Changelog

AI rivals now get the same item box mix as you: boosts, drafting tows, shields and nitro refills, the odd sludge slick or spin, and only sometimes a weapon. Before, every box they grabbed gave them something to fire.

AI rivals now carry their own nitro tank and fire it on clear straights, saving it up and refilling it just like you. Harder rivals use it more readily, easier ones wait for a full tank. The No Nitro modifier turns it off for them too.

A shield now protects AI rivals from weapons and maluses, and an EMP drains their nitro, the same as it does to you.

Achievements unlocked in a race now show what they were for on the results screen.

The results screen asks how the race was. A quick thumbs up or down is enough, and you can open the feedback form from there to tell us more.

The feedback button is easier to find, and a small dot points out the feedback button and your profile until you have opened them.

New drivers see a single button on the dashboard that puts them straight onto the grid: a short race on the Shibuya Night Loop against easy AI rivals, with no lobby to pick and nothing to set up.

Drivers who signed up with Google are asked once, on the dashboard, whether they want race reminders by email. Either answer is remembered and can be changed in settings.

Crew members can invite their friends to the crew straight from the friends list. Pending invites show up on the crews page, where you can accept or decline them.

Every crew now has a log of everything that happened in it: who joined or left, donations and payouts from the bank, banners, new seats, renames and more. Only members can see it.

The championships page shows how many of this week's series you have completed and where you finished in each, lets you continue a championship you have not finished, and offers to race a completed one again.

35 new achievements: podium finishes, racing streaks, championships, season awards, daily challenges and drops, car mastery, friends and crews, and long-haul milestones for animals, pickups, near misses and more.

The results screen now lists the achievements a race unlocked and the quickest rival your lap just beat on the circuit board.

The top three drivers on each Rivals board are now highlighted in gold, silver and bronze.

Giving up a reserved event seat now asks you to confirm first.

Season ladder payouts are now half what they were.

A new button in the lobby browser opens a public lobby with random settings: a random circuit, race type, lap count, grid size and bot difficulty, with modifiers and bonus objectives thrown in. No performance limit, so whatever car you drive is welcome.

Every public page now shares the look of the new homepage: cars, circuits, guides, crews, seasons, events, leaderboards, achievements, the changelog, the about and contact pages, and the legal pages.

How to Play was rebuilt with new, sharper screenshots of every race modifier and the race HUD.

Sharing a circuit link now shows a preview card with the outline of the track and its key numbers.

A back to top button appears once you scroll down a long page.

A crew page now always lists the crew chief first.

Buttons, checkboxes and the show password toggle on the sign in and sign up pages are now large enough to tap comfortably on a phone, and the password toggle can be reached with the keyboard.

The scrolling ticker on the homepage can now be paused, and it stays still if your device asks for reduced motion.

The back to top button now sits above the cookie banner instead of behind it.

Guides were rewritten and extended, with a table of contents on longer ones, links straight to the cars and circuits they mention, and the date each guide was last updated.

Four new horn achievements, from Hello There at 50 honks all the way to Wall Of Sound at 5,000.

Removing a friend now asks you to confirm first, so a stray click no longer drops them from your list.

The homepage slider controls are now large enough to tap on a phone.

Unlocking an achievement now pops up a notice the moment it happens, on whatever page you are on or mid-race, with what it paid you.

Drive-in buildings on the city circuits now carry a floating sign and a bobbing arrow so you can spot them from a distance. Driving through one sets off a shockwave and a floating label showing exactly what it gave or cost you.

The language switcher now shows each language with its flag.

Disbanding a crew now asks you to confirm first and shows how the crew bank will be split.

Filled in text that was still showing in English in the other site languages.

Every car page now explains how the car drives, where it ranks against the rest of the garage, which circuits suit it best, which guides mention it, and how many drivers own and race it.

Every circuit page now suggests a setup, lists the cars that suit it, notes when the track is wet, and links to the guides that cover it.

