Mario Kart World Has Been Updated To Version 1.1.2, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

In case you're wondering what the changes to the random courses are, they've added races with intermission sections to them.

I wish there was a collectibles tracker of some sort in free roam.

@TheDragonDAFan lmao they really want ppl to play intermissions huh

@TheDragonDAFan Good. I know a lot of people seem to hate them, but not me. The game officially has 32 courses, but between intermissions, mirror mode and reverse directions, it's a lot more. I'd get pretty tired pretty quickly of playing just the same 32 official tracks.

@Kilroy The intermission tracks aren't bad, but they suck in online play. They're just too luck-based to have any place in high VR online races imo.

@TheDragonDAFan wow they are really married to those highways, aren't they

I hope we’re eventually getting another way to unlock those creature driver unlocks. The current system is ridiculous.

@TheDragonDAFan Thanks for checking!

i just realized intermission tracks are probably where that $80 price came from. we have the base 32 tracks, $60 value if we go by MK8 wii u as a solely new MK entry, and +$20 for all the designed intermission roads

im not even saying thats a bad thing, theres a LOT of intermission roads. but they really should make 3 lap courses more accessible online

@Kilroy I agree. At first I thought it was really annoying, but I've started to really like it now.

Yet another update goes by without them nerfing the unfair NPCs.

The random guarantee of a standard race was a real positive that kept me interested, so that’s a downer.

@TheDragonDAFan Thanks for the info. Sad to see Nintendo doubling down on the intermissions. I had my fun unlocking stuff for a good 20+ hours but back to 8 Deluxe I go for now.

@Sambuc Same. This is such a glaring omission and I'm baffled Nintendo didn't include this on day one.

Not to sound overdramatic but I have fallen off of this game so hard. Not letting us choose no items or custom items, no 200cc, not letting us see lap times in time trials, the worst unlockables ive seen in a long time, stupid online track selection where we are limited to 3 intermission tracks, no music player, no easy way to see where missed collectables are located, a clunky character select and track select screen, an empty feeling battle mode compared to past entries...

It just sucks cause there is so much good about this game. I love being able to drive everywhere, I love the way it feels to race, I love the item system and the track selection we do have, there is just so much bogging it down for me that it makes me not want to play it.

Hope It gets updated to make it more fun but for now I'm probably done with it for now

What a downer of an update. I prefer to play 3 laps around a track, but Nintendo wants that to be as difficult as possible to do online.

Wow, that's kind of a slap in the face for those who prefer traditional races. Nintendo in their arrogance are upset because people aren't playing the game they designed it to be played, so they’re going to force them to play by those rules.

I don't even mind the intermissions but do think there should be at least two laps once you reach the course... Koopa Beach is ridiculous. The drive to the courses feel so epic then it's just anti climatic a lot of the time.

But in truth it would've been a lot better to have traditional lap races in Grand Prix and keep the intermissions for knock out tour then both variants are used.

Nintendo needs to be careful with pissing off it's fanbase as I suspect it's not exactly casual players buying Switch 2 at this price. I highly doubt it could become another Wii U situation but it could still well see GameCube levels of success or more modest numbers than Switch 1 at least, especially if third parties don't get good sales on it. And we're always the ones who keep them afloat when that happens.

i think my biggest problem with limiting choice in mario kart world is that it is $80 if it wasn't bundled. when you charge that much, there should be MORE options and customizability, not less. nintendo forcing people to play the way they want to play is terrible for a $80 game.

Mario Kart World has all the potential to be the best entry in the franchise. Like 8, updates can take an already great game and turn it into something amazing. But not if Nintendo isn’t willing to listen. Even with strong initial sales, World’s player base is relatively small, especially compared to 8. It’s already hard to fill a lobby when you have 24 racers vs 12, the last thing we need is Nintendo upsetting the player base. I have a feeling a lot of people will be dropping this game until/unless Nintendo offers a fix.
I enjoy the in-betweens, maybe more than the courses. But I don’t want this at the cost of players leaving the game.

