Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 3 Launches Next Month

Maple Treeway and 3DS RR, this is going to be amazing

Cool to be able to play the 3DS tracks. However, comparing these tracks to the original MK8, in terms of graphics, is still a big disappointment.

All tracks part of the possible "leak", though the leak suggested Maple Treeway to be in the 6th wave instead.
Not complaining though! Maple Treeway is one of my favorite tracks and one of the most aesthetically beautiful tracks in the series.

Maple Treeway and Rainbow Road 3DS are enough to cement it as a great pack and some of the others are pretty good too.

Are these tracks confirmed? I was hoping for some other Super Circuit track. Hopefully they've made Boo Lake something special.

This is looking to be my favorite wave yet. Every track (save for maybe Tour’s) looks incredible, and that MUSIC!! I can’t wait to hear Rock Rock Mountain with live instrumentation.

I can see a future pack including Rainbow Road from Mario Kart: Double Dash. You know, format it like the N64 Rainbow Road, and make it into a 3-Section race, with it being one whole lap. Or you could make it three laps, if it's good enough.

Maybe throw in a new Legend of Zelda track, lifted from Breath of the Wild, where the Champion Link rides on his Master Cycle Zero.

RAINBOW ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't know Alpine Pass had another name (Rock Rock Mountain), I'm assuming it's a different name in varying territories?

Now we can finally have a full cup of just Rainbow Road, neat.

I hope we get Toad's Factory from Wii. It's one of my favorite tracks in the series. Especially with that music.

A very good selection of tracks though it's really sad that we're half way through the pass and there's no Double Dash. Most excited for GBA Boo Lake.

@BigBluePanda A big chunk of Mario Kart 7's tracks had alternate names between regions. The 2 Wuhu tracks, Melody Motorway, Alpine Pass, Piranha Plant Pipeway, Wario's Galleon and Koopa City.

This is such a good lineup. Maple and Rock Rock will be great to play on switch

Looking forward to play on Peach garden, only Delfino Square left and all my favorite tracks from DS are in 8 deluxe!

Hoping for for Double dash cources in the future

That's a lot of Tour tracks. Quelle surprise.

@Dark-Luigi AGREED.

Overall, this is very solid. Graphics are still a bit underbaked, but overall it really does look better with each wave.

Double Dash could do with some love but its a good line up.

So hyped for this. Curious about that holiday-themed track.

I really would love to have new crossover tracks like we got with the end of the original DLC pack. That would be more exciting to me that the bad looking Tour tracks

It still takes one year for the final Wave, not really excited with the hype of back to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with DLC Booster Wave treatment.
I can play other games while waiting all the complete DLC but the business practice like that was really disappointing me to get the hype back again on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
I mean, other kart racing games by 3rd party developers are not really bad as Mario Kart games.
I need some diversity, not from the same Mario stuffs all the time.
Sometimes the 3rd party games have better ideas than 1st party games.

Christmas comes early! December 7th!!!!!! Boo Lake, Berlin Byway, London Loop, Peach Gardens and Rock Rock Mountain look to be my favorites but I welcome them all! Hoping DK Mountain (GameCube) and Airship Fortress (DS) come in 2023!

This will make December at least a bit interesting. All these tracks look great but I’ve never been a fan of Peach Gardens. However, it’s much better than them bringing back a random SNES Mario Circuit 1-5

I think I'll finally buy this DLC.

@IronMan30 Its worth every penny!

Waaaaaaaahooooooooo

Ooooooooooooooooooooh

I’m happy with Maple Treeway alone.

This is great because I wished for Maple Treeway. I hope there will be a Mario Cart Super Deluxe Edition, when every track has been released.

Great Wave. This one checked a few more off my personal wish list. Keep 'em coming, Nintendo!

Happy daze, Merry Mountain in time for a Merry Christmas gaming fest! And a Happy New Year would include a Star Wars collection including NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube Star Wars games?! Here's hoping!

YESSSSS. 3DS Rainbow Road and DS Peach Gardens are some of my favorites in the series.

Wow and it's 24 tracks now, that already equal to one new game. Also what they did to Boo Lake actually looks and feels like a lake now, on GBA it's basically just another Ghost Valley track.

