Burgins Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Is it all of us or is it the friends we've made along the way? p.s. trophy thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuckSwimmer Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 I'm not a fan of time attack challenges for any games.. That and some of the online ones I feel like would personally frustrate me.. Although it especially depends if the game is fun or not(for the playing time trophies) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCatBurrito Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 I'm always down for a kart racer, always. Those online trophies make me nervous but I'm definitely in. I don't think I'm an all star just yet, but maybe one day. Also my favourite fruit is mango. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banana_Sausage47 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Will probably wait for a price drop in this one. Would be nice if online can be done in private matches. I noticed a few trophies have wrong images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlindMango Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Oh crap, the list leaked... So I'd like to announce the game I've been working on 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 List doesn’t appear to hard, as long as online is easily boostable and time attack stuff isn’t to hard/really tight times hopefully this is a decent and fun kart racer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordzeze Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) Time attack will be a killer especially for one piston. Edited July 11, 2018 by lordzeze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanPortrBridges Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 banana or gtfo. banana best girl. banana best kart. banana best food. Banana GOAT. G - Banana O - of A - all T - Time 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristycism Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 This actually looks like really good fun! Kind of like Mario Kart and Sugar Rush from Wreck-It Ralph had a child together? Trophies don't look too bad, unless the time trials are really tight timing. Even the online trophies, it's only winning different things once each - only takes some luck to get matched up with people that aren't very good just one time for each thing. But I'm terrible at racing games, even the easy ones, so I'll probably find all the trophies horrible, but eh. Will probably get this because it looks fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banana_Sausage47 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 8 hours ago, BHK3 said: banana or gtfo. banana best girl. banana best kart. banana best food. Banana GOAT. G - Banana O - of A - all T - Time I agree. ??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yowzagabowza Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 I was all on board for this but the online trophies will probably keep me away. I just hate playing online. Even the wait for a match gets me mad. I've also heard the game is more expensive than it should be. Not sure if it's true for ps4 or not. $20 is what I expect it to cost, but I'd probably only bite at $10 or POSSIBLY $15. I don't spend more than that for digital games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordguwa Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) time attack isn't so bad unless it scales into near impossible difficulty like prestige mode in need for speed. the hot pursuit courses seemed like super hard but not impossible 7/10 difficulty. pretty much had to remember the track and get the best time. Edited July 11, 2018 by kingdrake2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvick_ Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Online wins are always annoying to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisty123 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) The gameplay looks rather fun, not a big fan of the online trophies or the play so many hours trophies since it does not include Time Attack. Ah stuff it just pre-ordered it Edited July 12, 2018 by fisty123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyImp2 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) What region is this please? This is showing as pre-Order in the U.K. Edited July 12, 2018 by TheMightyImp2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martain2 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 To quote Ralph Wiggum GO BANANA! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richtoon Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 I saw the trailer and gameplay remind me of Sega All Star Racing. So I might will buy it because I enjoyed Sega Racing very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristycism Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 22 hours ago, yowzagabowza said: I've also heard the game is more expensive than it should be. Not sure if it's true for ps4 or not. $20 is what I expect it to cost, but I'd probably only bite at $10 or POSSIBLY $15. I don't spend more than that for digital games. It's £35 GBP / £31.49 with PS Plus discount So it'll be like...$40-$45 I think? I'm not good with currency conversions 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yowzagabowza Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Kristycism said: It's £35 GBP / £31.49 with PS Plus discount So it'll be like...$40-$45 I think? I'm not good with currency conversions Thanks. I figured with the backlash on the price it would be about $40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsFIGJAM Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 14 hours ago, Richtoon said: I saw the trailer and gameplay remind me of Sega All Star Racing. So I might will buy it because I enjoyed Sega Racing very much. Same here. Looks fun and has co-op too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synophis Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Alright, I just finished up platinum and here are some of my thoughts and tips. There's a real lack of content here. Career can be completed in 2-3 hours since the AI doesn't really provide any challenge other than the last cup. After career is done, you'll either have online or time attack. As for online, in addition to that there's actually no one playing, it's also quite laggy. The game running 30 fps and having intermittent frame drops also doesn't help. Luckily, for online trophies there's one pretty nice feature: if other players leave your game, they are replaced with AI and you'll still earn trophies even though you're playing only against the AI. So your best bet is to create a room and hope someone wanders in and readies up. Then even if the other player quits, you'll still have a chance of earning wins. Next up, time attack. The majority of records are easily beaten by 1-4 seconds, provided you understand the basic concepts of drifting to gain boost and using it throughout the lap. There are some pretty tough ones as well, but nothing super difficult. A