Topic: Mario Kart 8 - OT

Basically now if you get hit once you WILL get hit 3-6 more times. It has happened to me every single race for the past 40 races.

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I have that same problem! I'm ALWAYS getting blasted by red and green shells constantly. Earlier I was in second place almost towards the finish line and then I got hit by the blue shell when it skipped the person in front of me! After the hit,I got hit by 2 red shells and then a green one,and ended up getting 11th place.

Literally same. I can see even other people within the race I'm in are getting slammed too hard as well. Usually a normal hit, then someone comes by and reds me again, then again, then a random green one, then a bomb all before I can just get up and go from that original hit, like wtf is going on, give it a rest already....
Multiple times now I'll have just used a paranha plant and get hit by a red shell, then the plant chomps on everyone anyway as my Mii is stopped, then everyone else is crashing, then a bomb will go off or someone will try to run through with triple shells and screw it up even more. Clearly something is wrong if 12th place is 2 feet away from 1st place the entire race because everyone can't stop spinning out. Really boring.

"Shall we get started?" aka Hurry up and vote you stupid child and/or old person.

I have trouble getting into a lobby with 1 other person, on regular online. But when I was playing in GameXplain's tournament, I always got in full rooms.

yeah um.....that would be F-Zero.

That's exactly the same thing that happened to me!

I've noticed a large increase of inkling miis while playing MK8 200cc recently. Splatoon hype!

And I thoght I was the only one. The game got insane since the patch.
This literally happens every time to me too.
I saw multiple players get tripple red shells at the same time. I and others get tripple reds on second place very frequently now. Pre patch this was really rare. The best you could hope for was a single red...
Players now get Bullet Bills on 2nd place very often and past 1st right before the goal on the final lap. They are right behind 1st.. and get Bullet?? What's that all about?? >

I usually get top 5 at last... Now every lucky "player" can get infront.

Yeah there's definitely something up with the items now. A couple of times i really thought i'm playing on a room with Frantic setting on, since i frequently got bullet bills and triple reds on 2nd or 3rd place which was unheard of before. I don't like this, it's too chaotic.

Don't know what took you guys so long.... Players using a bullet bill and zooming past first place (usually before the finish line) has been an issue since the first DLC pack came out.

I posted about it elsewhere and got attacked by people saying I just suck haha If they actually saw what I saw they'd know it was bs. But yeah it's been going on since before the DLC however I notice it happening at a high frequency rate now in comparison to before. It would happen maybe once every 10 races, but now it's easily every race or every other race. Whatever they did seems to have made it worse since the last patch. Each DLC bundle seems to have made it worse for me. I've not had one race where Cheese Land or Wild Woods went smoothly for anyone.
I'm able to win here and there, but clearly a lot of skill factor has been removed, because it'll be nearly random every single race, where as before you could tell who was an expert kart-er because of who was placing higher each race, but now it's like "lets hope the items cooperate".
Those who are cheating aren't helping the case either. Something's wrong when the room has plays with 6-8000 and then there's just a 15,000 person in there who's always miles ahead. MKWii returns.

My theory on the point system, which no one ever ever ever wants to confirm or help me confirm if it's already been confirmed, is if the system gets more wild the more VR points you have. I've mentioned it so many times and I get ignored or people say NO I DONT THINK SO with no proof to back it up one way or the other.
I swear each 1000 VR points I pass gets the game more hectic. When I went from 6999 to 7000, I thought I noticed it get a touch more angry. Then even more so when I went to 8000, but I accidentally went back to the 7900s (thank u item clumsiness) and it looked like it eased up on me a touch. Until I went over again then it got insane. When you're in the middle of a thousand (like 7500) you probably won't notice it's overly wild because you're use to the crap it's throwing at you by that point, but when you pass another thousand you're like WOAH cause you were use to how it was before. The numbers I said are examples, if 8000 points isn't crazy to you, maybe 10,000 will be.

Don't get me wrong guys, the game is really fun, I still play it even though the items want to fight everyone to death, I'm just trying to figure out the mechanics and what not.

The high ranked usually start really fast, collect all the coins at the beginning and gets a head start by that. And if they do and get a protective shell/banana, they will expand their lead since everyone else will be hitting each other. I have also won a couple of races by expanding my lead far enough from the main group of people.

If items are ruining it for you, try running custom online without items.

Exactly what happened to me today! I was racing with people at 9000 VR, and there was this one dude who had 21000. He smashed us!

The defensive racing isn't something I'm disputing. I've done it and seen it a million times, where you get lucky and get way ahead. But usually just a couple times, not race after race for all eternity. Even if they get blue shelled or lightning'd over a gorge, they're seemingly perpetually ahead of everyone. Like they're playing 200cc but everyone else is on 150.

That's another thing I kept asking about in regards to the crazy items, is if the room was set on Frantic or something but I was ignored again. So nobody knows I'm assuming haha

Some rooms have to be set on frantic. I can't see any other explanation.
Since others think they had this experience last DLC means that Nintendo is doing this on purpose!
(I probably didn't notice it becauce I didn't play much before DLC 1)

Nintendo wants to give returnig or new players some fun, maybe?
After a while they set it back to normal? ... I hope so.

If it's on Frantic it's on a timer because it comes and goes but it's more often than not now. No matter what settings I have on it's crazy. Maybe it's Nintendo punishing us for doing too good in their game.

Lol on a lighter now, the first time I try Isabelle online, I enter a room with only villagers and Isabelle, and 1 Mii with the AC costume on. What the heck. We played Rainbow Road N64 and Big Blue though.

After toying around with 200cc, I have to say that it is a fantastic addition to the game. It feels so exhilarating.

Out of all 48 tracks so far, I surprisingly found Twisted Mansion the hardest to get first on 200cc against CPUs (GP).