The green light now waits until every driver on the grid has loaded in, then drops for everyone at the same moment. A driver whose machine never finishes loading is left behind after a short deadline instead of holding the whole grid.

Drop out mid-race and you get a grace period to reload and rejoin. Your seat is held while you are gone, and only if you do not make it back in time are you marked as not finished.

A host who crashes out or goes quiet no longer ends the race for everyone, and a lobby whose host walks away is handed to the next driver who joined. Drivers who leave the waiting room without saying so free their seat on their own.

Knockout races now classify each eliminated driver by the round they went out in, ahead of anyone who did not finish, and tell them straight away.

A driver who misses the finish or reloads the page is still shown the final classification, and a waiting room that missed the start is sent straight into the race it belongs to.

Your finishing position and what the race paid you now show up even if you reload the page or lose your connection just after crossing the line.

A race that nobody loads into, or that runs past its time limit, now closes itself instead of sitting open.

The win and the podium Apexons now go by the final classification, so the fastest driver wins even when a slower one reports their finish first.

Every lap is now checked sector by sector against what the circuit allows, so a finish or lap record without the full distance behind it is refused.

Race payouts can no longer be paid twice, even when a connection drops and a finish is sent again. A payout that stops partway picks up where it left off, and one driver failing to settle no longer holds up the rest of the grid.

A ghost challenge stake is raced for once and settled once, and it is refunded if the rival deletes their account mid-race.

Shop purchases now check your balance and garage room at the moment you buy, so two quick clicks can never spend the same Apexons twice.

Signing in with Google now asks for your two-factor code when you have one turned on.

Top speed limits were raised to match the fastest cars with a fully upgraded engine and nitro, so a genuinely quick lap is never mistaken for a cheat.

Every car is now built on track from its own real design, so each model has its own shape and silhouette instead of sharing a generic body.

Bots now line up in distinct car models picked to match the pace of the grid, and the same race always gets the same field.

On slower graphics cards the game now lowers its render resolution when the frame rate dips and raises it again once there is room, so races stay smooth without you touching a setting.

Press F3 in a race to cycle the on-screen readout: frame rate and ping, a detailed performance and network view, or nothing at all.

Lower ping in multiplayer: rival positions reach you faster and with less jitter.

Text across the site now meets the strictest contrast standard against the background it sits on. The header, the footer, the tooltips and the public crew, event and season pages were the worst offenders and have all been reworked, so the site stays readable in daylight and for drivers with low vision.

Every public page now carries its own title and summary in all twelve site languages, and tells search engines which language each version is, so a link shared anywhere opens in the language the reader expects.

The race calendar feed is now announced by the page itself rather than by the browser once the page has loaded, so feed readers and crawlers find it without running any JavaScript.

The language switcher and page headings across the public pages were reworked to the same contrast standard.

Reserve a seat on the race calendar and we now email you 15 minutes before the start. Give up the seat and the reminder is cancelled with it.

The homepage now shows the next race on the calendar with a live countdown, how many crews are active, a tour of the garage and the race modes, and a step-by-step look at how a race works.

The frequently asked questions were rewritten, extended and sorted into categories, and are easier to use with a keyboard or screen reader.

The site header was rebuilt, with clearer menus on both desktop and mobile.

How to Play now covers every race type, track option, modifier and bonus objective a host can pick, plus everything that happens after the flag: crews, seasons, the race calendar, streaks, mastery and achievements.

Two new guides: how to earn Apexons fast and what to spend them on, and whether a keyboard or a controller is faster.

The Apex Club: a monthly membership that multiplies what every race pays you, lends you five more garage slots, lets you open more than one free crate a day, and lifts the once-a-month limit on streak repairs. Cancel whenever you like and you keep every perk until the end of the month you have paid for.

A prestige tier of cosmetics for drivers who already own the lot: the Carbon Weave, Liquid Metal and Prismatic paint finishes, and Ice, Toxic and Ultraviolet underglow.

