Our latest update brought a few more bumps in the road than we’d planned for and, given the opportunity, the Asphalt Team are also bringing some of our planned economy balance changes alongside it.
Why now you ask? Since we have a new season coming, the hotfix allows us to deploy these changes earlier than our next update and gives us more time to collect your feedback for any future changes or adjustments.
As we mentioned in our 2026 Roadmap, rebalancing our economy is one of our main objectives and one that we will continue to work on and evolve throughout the year.
So, please remember, we’ll be paying attention to both your feedback and the impact these changes have in-game so we can continue to tweak and adapt any plans or adjustments.
The Hotfix will be released tomorrow, April 23rd at 10:00 GMT+2, with our new season set to start as planned on Tuesday, 28th of April.
Now, let’s start things off by having a look at what’s coming your way next season.
ROAD TO GLORY - NEW SEASON
We’re excited to announce the return of hololive as they prepare for their final encore this season. One last big show and your last chance to get your favorite decals and emojis!
TIME LIMITED EVENTS
- Work Hard Play Hard: (1/05 - 8/5) Celebrate Worker’s Day aboard the Zenvo Aurora Tur.
- Cinco De Mayo: (5/5 - 12/5) Viva Mexico! A community favorite, the Lamborghini Revuelto, is here for the celebration!
- Lamborghini Invencible Star Hunt: (8/5 - 19/5) Another Lambo is the star here as you hunt for BPs in the Lamborghini Invencible Star Hunt.
- Int. Day of Families: (12/5 - 19/5) Come celebrate Dom’s favorite day aboard the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport, the Porsche 911 GT1 Evolution, and the Porsche Taycan Turbo S.
- LEGO Technic Aston Martin Valkyrie Tour: (14/05 - 28/5) Another chance for you to collect any missing pieces to complete the set, this time with a Tour event!
- Lamborghini Invencible Epic Hunt: (18/5 - 29/5) The Hunt continues, this time for import parts!
- World Bee Day: (19/5 - 26/5) Tell all your worries to buzz off for a bit and ride aboard the ARASH AF8 Falcon Edition, the McLaren Solus GT, and the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT S .
- Memorial Day: (25/5 - 01/6) Celebrate Memorial Day with an American inspired selection of cars, featuring the Ford GT MK II, the Cadillac Cien Concept, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, and the Trion Nemesis
- Car Hunts: For this season you’ll be chasing after the Aston Martin Valour (12/5 - 25/05) and the Jaguar C-X75 (28/4 - 10/5)
SPECIAL EVENTS
- hololive Final Encore Spotlight:(28/4 - 27/5) Last chance to get your favorite emojis and decals! Ride aboard the Honda Civic Type-R, Vanda Electrics Dendrobium, Glickenhaus 003S, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Noble M600 Speedster, Nissan GTR-50 Italdesign, and the Aspark Owl to collect all the music notes and claim your rewards!
- Mayhem Event Ares Panther: (05/05 - 28/05) Time for some Mayhem! Get your hands on the brand-new Ares Panther, the McLaren 600LT Spider, the Pagani Zonda Cinque, the Aston Martin DBS GT Zagato, the McLaren 650s GT3, the Ford GT MK IV, and the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-AMG ONE.
- Aglaia Special Event: (19/5 - 03/6) A special event full of heavy hitters, lead by the RAESR Aglaia, alongside the Dodge Charger SRT® Hellcat Redeye Widebody, the Aston Martin Valour, the Puritalia Berlinetta, the Lamborghini Essenza SCV12, the FV Frangivento Sorpasso GT3, and the Koenigsegg Jesko.
- Pagani Imola Unleashed: (18/5 - 02/6) – Time for a new Unleashed, with the Pagani Imola, the Aston Martin Valhalla Concept Car, the Ferrari F8 Tributo, the Apollo EVO, and the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento.
- Lamborghini Sterrato Grand Prix: (11/05 - 28/5) Think you have what it takes? Prove it on the track for a chance to get the key to a brand new Lamborghini!
- Starway Vencer Sarthe: (28/4 - 27/5) The Starway this season will have you racing for the Vencer Sarthe, aboard the Dodge Viper ACR, the Ferrari Monza SP1, the Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO, and the Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary.
HOTFIX
Now, time to have a look at what is coming in our Hotfix, releasing tomorrow, 23rd of April at 10:00 GMT+2
FIXED ISSUES
First things first, let’s deal with the “fix” part! Here's the list of all the fixes included in our upcoming hotfix:
- Floaty issue has been fixed: Good news! Your drift will no longer be interrupted by 360s or other tricks you perform on the track.
- Crash Fixes across all platforms: The team has been able to resolve several issues that were causing the game to crash for some of our players, particularly those playing on Steam and the Epic store.
- IOS Age verification Issue: Resolved an issue for some iOS players when facing an Age verification pop-up.
- Empty Rewards Tab for Multiplayer: Multiplayer rewards were not showing for some players. This has been fixed.
- Season Pass not appearing for some players: This should also be resolved, and the Season Pass should display correctly for all.
