The Wild Cards Update is the 41st update of Asphalt 8: Airborne.
Announcement
PREPARE YOURSELF!
Get ready for new special events and awesome rewards, including the TORINO DESIGN Super Sport Festival! Stay tuned for more!
CONVERT WILD CARDS!
Seek out the Wild Kit Cards -- new special rewards in various activities. Win them and convert them into the Kit cards for specific cars![1]
New vehicles
- Class D
- Class C
- Class S
- TORINO DESIGN Super Sport (Postponed from 2020 Spring Update)
The new cars will need the following cards:
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Chrysler Firepower Kit – Last checked: Feb 8, 2021 Sale value:  50Rarity: Common (Class D) Vehicle: Chrysler Firepower (160 to upgrade) Availability: Festival, Festival Premium reward |
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Porsche Taycan Turbo S Kit – Last checked: Feb 8, 2021 Sale value: 150Rarity: Uncommon (Class C) Vehicle: Porsche Taycan Turbo S (160 to upgrade) Availability: Festival, Festival Premium reward |
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TORINO DESIGN Super Sport Kit – Last checked: Jun 20, 2021 Price:  750, Sale value: 300Rarity: Legendary (Class S) Vehicle: TORINO DESIGN Super Sport (160 to upgrade) Availability: Festival, Tuning section, Festival Premium reward |
Game changes
Gameplay changes
| Card | Name | Conversion cost |
Card value |
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Optimal |  50,000
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200
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Prime | 75,000
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250
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Superb | 100,000
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300
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- New items: Wild Cards.
- Wild Cards come in the same rarities as Vehicle Kit cards (optimal, prime and superb) and can be exchanged into any Vehicle Kit card of the same rarity, but not for new vehicles introduced in the current update.
- Currently, there are no ways of obtaining Wild Cards except the Festival Premium Pass. Check the item availability matrix for changes. On the 3rd of August 2020, a multiplayer 3-day TLE cup event commenced and the rewards included Superb Wild Cards.
- Contrary to Gameloft's initial announcement[1], the conversion of Wild Cards into Kit cards is not free but costs
Credits. - Wild Cards can be sold for Fusion Coins according to their rarity.
- There may need to be a period of time to pass before Wild cards can be converted into a recently completed festival. Conversion may not be possible immediately following a cars festival completion.
- Vehicle Kit cards for the Ariel Atom V8, McLaren M14A, McLaren MP4/8, McLaren Mercedes MP4-25, McLaren MP4-31 and 2018 McLaren X2 have been made unavailable in the tuning section and cannot be bought for Tokens any longer.
- In a similar manner as the Pagani Huayra BC, the rank and performance stats for the Ferrari 488 Pista and Lamborghini Aventador LP 750-4 SV were increased.
- Ferrari 488 Pista:
- + rank increased from S1833 to S1859
- Fully upgraded top speed increased from 436.0 km/h to 443.5 km/h
- Fully upgraded nitro speed decreased from 49.7 km/h to 49.3 km/h
- Fully upgraded acceleration has been improved
- Drift radius has been adjusted
- Lamborghini Aventador LP 750-4 SV:
- + rank increased from S1802 to S1859
- Fully upgraded top speed increased from 429.0 km/h to 443.5 km/h
- Fully upgraded nitro speed decreased from 48.5 km/h to 49.3 km/h
- Fully upgraded acceleration has been improved
- Drift radius has been adjusted
- Ferrari 488 Pista:
- Cars with the status, that were made purchasable for either or in the Fifteenth Anniversary Update, are no longer purchasable.
- The game now shows a warning prompt, instead of a message to restart the game, if the Effects setting is changed.
Cosmetic changes
- The "extra" rarity of Vehicle Kit cards has been renamed to "optimal". Color and card value stay the same.
Exclusive vehicles
- June 25 - 29, 2020
- Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition 13,500
- Lamborghini Huracán 2,200
- McLaren F1 XP-5 10,500
- Ferrari Enzo Ferrari 10,000
- McLaren 720S 12,000
- Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition
- July 3 - 6, 2020
- Pontiac Solstice GXP 750
- Buick Riviera 1,900
- Lamborghini Huracán 6,000
- Peugeot Onyx 8,000
- Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition 8,000
- Ferrari Enzo Ferrari 10,000
- McLaren 720S 10,500
- Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport 11,500
- W Motors Fenyr SuperSport 14,000
- Pontiac Solstice GXP
- July 24 - 27, 2020
- Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition 13,000
- McLaren F1 XP-5 10,000
- Ferrari Enzo Ferrari 9,000
- McLaren 720S 11,500
- Lamborghini Huracán 1,900
- Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition
Events
- TORINO DESIGN Super Sport Festival (June 26 - July 6, 2020)
- Summer Smash Multiplayer Season (June 29, 2020)
- BMW i8 Coupe R&D (July 1, 2020)
- Chrysler Firepower Festival (July 10 - 20, 2020)
- Zeus Twelve Sigma R&D (July 11, 2020)
- Koenigsegg Regera R&D (July 22, 2020)
- Porsche Taycan Turbo S Festival (July 24 - August 3, 2020)
- Heatspike Multiplayer Season (July 27 - August 21, 2020)
Post-update screen
Bugs/glitches
- Degraded stability: Some vehicles, such as the 2018 McLaren X2, have reverted to their pre-Halloween Update physics and are prone to skidding out of control again.
- Chrysler Firepower Festival Milestone ad bug: Watching the milestone ads can cause the Pro Kits, Shop, Inventory, Booster application, Multiplayer, Daily Tasks, and Special Events to become inaccessible.
- This was fixed on July 12, 2020 and the BMW i8's R&D was extended for 2 days for those who encountered the problem.
- Chrysler Firepower upgrade requirements: Upgrades for the Chrysler initially required only 1 Chrysler Firepower Kit per upgrade making it the first vehicle to require only 40 cards to fully pro instead of 220.
- This was reverted on July 13, 2020.
- Wild Card conversion: Contrary to Gameloft's official announcement that Wild Cards can be converted into Vehicle Kit Cards once the corresponding Festival is completed,[2] Wilds Cards cannot be converted into Kit cards of a vehicle that was added in the same update.
Trivia
- The post-update screen once has changed from TORINO DESIGN Super Sport to Chrysler Firepower after its festival event is over making it the first time to have a post-update screen changed during the game.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The original “What's new?” text as of June 24, 2020, contained the addition “for free”. As of June 30, 2020, “for free” had been removed. Gameloft SE (2020-06-24). Asphalt 8: Airborne: Fun Real Car Racing Game. Google Play Store. Retrieved on 2020-06-24. “Win them and convert them into the Kit cards for specific cars for free!”
- ↑ Asphalt (2020-06-24). Festival "Wild Cards". Facebook. Retrieved on 2020-06-30. “Each Wild Card has its own rarity (Optimal, Prime, & Superb) and can be converted into any Festival Card of the same rarity from a Festival that has already ended. Wild Cards can also be used for any current/future Festival Cars in Asphalt 8, but only AFTER their Festival completion.”