Custom plates and profile themes. Set a plate and pick the accent your public profile is painted in, both bought with Apexons and neither of them touching how a car drives.

Crews can now fly a banner and buy seats past the twelve-driver ceiling, both paid out of the crew bank by the chief.

Invite a driver with your own link. When somebody you invited reaches driver level 5, you are both paid.

You can now buy a pack of Apexons for a friend. You pay, they get the Apexons, and it shows up in their activity feed.

Two larger Apexon packs for drivers who want to skip further ahead.

Race payouts, season and crew rewards, daily challenges and the daily crate all pay less than they used to, and garage slots, repaints and prestige tuning cost more. Apexons were piling up faster than there was anything to spend them on; there is now a lot more worth saving for.

Crews are here. Found one or join an open one, and every race a member finishes counts toward a shared weekly points target. Clear the target and every driver who scored is paid. Crews have their own bank that members donate to and the crew chief pays out.

Seasons now run Monday to Sunday on three separate ladders: your rating, championship points, and what you put into your crew. When the week ends the ladders are frozen, the podiums are paid, and the winners keep a title they can wear beside their name.

A race calendar with fixed weekly events: the Friday Midnight GP on the Ginza streets, the Sunday Touge Run on the mountain pass, and the Wednesday Knockout on the bayside. Reserve a seat and the lobby opens itself at the advertised minute, with everyone who booked told at the same moment.

You can now book a rematch from the calendar. Pick a time, invite friends, and the lobby opens on its own when the time comes.

Daily streaks. Finish a race each day to keep your streak going, and every day on the ladder multiplies what your daily challenges pay, up to double. Miss a single day and you can buy it back with one free repair a month.

A free crate every day, holding Apexons, mastery XP or a paint finish or underglow you do not own yet. What is inside is fixed for the day and shown before you open it, so there is nothing to reroll.

Car mastery now pays out. Every mastery level on a car hands you Apexons and a free tuning point, and levels 5 and 10 also unlock a cosmetic. Your three closest cars show their progress on the dashboard.

A friend activity feed on the dashboard: who won what, who took a lap record off whom, who levelled up and who joined a crew.

The crews, the race calendar and the season ladders are now readable without signing in, with a page for each crew, each weekly event and each finished season.

The race calendar has an RSS feed at /events/feed.xml, so you can follow the weekly races from a feed reader instead of checking the site.

The site menu is now grouped under Explore, Compete and Community. Everything that used to sit only in the footer, including achievements, championships and the new pages, is reachable from the header.

Settings now has a Language section. Pick one of the twelve site languages and it is saved to your account, so every device you sign in on opens in that language.

The language you were browsing in is remembered when you register or sign in, so a new account starts in the right language without touching a setting.

Emails we send now use your saved language instead of always defaulting to English.

The lobby and the shop now ask the database for far less before the page reaches you, so both open noticeably faster, most of all on a slow connection.

The whole site is now available in Simplified Chinese under /zh-hans, alongside English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Polish, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The whole site is now available in Korean under /ko, alongside English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Polish, Japanese and Indonesian. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The whole site is now available in Indonesian under /id, alongside English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Polish and Japanese. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The whole site is now available in Japanese under /ja, alongside English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish and Polish. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The whole site is now available in Polish under /pl, alongside English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The whole site is now available in Turkish under /tr, alongside English, Italian, Spanish, German, French and Brazilian Portuguese. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The whole site is now available in Brazilian Portuguese under /pt-br, alongside English, Italian, Spanish, German and French. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

New accounts now verify their email address. You get a verification link the moment you sign up, so nobody can register the grid with an address that is not theirs.

You can now choose whether we may email you about the game. Race reminders, daily challenges, championship deadlines and lost records are off unless you ask for them: there is an optional, unticked box on the sign-up form, and the same switch under Email in your profile settings.

