship bike)
- Apollo Intensa Emozione (R&D car)
The new vehicles will need the following engine cards:
- V8 Engine
- Apollo N (x52)
- Zenvo ST1 (x?)
- FIV8 Engine
- Vencer Sarthe (x?)
- V12 Engine
- Apollo Intensa Emozione (x48)
Game Changes
Gameplay Changes
- Multiplayer League now has a car prize for all Leagues.
- The Geely GC9 is now a Car Mastery reward at
100. - Daily Task Streaks added.
- The Daily Tasks menu has been updated as well.
- New Pro Boxes: Shuffle Box and Split Box.
- In Exclusive Deals, blueprint status are now added on bottom of blueprints of unowned vehicles.
- For Windows (desktop) players, preferred graphics card to be used with the game can now be chosen.
- only upgrades are used for the Apollo N (two) and Apollo Intensa Emozione (four).
- Despicable Me "Villain Wheels" has been removed from the Brand Filter.
- When replaying races, the game no longer shows the loading screen and has a shorter load time.
Cosmetic Changes
- New app icon of the Zenvo ST1 GT.
- The icon bears a resemblance to the one used for the Winter Update with a blue car and white background.
- The placement and size of Daily Tasks and More Racing Options in the Play menu have been switched.
- The background of More Racing Options now has a Lamborghini Egoista instead of the Ferrari F430.
- When a box is opened and when the screen changes to the notification screen indicating which vehicles can be upgraded or assembled, the entire screen now flashes white, instead of only within the same frame as the box.
- A blue outline has been added to the Mastery screen when selecting a car.
- One of the sound effects used for opening Pro Boxes is no longer used.
Events Schedule
- Apollo N Championship April 11, 2018
Future events from this update (the order of the events may vary)
- Ducati XDiavel S R&D
- Kawasaki Ninja H2R Championship
- Zenvo ST1 EDD
- Apollo Intensa Emozione R&D
- Vencer Sarthe Championship
- Aprilia Tuono V4 1100 RR my2017 R&D
Bugs / Glitches
- No Mastery Compensation: Attempting to claim the Geely GC9 as a Mastery reward if the player already has the car will not give anything as compensation.
- Enduro Vehicles garage shows all game vehicles: Pressing "Enduro Vehicles" in the Lamborghini Aventador SV's EDD event causes the garage to display all 224 vehicles in the game (except the Villain Wheels), which also allows the player to upgrade any vehicle even if they do not own it yet.
- Different Traffic Pattern: When replaying a race, any map with Traffic will not have its patterns reset, and on maps that no longer have traffic, such as London and Iceland, traffic will appear on subsequent replays.
- No Nitro Sounds: Similar to the traffic pattern glitch, a replayed race will not play the sound effects for Nitro engaging, switching Nitro levels, triggering a Perfect Nitro or Nitro burning.
Trivia
- This update marks the following:
- The first to add an Apollo vehicle
- The first to add a Zenvo vehicle
- The first to add a Vencer vehicle
- The first to add a bike that could dominate Bikes
- The second to add a Kawasaki bike
- The second to add a Ducati bike
- This update is the second update of 2018
- This update re-introduces token upgrades.
- Car Blueprints Update-to this update is currently the longest gap to add a Car who dominates the Ranks of the Cars in game. For 1 year and a month. beating Elite Cars Update-Championship Update king gap, whose gap is 8 months.
Post-Update Screen
References
- ↑ The availability of the update on each platform varies by region