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Each line is the games I played on days starting on April 26th. Does anyone care about this? No, I'm sure not. But I wrote it and keep adding to it daily, so I kind of want to post it somewhere and where better than here?
Before I begin, I got MKW day one, of course, and played it single player first. Once I started playing the online play though, I quickly got into the online Knockout Tour mode. And that is what this is: a log of my finishes in online Knockout Tours, with comments as I get frustrated by the usual Mario Kart nonsense.
And on that note, in Mario Kart, one of the key decisions is your vehicle and character combination. I almost always use a pretty bad one: Rosalina on her snowmobile sled the Dread Sled, with her Aurora costume. I chose it because it's the best looking vehicle for her, it's clearly themed for Rosalina and her ice and snow mountain, but here's the issue: it has the lowest acceleration of any vehicle in the game. Rosalina is a heavyweight character, so she's already on the slow acceleration and high top speed side, and pairing her with the absolute worst acceleration in the game is, well, it's "if I get hit it's often instant Game Over" material. A better choice would be Rosalina with a vehicle with higher acceleration, to get the high top speed of a heavyweight character that is good in Knockout Tour but to also have some acceleration, because instantly losing every time I get hit within like a hundred yards of a checkpoint is, uh, not fun. But I like my snowmobile and I've stuck with it for the entire time since I started playing. And the results are... largely static rating. I am 7930 rating today, and the first score I mention in this document says 'got over 8000 again'. So uh yeah, I just play the game and don't really try to get better. So yeah, the constant frustration below is real, but I also know that it's what is going to happen with this character/kart combo. I choose to stick with it anyway.
But hey, is that fun? Yes. I feel kind of bad that I have never tried to actually get good at the game and still can't do most any of the cool tricks the good players can, but even so I like the game anyway and am still addicted to Mario Kart World. I know I get frustrated and close the program and go watch Youtube or play some Mario Maker, but, like, I always go back and play some more, and it's almost always online Knockout Tour with Rosalina in the Dread Sled, because it's a beautiful looking game with exceptional gameplay. It's fun, simple, easy to just chill out and play a few tours of... yeah, I'm still hooked, sadly.
So uh Nintendo, will we ever get DLC with new tracks for this game? Please? :(
The below list starts in late April. Each line or paragraph is the games I played that day. If I skip a day, well, I just didn't add to the document, so it's unmentioned unless I say something in the comments.
12 12 12 18 4 2 4 21 (or something like that, there may have been a few more mid-placement finishes)
18 1 24
18 13 1 24
I don't remember, there were too many. uh, 22 18 4 (some low ones) 6 (more low ones) 1 22 (quit for a bit here) 18 1 16 12 (quit)
2 6 17 2 5
3 6 (maybe something here?) 8 6
4 3 8 12 (quit for a while here) 11 5 [that 11... argh. I finished 16, ~14, 12, 11, with the 11 because I was hit like a million times and got useless items. Thanks Nintendo.]
3 15 (followed by crashout because of how nonsense that second one was)
14 4 11 17 8 (that last one was such infuriating nonsense, I was shot down midair in the flying cutscene going to the beginning of the track at the very end... so insanely unfair! ruined a game where I only barely avoided getting eliminated at the first checkpoint because of a late shock, I was in 23rd right at the end but managed to draft off of the guy in 22nd and passed 22 and 21 with that boost just in front of the line...)
22 2 4 8 8 (in ranking points, the 2 and 4 left me -3 for the day, after that first one. then the first 8th was a -14 and the second a ... +26? uh, okay. weird.)
2 15 (quit in frustration here)
9 (six finishes between 12 and 16 in a row here, like none of which felt like they happened because I played badly but because of bad luck or RNG) 1 (quit here down "only" like 90 points. Yes I'm surprised I didn't lose more rank too after so many bad finishes.)
15 7 4 7 1 (pretty good, got over 8000 rating again!)
(something like 12 or something, maybe 16? not sure) 16 4 16 This game is so stupid, I need to stop wasting my life with this RNG trash... but somehow I ended still over 8000.
20 (TWO shocks in the last section of the second segment, one immediately after both of the last two item spots. Absolutely absurd garbage. They were what like 15 second apart?)
2 4 24 (nothing I can do about getting hit out of the air, dropping from 2nd to 20th instantly, then getting a triple mushroom at the next and last item spot, in 22nd, while everyone else got good items. Exceptionally unlucky.) (later...) 11 12
14 7 3 8 7 5 (that may seem good but it didn't feel good. That last one, for instance? I was definitely in the top four, but this game, which doesn't seem to know what position you are actually in in online races, said I was in 5th, you lose. It's just absurd how bad the lag correction is and that the game really doesn't seem to know what positions the players are in online and then just makes something up or something.)
