Sadly, this game no longer worth it.

[Lasitha_Sam]

Well, I just stopped playing the game due to several lasting issues (Since A9 and worsened since Legends Unite)
My prev post concerning the issues: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1815780/discussions/0/4524512379484686723/

The issues still to this date haven't resolved from my above post;

Major issues;
1. The performance became really terrible, almost too choppy all the time (And this is not due to hardware weakness cause I have a completely 100% capable hardware. this is due to poor optimization and lack of polishing).
A first ever update after Legends Unite update fixes it to some extend but still laggish too much.
2. The lighting and the colors used are too much, too vibrant and literary like I said before, eye eating.
3. The textures are pixelated, not smooth looking at all.
4. Locked FPS to 60 in even 100hz monitor, pure mess (UPDATE: The Microsoft Store version locks to Monitors's instead of always 60 locked steam version)
5. Darn cheaters everywhere, in every single match, the different cheats I noticed (And recorded over the years)
> Never crash animation, if they crash at one point, they will spawn ahead of the crash point and retain full speed like nothing happened.
> Never crash, these players will never crash, no matter what you do, they are invincible, most notable in Police car chase cause no police car will be able to crash some no matter how hard you hit with the crash mode, they will never crash and that type is also in legacy multiplayer matches as well.
> Fake lag, this has been worsened since Legends Unite update.
In A9, these players will appear lagging all match (Red all over the car), the advantage of this; They will never slow down, no need to drift, no need to even steer, you just go crashing everywhere and still you go full speed.
In Legends Unite; this is on-demand, they will start lagging once a big-turn is ahead so they can avoid drifting, just wandering around the track like a fish in the water and maintain total speed, once the turn is over and the finish line is near, they will stop lagging.
They mostly do this with low-handling cars to skip speed drops completely and make the car drift like it's nothing at full speed, but some shamelessly do this with high-handling cars too such as the Grand sport...
Either case, these fake lag players lag will not show at the end of the match, they will always have no lag (Green signals) while lagging like sh!t all the time in the match, lol.
> Spawning, usually tied with the fake lag players.
They will spawn ahead every time they want, most notably done when they go the long track (Due to their inability to steer at the short track) and suddenly appearing in the Short track out of nowhere (And that is also ahead of all those in that track)
> Driving in out-of bound areas in a map, this is just pure funny;
To say it least, they go where you normally can't in a race track where it's not allowed to go (If you go, you will be re-spawned in the right track at once). but they go there like it's nothing, most notable in Osaka, where there is a stream of water in the middle of two tracks, they dump their car on the water stream and go like crazy, once the water track is over and they have no where else to go, they will spawn in the right track (Above mentioned cheat)
> Unlimited nos (Nitros), this cheat appeared in Asphalt 9 very close to Legend Unite release and is continuing spreading it's dumb glory in Legend Unite too (Sad)
Simply, these players have unlimited Nos, Shockwave over and over without gaining any nitros.

Minor issues;
1. Italic font everywhere (Poor design aesthetics)
2. The menu & button placement are all totally wrong and outright odd.
3. Stages in an special seasonal event won't give you the details on how much tickets one stage wants, missing UI elements.

I appreciate the good changes Gameloft tried with Asphalt Legends Unite such as;
1. Car rank based Multiplayer mod to avoid the 1000 car rank gap.
2. Rotating selection of cars per different league in Classic multiplayer seasons to help make a level playing field.
3. Police car-chase mod, an enjoyable mode (sadly often made un-enjoyable by some invincible players which defeats the purpose of the mod.)
4. Made available blueprints for some hard to obtain cars needed for career.
But these do not help if you simply can't play the game normally...
A lot was hoping at least you try to remedy the cheat issue with the Legend Unite release since it was announced big as a completely new game, but that wasn't done as seen from a players-perspective as most were already fed up with the cheat & Glitch abusing in Asphalt 9: Legends and the update didn't help a bit in that regard..

