What is there to talk about? It's a solved game and every single homosexual plays as meta as possible
Before the AI Dalle threads there were constant daily threads but I don’t think that’s the only thing that kinda killed it, it’s true there’s nothing really much to talk about, unless we get BS Content which cannot be experienced without Emulation and then there are more BS tracks lost to time.
>Crime rate skyrocketed! Porttown is ruined! Therefore, the Porttown government called Hiroshi Yamauchi's relative "Mr.EAD" for the massacre of the Bumpers. >Mr.EAD is a killer machine. Wipe out all 1.2 billion of the red communists! >However, in mainland China there was a secret project in progress! A project to transform the deceased Gunpei Yokoi into an ultimate weapon!
Patiently waiting for King Cup, but it's a shame that doesn't matter when I enter into a GP, there's always some 99+ wins Lv99 S18+ autist there to ruin everyone's chances. I still can't get a Knight Cup win because the tracks are too unforgiving in terms of mistakes, you bump once and you can say that podium goodbye.
It’s even more ridiculous seeing jackasses with GP Wins still participating in them when they clearly have those badges on their Pilot Cards, just to be a dick and prevent others from winning
they need to pool the players in seperate matches that way
i dont care if you get 40 bots it makes it a lot more fun and bearable than 99 tryhards smashing into aeachother with one fox gay taking his sweet cruise at first
I have them and stopped. Is that really a solution for you? Cause if everyone does that, there wont be anyone left playing, kek
Pools and players are not unlimited; so matchmaking isnt a thing you can push
GPs are the fastest way to rank up and level up. Also yes I will show off GP trophies I've rightfully earned. They aren't supposed to be easy to get. Still think the queue system is wack pitting S- ranks with S* ranks
Right now i'm trying to get 1 win per car. That way i am at least playing with a vehicle i have not "mastered" yet. Afterwards i'll probably just join the occasional GP for fun to get a break from Mute City 99 without trying too hard
Queen cup is unironically easier.
On "easy" tracks you gotta compete with people who have played that track a hundred times and ingrained the racing line and it's especially favorable to fox because of the long recovery lines.
On Queens Cup it's easier to get ahead by being somewhat skilled at one of the more elaborate tracks and Foxes have a harder time getting ahead because of less straights and less recovery.
I predict it will be relatively easy to pull ahead in Kings Cup by playing Falcon and not fricking up a lot since he'll have the best balance of recovery/speed to not get bonked to death.
Of course given enough time it will be dominated by perfect Stingrays
>Mute City 3, which is actually a straighter line than Mute City 2 >Red Canyon 2, which is the same difficulty as Red Canyon 1 >Fire Field, which is admittedly a huge clusterfrick
This game seems fun but I'm not going to subscribe to Nintendo online for it
Shame they can't just put shit like this on all platforms. Would be a comfy game if you could cross play from anything
>Port Town I and Red Canyon are literally designed to punish players for not being dogshit with the only real ways to play them being to frontrun the entire race or guaranteeing you have the skylane on the final lap to skip the entire track. >Lucky Bumpers designed without any actual thought put into them and exist to protect players already in the lead, 99% of the time only ever spawning in locations where they can best obstruct and frick over racers below the 15-20 range >fox still not nerfed so the same 30 or so homosexuals who have already memorized every track and bumper spawn still shitting up 90% of races >no attempt at all to separate the sweaty uberhomosexuals from normal people, leaderboard encouraging homosexuals to farm endless GP wins
it started so well but the game has fallen off a cliff and unless the devs actually put some effort into fixing it (which they've made no hints towards) it's gonna be abandonware in a couple of months.
Bumpers designed without any actual thought put into them and exist to protect players already in the lead, 99% of the time only ever spawning in locations where they can best obstruct and frick over racers below the 15-20 range
this. so easy for first to dodge this shit and then lets everyone in that range to just get double fricked up
I don't have problems with the first and third points, it's all a matter of getting good at the game, but Lucky Bumpers should just not exist, there should be no reason why the game should reward losing players with a tool to screw players who are potentially on their road to their first 1st Place and are already dealing with walls of red bumpers, they created for the sole reason of allowing losers to be fricking buttholes.
GP ones are the worst, when I see them in the last tracks it just pisses me off to no end. You lost, you're done, stop being a fricking piece of shit and leave already.
GP ones are the worst, when I see them in the last tracks it just pisses me off to no end. You lost, you're done, stop being a fricking piece of shit and leave already.
And if they MUST exist, they should not be able to take ramps or drive into healing zones. And also, why are they allowed to have suck crazy knock back? It's just one of those gimmicks that have little to no actual counterplay to it what made them think it would be a good mechanic?
I don't have problems with the first and third points, it's all a matter of getting good at the game, but Lucky Bumpers should just not exist, there should be no reason why the game should reward losing players with a tool to screw players who are potentially on their road to their first 1st Place and are already dealing with walls of red bumpers, they created for the sole reason of allowing losers to be fricking buttholes.
Lucky Bumpers exist as a way to destress from a loss, especially in GP when there's so much at stake. By allowing people to be a petty POS with one final frick you as a consolation prize, there's a far lower chance of people just rage quitting after getting outskilled in GP. Of course they're frustrating when you're on the receiving end of it, but they very much have a purpose here.
you say that but then the game will spawn 2 alongside a bunch of bumpers or shit one right in the middle of the magnet section on port town where you can't dodge it nearly well enough unless you're already boosting
It was fun for a few weeks but the updates are a little too spaced out for how few new tracks there are. Red Canyon is the only interesting new 99 track, White Land II is great but it's locked to the very end of Queen Cup, and Death Wind II is alright but it's locked to Pro Tracks.