I’m so happy I bought this pass the second I knew about it! I’m so excited for this wave!! Maple Treeway especially! My favourite course on the Wii!

Intensely hyped

Now here is some business three of my five all time favorite courses, another great one, a good looking remaster and some promising newcomers. Very excited for some Christmas time Mario Kart fun.

3ds rainbow road baby let’s Goooo! What a win, This is the best wave yet!

Clear that they know what the fan favorites are, every pack seems to follow a pretty clear pattern

@kerplunk it's from Tour and it's a (Christmas) cracker!

Excellent. I was ready for more tracks quite quickly after the first pack, but the novelty of the second pack hasn't actually worn off yet. I'll be looking forward to booting up the Switch to play them.

3DS Rainbow Road? YES! My absolute favorite Rainbow Road from the series. All tracks in this wave look actually really good.

3DS Rainbow Road looks stunning. I'm a bit disappointed we haven't seen any Double Dash tracks yet, though. I hope the remaining waves have at least one each.

The visuals are looking really good this wave. Still not quite on par with the base-game, but that's
more because they're still retaining elements from Tour like the trees, and more cartoony or simplistic elements. But between the visuals and track selection (and proper incorporation of anti-gravity), this looks excellent

I wasn’t ready for the MK8 band to cover Maple Treeway!

Very excited for Berlin Byways, Maple Treeway and 3DS Rainbow Road 🤩

One the best season passes vs price in any game ever.
Every new wave = hype.

I like Wii Maple Treeway, but it gets old rather fast when you constantly play on it.

3DS Rock Rock Mountain, 3DS Rainbow Road, GBA Boo Lake and DS Peach Gardens are the highlights of this Wave for me. Runner-ups are the Tour tracks.

No doubt people will complain these all "look like crap" because it's slightly less textured than the main game's tracks, whilst zooming around at high speed.

While I do enjoy some Maple Treeway, Peach Gardens and Rock Rock Mountain, 3DS Rainbow Road is hands down the highlight of this wave; so glad to finally see it back, especially after its Smash Bros. stage didn't make the cut in Ultimate.
Still holding out hope for Airship Fortress from DS and Wario Colosseum from Double Dash but a really solid wave here regardless.

@Citano Absolutely agree. And the music is BGM is wonderful too.

3DS Rainbow Road has the best music of all Mario Kart tracks ever!

First Mushroom Gorge, now Maple Treeway. I think the devs are spying on me...they seem to know all my favorite courses...

Daisy Cruise Ship and the track where you're shot up the mountain would be amazing, but hey, almost all of these are awesome!

@Jcdbengals they’re both in Tour, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were like that here

@canaryfarmer but the tour tracks have been really great, that ice-cream thing not considered.

Paris, ninja hideaway, Berlin, and Merry mountain are absolutely ace tracks!

Never ask Mario what he was doing on Berlin Byways in 1945... 😳

in all seriousness I love the MK7 representation and Maple Treeway looks fantastic
MK7 RR was always one of my favorite tracks

I hope we’ll get all the rainbow roads in one mario kart game

These tracks look so great!

The slow drip is really killing it for me. That said...Maple Treeway is an absolute banger. Excited to see what they've changed about it.

Oh doesn’t That Berlin s-baan look lovely. Realo’s Nice Nice hoe thee captured the atmosphere in that track.. London looks boring throughout…

Rest.. malle was geest om Wii, les zo om 3ds, zo hopefully it feels like the wii onze… Peach garden is is one of the greatest tracks in the ds, si great to see it here… 3ds mocht be the best Rainbow Road and looks gorgius
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All look awesome, and so far, the courses have not dissapointed.

Wonderful! I´m happy!

A really good lineup. Peach Gardens, 3DS RR and Boo Lake look so good in HD. Also interested in checking out the Tour tracks.

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Maple Treeway, my beloved.

I doubt they will release anymore dlc for this game as it came out 5 years ago. Fake news people!

@Citano Dunno if you've gotten this reply already, but actually, a dataminer pointed out about a month ago that the files had been swapped around. They said Waluigi Stadium had been moved out of Wave 3 and replaced with Maple Treeway, which turned out to be exactly right. So the datamines are accurate, albeit subject to internal changes by Nintendo.

