The Official Mario Kart thread

I just need to do Mirror Special and Mirror Lightning Cups and 3-star those in order to have three stars on everything.

So after bashing my head against the Lightning and Special cup, I decided that if I'm going to get my ass kicked, I might as well have so done by actual human players. So I hit the regional online scene with my Daisy build.

That went quite a bit better than expected. Out of four races, I placed first twice (constant frontrunner), second and third. Those races that I didn't get first place I was frontrunning the entire time until I got hit by a blue and red shell just before the finish line both times, so I consider those moral victories.

This means that either I'm ultra-talented, or I've been practising in the cups far more than other people hitting the scene for the first time. Probably the latter, but it feels good to know that I'm already leaving quite a few people behind in skill.

I'm losing badly, no matter if it's AI or other people online. I love how apparently, only mushrooms and coins exist for me for item use.

Yeah, I expect that to happen to me soon enough as well. There's a ceiling, after all. Eventually, the AI's cheating goes beyond what you can handle without a healthy dose of luck of your own, and your ranking score catches up with your skill so you only get matched against other strong players.

It really gives a bit of a distorted image, though. You are quite likely better than you think. I don't know if it's possible, but maybe you should try making a new Wii U account, start clean and get matched against other newbs. If only to gain your confidence back.

edited 1st Jul '14 11:55:08 AM by Kayeka

That feels a bit shallow to be honest. I don't feel better beating people who are no match for me and I don't even have 2000 VS points, but that's from me not playing online as much.

Well, I admit I'm a sore loser like that. It's a personal fault that I really should get around to fixing.

There's a visual glitch in the replay feature. If you watch someone get hit by a shell, rewind, and fast forward quick enough, you can see the particle effects from the broken shell appear again on top of the first set that was made for the impact.

It's much easier to witness it by playing and rewinding it in slow-mo.

Ok why does it seem like the game decides to give me good items when I play against the AI, but says fuck you when I play online?

Because the Random Number God is a dick.

FUCK!

Oh, god, fuckity, fuckity, fuck, fuck, FUCK!

God fucking dammit. And I was just having fun online too. Now the cheaters are going to ruin everything. Again.

Because all stuff like that is inherently bad and will ruin the game forever. It's really not that bad. How are custom songs, tracks, etc. a bad thing?

edited 6th Jul '14 2:30:49 PM by strawberryflavored

They aren't. I'm not going to use them, but I generally don't have anything against modders.

The problem is that now that the exploit has been found, people are going to use them to cheat.

That's assuming they figure out the way to make it work. It'll be some time before that happens. Regardless, the game can be patched.

Well, I sure hope so, but Nintendo is often rather glacial when it comes to fixing crap like this.

Or fixing anything for that matter, besides actual Gamebreaking Bugs.

edited 6th Jul '14 2:44:08 PM by Kayeka

Well, they patched XY when this stuff was discovered a while ago. Mario Kart 7 also had patches for those shortcut exploits.

Eh, guess I should stop panicking then. I just hope they'll figure it out fast.

if the exploit in Mario Kart 7 got fixed I am sure that Nintendo would do something about this problem

Cheaters in Mario Kart Wii were the blight of this Earth. Although I did have some fun with one using a speed hack once by choosing the retro ghost pier track. Nothing quite as satisfying as winning against a hacker that zooms directly towards every pit in the area every second and taking 300+ points away from 'em in the process.

edited 6th Jul '14 3:00:26 PM by Elbruno

I already dealt with enough cheaters for PAYDAY 2. Having more cheaters in my other games may just make me quit playing online completely.

Since they're publicly announcing how they hacked game, it should be very simple for Nintendo to just make and release a patch that fixes the exploit.

I gotten 4 stars in a row while in 3rd online. Took all 4 damn stars just to pass the person in 2nd. That's how weak stars gotten now.

Also, it's a bit funny that Bowser's tail is "tucked" into his rear until he pulls a trick off a ramp.

edited 7th Jul '14 6:40:30 PM by Steven

Sorry for the double post, but I had to add this. Playing against the AI today, I look on my map screen and the person in 3rd place gets a thunderbolt. How is that remotely fair!?

I've seen Crazy 8s appear in 2nd place.

I've gotten crazy 8s in 2nd place