If they could only make a mode without the blue shell.

@BroshiKabobby does a lobby not start until all 24 slots are filled?

I can sort of understand the change. There isn't anything wrong with the intermission tracks but they're new and different. There'll always be those who try and resist any change and pressure other people into the same.

So giving people a way to guarantee avoiding them w/ random just plays into people stigmatising them rather than engaging with them and giving them a real chance.

Even Bananza is getting this with people trying to conceive harebrained reasons for K.Rool to be the villain because they can't accept a change from Rare.

Or BOTW for not having the typical Zeoda structures.

Still no list for the P-Switches. Come on, Nintendo.

Got 2 dc and 1 crash offline. Mariolart 8 only went off in-between and never halfway through a race. So if it was going to dc never when you was racing.

@Dr_Lugae But the thing is that we tried "giving them a real chance", and they're worse. They're mostly just straight lines with little to no strategy or skill. Not to mention the nightmare that is bagging on the intermission tracks.

@Bigmanfan It's been a few weeks no game meta forms that quick. Also they have turns, jumps, ramps, rails,etc.

The fact you think they're straight lines shows that you hadn't given them a proper chance lol and just refused to engage with the mechanics while you did have to play it.

@Sambuc yeah. Free roam needs a lot of work, IMO.

@Dr_Lugae I've literally played them for hours, it's a crazy assumption to say I haven't given them a chance. And yes, they are mostly straight lines, you literally just have to look at the minimap to see it. I'm also not saying I completely hate them, but they're just not nearly as fun as standard three lap races. Additionally as I mentioned in a previous comment, they are way more lucky based due to the mostly straight driving, leading to them being frustrating to play in high VR rooms, where you can lose multiple races worth of progress due to unlucky item pulls.

Nintendo really saw people playing the game that they found the most fun and said "can't be having that now, can we?"

@EVIL-C
Absolutely. I think the game is great and I even understand why they insist on intermission tracks so much because it's the point of the game. I think they will eventually add a classic 3 laps mode but they don't want people to think that mode is the default one just because it's the one they are used to so they keep the intermission mode for now to make it clear it's the main act.

But why oh why are there no collectible tracker in free roam? It's very strange. I mean they even have this mini map that they bothered to program and that is fairly elaborate visually and to be clear it serves absolutely no purpose as it is now. It is too zoomed in it doesn't have options it does not even indicate north and it does not have trackers. It's insane we have that thing in the corner that we can't even deactivate, because again the game has no settings whatsoever which is a huge step backwards BTW, and it's completely useless. I can't reasonably, even honestly trying, make any use of it. I mean it screams unfinished.

"Sir everyone seems to go for the three lap.courses and ignoring our intermissions!"

"GET THEM, They shall play how I want them to play!!!!"

@Bigmanfan Care to describe what makes them more luck based? Because personally I find it easier to gain positions with lucky item pulls during the tracks not Intermissions.

The least effective use of something like a star or any of the mushrooms in Mario Kart is on a straight. Because they're best for cutting corners. The items would unironically have less impact during the Intermissions than the tracks.

IMO people have forever complained about losing due to items/luck in Mario Kart for decades , you're just projecting your losses onto the Intermissions and acting like the tracks are less luck based.

What an actual joke. Here I was thinking they’d take the majority of people choosing random as a sign to update the game with a 3 lap only option and instead they’ve doubled down on forcing intermissions.

It was a fun idea initially and it’s great in Knockout Tour but for normal races I just want the standard setup. Ridiculous update.

@LazyDaisy No, the round will start after a certain amount of time after a set period. But it's not really fun to play a game designed around 24 races with only 4 racers.

The single biggest blemish on this game was how hard they made it to race 3 laps on most tracks, which caused everyone to select Random in lobbies. And now they’re saying woops, we didn’t make it hard enough.