Every one of those emails carries an unsubscribe link, plus the one-click unsubscribe button Gmail and other mail apps show at the top of a message. Account emails such as login codes, password resets and address changes always arrive regardless.

A dedicated unsubscribe page that confirms which address you are turning off, and tells you the account emails keep coming.

Emails now carry the ApexMidnight logo and read better across mail apps.

"Someone beat your lap record" mail now respects your email preferences and a quiet period, so a busy circuit no longer floods your inbox. The Rivals board still shows every record change.

Signing in now opens on the email code tab, with the password tab one click away. The code field comes before the send button, and the button explains what it does.

The contact form is now protected by reCAPTCHA, so real messages reach us instead of drowning in spam.

Fixed an accessibility problem in the language switcher for players using a screen reader or keyboard.

Leaderboards are now public: the global rankings by rating, wins and driver level, plus the current lap record on every circuit, are visible without signing in. Signed-in players still get the friends filter and their own standing.

A public achievements page listing every milestone, what it pays in Apexons and XP, and how rare it is across the whole grid.

A public championships page explaining how a series works: rounds, points, the completion bonus and the full pool with each series' circuits.

Head-to-head car comparison pages: two cars of the same class side by side, with the winner of every stat marked and how many drivers actually race each one.

Circuit pages now show the lap-record board for that track, how many races have been run there, the average recorded lap and the car taken to its grid most often.

Car pages now show where a car ranks in the catalogue by Performance Index, class, top speed and handling, how many drivers own one, and links to its comparison pages.

Every racing guide is now fully translated into Italian, Spanish, German and French, not just the menus around it.

The changelog is now public, so anyone can see what has shipped without signing in.

Leaderboards, championships, achievements and the changelog are now reachable from the header and footer menus.

Pages load lighter: the realtime multiplayer code is now fetched only when you actually join a lobby or a race, instead of on every page.

The whole site is now available in French under /fr, alongside English, Italian, Spanish and German. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The whole site is now available in German under /de, alongside English, Italian and Spanish. Switch language from the globe menu in the header.

The site now picks your language automatically from your browser the first time you visit, so you land on the right one without hunting for the menu.

Every date and time across the site now reads in your own language and local format.

Credits are now called Apexons everywhere, matching the name used in the shop.

AI drivers race cleaner: better lines, and less bumping into each other on the lap.

Fixed share images failing to generate.

New Checkpoint Rush race type: your timer drains as you drive and tops up each time you complete a lap. Hit zero and you are out.

Pre-race modifiers: mix and match low grip, double weapons, no nitro and a mirrored circuit to shake up the lap.

Hazards: oil slicks and destructible barrels now litter the track, and clipping one costs you grip and pace.

Optional race objectives worth bonus Apexons: bank a big skill score, finish without a crash, or rack up drifts.

Races now go fullscreen on their own when they start.

Your controller now rumbles in more situations on track.

Tooltips across the dashboard, garage and car catalogue explain what each stat, tier and level requirement means.

Bots now bring their own cars to the grid: the field is a proper mix of different cars, and how closely a bot's car matches yours depends on its level.

Bots now play by the same rules as you: they can crash and explode, run out of guzzoline, and be knocked out in Guzzoline mode.

Trees and other trackside objects now have collisions, so you can no longer drive straight through them.

Car wheels now visibly turn as you drive.

Smarter AI drivers that race the track better.

Power-ups on track now change as the race goes on, lap by lap.

Run out of guzzoline and you can no longer keep racing.

When the lobby creator leaves mid-race, the race now ends for everyone.

Tuning and upgrading a car now happens in its own dialog, so the garage stays tidy.

Your cars are now listed in a consistent order on the dashboard and in the shop.

Tighter anti-cheat on lap records and on race results, so impossible times can no longer be banked.

Fixed spectated racers appearing frozen instead of moving around the track.

Finish a race early? You can now spectate the other players still on track instead of just waiting.

Poles now have collisions, so you can no longer drive straight through them.

