Topic: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Is anyone else overwhelmed by all the new tracks now? For waves 1 & 2, I was always disappointed when I didn't get new tracks while racing online. Now, there's 1-2 waves of tracks I've never driven. I'm not used to being this unfamiliar with so many tracks.

(edit: I really love the game, but I guess I'm too burned out on it to keep up anymore. I really wish I wasn't burned out. Got it when it launched for the Switch, have 350+ hours)

@WoomyNNYes Not really. If they had dropped all 48 at once, I would be, but since the tracks come in batches months apart I have enough time to get familiar with all of them.

What are people's favorite tryhard setups these days? I haven't paid attention since they updated & tweeked a few build stats last year.

@WoomyNNYes I've been rocking Wario on the Teddy Buggy with the Azure Roller wheels. Teddy Buggy is supposedly the meta after the last update. I still see some people rocking the Wild Wiggler, but I think that setup should be avoided now if you're a tryhard.

The Switch news section just finished off the last wave 4 track today (Singapore Speedway) so wave 5 may be inbound soon.

@Grumblevolcano I'm guessing it'll be announced tomorrow outside of the US and then NoA will announce Wave 5 on Wednesday since tomorrow is our Independence Day.

@WoomyNNYes @Grumblevolcano @vio @Fizza @StuTwo Do you guys think we'll get another surprise such as new power-ups or Battle Courses added in Wave 6 as a last hurrah? Nothing crazy, probably just two new items or two new battle courses if it actually does happen.

@LilyGoMEOW Not sure if they'll add more items or battle courses, but I was thinking that it might be possible for them to add more kart parts alongside the new characters. I know they've added the Master Cycle Zero from Breath of the Wild long before the Booster Course Pass came out.

@LilyGoMEOW I'm gonna second @MarioLover92 in saying that Kart Parts could be a likely option (perhaps one from all the Mario-adjacent series such as Yoshi, DK and maaaaaaaaybe Wario/Warioware?), though a new power-up or two to completely flip the game on it's head as one last hurrah would be rad. Given how new characters seemed like an impossbility when the BCP originally started out, you never know what could happen!

@Fizza We might get a few returning vehicles from past Mario Kart entries, too. Perhaps the Barrel Train from Double Dash will make a comeback for MK8D!

@MarioLover92 I'd personally be ecstatic if we ever got Wario's Motorbike from Warioware. It probably won't happen given how little overlap Mario and Warioware have with each other, but it's such an iconic part of that series which would fit in perfectly with MK's existing selection of available bikes.

@MarioLover92 @Fizza If Funky Kong returns, I could see them bringing back the Flame Runner/Bowser Bike as vehicle parts.

Next Tour track appears to be a MKDS beta track which wasn't in the final game (Dokan Course).

MY TWO FAVOURITE TRACKS FROM WII, SOMEONE PINCH ME I MUST BE DREAMING

Yes! I was hoping that Daisy Cruiser would make it! Happy to see that Koopa Cape and Moonview Highway made a comeback as well.

Oh man, Moonview Highway, Koopa Cape, and Daisy Cruiser are all-time classics in my book! I cannot believe that Moonview Highway in particular is coming. That is definitely one of my favorites in the entire series.

Seems like a good selection! Usually there's two or three that I'm dreading, but this time there is only one. That's an improvement

I wonder how LA Laps will get its music remastered though...it was definitely a unique one for Tour. Could never decide if it was the best thing ever, or the worst.

My current predictions for wave 6 are:

Acorn Cup

• Tour Rome Avanti
• GCN DK Mountain
• SNES Vanilla Lake 2
• Piranha Plant Cove

Spiny Cup

• Tour [insert real world city track that comes to Tour in the next few months]
• GCN Dino Dino Jungle
• GBA Bowser Castle 4
• Wii Rainbow Road

Characters

• Diddy Kong
• Funky Kong

Regarding the retro tracks:

• Double Dash only has 6 tracks in MK8 Deluxe so wave 6 would need 2 GCN tracks to balance things out. The GCN tracks currently in Tour that aren't in MK8 Deluxe are Mushroom Bridge, DK Mountain and Dino Dino Jungle. Latter two feels most likely given there's a high chance that at least one of the 2 characters in wave 6 is a Kong and Dino Dino Jungle billboards are in Coconut Mall.
• Vanilla Lake has billboards in Coconut Mall and I feel Vanilla Lake 2 is more likely than Vanilla Lake 1 given it's wave 6.
• It feels like a Bowser Castle is likely given so far there's no retro Bowser Castles at all in MK8 Deluxe. Both SNES Bowser Castle 3 and GBA Bowser Castle 4 got major changes while keeping the layout intact such that they seem likely candidates. Went with GBA because I went for Vanilla Lake 2 for SNES.
• I think they would've saved 3DS Rainbow Road for wave 6 if the last track of wave 6 wasn't another Rainbow Road. Tour got Wii Rainbow Road in January so I feel that's the most likely final track of the current pass.

This prediction does leave out the pipe course which was teased for Tour today and any other upcoming brand new courses that come to Tour outside of 1 real world city track but that's another reason I think there's a 2nd Booster Course Pass incoming.

This crossed my mind recently, but does anyone think they should have held the Booster Course Pass back a few months? It just seems like a strangely planned (and possibly rushed) DLC. I remember it originally being promoted as a collection of returning courses, from the second wave they broke that rule with a new course. And then they added characters.

And the first two waves look rough, I wasn't personally happy with the look of the courses until waves three and four. It's like we're watching a small team learn how to make these courses in real-time. Yes they are improving, and their schedule is probably insane...but isn't this one of the platform's biggest games? It's all very strange.

I wasn't expecting Tour to still be getting updates to this day, and even now I'm expecting it to end in the next ~6 months? Not that it will vanish, but they will probably just do reruns of previous tours until the servers shut down.
And I thought the reason we had this DLC was so that the Tour courses had a home when those servers are shut down, but they're not fitting them all in at this rate.
I don't know, doesn't it seem odd? The more I consider it...the less it makes sense.

@Grumblevolcano I think that's wishful thinking on your part. The odds of a 2nd Booster Course Pass are slim to none. We are really late in the Switch's lifecycle now and I don't think Nintendo would want to inflate the number of courses beyond 96.