Having to race on Mute Shitty/Big Blue almost every time they're in a poll because shitters are afraid of anything more complex and Golden gay sweats want the easiest win possible is also annoying, I would rather suicide and lose rank than have to race through those fricking tracks 5 times in a row before finally getting a sand ocean/red canyon vote win.
I'll return for King Cup but if future updates are as bare in content as the last one they by the end of the year this game will probably just be a handful of autists racing each other in bot-padded lobbies before being shut down.
took the frickin words right out of my frickin mouith
i hate fomo league shit too. frick up on that have to wait even more hours, in the meantime heres shit team battle and mutecity/big blue again for the 99th time
this is the biggest thing. King league's gonna come around and what's gonna happen?
>mute city 3 in normal rotation making 99 mode mute city/mute city/mute city/big blue/sand ocean/death wind 1/port town 1/red canyon 1 >mute city is so simple that actual skill barely matters >death wind/port town 2 already in pro tracks >red canyon 2 almost certainly going in pro tracks >fire field will be relegated to the end of GPs
They should do the following: >You can choose from 3 tracks instead of 2. Instead of it being a vote, it randomly rolls a players choice like in MK8 >White Land 1 goes from pro tracks to 99 mode, Mute City 3 is in Pro Tracks and also has some adjustments to make it harder than the original >Silence and White Land 2 are added to pro tracks. Maybe the tracks are made slightly wider in the tight sections to accomodate for more players like Port Town 2 is.
I just had the worst race ever >red Canyon 1 >the zigzag line >boost, try get around the corner >bounce bounced bounce bounce >rank out
I was showed and silenced. I admit I'm not in a good mental state currently do to real life events and this bad way to lose has left me joyless because of zhe expectations I keep setting on myself
I know that I'm a homosexual no need to give me yous
using Falcon gives me no shame in continuing to play even now that I’ve improved as a player, since statistically I’ll never beat a pro Fox or Stingray and even at peak performance I have to play my ass off to dominate a GP where unlike Goose I always have a very real chance of getting fricked by a blue bumper and losing it all
Still hope it gets a tiny durability buff though
I agree, don't give up on falcon. I have won a gp with him. And still get 1st once in awhile. Hp buff would be nice. And when I get tired of it, I go Pico and start killing every fox player I can
I remember someone in these threads once said there weren't many pilots in the sport that did it as their primary career so I looked into all the pilots' motives up to GX/AX and made a graph for them. Some of these were actually different from what I remember, like Jack having been a FORMER boy band member turned pilot, and some I had trouble determining where to place (Billy, for example, had the main motive to prove apes are superior to humans but in GX interviews he's very money obsessed)
Overall, there are more in it for the sake of the sport than I thought but the majority are indeed in it for some other reason and probably wouldn't care much if the grand prix became illegal again
Yeah but that artist vastly over-embellished the size by making the pilots tiny. In reality the pilots aren't that small. Check out page 13 and onwards of this pdf: https://ia600206.us.archive.org/22/items/Nintendo64GameManuals/F-zeroXusa_text.pdf
The machines are still big though. I think F-Zero GX shrunk them just a little bit.
Hope you’re just stirring the pot and you don’t genuinely believe a free for all is all it takes to wear the label because that’d be pretty lame.
I’m sure someone like you exists out there for real
Grand prix can be considered one. >Heavily benefit from K.Oing other players since the K.O boost bonuses carry over to the next races, encouraginf you to eleminate other players. >The more you progress into the GP, the higher you have to finish to qualify >Very elimination oriented >The last race is the top 25 competing in a classic F-Zero bout.
The main difference is that the top 25 benefits from merely finishing the GP while a legit battle royale is last man standing, but F-Zero GP definetly has Battle Royale elements.
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This type of elimination has existed in sports far before Battle Royale was invented. You're right that the elements exist, but to call F-Zero 99 a Battle Royale would be like calling any bracketed or elimination based sports tournament a Battle Royale.
Thanks for the non-disingenuous reply, in any case.
>video is titled 'F-Zero's Funeral' >starts by reading off every page of the SNES F-Zero manual >includes skits about how you are too young to know what a manual is >goes on a rant about Zelda soundlink games when he runs out of manual to read and also needs to sperg out about this insane not-F-Zero-related trivia he read about regarding the Satellaview
My attention's funeral more like
Nah I think people just get bored too easily or simply play way too much and end up burned out after a mere month after release. I still have a shitload of fun playing the game and the game is very much alive.
Well this is the consequence of modern online gaming. The top level is always dominated by people who play 25 hours a day and 8 days a week so if you want to be part of the statistics or even hope to compete, sometimes you have to risk burning yourself out.
I guess it's easier for me since I'm a pretty busy person and I play this game at teardrop pace and I'm not seriously focused on winning races. I'm usually proud if I can finish top 10. This game is just really fun.
i think the main thing that bothers me is that this shit could go away at any point down the line so its about gettin in as much as you can while its still populated.
an actual main title drop with at least like 40 people would be just as good. have progression system, currency system so you can just buy your colors or some shit, decals etc
i dont plan on gettin #1 in 99 or gp even but i like collecting the colors for all the vehicles.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing some extremely basic fundamentals. Sometimes I'm in the top ten and sometimes I'm in the bottom 50. I do best in the later parts of a GP where I don't have people bumping me around all the time, but good luck getting a strong start in the GP.