2 20 (The usual story: I do well in a race, then the game targets me and makes sure I do badly in the next one. This has happened far too many times for it to be a cooincidence. I honestly think it is more likely intentional design than an accident by this point.)
3 18 4 2 4 15 (yeah, the usual pattern.)
9 18 20 5 5 13 (worst, most frustrating session in a long time. Why am I addicted to this RNG trash? For example, in BOTH of those fifth place finishes, I was in first or second entering the final turn, only, of course, to be hit repeatedly and get eliminated at the last possible second. Could I see them passing me? In the first of those no, of course not, they were invisible or on another route or something. Naturally. And that 13th was basically the same, 'hit right in front of the line, you're out'. Over and over and over.)
I don't remember, a bunch of games. uh, like, 3, something middling, something, ended with a 1st. overall I think I gained points, ended at 7994.
9 (had a big lead right near the checkpoint, shock+run over = incredibly frustrating RNG 9th.)
13 7 (somehow, I lost like 18 rating points with a pretty solid 7th place finish. How they decide the points makes no sense to me. I'm down to near 7900.) 18 (went off the side on the ice road. my mistake. pretty dumb in a race with 8 AIs, though... oh well.) 9 3 6 4 (break here) 6 13 16 20 (or something like that, there may have been another decent one in between the 6 and 16. On that last 20, there's really nothing I could have done; I got unavoidably hit repeatedly and then the game blocked me from getting any powerups for the last several powerup spots. The way this game punishes you so harshly for the complete random chance that is 'lol you went through the powerup spot but not nothing' is garbage game design, but that's how this game is. I'm not upset, it's just incredibly poor design that it can happen.)
3 15 9
2 24 (the usual pattern yet again.)
(several days off here)
1 23
14
6 10 22 12 5 (overall down a bunch, I'm down to like 7800. It felt like I got hit by one or two shells almost every single time I tried to use a mushroom the entire session, utterly absurd.) (break here) 15 22 18-ish (the game blocked me from getting anything from the last TWO item sets. result was obvious.) 2 2 6 (that last one was so frustrating, I had a huge lead... until I ran into an obstacle for no reason and then failed to go off the track to dodge the blue shell, 6th. bad play by me.)
3 1 2 8 (break) 8 2 (back over 8000! very good so far...) [after this I played the single race mode for a while for the first time in some time. I'm only 7000 rated there, I haven't played it much and aren't any good. Yes, after most of a year of playing this game, I still haven't tried to get good. I can't charge jump up to shortcuts and secret routes and such, for instance. My lack of skill immediately shows when I try this mode and start struggling immediately. Still, my rating was so low that despite finishing 12th or lower in all races but one, I gained rating so longas I finished at least, like, 22nd... which I didn't always do. This mode is kind of fun but requires a lot more skill and concentration than knockout tour. It just depends on what you want. I ended for the moment at 7190, dropping to that after a couple of last place finishes. Given that most people in the room were over 8000 rating though, I think I did fine.] 5 15 8 5 12 [or something like that for those last four, but it must have been high-rated opponents because I stayed over 8000 at the end.]
12
[If I quit this game it will be because of how garbage the lag correction is.] 24 5 20 8 22 14 (and now I'm down a lot of points and well under 7800. just great. At one point it changed my position from 19 to 21 without me passing anyone or without anyone passing me. Then I got eliminated because I was below 20. Do they have any idea what it happening at any given time in this game?) (later...) 3 4 3 15
15 6 3 8 16 24 6
5 2 9 (9? yeah, no. I was in 6th at worst. I have no idea where they got 9th from but there is no way that was accurate.)
5 3 (maybe a 5th to 8th here?) 4 (7990 something, several good races, time for it to target me...) 16 (yup! as I said. I got run over so many times in this one it's absurd. I made some mistakes also that hurt, though, so it was also my fault. But it was a late shock that doomed me, not much I could do about that.) 21 (another late shock. thanks Nintendo.) [service disconnection here, lose a bunch of points because of Nintendo server issue] 5 12 12 (I am sure I speak for everyone who plays this game regularly when I say that this game is both addictive and infuriatingly unfair and frustrating. Those last two... I hate this game sometimes.)
6 21 9 16 (down a LOT, to barely over 7700.)
5 5 3 8 (7775) 14 (my own fault here, went off the side.)