I don’t even mind the intermissions that much, but only 1 lap on the actual track removes all sense of progression and improvement from one lap to the next, passing a shortcut then taking it later, driving with different items etc. And forget the music speeding up on lap 3 - the original music for all the nitro tracks might not even finish 1 loop before the race is over. It’s a strict downgrade in so many ways.

I’m honestly taken aback how spiteful this change is.

@BroshiKabobby @lazydaisy lobbies are normally close to full for me if not full. I think the lowest I’ve had was around 17 or 18 people and the rest NPCs and as soon as you start you won’t notice as it’s always complete carnage!

They saw everyone choose random just to play some regular track so what did they decide ? Let's put intermission track in random.selection too !

I really like this game but I question their decision making process

@ChameleonBros I could overlook the issues but they're all so stupid. It would take nothing to allow custom items or even just provide more options for the items. It would take nothing to add in a collectable list to make it more organized to find stuff. It would take nothing to add an option to have costumes under a submenu after you choose a character. It would take nothing to add a place to listen to the music tracks. It would take nothing to add in lap times to time trials.

We've had all these options before, I can't imagine any of it takes much coding at all. It's probably a weird situation where nintendo thinks "they have to play how we want them to play" and it makes the game feel so much smaller than it should

@mlt There's other really weird decisions like the character select screen listing the outfits as different characters, the split screen co-op open world being hidden and removing P Missions from open world co-op. Plus in offline VS mode you CAN do traditional 3 lap only races.

Did Nintendo fire all their User Interface/Quality of Life people recently or something?

Why are they obsessed with forcing these intermission tracks? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind them but its clear to everyone who's played the game that it badly needs a traditional 3 lap option, in both single player and online.

Typical.."We know whats good for you" attitude from nintendo. I would honestly just separate intermissions and race tracks. I dont think doing an intermission and 2+ laps is a good idea, though. There would be no point in doing intermissions then. People would catch up lap 1 and lap 2 would be as if intermission never happened imo.

Quite happy about this change. Personally, I was hovering at around 8.4k which is quite high and 9 out of 10 races I played were three lap ones which eventually got very boring as a lot of them aren't balanced around having 24 racers. At some point I intentionally tanked my rating into the high 7k and voila - 60-70% of my races had roads in them which is how it should be given thats the distribution of tracks in the game.

Seems like Nintendo are nicely falling in line with every other developer and fixing their games after release.

So much of modern gaming just sucks.

I love the mechanics of this game, but this update feels like it's moving away from what (for me personally anyway) is really needed to make this game shine:

• Grand Prix is laps only
• Knockout Tour is the connected routes
• Add a way to show progress in free roam.

That's it!

@Sambuc This is the biggest miss for me in Free Roam. No trackers, no idea where all of the P-switches are, or how many you've done, or have missed. I sincerely hope they address this issue in a future patch.

@Mr_Zurkon yeah free roam feels tacked on. It looks great dont get me wro g but how you unlock the costumes and all that is just so....obtuse?.....padded out?.....unfinished? Idk. It just feels liek an after thought. The game itself is great but like Mario tennis or golf at launch there are just so many baffling design decisions.....

@Pillowpants

How many you've done is on the map screen.

Really do need them all to be visible on the map though, so we can see which ones are done.

@user0 Ah, yes, but that's about the only thing that is shown. It really feels that they didn't have enough time to truly flesh out Free Roam mode, to me. Should have been a story mode, or something.

This is Nintendo saying "We hear you... But no".

I do like the mechanics of this game, it isn't perfect but it is fun - This one update is possibly one of the worst things they could have done haha!

Whilst the optics around Nintendo and the Switch 2 are so negative (Online at least) let's really hit the vocal minority who are enjoying Mario Kart World online

What the hell are Nintendo doing with this?? This is the most stubborn out of touch crap they could've done.

They saw their player base overwhelmingly select random so they could enjoy the normal 3 lap tracks and they've taken that away.

Intermission should be for KO Tour, it's what makes that mode unique. Pushing it into Grand Prix has never made sense and the player base at large showed that and Nintendo have just delivered a giant F U to all of them.

