Ok thanks for the tips. Time to get practicing!
Mario Kart 8 |OT2| I'm using tilt controls!
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Ok thanks for the tips. Time to get practicing!
TheMagician
Member
This game badly needs some DLC content.
- Original battle mode courses
- Further multiplayer modes
- Stat recording
- Balance patch (currently if you're not in the top 3 after the first 20 seconds it's extremely unlikely that you'll win)
BONUS
- A few extra characters (Professor E Gadd would be nice)
The graphics, courses and music are probably my favourite in the series. The game just feels a bit barebones at the moment.
- Original battle mode courses
- Further multiplayer modes
- Stat recording
- Balance patch (currently if you're not in the top 3 after the first 20 seconds it's extremely unlikely that you'll win)
BONUS
- A few extra characters (Professor E Gadd would be nice)
The graphics, courses and music are probably my favourite in the series. The game just feels a bit barebones at the moment.
The Horror the horror
Banned
Jesus, that last one was a mess. Pure chaos.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Need to fix MKTV too. Even if they keep the dumb time restrictions, at least let us pick the start and end time and camera angle for each highlight clip. Practically useless as-is, since it's so difficult (if not impossible) for it to catch the highlights you want it to.
And fix the Bowser's Castle bug, and the framerate bug. Give players outside first place less coins. Give us the timer outside time trials. Keep working on fixing the comm errors. Fix voting so it gives at least a little weight to what the majority picked. Fix acceleration. Among countless other things I'm forgetting.
Love the game, but there are a lot of little things they could do to make it better. Plus big things, I'd love to see a full expansion with new cups and some new characters, maybe bring back some other game modes.
Unless you play frantic mode?
We played some Frantic GAF earlier today and I can see it being something of a leveller.
Wait, acceleration is broken still?
I don't find this to be true outside of Rainbow Road 64.
NewVegasDog
Member
I swear red shells in this game have a very odd behavior. Like It's supposed to hit the player in front of you, but it sometimes hits a player in a higher position.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Unless they already fixed it, yeah. I don't know that the game has been patched yet at all, has it?
Seems situational, but yeah, it can be hard to tell sometimes. They are smart enough to skip people with a star most of the time, and if the person is only barely in front if you it will usually skip them too.
Only thing that bothers me is when the shell tries to get on it's "route," instead of flying straight toward the person it will initially shoot to the side, and sometimes that causes it to hit something (like a trolly, or one of those stone wheels) and break. Wish they would fix that.
The Horror the horror
Banned
Struck twice by lightning while in mid-air. Thanks, guys
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Man, can they unfuck item distribution? Why the hell do I keep getting coins in first and second when I already have 10 coins.
Yeah, it sucks sometimes. Conversely I always seem to get nothing but solitary mushrooms when I'm in last place :/
I mean compared to MK7.
EDIT: Reading up on it, seems like going above full bars is useless. What the hell...
BizzyBum
Member
What I hate about red shells is you sometimes get the alert that ones coming but it doesn't always mean it's for you but rather the person behind you. The alert should only pop up if it's gunning for you.
DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
So in order to win, do I just have to learn how to go Super Heavyweight in a kart? My Rosalina on a bike just cannot get first place over Bowser for the life of me.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Serious question - how is this for single player? Haven't really played a MK game since MK64, and I need a good fun game for my WiiU. Also, the promo to get Wind Waker is pretty rad...
I wonder how long this game will last on Gaf.
BizzyBum
Member
It's pretty boring, just has Grand Prix and Time Trials like every other MK.
The main draw is definitely multiplayer.
I wasn't aware that they could track you in the air. Shot out of the sky so many times. They're a bit easier to outrun in this game though.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Not a lot to "unlock" I'm guessing?
In that case, I'll just pick up Xenoblade. Thanks!
Yup, it's dumb. Anything over a full bar is wasted, and acceleration is the only stat that has that stipulation.
It's one of the many reasons why heavies are better in this game, as their stat distribution ends up working out well to even out that bar and have good stats elsewhere.
I've noticed this, and have seen 2 instances where I can kinda predict it.
1. Throwing them in midair is a crapshoot. Even though they can go off ramps and track people, they sometimes seem to go batshit insane when you do this and just skip people. I once had someone behind me with triple reds on Toad's Turnpike and took that ramp truck so I was midair when they got thrown and avoided them.
2. If someone is in hitstun they get passed by. This happens a lot with triples, even if you space out 2 shell throws one will usually just pass by after they get hit.
They do just pass people sometimes when they're really close and I'm not sure why that one happens. I've also had the blue shell just skip me before and do another lap.
Yeah really strange once my sister was in 5th and i was in 3rd and it kinda was like a train so me 50 meters for 4th and 50 meter between 5th. And the red shell decided 4th nope did a circle arround the computer and hit me
And why is that?
What's this about full bars? I can't imagine a game that has incremental decimal values for each of the stats would punish you for going over a full integer in a stat... right?
CrimsonCommie
Member
I want to know this too! Like if I have 5.25 bars of speed it's like I have only 5 bars? I've seen this mentioned before but I never found out how it really works.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
There's plenty to unlock, you get the gold kart for completing Grand Prix and Mirror mode with 1 star in each cup, and you get gold wheels for beating all the staff Time Trials. Those are the main things, but you're always unlocking karts, wheels etc as you play. I actually finished all the single-player stuff today so I can finally focus on multiplayer.
Everything else works like it should.it's just the acceleration that's screwed up.
CrimsonCommie
Member
Oh ok. Well damn I have like 1.75 bars of acceleration no wonder it never felt quicker.
It's only like that with acceleration. Anything over a full bar there is wasted, but speed/weight/etc. still take in increments.
Desert courses suck.
CrimsonCommie has it right, but it only applies for acceleration, not any other stat.
Actually...
1.00-2.00 work normally.
2.25-2.75 is the same
3.00-3.75 is the same
4.00-4.75 is the same
5.00....eh no need to go higher than that lol.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I wouldn't say plenty. A lot of parts are just cosmetically different, and there isn't really that much to do in single player. For someone who never plans to play online or play local multi very much, I'm not sure I'd recommend the game. It's fantastic as a multiplayer game though.
CrimsonCommie
Member
Oh awesome! How do people figure this stuff out?
I should try a different setup eventually but I've just been running with PGP with the race car, not sure of it's name, with cyber slick and the bowser kite since I started playing.
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
WHO STOLE MY SECOND
Jeff Vader
Member
I think if I had fired my shell back it woulda hit you but I said no xD
7 suffered from the same issue so it wasn't too hard to test it in 8 lol.
Wouldn't really worry about acceleration with PGP....or any heavy weight really. Their top
speed more than makes up for it most of the time.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Kite vs parachute is a good way to go +/- .25. With the metals having bare minimum acceleration you will probably need to sacrifice some speed and go with a different wheel.
I think metals are a crappy weight class because of that, they don't have the full speed of a full heavy but they do have their crappy acceleration. They make up for it with handling, but IMO speed/accel are way more important.
Jeff Vader
Member
So much lightning >__>
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Fuck whoever threw that lightning