Every time (Literary every time) you play a multiplayer race, you end up matching with a cheater / two cheaters or almost all the players in the race cheating (I have the recordings of such funny matches too, but this is rare I have to admit), while you try to drive your best without colliding at anything (Or anyone) by doing proper Nitro management; slight Deceleration and immediate nitro burn to make a corner smoothly without heavy speed drops (IN case of low handling cars, normally with 40), they will go crashing at everything and everywhere and still go full speed without loosing a bit crashing you or any other legit player like crazy maniacs in a race track driving all over the track.

This completes destroys the Multiplayer health of the game and the performance issues makes it worse.


As a player coming from the Asphalt 8: Airborne (Old) and a late comer to Asphalt 9: Legends, I thank Gameloft for creating these games at free of charge, I enjoyed playing them in my free times (A:8 In Windows Phones, A:9 in PC)
But Legends Unite as a whole is no longer user friendly to new users, not even for old users of Asphalt 9: Legends.

[The DRAUGR]

4 YEAR VETERAN of A9 and I also came from A8. I quit playing a month ago. I am still gonna go back, have a group with several top 100 teams. But going to wait for awhile. Im a little let down too!!! I have some hope that things will get fixed though. Just going to give it time...

{EE}eatmydust365

[nyømin]

play it on microsoft store, then you can play on uncapped fps

[Lasitha_Sam]

Originally posted by tm8s cannot be anymore braindead:

play it on microsoft store, then you can play on uncapped fps

Unless it was updated very recently, I tried it as well but was still locked to 60.

[Daytona]

Originally posted by Lasitha_Sam:

Well, I just stopped playing the game due to several lasting issues (Since A9 and worsened since Legends Unite)
My prev post concerning the issues: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1815780/discussions/0/4524512379484686723/

The issues still to this date haven't resolved from my above post;

Major issues;
1. The performance became really terrible, almost too choppy all the time (And this is not due to hardware weakness cause I have a completely 100% capable hardware. this is due to poor optimization and lack of polishing).
A first ever update after Legends Unite update fixes it to some extend but still laggish too much.
2. The lighting and the colors used are too much, too vibrant and literary like I said before, eye eating.
3. The textures are pixelated, not smooth looking at all.
4. Locked FPS to 60 in even 100hz monitor, pure mess.
5. Darn cheaters everywhere, in every single match, the different cheats I noticed (And recorded over the years)
> Never crash animation, if they crash at one point, they will spawn ahead of the crash point and retain full speed like nothing happened.
> Never crash, these players will never crash, no matter what you do, they are invincible, most notable in Police car chase cause no police car will be able to crash some no matter how hard you hit with the crash mode, they will never crash and that type is also in legacy multiplayer matches as well.
> Fake lag, this has been worsened since Legends Unite update.
In A9, these players will appear lagging all match (Red all over the car), the advantage of this; They will never slow down, no need to drift, no need to even steer, you just go crashing everywhere and still you go full speed.
In Legends Unite; this is on-demand, they will start lagging once a big-turn is ahead so they can avoid drifting, just wandering around the track like a fish in the water and maintain total speed, once the turn is over and the finish line is near, they will stop lagging.
They mostly do this with low-handling cars to skip speed drops completely and make the car drift like it's nothing at full speed, but some shamelessly do this with high-handling cars too such as the Grand sport...
Either case, these fake lag players lag will not show at the end of the match, they will always have no lag (Green signals) while lagging like sh!t all the time in the match, lol.
> Spawning, usually tied with the fake lag players.
They will spawn ahead every time they want, most notably done when they go the long track (Due to their inability to steer at the short track) and suddenly appearing in the Short track out of nowhere (And that is also ahead of all those in that track)
> Driving in out-of bound areas in a map, this is just pure funny;
To say it least, they go where you normally can't in a race track where it's not allowed to go (If you go, you will be re-spawned in the right track at once). but they go there like it's nothing, most notable in Osaka, where there is a stream of water in the middle of two tracks, they dump their car on the water stream and go like crazy, once the water track is over and they have no where else to go, they will spawn in the right track (Above mentioned cheat)
> Unlimited nos (Nitros), this cheat appeared in Asphalt 9 very close to Legend Unite release and is continuing spreading it's dumb glory in Legend Unite too (Sad)
Simply, these players have unlimited Nos, Shockwave over and over without gaining any nitros.

