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There was some way to adjust the number of Baby Park laps in Double Dash, I swear - I remember playing longer or shorter variants. I remember setting it to more laps for the sake of zany multi. Maybe it was in multiplayer, maybe you could say less laps or more laps, and adjusting by 1 adjusted Baby Park by 3? Or something?
As much as I love Baby Park, it isn't the same without Giant Bananas, Giant Bowser Shells, Mario/Luigi Walls of Flame, etc. The preposterous specialty items of Double Dash, which reached OVER the middle divide if I recall correctly, really made it a fantastic course. Crazy 8 replicates it to an extent, but it doesn't have the style factor.
There should be an option to adjust the number of laps in Baby Park.
My personal wishlist for things Mario Kart can do in the future includes something like that for any track (except for obvious tracks like Mount Wario that couldn't do it). Something to allow for super-long single races would be kinda groovy I think.
Just imagine if we had a tournament that consisted of one extra-long race: 350 Laps of Baby Park!
my brother and I had gotten the ability to dodge red shells with boosting at just the right moment down to almost automatic and yet it felt amazing every time it happened
That's just made me realise I was meant to bring my Switch to work today to kill some time after. Though it's pretty slow right now, and being able to play with you guys would have made the day go much quicker.
Maybe next week
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A lot of good races last night. I should have taken a count of how many red shells I got hit with because it felt like a lot. And it was almost always in a row.
Yeah, I need to practice on 150cc. Been playing too much 100cc with the little ones.
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Big DookieSmells great!DownriverRegistered Userregular
Sorry I missed it, was looking forward to it all the way up until I was admitted to the hospital for appendicitis last night. Hopefully my luck will be a little better next week!
my brother and I had gotten the ability to dodge red shells with boosting at just the right moment down to almost automatic and yet it felt amazing every time it happened
I found that to be the hardest one but it also cemented the series as something special for me beyond even 'one of my favorite multiplayer games ever' because of the amount of time I spentaccomplishing everything you could in single player. which I take for granted now but at the time I never thought I'd put so much into non-multi-player mario kart
sidenote: goddamn maybe someday soon I'll remember to check this thread often enough to play mario kart with all you folks. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Sorry I missed it, was looking forward to it all the way up until I was admitted to the hospital for appendicitis last night. Hopefully my luck will be a little better next week!
Having gone through the same thing a few months ago I hope you have a smooth recovery.
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Big DookieSmells great!DownriverRegistered Userregular
Sorry I missed it, was looking forward to it all the way up until I was admitted to the hospital for appendicitis last night. Hopefully my luck will be a little better next week!
Having gone through the same thing a few months ago I hope you have a smooth recovery.
Thanks! Just finished the appendectomy and everything went great. Should be mostly recovered in a few days. Appreciate it!
START YOUR ENGINES! Races begin each SUNDAY and run from 6 PM to 730 PM Central (7 PM to 830 PM Eastern, 4 PM to 530 PM Pacific, 11 PM to 1230 AM GMT). Come get your race on against fellow Penny-Arcaders!
Here are the race settings:
To join the tournament, simply use Search by Code on the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournament menu, and enter the code 2147-0538-0907. You will only need to do this once -- the tournament will be saved in your favorites after you first join it.
Points are accumulated based on race performances during tournament hours. Everyone is capped at a maximum of 16 races each Sunday, so you won't be able to cheese your way to the top of the standings by simply doing more races than everyone else. This tournament will stay open until everyone gets sick of it and stops playing.
If you join the tournament outside of the designated race hours, you will be able to race against anyone else who is in the tournament lobby at the time, but your points will not count towards the official tournament standings. Feel free to use this as a room to race against other PA'ers outside of tournament hours all week long.
There is no friend list requirement for the tournament. You can race against anybody who joins the tournament, whether they are on your friends list or not! (This also makes it super easy to add new friends to your Switch, as they will become available for friend requests under the recently played menu on your Switch after you have raced against them.)
The tournament lasts for 1.5 hours, and everyone is capped at 16 races. Opponent shuffling is off. CPU opponents have been activated, they will help fill out the races when the room isn't full, and allow you the same point potential in every race.
This tournament is open to future changes -- If you would like to see changes that are not available via the poll, please post your suggestions in this thread.
See you on the track!
So now to choose between racing and battles, since this starts only an hour after the battle tournament starts.
Batte for an hour then race! Seems like good times to me. I think that battle tournament was set for just one day though and isn't reoccurring. Settings could probably use some tweaks too like turning on CPU to fill out the field.
Yeah, I only set it as a one-time thing last week. I actually don't know if I'll be able to play tonight, so someone else would need to set up the battle tournament, if people are interested in having it today.