Yeah, because in the beginning there are more players and your forced into the RNG blender pit where you can get sent flying out of nowhere but basically the early stages you spin at turns you would not want to get hit at and boost at the obvious spots.
Otherwise just pray things end up going well in the blender where the crowd has more control of your machine than you do.
are you genuinely moronic or something? fox was hyped BECAUSE it was good - that's the same reason people dislike it now. like every other meta in existence.
you picked fox because other people told you it was good. don't start b***hing when people laugh at you getting mogged. it makes you look more pathetic than you already are
how about >have to get a kill to enable boosting
it'd be much more of a bloodbath and stingrays would still take the lead and just run with it even without boost
It will eventually. The problem is 99 mode really, if some of these harder tracks rotated thru 99 mode you would see way less. Personally I dont play by 99 mode unless the only other option is team battle. I play GPs, miniGPs, and pro tracks only for the most part.
>forgotten
I love just watching this game
you're wrong op
it only needs more options for race types
friends only
track select so you and others can play the same track over and over, no vote
>see game >looks fun, will try it out >dust off switch, haven't touched in years >finally downloaded, launch it >needs nintendo online subscription for a free game >switch continues to collect dust
assuming it's possible, is it a plausible strategy to be bottom rank (80 or less) on the final lap of the gp, and then deliberately delay finishing to rack up the max limit on bumper kills on the first track of a GP? or does it go "no, you HAVE to accelerate" and boot you like it does if you go in reverse?
>make it on the top 20 for the first few rounds of GP >rank out in Red Canyon >get legitimately pissed off, ready to call to quits for the night >get a Lucky Bumper >"frick it, why not" >messed with as many opponents as possible >denied multiple cars vital healing, one even died because of it >feel a lot less mad by the time it blows up
I swear, just when I think I'm out, this game just pulls me right back in.
THE Ganker I KNEW WOULD LOVE GITTING GUD AT A NEW FZERO
>muh fox
NEVER SEEN A FOX MAKE IT TO THE END OF QUEEN CUP. I HAVE SCRENSHOTS. YOURE PISSING AND SHITTING OVER NOTHING. KING WILL BE WORSE FOR IT. YOURE JUST BAD AND LOOKING FOR EXCUSES. LOSER MENTALITY. FIXED BY GETTING GOOD. >muh falcon
GET GOOD >muh I have to pay for online
THE GAME IS FREE AND YOU CAN SPLIT ONLINE MEMBERSHIP ACROSS LIKE TEN PEOPLE. MY FRIEND LITERALLY COVERS THE BILL FOR ME ITS LIEK 10 DOLLARS A YEAR. MAKE A FRICKING DISCORD AND LINK IT ITT TO COORDINATE PAYING AMONG BROKE ANONS. DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSLEVES. ORGANIZE. >muh 99+ win rivals too tough :'(
Get good and fix your attitudes or fricking cry about it. God Damn Grand Prix weekend and I find you all, here being miserable slugs.
>Replay the SNES version out of nostalgia and to see what else they can add >Can't beat king cup on expert
This track in particular is cancer. I wonder if Fox gays will finally be defeated by it.
I play mostly Fox.
Even with a couple lucky KOs early in Queen I barely scrape by and am stuck in 4th place hell overall. I've known since week 1 that I'd have to switch by king cup, I just like boosting and having good handling makes the game feel too numb.
Anyway, anyone who has played X or GX knows that the racers with E health, (Gazelle, the Arrows, Zoda, even D ranks like Fox) don't actually survive endgame tracks. Lategame tracks in FZERO kill low durability machines. Always has. Always will.
Low health high boost is just too fricking fun. until they add Red Gazelle to 99 I'm gonna keep using Fox and boooosting because thats the coolest archetype.
So are they just supposed to not play? You're moronic.
these people have zero pride or self-awareness. They feel entitled to free wins. What is the accomplisment in beating someone lower ranked than you? They want participation trophies.
I've seen more all goose GP finishes than I have foxes individually in GP finishes.
Thing with Fox is that it's "high skill". If you can get to the front of the pack and run your lines perfectly, you win every time. The only RNG at that point are other high skill Fox gays right on your tail, which is very rare to have more than one in a lobby. For everyone else, Fox is actually a liability since it just gets murdered in the middle of the pack.
Go and watch Lunaire play. He autistically memorizes the tracks and bumper spawns and basically never falls below 3rd place even against other fox gays.
I'm almost certain i've raced him before but I'm pretty sure I kept up fine. Not gonna look him up because idgaf what some streamer is doing. If he is a savant/god then hes better than me. Theres ALWAYS someone better in life. All the more satisfying when I beat him. He cant predict every single lucky bumper and maybe I'll be right behind him. idk why you're so demoralized. Maybe I'm autistic or really good at the game or something.
The skyway is a really strong comeback mechanic. Being in first is not enough as a fox a lot of the time. no skyway access and having the lowest top speed means a better Stingray player WILL pass. Or a Goose hog that meme'd its way thru multiple skyways.
Free* (*with purchase) =/= Free.
the game is free with Nintendo Switch online. And even if it wasn't free, I'd buy it because I love FZERO.
get some friends together to do the plan. share the load at christmas time every year and split the meager bill. If you don't have friends get some anons in this very thread to start up a membership with you.