Minor issues;
1. Italic font everywhere (Poor design aesthetics)
2. The menu & button placement are all totally wrong and outright odd.
3. Stages in an special seasonal event won't give you the details on how much tickets one stage wants, missing UI elements.

I appreciate the good changes Gameloft tried with Asphalt Legends Unite such as;
1. Car rank based Multiplayer mod to avoid the 1000 car rank gap.
2. Rotating selection of cars per different league in Classic multiplayer seasons to help make a level playing field.
3. Police car-chase mod, an enjoyable mode (sadly often made un-enjoyable by some invincible players which defeats the purpose of the mod.)
4. Made available blueprints for some hard to obtain cars needed for career.
But these do not help if you simply can't play the game normally...
A lot was hoping at least you try to remedy the cheat issue with the Legend Unite release since it was announced big as a completely new game, but that wasn't done as seen from a players-perspective as most were already fed up with the cheat & Glitch abusing in Asphalt 9: Legends and the update didn't help a bit in that regard..

Every time (Literary every time) you play a multiplayer race, you end up matching with a cheater / two cheaters or almost all the players in the race cheating (I have the recordings of such funny matches too, but this is rare I have to admit), while you try to drive your best without colliding at anything (Or anyone) by doing proper Nitro management; slight Deceleration and immediate nitro burn to make a corner smoothly without heavy speed drops (IN case of low handling cars, normally with 40), they will go crashing at everything and everywhere and still go full speed without loosing a bit crashing you or any other legit player like crazy maniacs in a race track driving all over the track.

This completes destroys the Multiplayer health of the game and the performance issues makes it worse.


As a player coming from the Asphalt 8: Airborne (Old) and a late comer to Asphalt 9: Legends, I thank Gameloft for creating these games at free of charge, I enjoyed playing them in my free times (A:8 In Windows Phones, A:9 in PC)
But Legends Unite as a whole is no longer user friendly to new users, not even for old users of Asphalt 9: Legends.

Sorry but i am not reading all that..

[Lasitha_Sam]

Originally posted by Daytona:

Sorry but i am not reading all that..

Then the post simply isn't to you but to those who needs to know :)

[Daytona]

Originally posted by Lasitha_Sam:

Originally posted by Daytona:

Sorry but i am not reading all that..

Then the post simply isn't to you but to those who needs to know :)

Alright

[Alex Chambers]

just put the fries in the bag man

[Takise]

For me this game is playable for the first time.

I skipped Asphalt 9 Legends because it didn't make sense for me to play with a few of people on PC without the possibility of global crossplay, since I don't like playing on either mobile or tablet.

Currently you can play with people from any platform, the game runs in 4K with an unlocked frame rate and for the first time looks and runs really well on PC.

What's not to like here.

[Lasitha_Sam]

Originally posted by Takise:

For me this game is playable for the first time.

I skipped Asphalt 9 Legends because it didn't make sense for me to play with a few of people on PC without the possibility of global crossplay, since I don't like playing on either mobile or tablet.

Currently you can play with people from any platform, the game runs in 4K with an unlocked frame rate and for the first time looks and runs really well on PC.

What's not to like here.

If you haven't played Asphalt 9 Legends, then you simply don't quite know what's butter smooth performance at peak optimization.
Asphalt 9 had no input lag, no crazy frame drops and no ridiculously blooming textures in certain areas, the aliasing is also broken in Unite.
Before it maintained almost static frame rate all the time without any noticeably lack of texture quality, but not now.
(In Unite; apart of the little bump to the textures (It's not even noticeable though). what Unite reworked mostly is the Lighting system and the effects used, the implementation of those weren't optimized which is what's causing this)
4K support is a great addition but it's at the cost of performance and feels very raw.

