Topic: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

@WoomyNNYes
Regional.
Although I'm at slightly over 300 hours playtime (solo stuff included), without counting the times I played on my brother's Switch. He's a much better player, with roughly the same playtime he's just underneath 30k.

One thing is it's getting hard to earn points when you're past 8k until 11k. My bro often gets more points than me in races we play together, even if I win them. He struggled also in that point range.

The next Mario Kart Tour track is Wii Coconut Mall:

This leaves DS Shroom Ridge as the only MK8 DLC Wave 1 course not yet in Tour.

That sure is Coconut Mall. Not much more to say really since we just had it in MK8 but hey it's cool that it's officially here now.

Coconut Mall felt much better on Wii and 3DS :c
It feels compressed somehow on Switch, and some corners are tricky which shouldn't be.

They just added "Coconut Mall" to Tour, and the cars at the end of the track move, lol.

There goes the theory that this was disabled in 8D because of Tour.

@RR529 Wierd. I wonder what the logic was for the cars moving, or not moving, on MK8D and Tour. Although, maybe it just came down to preference for whoever runs the mobile arm of Mario Kart vs whoever runs Mario Kart for Switch.

Thinking out loud here, does Tour have 200cc? Maybe moving cars seemed more problematic for faster racing on Switch.

@WoomyNNYes, yeah, it doesn't really bother me, but with how a certain group of people jumped on the DLC for being "lazy", this'll certainly add fire to the storm.

I've seen someone suggest that the cars in 8D not moving may be a bug, but that doesn't track for me as they're positioned differently. In 8D they're both angled, facing your direction somewhat, while in all the games they move they're all facing straight to the side (facilitating the right/left movement), so if it was a bug they should still be angled as such in 8D (just without the movement).

@WoomyNNYes Something tells me that 200cc was the reason why the moving cars were omitted. It likely would have been much more difficult to navigate through that part with them moving back and forth.

Ahh, I thought I was somehow feeble or crazy with failing to trick off the steps at the Coconut Mall Entrance, and failing to trick off the ledge exiting the mall. However, Bayesic, the youtube creator, also had the same issue. I feel better now.

@WoomyNNYes I really hope they patch out the jumps in Coconut Mall and Sky Garden. They're both pretty weird

@StarPoint What issue have you seen with Sky Garden MK8D? I thought times trials were tricky there, but I don't know if I noticed anything buggy.

@WoomyNNYes I noticed that in Sky Garden that the second mushroom jump can be very inconsistent depending on how fast you’re going. It seems that the farther you jump off the ramp towards it, the harder it is to hit the jump consistently. I’ve learned to work around it a bit more, but I still miss it occasionally.

@StarPoint Yeah, Sky Garden is tricky, whether you're jumping the gap into that turn at 0:07 or using a mushroom to thread the needle through that vine loop at the last turn at 0:17. This is a lap from one of my better time trials where I didn't eff it up like the other 50-80 times I tried.🤣

I probably posted this clip a month or so ago. It's not new, but works for a track reference.

@WoomyNNYes ahh, so you just jump over the mushroom entirely? That’s a good strat, I’ll have to start doing that

@StarPoint For 200cc, yes, if you jump at the very end of the rap, you can clear the mushroom trampoline thing altogether. It doesn't look like you can clear the mushroom tramp with 150cc - I checked my 150cc time trial.

I changed my setup. Switched from the City Tripper to Mr Scooty, the latter handles better.

@ophone This setup is telling a bloody story: Wario got fired from his delivery job for eating the pizzas and now he has to make do with his own scooter instead of the company's one. Poor guy.

Jokes aside, I wanted to ask you, since your so well versed in MK, how would you rate my regular setup? This one's mainly for casual and online play since I don't really do the time trials too much (even though I absolutely should):

Shy Guy
Flame Rider
Monster Wheels
Plane Glider

I am prepared to be roasted.

@Fizza What tires do you use? My typical setup for online races is the Biddybuggy, Roller, and Parachute. As for what character I pick, I found myself playing as Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Rosalina, or Toadette and I've been seeing some good success with them. Toadette in particular has a really high mini-turbo.

@MarioLover92 Monster for me. Just edited my post there to show that off as well, I somehow completely forgot tyres existed XD

@Fizza Ok, gotcha. According to the MK8D kart builder, your grip is really good. Not sure how I can rate it myself, but it seems to be a pretty decent vehicle, at least for casual play. My build typically prioritizes acceleration and mini-turbo.