Maple Treeway is my second-favorite Mario Kart track after Coconut Mall, so I'm really looking forward to it. I don't know if I like the remixed music, though. I kinda wish they had done like Mushroom Gorge and just...left the music alone. Maybe I'll get used to it, though. Rock Rock Mountain unfortunately looks like a textureless eyesore. I don't know what it is about Nintendo not wanting to put textures on grass and mountains when the rest of the textures in the DLC packs look just fine.

These couple of gripes aside, I'm very excited for Wave 3. This might be the best one so far. Rainbow Road on 3DS is my favorite iteration of the track, so I'm really excited to see it here. I would have preferred Banshee Boardwalk or SNES Ghost Valley over Boo Lake, but it admittedly looks really cool. It and Rainbow Road got a MASSIVE graphical update from Tour.

I just really don't want the support for this game to end. They aren't slowing down with adding new tracks to Tour, and at this point, they have enough there they could probably do a second Course Pass already. I would give Nintendo so, so much money for yet another set of 12 cups. According to datamines, we only have like one DS track left, which would mean either Luigi's Mansion or Airship Fortress isn't coming back. That would be a massive, massive disappointment if true, as both are series staples.

And, of course, I want the new characters and battle maps that are also in Tour. I know it's been said by myself and others time and time again, but seriously--I would pay any amount of money. Take my credit card, my kidneys...heck, take my virginity while you're at it, Nintendo! You can have it all, just don't stop making DLC!

@Not_Soos I knew rr mnt would look like crap after seeing the tour iteration, this is coming from a huge tour fan, hopefully we can hit the sign at the end thats always fun

as said 3ds rr and maple treeway r some of the best tracks ever

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I've always said this game needed more Rainbow Roads.

@MrPKOmega Do we really have to get this same comment with every single wave they release? We get the point but it’s not going to change and most people don’t care.

This is a great wave. 3DS Rainbow Road is a strong contender for best Mario Kart course, in my opinion. Can’t wait to finally play it on the big screen!

Super hyped but why are there 2 courses from tour in one cup now? That should have been one from say double dash instead.

@StAmbrosius All they did with GBA Boo Lake was base it of of Tour's version, but I ain't complaining about the anti-grav in the underwater section, though.

Yes, Peach Gardens from DS. Nearly every race had a classic finale. We need more from the DS too, as that had the best tracks. Banshee Boardwalk and Airship Fortress, just to name two.

@B64 Datamines said GCN Waluigi Stadium was gonna be in the Moon Cup, but it was wrong. Also, the Moon Cup isn't the only cup with 2 Tour tracks in a row. The Lucky Cat Cup has 2 Tour tracks sandwiching a DS track & a Game Boi Advance track.

@sanderev I would have considered the expansion pack a fail if they didn’t include MK7 Rainbow Road….

@Baker1000 I am not a huge graphics guy, but it is definitely disappointing. They just look cheap compared to the other tracks.

The lack of texture on Rock Rock Mountain is something of an eyesore, which is weird because they nailed it (at least in my opinion) with Boo Lake, Rainbow Road 3DS, and Maple Treeway. So uneven.

I'm super excited for Maple Treeway and the 3DS tracks! I'm curious to try the others (Super Circuit and DS are the only Mario Karts I (unfortunately) haven't really played, and I also dropped Tour quickly), but the aforementioned three are all fantastic additions!

Looking forward to maple treeway but defo isn't my favourite wave

@Doktor-Mandrake I've played Maple so much in pretty done with it actually, but seeing everyone so happy about it is proof this was a great choice, AND THAT MUSIC!!

any idea what time?

Yay for Maple Treeway which they had me convinced I was going to have to wait another year for.

Great news.

I'm happy to see we have wave three's release date, I'll be looking forward to playing these tracks with my boys.

@garfreek Peach Gardens is another one im happy to see returning though I played that track on Wii not DS

@Doktor-Mandrake Same, loved taking those sharp corners on the bike! 😁😂

Just checked, why aren't they out now???