Ranked number 1 going into death wind then rank out first lap frick my life.
This is the most unfair thing that happens in this game. I nearly broke the switch in half. I guess the tick is to swear NEVER AGAIN and get more KOs earlier in the GP and fight like mad to stay ahead of the pack. I was so shocked when the UFO took me away, I had never seen it happen before. The cutoff in Death Wind lap 1 is too unforgiving, even good players get bad starts sometimes.
I'm not demoralized. I'm a fox player myself. I just have enough self awareness to admit it is the best machine in the game and is a big reason why the meta is so stale. In fact I've went to Goose recently because it's really boring playing as Fox if you are good.
You don't have to look him up if you don't want to, but lunaire has hundreds of first place wins doing the same thing with fox every time and is a good showcase of why it's broken.
>The only RNG at that point are other high skill Fox gays right on your tail
So? The RNG affects them more due to light weight and low durability. Is there something high skill about sitting in the pack basically immune to bumps and being able to tank red bumpers, waiting for easy opportunities to get kills? >which is very rare to have more than one in a lobby.
PFFFF what??
I always rank out in the 3rd lap in the GP via Death Wind. It pisses me off because I know I'm not that bad in the stage, but the pressure is high in GP compared to 99 mode. you're basically a sitting duck unless there are worse people than you.
I would love to have the Bumper actually be a playable craft, if they're ever gonna bother adding anything new to 99.
I think of using the Bumper in one of two possible ways; the first would be a straight-forward Expert's Challenge, basically low ratings across the board, with maybe a middle-of-the-road top speed and acceleration to at least keep up with the pack. The second would be something along the lines of a custom vehicle, which would start off with abysmally low ratings in the three main categories but would earn points that could slowly upgrade those attributes(I'm talking really slow, like it would take at least a thousand collected points to fill up the first bar, and increased amounts for the subsequent four bars).
sucks when I finally get a Switch and start playing it, discussion on Ganker drys up.
figures
Before the AI Dalle threads there were constant daily threads but I don’t think that’s the only thing that kinda killed it, it’s true there’s nothing really much to talk about, unless we get BS Content which cannot be experienced without Emulation and then there are more BS tracks lost to time.
What is there to talk about? It's a solved game and every single homosexual plays as meta as possible
>solved game
The solution?
Play 3 weeks ago.
same racing lines
same strat
same skyway shit
same maps
they need to start mirroring the courses
>Mirroring
Hey it did work for Mario Kart since Double Dash?
>Pick Golden Fox
>Take the shortest lines
>Boost as soon as you get it
>Now you are in first and you just time trial the rest of the course
Unless….. They frick up
>Crime rate skyrocketed! Porttown is ruined! Therefore, the Porttown government called Hiroshi Yamauchi's relative "Mr.EAD" for the massacre of the Bumpers.
>Mr.EAD is a killer machine. Wipe out all 1.2 billion of the red communists!
>However, in mainland China there was a secret project in progress! A project to transform the deceased Gunpei Yokoi into an ultimate weapon!
it was fun while it lasted. i hope f-zero gets a real entry soon
I hope F-Zero 99 got Miyamoto's LE NEED BIG GIMMICK FOR NEXT GAME autism out of his system for F-Zero that he's been harboring since the Wii era.
Patiently waiting for King Cup, but it's a shame that doesn't matter when I enter into a GP, there's always some 99+ wins Lv99 S18+ autist there to ruin everyone's chances. I still can't get a Knight Cup win because the tracks are too unforgiving in terms of mistakes, you bump once and you can say that podium goodbye.
It’s even more ridiculous seeing jackasses with GP Wins still participating in them when they clearly have those badges on their Pilot Cards, just to be a dick and prevent others from winning
they need to pool the players in seperate matches that way
i dont care if you get 40 bots it makes it a lot more fun and bearable than 99 tryhards smashing into aeachother with one fox gay taking his sweet cruise at first
I have them and stopped. Is that really a solution for you? Cause if everyone does that, there wont be anyone left playing, kek
Pools and players are not unlimited; so matchmaking isnt a thing you can push
>no more sweaty 12 win homosexuals polluting every single GP
oh noooooooooooooooooooooo
OH NOOOOOOOO WE CANT HAVE 40 BOTS THAT WOULD MAKE IT LESS CHAOTIC AND EASY FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO WIN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Just had this happen to me a JP golden fox player with the color robbed me.
GPs are the fastest way to rank up and level up. Also yes I will show off GP trophies I've rightfully earned. They aren't supposed to be easy to get. Still think the queue system is wack pitting S- ranks with S* ranks
I'm an S5 and I've been paired up with B+ and A- rivals for finishing below rank 40 in a prix race.
So are they just supposed to not play? You're moronic.
Right now i'm trying to get 1 win per car. That way i am at least playing with a vehicle i have not "mastered" yet. Afterwards i'll probably just join the occasional GP for fun to get a break from Mute City 99 without trying too hard
>you can’t keep playing a game you like because…you just can’t okay!!
I almost had it yesterday but got overexcited and fricking crashed in Silence.
Queen cup is unironically easier.
On "easy" tracks you gotta compete with people who have played that track a hundred times and ingrained the racing line and it's especially favorable to fox because of the long recovery lines.
On Queens Cup it's easier to get ahead by being somewhat skilled at one of the more elaborate tracks and Foxes have a harder time getting ahead because of less straights and less recovery.