Homepage cars now link through to their own pages, and their on-page 3D models have more detailed geometry.

You can now only bet against a ghost for up to half of your money.

Guzzoline mode in reverse can no longer be won on an empty tank.

Other players' underglow is now visible to everyone during a race.

Fixed leaderboard calculations on the oval circuit, and dead players are now correctly shown as dead.

Elimination races now validate lap and player counts before starting.

Fixed a 404 when setting players ready in lobbies, spectated cars that appeared frozen, window flickering on buildings, a rematch incorrectly marking everyone ready, and the "invite to lobby" notification not showing on every dashboard page.

We now measure how the game is used with analytics, so we can see what to improve. Analytics cookies are only ever set if you accept them in the cookie banner, and you can change your mind at any time.

Updated our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy to explain the analytics we use and the choices you have.

Light up your ride with underglow, and pick from a wider range of paint colours in the shop, shown on your car both in the garage and out on track.

Nitro can now be upgraded with Apexons, just like your car's other stats.

New upgrade guide walking through how to spend Apexons to make your car faster.

Sort your garage to find the car you want faster.

Car tiles now spell out what each finish and finals tier gives you.

Flash messages are now translated into your language.

Paint finishes: dress your car in new finishes bought with Apexons and show them off in the garage and in-race.

New feedback button in the header: send the team a message straight from any dashboard page.

Race payouts and driver XP rebalanced so wins and clean racing pay off more.

The lobby now makes clear that solo races do not change your rating.

Your dashboard now lists your newest cars first.

The whole site is now available in Italian and Spanish as well as English.

Switch language any time from the new language menu in the header and inside your dashboard.

Follow Apex Midnight on our social channels, now shown as icons in the footer, including our new YouTube channel.

Accessibility improvements across the dashboard pages, following WCAG guidelines.

A smoother mobile experience: fixed race and leaderboard layouts, a swipeable image slider, and the menu now closes after you tap a link.

Cars across the site (the shop, your garage, the catalogue and guides) now show their actual in-game 3D model, rendered from the car's own shape and paint, instead of a photo.

New "How to play" page walking through a race step by step, with the full keyboard and gamepad control map, drift and nitro tips, and every race type and modifier explained.

Holding the horn now lights your car up with a pulsing ring on the minimap, and every other racer sees it too, so a honk actually flags where you are.

Player profiles now show your total time driven, summed across every race you have finished.

Twelve new achievements for time behind the wheel, from a 30-minute Shakedown all the way to the 2000-hour Eternal Driver.

AI drivers now read the track ahead and shed speed before a corner instead of barrelling in, so bots hold the racing line and stop running wide off the track.

Tighter anti-cheat on race results: a finishing time is now rejected unless enough real time has actually passed to have driven it, so payouts and podiums can no longer be claimed with an impossibly early finish.

The achievement roster now numbers a full 100. On top of the new endgame milestones (win 500 or 1000 races, finish 1000 races, reach level 100, own 50 or 100 cars, splatter 1000 animals), dozens more tiers fill in every ladder: intermediate win, finish, level, rating, garage and circuit goals, plus deeper drift, pickup, collision, EMP, respawn, wrong-way and per-species hunting targets.

Your garage now has a limited number of slots (you start with 5). Buy more slots with Apexons in the shop when you want room for a bigger collection, with each extra slot costing a little more than the last.

Optional Apexon wagers on ghost challenges: stake Apexons when you race a rival's ghost and win double if you beat their lap, or lose your stake if you fall short. Racing a ghost with no stake works exactly as before.

Rival cars now move far more smoothly in multiplayer: they follow the curve of the racing line through corners instead of cutting across it, dead-reckon cleanly when a packet is late, and glide across any correction rather than snapping.

Rival cars now move far more smoothly in multiplayer: they follow the curve of the racing line through corners instead of cutting across it, dead-reckon cleanly when a packet is late, and glide across any correction rather than snapping.