So it shall be done!
I've opened up a new BATTLE tournament that will take place each SUNDAY and run from 5 PM to 6 PM Central (6 PM to 7 PM Eastern, 3 PM to 4 PM Pacific, 10 PM to 11 PM GMT).
To join the tournament, simply use Search by Code on the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tournament menu, and enter the code 4409-0314-7051. You will only need to do this once -- the tournament will be saved in your favorites after you first join it.
Battle and accumulate as many points as you can in 1 hour of unlimited battles! CPU opponents are turned on to fill out the field (though I've left their difficulty at normal as I don't expect anyone to be super good at battle mode quite yet) and items are set to FRANTIC because who wants to get bananas in battle mode? (If it ends up being ridiculous I'll drop it back to normal items for next week)
After the hour of battling is up, join us for Sunday Drivers!
Hey folks. Battles at 5pm central, races at 6pm. See quoted text above for deets.
I may or may not join in, cut my thumb doing yard work today.
Ugh, now I'm getting constant communication errors. Looks like I can't get back in
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AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
Well my connection just shit the bed. Having a hell of a time trying to reconnect.
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Must be Nintendo's servers. They better get their shit together before they expect us to start paying for this.
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Big DookieSmells great!DownriverRegistered Userregular
Yeah, I got multiple communication errors and finally just quit. I think I got in 9 or 10 races at least. Still, they really need to get their shit together here. I don't understand how years after the original game was released, the online system is noticeably worse than before.
Still, even despite the issues, fun games! I forget how much I loathe that damm lightening bolt.
My plan was to skip the battles so I could get some exercise in, then join the races. As it turns out, "18:00" in game time is 7:00 PM local time for some reason. Maybe I don't have my daylight savings time settings correct on the Switch. Either way, I hadn't planned to miss the races tonight. Sorry.
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I don't think the online play is "noticeably worse than before", really. Three disconnects over the full sixteen races is really unfortunate, but it's not like it didn't happen that way at all with Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U. Of course, this doesn't excuse the fact that there shouldn't be any disconnections at all, but it's still a bit too early to make too harsh of judgments.
I only got one disconnect, thank goodness. I wasn't home and was playing at my local retro-game store on my free TWC Wi-Fi hotspot. Races were a beast today, but looks like I came out pretty good :biggrin:
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AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
I won a couple so I feel pretty good about that, even though Conn was not around to destroy us all. Had to drop early for dinner with the wife. Fun times though! Still super rusty. My victories were more circumstance than skill I feel.
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When a map is selected In multi player, the number 100 and 150 show up on the map... Is it randomly picking the speed instead of just doing 150 or whatever? Not sure how it's functioning.
When a map is selected In multi player, the number 100 and 150 show up on the map... Is it randomly picking the speed instead of just doing 150 or whatever? Not sure how it's functioning.
In Random Worldwide and Regional, the speed is randomly selected between 100 and 150. Not sure if 200 or Mirror are also included but doubt it.
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My personal wishlist for things Mario Kart can do in the future includes something like that for any track (except for obvious tracks like Mount Wario that couldn't do it). Something to allow for super-long single races would be kinda groovy I think.
Just imagine if we had a tournament that consisted of one extra-long race: 350 Laps of Baby Park!
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god that was a great game
my brother and I had gotten the ability to dodge red shells with boosting at just the right moment down to almost automatic and yet it felt amazing every time it happened
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Not sure if I'll make it, but I'll try!
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Maybe next week
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I found that to be the hardest one but it also cemented the series as something special for me beyond even 'one of my favorite multiplayer games ever' because of the amount of time I spentaccomplishing everything you could in single player. which I take for granted now but at the time I never thought I'd put so much into non-multi-player mario kart
sidenote: goddamn maybe someday soon I'll remember to check this thread often enough to play mario kart with all you folks. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Having gone through the same thing a few months ago I hope you have a smooth recovery.
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Thanks! Just finished the appendectomy and everything went great. Should be mostly recovered in a few days. Appreciate it!
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Hey folks. Battles at 5pm central, races at 6pm. See quoted text above for deets.
I may or may not join in, cut my thumb doing yard work today.
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I'm going to ride Mr. Scooty just because of this.
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I got my switch at my parents, but I won't be able to play due to the festivities
I think for next week I'm going put the battle cpu to hard. Maybe do shells only or something too.
Well that explains a lot. I knew I wasn't that good
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Edit: ah, joining a friend's game worked
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Still, even despite the issues, fun games! I forget how much I loathe that damm lightening bolt.
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In Random Worldwide and Regional, the speed is randomly selected between 100 and 150. Not sure if 200 or Mirror are also included but doubt it.
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