I predict it will be relatively easy to pull ahead in Kings Cup by playing Falcon and not fricking up a lot since he'll have the best balance of recovery/speed to not get bonked to death.
Of course given enough time it will be dominated by perfect Stingrays
King Cup will just be easy like queen cup though.
>Mute City 3, which is actually a straighter line than Mute City 2
>Red Canyon 2, which is the same difficulty as Red Canyon 1
>Fire Field, which is admittedly a huge clusterfrick
This game seems fun but I'm not going to subscribe to Nintendo online for it
Shame they can't just put shit like this on all platforms. Would be a comfy game if you could cross play from anything
>Port Town I and Red Canyon are literally designed to punish players for not being dogshit with the only real ways to play them being to frontrun the entire race or guaranteeing you have the skylane on the final lap to skip the entire track.
>Lucky Bumpers designed without any actual thought put into them and exist to protect players already in the lead, 99% of the time only ever spawning in locations where they can best obstruct and frick over racers below the 15-20 range
>fox still not nerfed so the same 30 or so homosexuals who have already memorized every track and bumper spawn still shitting up 90% of races
>no attempt at all to separate the sweaty uberhomosexuals from normal people, leaderboard encouraging homosexuals to farm endless GP wins
it started so well but the game has fallen off a cliff and unless the devs actually put some effort into fixing it (which they've made no hints towards) it's gonna be abandonware in a couple of months.
Bumpers designed without any actual thought put into them and exist to protect players already in the lead, 99% of the time only ever spawning in locations where they can best obstruct and frick over racers below the 15-20 range
this. so easy for first to dodge this shit and then lets everyone in that range to just get double fricked up
I don't have problems with the first and third points, it's all a matter of getting good at the game, but Lucky Bumpers should just not exist, there should be no reason why the game should reward losing players with a tool to screw players who are potentially on their road to their first 1st Place and are already dealing with walls of red bumpers, they created for the sole reason of allowing losers to be fricking buttholes.
i think they shouldn't exist much in GP of all frickin places, at least player controlled ones
GP ones are the worst, when I see them in the last tracks it just pisses me off to no end. You lost, you're done, stop being a fricking piece of shit and leave already.
And if they MUST exist, they should not be able to take ramps or drive into healing zones. And also, why are they allowed to have suck crazy knock back? It's just one of those gimmicks that have little to no actual counterplay to it what made them think it would be a good mechanic?
Lucky Bumpers exist as a way to destress from a loss, especially in GP when there's so much at stake. By allowing people to be a petty POS with one final frick you as a consolation prize, there's a far lower chance of people just rage quitting after getting outskilled in GP. Of course they're frustrating when you're on the receiving end of it, but they very much have a purpose here.
Really good point I never thought of.
That's a good way to put it.
which again wouldn't be a problem if they were fricking over the leaders more rather than people trying to catch up
im fine with my 69 🙂
They’re easier to dodge in the pack than they are at the front.
you say that but then the game will spawn 2 alongside a bunch of bumpers or shit one right in the middle of the magnet section on port town where you can't dodge it nearly well enough unless you're already boosting
I'm fine with bumpers. They should just make red bumpers expire more quickly so that they don't frick over someone in 20th place trying to catch up
It was fun for a few weeks but the updates are a little too spaced out for how few new tracks there are. Red Canyon is the only interesting new 99 track, White Land II is great but it's locked to the very end of Queen Cup, and Death Wind II is alright but it's locked to Pro Tracks.
Having to race on Mute Shitty/Big Blue almost every time they're in a poll because shitters are afraid of anything more complex and Golden gay sweats want the easiest win possible is also annoying, I would rather suicide and lose rank than have to race through those fricking tracks 5 times in a row before finally getting a sand ocean/red canyon vote win.
I'll return for King Cup but if future updates are as bare in content as the last one they by the end of the year this game will probably just be a handful of autists racing each other in bot-padded lobbies before being shut down.
took the frickin words right out of my frickin mouith
i hate fomo league shit too. frick up on that have to wait even more hours, in the meantime heres shit team battle and mutecity/big blue again for the 99th time
this is the biggest thing. King league's gonna come around and what's gonna happen?
>mute city 3 in normal rotation making 99 mode mute city/mute city/mute city/big blue/sand ocean/death wind 1/port town 1/red canyon 1
>mute city is so simple that actual skill barely matters
>death wind/port town 2 already in pro tracks
>red canyon 2 almost certainly going in pro tracks
>fire field will be relegated to the end of GPs
They should do the following:
>You can choose from 3 tracks instead of 2. Instead of it being a vote, it randomly rolls a players choice like in MK8
>White Land 1 goes from pro tracks to 99 mode, Mute City 3 is in Pro Tracks and also has some adjustments to make it harder than the original
>Silence and White Land 2 are added to pro tracks. Maybe the tracks are made slightly wider in the tight sections to accomodate for more players like Port Town 2 is.
>finish gp with score that would get me into first in any kind of normal lobby
>2nd because in lobby with homosexual with 50 gp wins
I just had the worst race ever
>red Canyon 1
>the zigzag line
>boost, try get around the corner
>bounce bounced bounce bounce
>rank out
I was showed and silenced. I admit I'm not in a good mental state currently do to real life events and this bad way to lose has left me joyless because of zhe expectations I keep setting on myself
I know that I'm a homosexual no need to give me yous
Play F-Zero SNES, you'll feel better
>946 points
>2nd in GP
i'm so fricking sick of this shit. i just want one fricking stingray win. just one.
id rather let use exchange tickets for colors at this point
im not even a stingray main i just want the fricking GP since it's the only color left
People are still playing F-Zero 99 dipshit.
