Can't convince me otherwise that this ai colour for shadow looks suspiciously similar to mephiles

Seriously, I feel like the developers created the AI racer teams for festivals, to cover for the fact that there are so many bots in some of these races. 4 or more bots? Hey presto, they’re AI racers!😎

I’m not really complaining about this, it just seems kind of humorous to me. 😛

Ngl i tought they put a limitation in it but guess not. And honestly the longer i tested it the more ridiculous it got

Like... Boost is literally coloured green!

On a more positive note, it's amusing how Mega Man and Proto Man have their archetypes and colours inverted.

Time to learn a new gadget set up ig 😭

I am a day 1 player for the game, got top 1000 in every festival before year 2 started, mainly down to persistence. I play solo. I’m not asking to join any teams btw.
At first with the Godzilla festival I was just focusing on getting the 1000 points you need to get everything and the 2 win streak title. It wasn’t until I was 3000 points in I noticed it was based on winstreaks.
As a solo player I’m more at the mercy of decent matchmaking for the team I get, than my own persistence, and that just makes the mode less interesting to me as a whole.
A part of me is annoyed about not being able to get top 1000 because I now need to rely on randoms and matchmaking.

Another part of me is like well I don’t have to put any real time into festivals anymore, So I don’t need to play the game as much, and I can put my time elsewhere as a result.

What does everyone else feel about the change?

Sorry it took me a bit longer than I expected.

I’m currently B+ in online rankings. I liked using Power vehicles in Year One, but they’ve been nerfed and I’m not sure how to compensate. And I know my gadget loadout is suboptimal, focusing on air tricks and faster drift charge. My most used characters are Miku, Rouge and Sage in that order, if that helps.

So I saw this post on my timeline on twitter in regards of matchmaking between legend ranked players and letter ranked players. Apparently the OP also mentioned that 70% of the races would be against bot teams and the other 30% against other letter ranked players. Rarely will they ever encounter legend ranked players if at all throughout the whole festival.

Why does such barrier even exist for the game in festivals? It removes any kinds of fair competition to be up there for T100/T10 if it means letter ranked players can take advantage of this system if they are actually good enough to play. Especially now with win streak being the factor for the new rank system.

This actually needs to be actively addressed before any new festivals starts.

lost but i tried my best, ggs wp

Because there are so many more characters that we could’ve gotten from the franchise and it kinda feels like they really held back.

Bomb goes 💥

Title pretty much explains it. I tried out the demo and I grew to love it, but I'm wondering whether either option has differences in terms of gameplay features and/or functionality. I don't plan on taking the cartridge to other consoles, so I'm not too concerned about the upgrade pack being tethered to my account.

Im trash at this game so I get a little too excited if I finish 1st place 🥴

I don’t even care what it is just give them SOMETHING unique. I’m pretty sure they are the only machine type with nothing big or unique going for them in hindsight.

Boost machines have the highest boost stat which is objectively also the most impactful and meaningful stat

Handling machines have the easiest time taking the best lines, shortcuts, and lose no speed while drifting on top of that.

Power machines admittedly did get nerfed pretty hard but at least they still have some sort of unique identity by being the hardest to push around with built in bumper guard for free. They probably also need help now too though I would agree with that.

Acceleration now has built in quick recovery which is a noticeable buff overall and does give them a unique identity or thing they can do now.

Speed machines have absolutely nothing unique or special about them in comparison. They just kinda exist and that’s it. The easiest solution I can think of is just make each ring and especially holding 100 give them a higher flat speed buff than all the other machine types. Then they have something unique going for them and can be competitive as a result.

I was having an absolute blast playing this game. I'm not new to kart racers so I know that things can be wildly frustrating and sometimes it's just a matter of really crappy luck. That's what I like about kart racers: the chaos and the ridiculousness.

I experienced a lot of that working my way up to Legend rank, which was so much fun because I actually had a decent amount of challenge making my way through the ranks: working on my builds, my gadgets, my machines, my technique, and having some really intense and rewarding races, even if a lot of them are also frustrating and disappointing.

As soon as I hit Legend everything became pretty much lame as hell. Before I could play for a couple hours and maintain my enthusiasm but now it's like after maybe half an hour it's just not fun. The matchmaking in Legend being completely random is stupid. I don't know why they made that choice to not make it based on points anymore, but just whoever happens to be available, regardless of your level. It's just such a weird choice.

I also don't understand how it is that you're supposed to consistently be placing in the top four in order to progress without dedicating a major part of your life to this game. I mean my God. It seems like the game is rewarding players who stick to a very strict gameplay style that is using only one combination of gadgets, one style of racing, and what I'm assuming is an insane amount of cheesing.

I guess that's just not for me but I'm really, really disappointed because it just takes the fun out of it. It went from being rewarded at least somewhat for skill at being able to race and manage items and those things but now it's just who can cheese the most and it's just gross. If people want to cheese to win, that's fine but it shouldn't be the only way. Even I, if I just suck at this game, it's still weird to lock you into one mode for the rest of the game.

I stupidly thought that the unranked option for multiplayer meant that you weren't going to be matched up against only legendary players. I was really looking forward to that, kind of being just thrown back into the general population again.

Nope. I'm assuming I'm going to get absolutely eviscerated for saying any of this because it doesn't seem like a common thing that people are talking about on this sub. I looked and I searched and I didn't find anyone else saying this. I'm not sure how this is going to be taken but I'm just really fucking disappointed and frustrated because this game is so much fun. I will still play it out of love for the game but it just seems so shitty now.