Honestly I find this decision truly disgusting and inexcusable.

THEY ARE NOT CALLED INTERMISSIONS. THEY ARE CALLED ROUTES. Intermission is in the game. It's the wait time in the online lobby between races. Intermission means a pause/break. The routes in this game are an integral part of the game. They have each been individually designed. Calling them "intermission" (which has no other meaning than a pause) helps spread false narrative. Let's call things what they are. www.mariowiki.com/route

Lots of people choosing Random DOES skew online play. Nintendo just isn't helping by skewing online play themselves. Just add modes for both three laps and routes, online AND offline, and call it a day.

Not being able to keep track of P Switches and Peach Medallions in Free Roam remains the most dumbfounding decision by far.

How about making free roam more interesting!? I was expecting a little campaign along the lines of whacky races or cannonball run. Not even challenge trackers!?

@tameshiyaku At this point it only exists so it's a little easier to practice the tracks. That's all I use it for and all I can really see it being useful for

@Dr_Lugae Cause they're mostly straight lines? Same reason baby park is luck based (when you really think about it, most of that track is straight lines). I don't really find it takes much skill to take the obvious move and use your items to drive in straight lines through the off-road instead. Compare that to standard races where you have to manage sharp turns, item management is more important because bagging isn't as broken, and there are loads of shortcuts to learn and execute. And those shortcuts and alternate paths are the real difference maker. This is legitimately the first Mario kart where I have spent a significant amount of time doing time trials, because you need to learn how to execute all the wall riding and rail grinding to be at the top of the game. It's so cool, but now it doesn't matter, because you maybe get one lap if you're lucky.

@Suketoudara I agree so hard with the grand prix knockout tour being distinguished by intermission. Every mode just feels the same. I literally played through all the cups/rallies before time trial, and I basically had to learn almost all of the tracks because the regular modes don't actually use them, which is such a shame because there are some good tracks (screw sky high sundae though).

@Waluigilicious They feel like intermissions though because you can basically turn your brain off - drive straight, use items, hope others dont get good items. Marketing-esque terms arent going to change that

Sometimes you have to take away people's choices because they hold on so hard to the past they won't even try new things otherwise

@Bigmanfan With all of the massively imbalanced RNG items, can anyone seriously look at VR and think "these guys are competitive"? Mario Kart is a party game first and always has been. It's not like Smash where you can turn items off.

Im too cheap for home internet but I think as a form of protest ppl should quit as soon as one of those tracks r picked and keep doing it to get a normal one. either that or go back to 8dx.

@Kilroy Glad you enjoy them, but people chose random to avoid them, and this change feels like it was made to spite those players, as if to say "How dare you want to play this like a classic Mario Kart game?! You will drive on long straightaways and LIKE IT!"
Maybe instead of simply forcing players to play in the intended way, Nintendo should take note of this and add a classic mode where all races take place on one of the 32 courses, and last for 3 laps each, so it doesn't interfere with the other modes. Just a thought.

@KayFiOS "You will drive on long straightaways and LIKE IT!"

This is why I think people are overreacting and afraid to even attempt to like something new before dismissing it. These "long straightaways" aren't barren, there's plenty to do. Boost pads, items, a roadway long enough to be able to snake, cars and such to avoid, rails to grind, hills/ramps to jump off of. Did I miss anything? Seriously, the ONLY thing these areas are missing are actual turns and what do you do when you're turning? You're drifting. You literally can't do anything but drift and steer a little bit while drifting. That's the boring part to me!

It's exactly why I think this version of Rainbow Road is the worst. That and falling off is almost impossible because it's so easy to stay on.

I just got my Switch yesterday, so I guess I'm having difficulty understanding what all the hate is about. I have spent a lot of time playing Grand Prix and Knockout, and while there was downtime on Grand Prix between matches, I didn't have to drive to any of the new tracks. I just sat and let my hands rest between races. I also don't have anyone I play with, so if this is strictly a party thing, I don't have an issue with it. Maybe I'm missing something.