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Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined (gamersplan.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll add some context, as I actually own a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World.

The game is full of "intermission tracks", where the next race starts at the previous track and you effectively drive to the next track for the first two laps, then complete a single lap of the destination track. For example, in the Mushroom Cup, rather than start the second race at Crown City, you'd instead start at Mario Bros Circuit (the 1st track in the cup), drive to Crown City for two "laps" then complete a single lap of Crown City.

Many people voted Random in online multiplayer instead of picking one of the three interconnecting tracks, because the intermission tracks frankly suck for the most part, and are just straight-line roads. By picking Random, the game would actually pick a completely different course and you'd do a standard 3-lap race, like you would by selecting the course in Time Trial mode.

At least that's what used to happen, before the latest patch.... Now, random actually picks one of the three interconnecting courses, and no longer picks a random course.

To be honest, I think intermission tracks only really work in Free Roam and Knockout Tour. It doesn't feel innovative to effectively drive to the next racetrack when you still have to wait between race results and loading screens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

because the intermission tracks frankly suck for the most part, and are just straight-line roads.

It almost feels like Nintendo are punishing the old meta of high acceleration/very nimble but no speed, using drifting and boosts to keep up speed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

Guys, give small indie company Nintendo a break, they only just moved on from fax to dial up.

[–] Vertelleus 27 points 14 hours ago

So you'll stop giving Nintendo $80...right?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Is this article written by AI? Some long running, poorly phrased sentences here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This was suggested in another repost of this article. It does really have that vibe, yes. It's giving off this uncanny valley feeling of journalism. Lots of words, that... kinda say something?, but there's a lot of like, overlap? I'm having a hard time explaining it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

Definitely pumping up the word count. The paragraph used to come around to the fact that Metacritic (not steam) is the site where SMKW is being review bombed gave me visceral feelings of anger.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Haha, that also came to mind, it's pretty poor. Paraphrasing: "Users on Metacritic saying it "ruined" the online mode - an indicator that they are very displeased. "

You don't say? 😄

[–] [email protected] 32 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not even clear what changed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

At least from my experience the 'random' choice now just chooses from one of the three available choices, rather than the full list.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 16 hours ago

Not only that, the three available choices are "intermission tracks", that is the half tracks between courses. These are not full 3-lap courses, and are significantly more boring and shorter than the 3-lap courses. They're more likely to appear in the "random" selection now.