- India Track Respawn Issue: Some players reported being respawned while in the air on some sections of the track.
- Scotland Ramps: The crew managed to wrangle back those wild ramps that had appeared on the Scotland track. They’re back in the pen now, and all is back to normal.
- Shop not appearing in Bluestacks: The shop should now be back as normal.
- Leaderboard issues: The leaderboards were not updating correctly for some Ranked TLEs and a few Club sections. We’ve resolved the issue, and they should now populate correctly.
ECONOMY CHANGES
Here are the economy changes included in the hotfix:
ADS BALANCING
We will be tweaking our current Ads reward system, as currently we feel it may create an awkward experience. We want our events to be an experience rewarding and engaging enough for you to dedicate your time on, instead of having to focus on grinding stages to trigger ads.
We're taking measures to help players who need credits the most. Starting next season, players who are in earlier stages of their progression will see a boost in the credits they receive from credit multipliers. In the next update, we'll have the tools ready to fine-tune and extend that benefit to players in short supply of credits at any point of their journey.
We also overestimated the average amount of ads players normally watch, providing an unfair advantage to platforms without ads, as they can quickly go through 20 “ad tickets” a day, which very few of you end up benefiting from on platforms with ads.
So, to help level things out, platforms without ads will have their ad tickets reduced from 20 to 8, to better match the average experience amongst players.
ULTIMATE LEGEND PASS
As most of you are aware by now, we continue to work on fine tuning the contents of the Ultimate pass, and this time we have some exciting updates!
For this hotfix, and coming into play next season, we’ll be further changing the pass’ content, which will bring the Zenvo Aurora Tur as the featured car AND including the key for the Pagani Zonda R.
Already have the Zonda R? No worries, the key will be converted to 150,000 Trade Tokens, so you can still get some extra value from our Spotlights or Legends Store.
For the rest of the included rewards, we want to try and offer more active value and upgrades, compared to just adding more bulk resources, so have a look at the Ultimate Pass once the new season comes and let us know what you think of the changes!
EVENT REWARDS
We will also be tweaking event rewards from a season perspective, making sure we balance overall rewards from season to season, instead of from event to event. As we see players mostly focusing their time on our big ticket events, such as the Spotlight and Drive Syndicate which require time and dedication, we want to make sure that time is worthwhile spent, so we’ll be tweaking our reward distribution for Spotlights, Drive Syndicates and other Special Events.
DRIVE SYNDICATE RELAYS
Speaking of Drive Syndicate, the SC relays will be gaining 2 new steps at a premium, for those who need an extra boost in a rush.
PORSCHE 918 SPYDER ASPHALT EDITION BUFF
We’ve heard you and agree that the new community car needs a bit more “umph!”. You can check the new stats here:
ARES PANTHER MAYHEM
Didn’t we say we wanted to make playing events feel better than chasing multipliers?
Well, our next season will be coming with a new MAYHEM event, and for the first time ever, featuring a brand-new car: The Ares Panther! Check out our season event calendar above for the exact dates so you don't miss out.
MULTIPLAYER REWARDS
Thank you to all our dedicated players who poured their hearts into our multiplayer feedback thread on the Discord channel. It helped us better understand the impact of the changes and review our plans to better adapt to your expectations and how you play the game.
So, as a first step, we’ll be bringing back rewards for the Top 25,000 players! Yep, you read that right; we’re not only bringing back the top 10k rewards but expanding it to Top 25k rewards.
Our initial changes were aimed at making multiplayer even more competitive, but we missed the mark. We have further increased the goal posts, to make sure that Multiplayer isn’t just rewarding our top players and gives a reason for everyone to give it a shot and try their best!
MULTIPLAYER FILTERS
We also heard your thoughts on the current filters and have also readjusted them.
The new filters will kick in at the start of our next MP event next season, and will take a more nuanced approach to determine what cars should be included in each, instead of basing it purely off a car’s rank. This will hopefully lead to more fair matchups and mitigate the impact of EVO cars.
Of course, we will still be keeping a close eye on your feedback throughout the season to see if further changes are needed.
IMPROVED CREDIT EXCHANGE
As players can unlock more cars each season nowadays, we’re also boosting the Token to Credits exchange rate to receive more than double (and almost four times in some cases) the number of credits you used to get, so you don’t get stuck when trying to upgrade your new rides.
OLD EXCHANGE NEW EXCHANGE Tokens Credits Tokens Credits 100 27,000 75 50,000 250 75,000 250 180,000 500 165,000 500 375,000 800 300,000 800 700,000 2,000 800,000 1,500 1,750,000 6,000 2,600,000 3,000 5,000,000
Those are all the changes included in our upcoming Hotfix, some of which you’ll get to experience in our new upcoming season.
Please remember that our goal is to iterate and evolve these changes, until we hit the sweet spot.
And to get there, we need your feedback and impressions.
Although first impressions are important, please continue to let us know as time moves on how you feel about the changes as we’ll be paying close attention to the Discord server and our socials!