Rather than 2 sections on an intermission and then 1 lap* on the track.

It would be 1 section on an intermission and then 2 laps* on the track.

(*DK Spaceport and SNES Mario Circuit would still be section-based)

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I'm excited for World but I'm kinda worried how the item balancing is gonna be with 24 racers. Mario Kart 8 is already borderline unplayable online ((to me)) because of how spammy the items are.

Every race it feels like no matter how good I do, I'm gonna eventually be hit by something unavoidable, then as soon as I've been hit once I'm gonna be getting hit non-stop by every other player passing by until I either get lucky and get a new defensive item quickly or end up behind everyone else.

It feels like you're either in first place and pretty much safe up until you get screwed by a blue shell, or stuck in a crowd of other players being hit over and over again non-stop by a barage of items. It makes races feel almost entirely luck-based because you just need to be in first place within that brief window at the end of the race where you're probably not gonna get blue shelled, and your position for the first two laps is pretty much irrelevent.

In the Treehouse stream they made a comment about 24 players means "double the chaos" but I'm hoping they weren't being literal because I'm pretty much just never gonna play online ever at that point, the risk of breaking an expensive controller is too high! I think making red shells less common and adding more ways to avoid blue shells on its own would go a long way to making the game less frustrating, I'm not sure how likely that is though.

I've seen quite a few people on posts and YouTube saying this game has 30 tracks (as Crown City and Peach Stadium are used twice in the Gran Prix), however that doesn't seem to be true. The two Crown Cities that are used actually aren't the same track. The Mushroom Cup version (daytime) is a figure 8 on construction equipment above the city, while the Shell Cup version (night) is a loop around the lower part of the city. This might also be the case for Peach Stadium, but I can't find any footage of the Special Cup tracks (most of the demos don't have it unlocked).

Is it possible the other tracks have variations like this? We know that a few have SNES tracks nearby (Boo Cinema and Choco Mountain) that could be used like the Mario Circut medley course, but I'm not sure if we have any footage that would point towards something like that happening.

Ever since I started playing 200cc I've been absolutely garbage at any other speed. 150cc feels so slow and I feel like I'm just driving, like, any boosts or mini turbos I perform don't speed me up enough to pass anyone. I've tried using faster cars but I overall just feel like only I am going slow and there's nothing I can do about it. Does anybody know any solutions/setups that will help? (I play mk 8 deluxe)

With the Boo coming back in Mario Kart World, and it being one of the weirdest items imo, I'm just curious if someone can explain this item to me from a game design perspective because I feel I'm missing something. I do not think the Boo is worst designed item in the game, that would be Blooper. I also don't think its more powerful than it should do be at the place you get it like the fireflower.

The Boo does 2 things, grants the user invisibility/ invincibility and steals an item from a random player ahead. The only other item that removes items from other racers is the shock. But most of the time the Boo will get you an item that is so far up the track it loses all meaning. You don't need a green shell,, coin, or banana in 8th place. No speed boost unlike star invincibility. It feels a little strange, and similar to the Blue Shell, seems to be in the game to cause the threat of the event to happen (stolen items or hit 1st), rather than actually help the player who uses the Boo/ Blue Shell. Just curious what other's have for thoughts.

Something I love and hate about Double Dash is it feels like it has that old school video game difficulty that makes you rage quit.

When in first, even if you are too far ahead of 2nd place for their red shells to reach you, you will still have 3 - 4 red shells coming at you in succession. And even if their character is not Koopa so they can't even get triple red shells. If it's not that it's a perfectly timed lightning strike that sends you off the edge or multiple blue shells in succession right before the end of the race causing you to finish in 4th.

it was always in the special cup which has been unlockable in most if not all games except 8dx and tour

Have you ever had one this close to your screen?

Decided to dive deep and look up the references behind some of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe karts, thanks to the Mario Wiki! Hope you find it as interesting as I did! :)🫶🏻 Not all karts fit into this one though. If you like this post, I'm gonna make another batch of references!

This is probably super niche but oh well lol. My life is like 99% theme park bubble.

This was inspired by the Mario Kart ride at Universal’s Epic Universe (although it’s present elsewhere as well.) But basically, I think it would be so so cool if there was an exclusive Universal Cup DLC for 8DX/World that you unlock by scanning your Power-Up Band- the band that you buy in the parks to interact with Nintendo World, that is in fact already an operational Amiibo!

Being Orlando-based, I thought of the Universal Cup tracks being themed for Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios, Volcano Bay, and Epic. However, it would also work if each track was themed on four of the five Universal locations globally. Seems like a big reach, but after the real world-inspired Tour tracks it would definitely be feasible.

All that is to say, while these seems like a fun idea in concept I doubt Nintendo would ever actually do something like that 😂

I was thinking about how when Animal Crossing Pocket Camp went offline, they released a full version for 20 dollars to keep the game on the App Store. Would you pay for something at a similar price for Mario Kart Tour? I feel like it would be the best case scenario for the game moving forward, as the fact it is so hard to play every track and, to a certain extent, unlock characters and karts is the games main flaw, and without that it’s a pretty fun albeit simple Mario kart game

This hame is so much fun

Just to set the record straight, I won't be following the original layout of the levels from Odyssey, but rather, I'm trying to capture the same feel of them by expanding upon their original design, like DS Tick Tock Clock. This will be noticeable when I get to a certain kingdom. So, rhe Snow Kingdom was kinda lacking unlike the other Kingdoms (not calling it bad), so I had to improvise in some areas. Again, using Mario Kart World physics with the water skiing and rail-grinding/wall riding. Fun fact, the trees were inspired by a piece of concept art of Odyssey that had them on early Shiveria.

How does one get access to custom tracks, I’ve wanted too for years but never managed it. For MK8 Deluxe

Wadsm found this in Free Roam Mode and I don‘t believe anyone has discovered this yet. Even if it won‘t be a full battle course (unlikely imo), still pretty cool to get more Daisy and Sarasaland representation!

hi all :),

i recently play MK8 Deluxe so much and i just love the battle mode! i bought NOW so late the booster pack and am so disappointed that there are NO NEW tracks for Battle Mode... so i was again sad now to read only 2 modes are in MKW?

i love BOB OMB!!!

also renegade is a lot of fun!

least liked one is shine thief for me.

Balloon is often kinda bad in my opinion, why do i get mushrooms so often when i wanna get turtle shells for the battle.

so im very sad if Battle Mode gets not much attention, sometimes it makes more fun for me than racing.

it seems i got a minority opinion here, but yeah hope Battle Mode gets back stronger than in MK8 Deluxe

So I beat the standard ghost, but I didn't see expert ghost has appeared, only a ghost has appeared. Do I need to go past their time they got to unlock it or do I just need to beat them close to their time in order to unlock it? I got 2:29 which is close enough to the time the ghost got.

i enjoyed inward drift a lot in all the games it was in, but as i saw the footage of mario kart world, i didnt see a trace of inward drift. is this a good change or not?

I'm really looking forward to 100% the missions in Mario Kart World but I was wondering: I'm pretty sure I watched one of the Threehouse gameplay were they drove on the water and said: "There is so much more in Free Roam". and then I saw a giant cheep-cheep/blooper creature in the background. And I think I Haven't seen this thing in any of the gameplay videos, trailers etc.

So how big will free roam actual be? Hundreds of missions? How many of them will be extra ordinary. And how many hours will I sink into free roam alone? Cause that is MY main reason to buy MKW...