The only difference is its no longer THE topic of discussion on Ganker which is to be expected with how fast internet discussion is.
This, y'all are moronic. Everyone b***hing needs to just gitgud. And no I don't use that homosexual fox. I have plenty of wins and Gp wins
using Falcon gives me no shame in continuing to play even now that I’ve improved as a player, since statistically I’ll never beat a pro Fox or Stingray and even at peak performance I have to play my ass off to dominate a GP where unlike Goose I always have a very real chance of getting fricked by a blue bumper and losing it all
Still hope it gets a tiny durability buff though
I agree, don't give up on falcon. I have won a gp with him. And still get 1st once in awhile. Hp buff would be nice. And when I get tired of it, I go Pico and start killing every fox player I can
I’m curious about the dislikes on the reveal, anyone got a YouTube Extension to show dislikes
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https://returnyoutubedislike.com/
less than I'd hope, more than I thought.
Describe what gives you this feeling
Getting nicked by a laggy Japanese Lucky Bumper when playing Fox in 99 because if I don't play Fox in 99 it is a near-guaranteed loss.
Good. Now let's see these bandwagoners get behind an actual F-Zero title.
They would abandon it just as fast.
I remember someone in these threads once said there weren't many pilots in the sport that did it as their primary career so I looked into all the pilots' motives up to GX/AX and made a graph for them. Some of these were actually different from what I remember, like Jack having been a FORMER boy band member turned pilot, and some I had trouble determining where to place (Billy, for example, had the main motive to prove apes are superior to humans but in GX interviews he's very money obsessed)
Overall, there are more in it for the sake of the sport than I thought but the majority are indeed in it for some other reason and probably wouldn't care much if the grand prix became illegal again
Zoda's desire of turning Earth into a planet-sized casino is most noble.
Sometimes I forgot how big F-Machines really are.
Yeah but that artist vastly over-embellished the size by making the pilots tiny. In reality the pilots aren't that small. Check out page 13 and onwards of this pdf: https://ia600206.us.archive.org/22/items/Nintendo64GameManuals/F-zeroXusa_text.pdf
The machines are still big though. I think F-Zero GX shrunk them just a little bit.
I’m not a shill but I found this in my recommended
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>battle royale online nso slop is the future of f-zero
Jesus christ just keep this series dead. Sega made the only good F-zero game anyway.
what makes this battle royale? It’s a racing game for goodness’ sake, would 30p F Zero X also be a “battle royale”?
>what makes this battle royale?
The fact that it's a fricking battle royale, dipshit.
Hope you’re just stirring the pot and you don’t genuinely believe a free for all is all it takes to wear the label because that’d be pretty lame.
I’m sure someone like you exists out there for real
It's only as "battle royale" as any other game in the series.
Explain how it's a battle royale.
Watch this video:
>marketing is facts
And I suppose Dark Souls is super hard too.
Explain to me, in your own words, how the game is a battle royale.
Nintendo, who created the game, calls it one. Contradict Nintendo if you wish.
>make a platformer
>call it an fps
It's an fps, undebateable.
Grand prix can be considered one.
>Heavily benefit from K.Oing other players since the K.O boost bonuses carry over to the next races, encouraginf you to eleminate other players.
>The more you progress into the GP, the higher you have to finish to qualify
>Very elimination oriented
>The last race is the top 25 competing in a classic F-Zero bout.
The main difference is that the top 25 benefits from merely finishing the GP while a legit battle royale is last man standing, but F-Zero GP definetly has Battle Royale elements.
This type of elimination has existed in sports far before Battle Royale was invented. You're right that the elements exist, but to call F-Zero 99 a Battle Royale would be like calling any bracketed or elimination based sports tournament a Battle Royale.
Thanks for the non-disingenuous reply, in any case.
>people race in a racing game
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH??????????????????????????????????????????
Are you this whiny homosexual?
This is a good video though and everything he says is correct, he doesn't even hate 99 either.
>video is titled 'F-Zero's Funeral'
>starts by reading off every page of the SNES F-Zero manual
>includes skits about how you are too young to know what a manual is
>goes on a rant about Zelda soundlink games when he runs out of manual to read and also needs to sperg out about this insane not-F-Zero-related trivia he read about regarding the Satellaview
My attention's funeral more like
I'm waiting for King League to drop since I already unlocked all of Knight and Queen League tracks.
Had this picture of an AX Cabinet, so I’ll just share it here
Holy shit Fire Field is tough. Can't wait to see it in 99.
I gave up trying to win a GP, I can't play this shit anymore
Maybe I'll try when King Cup drops but I'm not optimistic
>down to 2 tickets
>join GP at about 1:30ish left
>stingray
>get one grey KO across the entire pree
>14th
>2nd
>3rd
>2nd
>2nd
>954 points
>22 over 2nd
Yep.
100% GP is one of the most demoralizing gaming experiences.
I was good but then other people got better and I'm no longer good.
I'm sick of fox homosexuals ruining the game for everyone else
Nah I think people just get bored too easily or simply play way too much and end up burned out after a mere month after release. I still have a shitload of fun playing the game and the game is very much alive.