Over 30 new achievements to chase, including higher win, level and rating tiers, deeper car and circuit milestones, per-species animal hunts, and rewards for drifting, near misses, EMPs, collisions, respawns and more chaos.

Hover a driver title to see how it is earned.

A profile now shows "Request sent" or "Wants to be friends" instead of the Add friend button when a request is already pending.

When the lobby host leaves and later rejoins their own lobby, they get ownership back.

Driver XP rebalanced: winning and clean, skilful driving now earn noticeably more than just finishing.

New public Contact page with a form that sends your message straight to the team.

More detailed car geometry on track.

The ghost indicator is now shown as a cursor.

New Changelog page, linked in the sidebar, listing everything that has been added, changed, or removed.

Buy Apexons with a card via Stripe Checkout (instant grant on staging and local).

Driver titles: a persona earned from your lifetime racing behaviour, shown on your profile.

Elo ratings, global leaderboards, achievements, ghost challenges, and championship mode.

Driver XP and levels, daily challenges, post-race rematches, friends, and lobby invites.

Public player profile pages, reachable by username.

Open-lobby count shown as a badge in the menu.

Mobile navigation during races.

Paginated the lobby list and optimised the mobile race HUD.

More detailed car geometry.

Lobbies inactive for more than 24 hours are now auto-deleted.

Passwordless ("magic code") sign-in.

Mobile header menu.

Accessibility fixes and homepage optimisations.

New circuits: Le Mans, Monte Carlo, Laguna Seca, and Silverstone.

Dynamic OG share images, disable-user and last-login tracking, and new lobby name suggestions.

Renamed circuits to fantasy Japanese names, refreshed favicons and the app logo, and standardised dialogs (delete your account by typing DELETE).

Registration is now rate limited, and car colours only show once unlocked.

Editorial Guides cluster and broader SEO work.

Nurburgring track, a "wrong way" indicator, a Suggest-a-car dialog, and an animals modifier.

Power-ups became a modifier, animals and power-ups now sync between players, and multiplayer/socket performance improved.

Security fixes and stricter validation rules.

Guzzoline, spectator, and elimination race modes, plus lap records.

Page links in the menu.

In-game notifications are now shared between all players and moved to the bottom-left.

Public car and circuit pages, dynamic sitemap and robots, legal pages, and a cookie-consent banner.

Paint shop and liveries, car affinity / mastery XP, weather and time-of-day per circuit, handicap starts, and new pickup types.

Filament admin panel, admin scripted races, and private / password-protected lobbies.

Car shape now changes dynamically based on stats; homepage and login/register pages redesigned; image compression and a sticky header added.

Rebuilt lobby system, Apexon purchases, the in-shop Apexon balance, solo-race payouts, and on-track bonuses and maluses.

Filament admin with resources for every model, car tiers (new players get three starter cars), a handbrake, and real car images with filtering and sorting.

Country and role on players, leaderboard ping, race sounds, and a user menu.

Renamed Garage to Shop, moved races to their own page, and switched to showing usernames instead of full names.

In-game horn, new circuits, and a queued password-reset mailer.

Players choose lap count and their own car in the lobby; the rebuilt "create a lobby" modal.

Movement interpolation smoothed, NOS is no longer an infinite boost, and the game ends when the lobby creator leaves.

Installed Laravel Horizon for queue processing.

Game events now broadcast immediately.

Nitro boost, gamepad controller support, graphic settings, and more cars in the seeder.

Buy and upgrade cars, earn money from races, plus rivals and ghosts.

Google social login, fullscreen mode, UUIDs, and car class / drivetrain enums (a car is assigned on registration).

Rebuilt the homepage and improved the bot driving AI.

Dropped the light/dark appearance system in favour of a single dark theme.

First playable version: the 3D racing game, lobbies, leaderboard, dashboard, a race-finished screen, respawn with R, and a mini-map lap marker.