And you are saying "and for the first time looks and runs really well on PC", like really?
Do yourself a favor and scroll the forum discussions a little (And also the 'Known issues' in Gameloft site.

As for Cross-platform gaming, yeah it is good, no comment there about it's positives.
But then again Asphalt 9 in PC never lacked player base for multiplayer matches to begin with.
I played old A8 in my phone but A9 played in PC only and with 600 hours of playtime as a late comer, I never experienced lack of players to make a match-make ever!

The steam version is limited to 60 FPS while the Store version locks to the Monitor's one (Wonder why?) but apart in the menus, that increase smoothness due to the increase in FPS is irrelevant with that crazy frame drop in-matches most of the time, it's certainly better but not game-changing cause the 100 FPS (mine is 100hz) will just go down to usual stutter levels (40-50)

This is what's not to like here.
But knowing the Gameloft's services all these years, they will fix it (If they still have the same passion and directives) but they didn't release these 'un-finished work' as 'release' before...
(Since it's a free game and a mobile one too, I won't complain outside of this post since it's just not right and I have outlined every bit of what's wrong with this release)
P.S. In my post, I not only talked about performance issues so not sure you even read it to begin with

[Takise]

I played Asphalt 9 but I stopped for the reasons I mentioned above.

Asphalt Legends Unite on steam is not limited to 60 fps.
Here is my video where I show how to set 120+ fps on steam.

https://youtu.be/1akNM7_0m0s

This option is only locked if the monitor does not support higher refresh rates.

On my setup, game runs smoothly in 4K at 240 fps and I have no input lag,

[Lasitha_Sam]

Originally posted by Takise:

I played Asphalt 9 but I stopped for the reasons I mentioned above.

Asphalt Legends Unite on steam is not limited to 60 fps.
Here is my video where I show how to set 120+ fps on steam.

https://youtu.be/1akNM7_0m0s

This option is only locked if the monitor does not support higher refresh rates.

On my setup, game runs smoothly in 4K at 240 fps and I have no input lag,

It was I who said & cleared to you that the FPS setting depends on the Monitor refresh rate and not anything else in your own post, no need to say my own words back at me :)
(Reference: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1815780/discussions/0/4756451748409719059/#c4756451924770125368)

And your RIG as you said there, is an RTX 4090 with i9 K version, I don't think anyone will disagree that it runs good in that GPU lol
This is a mobile game, most of the Asphalt users here use Old GPUs (GTX 7xx mostly), even then most aren't high end series models, I for myself sports an Strix 1050 ti OC.
The point here is; this is not a NEXT-GEN Graphic game, this is not supposed to be a resource hungry game nor demanding game unless they said so, if it's not performing well in Mid-end GPUs, then that's up to the Optimization of this game.
Even your RTX-4090 could get better performance if it's optimized well, not needed in your case cause you got enough juice out of it but it's still limited.

[76561199761518645]

I haven't played the previous Asphalt games. I tried this one. It was free and that is awesome for being free. Sure there is a lot of buy this and that, but that why it is free I guess. No worries for me.

Anyways, I enjoy the game but I also see some of the issues you mention. As I not played the previous games I can't compare everything. Also the cheating make sense as I have noticed and wondered why some can crash all the time and still win. Thought it was just because their car was tuned to max and much better than me with the game. Well I not any expert with it yet and consider myself "good" but not "professional". I have won one multiplayer game so guess I was lucky with that.

Another thing is it sometimes kick me out in a middle of the race for no reason. Displaying the screen you see when you open the game and it freezes. Can't click anywhere. Have to terminate and restart game to get back in.

I do enjoy the game and hope them fixes it up for better.