Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Mario Kart Gets Serious”.
In addition to our regular topics this week I created a little section of the doc called random extra thing, and then I put three things into it: uh one was from the pre-show, we talked, we compared eight sleep stats and I don’t sleep at all, which is Interesting um, but the next thing I wanted to talk to you about is something you probably don’t know about yet, but you will probably have strong feelings about and it’s the Mario Kart balance changes. I looked it up in the pre-show. Is that wild or what sandb is dead? I hate it. I okay, wait.
Sandbagging is dead. I don’t even know what you’re talking about like sandbagging like staying way behind yeah and then getting great items and using them to like rubber band to the front. I didn’t read that part you didn’t okay hold on hold on then then I want to guess. I want to guess how you feel about it. So they’ve changed it.
They’Ve changed it so that when you are in last place, you’re not just going to like automatically get a Bullet Bill that you can gain some ground with and then time it so that you can be the first one through the wickets at the end um. I still don’t like that, so I told you not to tell me so that I could guess: okay, oh okay, okay! Well, whatever okay, my my! What were you going to guess? My inclination was that, as a Mario Kart Enthusiast, you would consider rubber banding to be part of the game. I do believe it’s part of the game. I don’t think it’s uh.
I don’t think it’s worse with it gone. I don’t think it’s going to make a huge difference, because at the level I was playing at when I actually played it a lot like that wasn’t a thing. People did very often uh begging.
People are asking deliberately underperform in a race or competition to gain an unfair Advantage. So an example of something like this might be in a bracketed tournament um, seeing that if you get more points in the round Robin portion, that’s going to land you in a less favorable bracket, where you’re going to have to play the first seed. First, throwing a match or something like that, uh to try to make it farther. So you at least get you know in your groove before you have to play like the first seat or something like that. So that’d be an example of uh sand, bagging um.
If you’re like okay, I definitely can’t win this tournament, but I want to land in the money and there’s like a way to guarantee Landing in the money. Something like that, whatever um in Mario Kart, it’s highly because like if you, if you know you’re better than like the uh, the last four players um and you know, you’re competitive, maybe with the first four, but not certain. You can just ride back slightly. Get really good, powerups and right before the end, just slam it through uh, because, like the Bullet Bill, like lonus just described, the Bullet Bill is insane like yeah, it’s kind of stupid, yeah and there lightning there yeah, there’s multiple ones that are just kind of stupid.
To be honest, um Superstars can be dumb depending on the map, yes like having that uh that invulnerability or that that slight Edge in speed um the ability to drive on any terrain at full speed like some. Some of you can hold two at a time M. Um, there’s certain ones where you, when you combo them you they can just be ridiculously devastating, also like knowing where certain players are at like having the lightning and then using it when someone’s going over a jump will make it. So they don’t make it the whole way across the jump fall off the map. Then they have to get toad back on and like all this stuff, um yeah, it can be really brutal. It’S just it’s more something that I see at like a land level.
It’S not something that I would see online as much really when when I was trying to play like really hardcore. So what would you pref? So so you it’s been a long time since I was doing that. So I don’t know so you would prefer sandbagging be left in like the like the extreme rubber banding, because I’m not I’m I’m I I don’t think anyone would say there should be no rubber banding in a game like Mario Kart.
I think it’s too much of like a familyfriendly fun game. There needs to be some amount of yeah. I there should be some, I I don’t think it should be as extreme yeah like, maybe maybe only being able to have one powerful power up, uh, there’s even an argument I could potentially make for like. Maybe if you, if you advance and rank enough and you have a certain level of power up it like rerolls it for you or something um cuz like yeah, if you’re in last place – and you get a Bullet Bill – and you like manually, drive yourself up to Like fourth, you probably shouldn’t still be holding on to that I mean I feel like in some of the older Mario Karts. They had counters. For that, I’m not sure I I know okay played all them, Mario Kart 64. You lose your item whenever anyone hits the lightning.
I think that’s right so like you, so so that strategy of like didn’t play 64 much yeah hanging back grabbing. A really good item uh, like a like okay, like a super mushroom, which is really op in Mario Kart, 64 uh, because you can use it if you time it correctly, you can use it, not an. I forget how many times it feels infinite. It’S a lot.
Um and I think you might be able to just use it an infinite number of times if you use it correctly, so you can go from last place to first place like um, but you, but you can’t just them, because someone will probably hit a lightning bolt At some point – and you will drop it, people are saying this happens in marer at 82. Oh okay, that helps it. A lot is lightning just less common. Now cuz, it was pretty I’m just going to be honest like when I was doing that big push where I played online like crazy.
This was not a common issue, so, like I don’t know, I do know that this would like, whenever you’d play like on land, like a bunch of people, are just hanging out having fun like this is the thing that people would try to do to like have Fun saluna says begging at higher R rank in Mario Kart 8. Deluxe online is very common for certain tracks, at least so it might be that you were leaning more toward tracks that were. This is also advant long time ago, when, when I was like so I played on Mario Kart 8 non Deluxe, because I played on Wii. U – and this would have been in.
Like 2014, it’s been like N9 years. Mystical says Luke was in bronze, where no one strategized that’s incorrect. I also don’t think that’s how the ranking works.
You see how salty he was. Don’T even know man, the salt get out of here. I could feel the salt from here hilarious yeah. I used to talk to lonus about this a decent amount. I knew I started getting good when all the lobbies that I would get into were just because it would show the flags of where people were from which was really cool, nerd, uh and and all the flags would just be Japanese flags and yes, I’m making it .