couple of attempts should be enough for any of these. Now when all of this is done you'll likely still be missing like 15-17 hours on the 20 hours play time requirement. Now this is a massive pain as the time spent not only doesn't count in time attack, it's only running during races (offline or online). This means that there's no way to just leave the game running and come back after multiple hours to get the rewards. Since playing against AI is pretty boring, no one's playing online and time attack is not counted, what I ended up doing was do custom juicer race 5 laps at the longest track Poseimon on easy so AI finishes as slow as possible. When race starts, I just left my character idling and let the AI finish up the race. One of these races takes around 9 minutes. I started to count these after 5 hour trophy popped and to reach 20 hours, I ended up with 90 restarts (this required a lot of netflix). So, I mean this is really bad. The conscious decision to leave out time attack from time played seems to indicate that they really wanted to encourage people to play online but when it's just a warp fest, there's no reason to do so. Had they implemented online leaderboards for time attack, I could see myself playing this quite a lot as the drifting + boosting mechanic itself is pretty good. But now developers give zero reason to continue playing. Likely they did the best with their resources but I expect a lot more content and polish from a 40€ game. It's also really unfortunate as there hasn't been any good kart racers for some time and I was hoping this could be it. tl;dr Platinum is a boring grind fest with very little actual interesting racing content. Online trophies aren't as bad as in most games. In my opinion and reflecting on how much I got out of the game not worth current price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archavia Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 On 7/15/2018 at 7:50 PM, Synophis said: Next up, time attack. The majority of records are easily beaten by 1-4 seconds, provided you understand the basic concepts of drifting to gain boost and using it throughout the lap. There are some pretty tough ones as well, but nothing super difficult. A couple of attempts should be enough for any of these. I wish this were the case for me. I dunno if you're just really good at this sort of stuff or I'm really bad, but even with drifting throughout entire laps to benefit from the drift boost as much as possible, hitting all boost pads and taking shortcuts on applicable tracks, I'm still never able to get gold on pretty much any track. Maybe I have a bad race line or I'm going about drifting completely wrong, but for me it's definitely not a case of time attack being easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synophis Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Dark_Raven666 said: I wish this were the case for me. I dunno if you're just really good at this sort of stuff or I'm really bad, but even with drifting throughout entire laps to benefit from the drift boost as much as possible, hitting all boost pads and taking shortcuts on applicable tracks, I'm still never able to get gold on pretty much any track. Maybe I have a bad race line or I'm going about drifting completely wrong, but for me it's definitely not a case of time attack being easy. Ok, I'll go a bit more in-depth with time attacks. Since most of the time there really is quite a lot of room for mistakes, I think it's just more about not getting the drifting mechanics than anything else. My best guess is that you're just not drifting enough. Even when you're just on a straight, you should be drifting and using counter steering to get as straight a line as possible while alternating the drift direction. For best possible speed, release the drift only when the boost meter is filled up or about to be filled (learn the timing). After releasing the boost, start another drift and repeat. You can strategize your boost usage a bit by doing a max boost just before or after hitting a boost pad which will make you go at highest possible speed. Another good tip is to minimize your air time by using a boost in midair. I still had a recording of some of my original medium and hard time attack runs and I uploaded it as hidden unedited (menus, loading screens included) video on my channel. Even with mistakes, missing boost pads, bad racing lines I still beat the records by multiple seconds. This should give a good visualization of what I tried to explain about the mechanics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sstXi_w3kI 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristycism Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Dark_Raven666 said: I wish this were the case for me. I dunno if you're just really good at this sort of stuff or I'm really bad, but even with drifting throughout entire laps to benefit from the drift boost as much as possible, hitting all boost pads and taking shortcuts on applicable tracks, I'm still never able to get gold on pretty much any track. Maybe I have a bad race line or I'm going about drifting completely wrong, but for me it's definitely not a case of time attack being easy. I've found that the one piston times are a lot tighter with almost no room for error than the two and three piston ones. I've only done the first two islands so far though and part of the third, I dunno if they're more difficult on the other tracks as I haven't even attempted them yet. I got every single two and three piston one so far (mind you, it's only 10/21 races) on my first attempt, but most of the one piston took several attempts before I finally did it. And my skills are nowhere near close to @Synophis - I just watched the first race on your video and hot damn, you're so much better than me o_O I'm in awe. I tried doing some of that drifting stuff you do at the start and I always go way off course... Also, how did you guys manage to get "WEEHHH"? The one with four seconds flying. I just can't get it to pop no matter what, been trying for like an hour on various pistons, with and without boosting on the big jumps, and it just won't pop. Am I doing something wrong? At this point I think I must be misunderstanding the trophy. Plus side, one less hour of grinding for the 20 hours once I've finished everything else up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffectatiousDonk Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 42 minutes ago, Synophis said: Ok, I'll go a bit more in-depth with time attacks. Since most of the time there really is quite a lot of room for mistakes, I think it's just more about not getting the drifting mechanics than anything else. Congrats on the plat and thanks for posting the video. So basically you just drift boost continually for every track. I can't imagine how mind numbing the grind to 20 hrs would be. For anyone interested, the game is actually quite fun, sometimes a little cheap with the AI in career and definitely not easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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