I mean there were still good threads days ago.
>to get good you have to play courses a lot
>end up having to "burn out" trying to get good
theres no winning with this game.
the only fun is to kill
Well this is the consequence of modern online gaming. The top level is always dominated by people who play 25 hours a day and 8 days a week so if you want to be part of the statistics or even hope to compete, sometimes you have to risk burning yourself out.
I guess it's easier for me since I'm a pretty busy person and I play this game at teardrop pace and I'm not seriously focused on winning races. I'm usually proud if I can finish top 10. This game is just really fun.
i think the main thing that bothers me is that this shit could go away at any point down the line so its about gettin in as much as you can while its still populated.
an actual main title drop with at least like 40 people would be just as good. have progression system, currency system so you can just buy your colors or some shit, decals etc
i dont plan on gettin #1 in 99 or gp even but i like collecting the colors for all the vehicles.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing some extremely basic fundamentals. Sometimes I'm in the top ten and sometimes I'm in the bottom 50. I do best in the later parts of a GP where I don't have people bumping me around all the time, but good luck getting a strong start in the GP.
Yeah, because in the beginning there are more players and your forced into the RNG blender pit where you can get sent flying out of nowhere but basically the early stages you spin at turns you would not want to get hit at and boost at the obvious spots.
Otherwise just pray things end up going well in the blender where the crowd has more control of your machine than you do.
I HATE DEATH WIND
I'm pretty sure all 25 of my wins were due to a last-minute sky way.
I HATE LUCKY BUMPERS! REMOVE THEM FROM THE GAME!
They would be at least x3 worse if people knew you can use brakes as a lucky bumper.
>Foxgay
Deserved tbh.
Our God is a just god
>Release date
>YOO PICK FOX THIS IS THE BEST MACHINE XD XD
>One month later
>YOOOO FRICK FOX AND METAhomosexualRY XD
Frick Ganker.
stay mald, foxshitter
Next time, make sure not to collectively hype the machine you'll end up collectively hating you fricking tool.
are you genuinely moronic or something? fox was hyped BECAUSE it was good - that's the same reason people dislike it now. like every other meta in existence.
you picked fox because other people told you it was good. don't start b***hing when people laugh at you getting mogged. it makes you look more pathetic than you already are
I've mained Goose from the start stay salty foxshitter 🙂
should slipped between the grey/red bumpers and taken the outside line.
i want to know why they cant let people wait a lap to get a boost instead of the beginning?
id probably imagine stingrays kinda dominating then
>Kinda
Stingray would dominate the game harder than Fox EVER did.
how about
>have to get a kill to enable boosting
it'd be much more of a bloodbath and stingrays would still take the lead and just run with it even without boost
FRICKING FINALLY AND IT WAS A WHITE LAND 2 WIN. Now i need the fox gold and I'm done.
>no foxes in top 10
luck
Hardly, it's the queen cup. Difficult tracks kills the fox gay. Wait till king cup, you'll never see a fox again
now if only 99 had more tracks that didn't let fox be a homosexual 90% of the time
It will eventually. The problem is 99 mode really, if some of these harder tracks rotated thru 99 mode you would see way less. Personally I dont play by 99 mode unless the only other option is team battle. I play GPs, miniGPs, and pro tracks only for the most part.
i want that color. i dont even know what #1 in 99 even gives. guessing black.
Yea the black colors are for first in 99 mode, I believe in you don't give up
>One bomb car doesn't take the ramp but then the other one does and literally hard turns right and pushes me off the map.
>burn all my hp and get ko'd expending all my boosts to ram max rank fox shitter in 1st into walls
it's not about winning, it's about sending a message
>it’s about sending a message
That you can’t win races?
>forgotten
I love just watching this game
you're wrong op
it only needs more options for race types
friends only
track select so you and others can play the same track over and over, no vote
>see game
>looks fun, will try it out
>dust off switch, haven't touched in years
>finally downloaded, launch it
>needs nintendo online subscription for a free game
>switch continues to collect dust
yeah frick this piece of shit..
What controller do you guys use?
Stick or D-pad?
Dpad
assuming it's possible, is it a plausible strategy to be bottom rank (80 or less) on the final lap of the gp, and then deliberately delay finishing to rack up the max limit on bumper kills on the first track of a GP? or does it go "no, you HAVE to accelerate" and boot you like it does if you go in reverse?
>make it on the top 20 for the first few rounds of GP
>rank out in Red Canyon
>get legitimately pissed off, ready to call to quits for the night
>get a Lucky Bumper
>"frick it, why not"
>messed with as many opponents as possible
>denied multiple cars vital healing, one even died because of it
>feel a lot less mad by the time it blows up
I swear, just when I think I'm out, this game just pulls me right back in.
YOU WHINY FRICKING homosexualS
THE Ganker I KNEW WOULD LOVE GITTING GUD AT A NEW FZERO
>muh fox
NEVER SEEN A FOX MAKE IT TO THE END OF QUEEN CUP. I HAVE SCRENSHOTS. YOURE PISSING AND SHITTING OVER NOTHING. KING WILL BE WORSE FOR IT. YOURE JUST BAD AND LOOKING FOR EXCUSES. LOSER MENTALITY. FIXED BY GETTING GOOD.
