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I mean, if you put in the effort getting 1st in 3/4 races is still more skill than luck. Just make sure you clutch up on Rainbow Road and you'll be fine.

Yep. There's a lot of luck involved.

Best I can tell you is to make sure that you win the first 3 races every time so that you shuld be able to win while only doing moderately on the Rainbow Road. And to just don't drift on the Rainbow Roads either.

There aren't any tips besides that tho.

I'm not gonna be the broken record that repeats the skill issue thing, but you can resort to bagging?

You're right tho, these tracks are shit.

1: Welcome to the website!

2: I mean, the game tells you the controls right off the bat, knowing how to drift doesn't necessarily make you not dumb.

3: The technique that the world records use is actually called reverse drifting (snaking does exist but it's way slower). As for teaching it, you'll have to wait for somebody who knows it to see this.

The Wonder Flower, which will select a random item effect when used.

It could give you a Mushroom Boost
It could shrink you, like a Poison Mushroom
Maybe you turn into a Bullet Bill?
Maybe it explodes(ala Bob-omb)?
Maybe you get a Star?
Who knows?
Point is, it'll be more RNG

Yh, gamepass is still the same. Considering that Sony raised PSN a bit ago, I think they would've mentioned it if they planned to bump the price. Should be safe there.

Not really. This has been a long time coming. They tried fighting off the tariffs back in 2019-2020 together(all 3) and got lucky then. That...was not the case for 2024 and the rest of us are now forced to pay the price.

I don't quite understand that? But okay, doesn't matter much.

Well, you don't actually have to. I got abit ahead of myself there, sorry. Also it's okay, everyone gets stuff wrong all the time. Nobody is infallible.

Firstly, I'mma ask you to change your nick. You're single-handed ruining Mayro's name.
Secondly, Osc is def not a noob. Neither are most of the people you're currently arguing with, aka the ones on the OTHER side of this argument. KirbyBoy isn't a "noob", exactly, but he isn't exactly "stacked" either. If you don't know what you're talking about, don't say it, unless you are prepared to apologize later when you get your shit rocked.

Yeah, it's the SMK physics, you'll just have to grind/be lucky enough to get past it.

Except 999 doesn't make sense as a global cc for a Grand Prix? Grand Prixes usually have set rules and stuff. 250 would be the maximum.

For the people saying changeable cc in Grand Prix, you do know it'd be even harder, right? All the Special cups would be terrible for newcomers.

Basically, in video games, AI opponents don't follow the same rules a PCC has to follow. In newer games, it isn't always problematic. For instance, in MK8DX, they don't need to drift or anything to take corners in 200cc, instant items, but you can still win fairly easily. In some games, it's on purpose, to be incredibly difficult: Mega Man, Castlevania, Ghost's N' Goblins, etc.
Sometimes, due to hardware or time constraints, things are a little more unfair than normal. Take a look at the first 2 Mario Karts specifically. The design ended up being overpowered, by accident. Sometimes, stuff like that happens. The CPUs are busted, but they were designed that way. Just gonna have to grind until you win.

We're so close to having customizable menu music for multicups...

As someone who uses zero of these features ever, I'm not upset

I do much prefer how it looks tho

Welcome to MKPC.

It's your first message so I don't blame you, but just so you know, this sort of report(and reporting anything wrong, really)can be done on the official report topic, which is more recent than 5 years ago.

https://mkpc.malahieude.net/topic.php?topic=16942&page=1

In other news, Xbox is raising prices too.
Series S will be $50 more expensive
Series X will now be $100 more expensive

TB prices follow the same increase

Special Edition controllers up, headsets up

All games will be $80 from November

Clearly Nintendo's fault btw (they collectively (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft)tried to stop this before by the way, in 2019. I wonder why they might've wanted to do that before 2020?)

Apparently the reasoning behind the global increase is bc of the tariffs (Xbox is made in China) so to keep the US price at the same point as everywhere else(Xbox sales in the US are double everywhere else), they've raised prices globally instead.

Sony will very much be doing the same(PSN price got raised outside the US a while back), fortunately for us, Nintendo produces their consoles in Vietnam & tariffs are lower there, and paused)

TLDR: We're going to lose a considerable amount of casual players across the board, and if you've ever thought about switching to PC, now is the time to do it.

Anti-gravity was poorly used on 90% of tracks and has been replaced by wall riding, which is a lot more dynamic(you can dodge items, take actual shortcuts, not boring and actually requires skill to use well)

Underwater was always poorly used except on 3 tracks in MK7, MK8 & MKT(literally 1 from each game)and it has been replaced by speedboat/onwater driving, which is going to have much more interesting interactions than it usually with how the waves will function. (Imagine having a green shell graze your hair instead of hit you because of a wave from something like the Bomb/Blue explosion) It's still gonna be boring, but underwater was always like that anyway.

Gliding was so limited movement-wise in Mario Kart 8 compared to 7 & even Tour, the new Gliding is somewhere inbetween both, has shortcut potential, tricks can be used to reposition better to avoid items, motion glider has been deleted to make the gap between pros & casuals closer.

Mario Kart World definitely has it's problems, but when Diddy Kong Racing & SART have both done these(onwater & planes) and are both remembered extremely fondly...
These aren't problems.

The main problem is the price tag, even with the bundle.


Switch 2 w/MKWorld: $500
Metroid Prime 4: $60 (+ $10 for the upgrade)
KatFL + SCW: $20 (if you don't own this game already you're missing out)

This is $590. That's bad. And this is only counting the good/not useless games. If you buy something like Jamboree TV, or the Zelda upgrades, or Drag X Drive, you're going in over $600, which is about how much you would've spent for a PS5 and a couple games at launch.

Obviously I do not recommend MKWorld if you're only going to play it for a month & never touch it again like most streamers will do, but if you're going to be re-playing it for the next 5 years like almost everyone here most certainly will be doing...you'll get your $80 worth for it.

This, to me, is the difference between Sony & Nintendo games.

Sony's games are $70 and still worth it (usually), but aside from Astro & RC you play them once for the thrilling story and...basically never touch them again(atleast, that's the impression I get).

Most of Nintendo's games are designed to be replayable. Even games like Xenoblade have a lot of replayability (if you enjoy Xenoblade for more than it's story, which I would hope you did)

It doesn't excuse the price tag, but this argument came up twice in the past already:

1: For Metroid Dread, ppl thought $60 was too much for an 8 hour game.

2: For TotK, ppl thought $70 was inexplicable for BotW2

And in the end? Both games were justified.

I'm sure that this game will be worth $80, if you actually interact with it more than a week. Otherwise, don't buy it. Just means less lag online, which is a win for me.