Smart steering being on by default and not able to be turned off globally is distinguished mentally-challenged but the feature itself is good for folks with kids.
Agreed. Also for some reason Smart Steering keeps turning back on for me, not sure if I'm doing it or not yet...
Also speaking of MK8 Deluxe, it's the best overall Mario Kart game now, but as one of the weirdos that prefers battle mode it's still sort of lacking. It needs:
- More options. Why can't I set an arbitrary integer as the number of rounds? It goes from 4 to 24 in even increments, which means there's a good chance it'll
end in a tie most of the time. Wtf?
- Ability to turn off friendly fire. This actually annoys me the most.
MKDS and Wii had
no option to even turn friendly fire on when you were playing on teams, and it's clearly the superior way to play on teams. Items from your team got a shield around them colored to your team's color.
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Survival Mode for Balloon Battle! Like why isn't this even an option? Patch plz.
- Needs some incarnation of Block Fort (the SNES level is getting me by for now.) Also Twilight House and Funky Kong's Stadium.
Also, the online for this is a stepback from MK8 vanilla.
- Where did the YouTube uploads go? MK8 vanilla had it. Considering Nintendo's claiming every piece of footage you'd think they'd like the extra revenue. Maybe they're waiting for a system-wide update?
- The lack of voice chat is still pathetic, but even more so in 20-goddamn-17. Metroid Prime Hunters had it in
2006. Vanilla MK8 even had it! (In lobbies, but still.) Their explanation for why Splatoon didn't have it was BS but it still made sense in that kooky Nintendo way (use the pre-made messages!) But MK8 doesn't even have that. What's worse is the d-pad is just sitting there doing nothing.
They could at least do the Smash thing and map it to 4 messages or something. Conference calling my friend when we played a few days ago is just dumb.
- The inability to set your own engine class for online races is maddening. If you git gud enough you'll be playing 200cc 100% of the time in randoms, and that's clearly not how the game was meant to be played.
That said, the local multiplayer situation is the best MK has ever been. You literally get the best of both worlds: people with their own Switches can play it on their own systems, while two people can play it on a big screen in the same room. Up to 8 people! Crazy. This really shows off the Switch's local multiplayer potential IMO. Also, Renegade Roundup has been the big breakout for my group of friends. It's a lot of fun on both sides (but again, most of our matches end up in ties because of the asinine even integer round presets.)
PS- I really love the added "You sidelined <x>!" messages, it really helps make sense of the chaos.