>muh falcon
GET GOOD
>muh I have to pay for online
THE GAME IS FREE AND YOU CAN SPLIT ONLINE MEMBERSHIP ACROSS LIKE TEN PEOPLE. MY FRIEND LITERALLY COVERS THE BILL FOR ME ITS LIEK 10 DOLLARS A YEAR. MAKE A FRICKING DISCORD AND LINK IT ITT TO COORDINATE PAYING AMONG BROKE ANONS. DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSLEVES. ORGANIZE.
>muh 99+ win rivals too tough :'(
Get good and fix your attitudes or fricking cry about it. God Damn Grand Prix weekend and I find you all, here being miserable slugs.
>THE GAME IS FREE
>AND YOU CAN SPLIT THE COST
I didn't spend anything.
also having money and friends and Fzero is a lot cooler than having none of those things.
Free* (*with purchase) =/= Free.
>Replay the SNES version out of nostalgia and to see what else they can add
>Can't beat king cup on expert
This track in particular is cancer. I wonder if Fox gays will finally be defeated by it.
I play mostly Fox.
Even with a couple lucky KOs early in Queen I barely scrape by and am stuck in 4th place hell overall. I've known since week 1 that I'd have to switch by king cup, I just like boosting and having good handling makes the game feel too numb.
Anyway, anyone who has played X or GX knows that the racers with E health, (Gazelle, the Arrows, Zoda, even D ranks like Fox) don't actually survive endgame tracks. Lategame tracks in FZERO kill low durability machines. Always has. Always will.
Low health high boost is just too fricking fun. until they add Red Gazelle to 99 I'm gonna keep using Fox and boooosting because thats the coolest archetype.
these people have zero pride or self-awareness. They feel entitled to free wins. What is the accomplisment in beating someone lower ranked than you? They want participation trophies.
Thing with Fox is that it's "high skill". If you can get to the front of the pack and run your lines perfectly, you win every time. The only RNG at that point are other high skill Fox gays right on your tail, which is very rare to have more than one in a lobby. For everyone else, Fox is actually a liability since it just gets murdered in the middle of the pack.
Go and watch Lunaire play. He autistically memorizes the tracks and bumper spawns and basically never falls below 3rd place even against other fox gays.
I'm almost certain i've raced him before but I'm pretty sure I kept up fine. Not gonna look him up because idgaf what some streamer is doing. If he is a savant/god then hes better than me. Theres ALWAYS someone better in life. All the more satisfying when I beat him. He cant predict every single lucky bumper and maybe I'll be right behind him. idk why you're so demoralized. Maybe I'm autistic or really good at the game or something.
The skyway is a really strong comeback mechanic. Being in first is not enough as a fox a lot of the time. no skyway access and having the lowest top speed means a better Stingray player WILL pass. Or a Goose hog that meme'd its way thru multiple skyways.
the game is free with Nintendo Switch online. And even if it wasn't free, I'd buy it because I love FZERO.
get some friends together to do the plan. share the load at christmas time every year and split the meager bill. If you don't have friends get some anons in this very thread to start up a membership with you.
This is the most unfair thing that happens in this game. I nearly broke the switch in half. I guess the tick is to swear NEVER AGAIN and get more KOs earlier in the GP and fight like mad to stay ahead of the pack. I was so shocked when the UFO took me away, I had never seen it happen before. The cutoff in Death Wind lap 1 is too unforgiving, even good players get bad starts sometimes.
>the game is free with Nintendo Switch online
See
As much as getting ranked out sucked on wind i like how big of a filter it is.
I'm not demoralized. I'm a fox player myself. I just have enough self awareness to admit it is the best machine in the game and is a big reason why the meta is so stale. In fact I've went to Goose recently because it's really boring playing as Fox if you are good.
You don't have to look him up if you don't want to, but lunaire has hundreds of first place wins doing the same thing with fox every time and is a good showcase of why it's broken.
>The only RNG at that point are other high skill Fox gays right on your tail
So? The RNG affects them more due to light weight and low durability. Is there something high skill about sitting in the pack basically immune to bumps and being able to tank red bumpers, waiting for easy opportunities to get kills?
>which is very rare to have more than one in a lobby.
PFFFF what??
I've seen more all goose GP finishes than I have foxes individually in GP finishes.
Ranked number 1 going into death wind then rank out first lap frick my life.
I always rank out in the 3rd lap in the GP via Death Wind. It pisses me off because I know I'm not that bad in the stage, but the pressure is high in GP compared to 99 mode. you're basically a sitting duck unless there are worse people than you.
I would love to have the Bumper actually be a playable craft, if they're ever gonna bother adding anything new to 99.
I think of using the Bumper in one of two possible ways; the first would be a straight-forward Expert's Challenge, basically low ratings across the board, with maybe a middle-of-the-road top speed and acceleration to at least keep up with the pack. The second would be something along the lines of a custom vehicle, which would start off with abysmally low ratings in the three main categories but would earn points that could slowly upgrade those attributes(I'm talking really slow, like it would take at least a thousand collected points to fill up the first bar, and increased amounts for the subsequent four bars).
what about a stupid gimmick team mode with a handful of racers vs everyone else playing as bumpers
Should they buff Captain Falcon?
is there a maximum amount of tickets? currently at 91, getting ready for the king cup week to hit top 100
Honestly I'm surprised they didn't cap it at 10 so I assume there is no cap for tickets
I have 100 wins in Team Battle
All 100 wins all I did was play Fox and get 1st place.
Kneel.
I mean even just participating is a coin flip for a victory.
I’m fricking free. Just Goose to go.