9 1 1 (7850, it was satisfying but I wasn't getting many points for these wins) 21 (oh, you just won twice in a row? Nice! We'll make sure to block you from getting any items this time, blocking you entirely the first few item spots and ending with a shock right after the last item spot. Have "fun"!) 13 5 16 4
4 (in this one, two people literally fell out of the sky in front of me as I crossed the finish line in second. "fourth".) 8 13
14 13 10 19 (when you repeatedly get eliminated because of RNG nonsense like shocks and being denied getting any items from multiple item spots at the end of a segment, as happened in one form or another in all four of these rallies, this game feels like one of the worst games ever made. Getting through the first checkpoint in 20th twice in these four rallies was tense, but who cares when the game's just about to completely destroy me with RNG I can do absolutely nothing about a few minutes later?)
4 3 17 (down to below where I started with that one) 4 3 1 (golden mushroom at the last stretch of far away oasis propelled me to a somewhat undeserved win from behind, fun stuff!) 3 6 (this race was a total mess, there must have been so much lag! Stuff kept happening that has no explanation, first I hit a shell but no I kept going and the shell broke, then at the 16 checkpoint I was in 18th and it was over, but for some unexplained reason four people stopped just before the line (I don't think they were all hit?) and I somehow was in 14th, I have no clue what happened there, and then I was in a great position to be in the top four nearing the start of the final lap... only to be hit by ice flower shots right near the goal. Sad end to a previously absurd rally.) 8 (maybe another 5 to 8 here) 2 8 12
2 3 17 3 (back over 8000 at last, whew...)
12 (oh, so I get an ice flower and a single mushroom in like 8th at the last item set before the checkpoint, while everyone behind me gets good items, bullet and goldens, and obviously I finish in last? I hate this game sometimes...) 1 3 (the player list said that there were only five humans in this one, which was very odd if true. usually lobbies are mostly full. two of those five were really good though, one was over 9000 rating, in knockout tour! don't see that very often.)
3 7 (should have slowed down and gotten passed so I'd get a better item, with that huge shortcut right at the end before the savana track what was I doing staying in 2nd? I didn't have enough of a lead for that...) 7 11 11 8 (maybe a 6 here) 12 13 (this game is so deeply unfair sometimes that I don't know what to say, how are repeated shocks right near the end of the rally reasonable design? Being in a better spot should be good, not bad... but no, killed by shocks over and over here.)
(8 or 12 or something) 11 (maybe another 12?) 8 (in this one I got like 18th, 12th, and 8th at knockout checkpoints, but sadly I couldn't get above that. I had a bullet and was way behind in 8th after being hit, heading towards DK Mountain, and used the bullet. That got me to 4th. After that I got basically no items and was of course passed back again. I could have waited for the ending shortcut for the bullet, but with how far behind I was I'm unconvinced that it would have caught me up... not sure though. Ah well.) 6 (at this point I was about even on the day) 15
16 21 8 23 10 12 8 (I could complain at length about several of these games -- and I should because I lost like 200 rating here, back down to the mid 7800s -- but like, the RNG decided I needed to die, so it killed me, with the perfect selections of incidents, over and over. Not once did it feel like I had a strong chance of doing any better than I did, it was more like 'it's a miracle that I wasn't eliminated even sooner!' every single time. Just ludicrous nonsense - getting my items stolen by ghosts over and over at the worst possible times, blue shells combined with ghosts, shocks after the last item set repeatedly, red shells of course, etc, etc.)
2 2 20 (item theft and shock really need to be nerfed.) 11 10 3 17
10 21 (both of these ended because of being run over right in front of the checkpoint. Nothing more infuriating exists in this game. back to 7770.) 5 3 21 5 (maybe not in that order for these four, but there was a third, another bad finish, and it ended with a 5th. In both 5ths I should have made the final four but got hit right at the end close to the line. So yeah that's five 'hit right by the line and thus eliminated' endings in six rallies. "Fun".) (3 finishes in a row between 10th and 12th here) 7 (shock after last item set.) 17
19 4 2 1 (I fell back a bit somewhat on purpose and was in 6th at the final item spot approaching the big curve to Faraway Oasis... and got blue shell + golden. Used immediately that jumped me up to 1st, which I easily held through the lap.) 9 (there is nothing I could have done to finish higher in this one, I was hit WAY too many times. Got targeted hard.)
19 8 11 (two eliminations here because the game didn't give me any speed items at the end of a segment. Awful awful RNG.) 4 7 8 21
6 11 11 4 (start: 7850. end: 7820. Inordinate punishment for the decent 11th place finishes, that's for sure.)
14 (shock right before the checkpoint killed me from 6th place.) 19 (I did nothing wrong here, not sure how I was so far back...) 1 5 (very frustrating but a decent finish...)
8 (when you're in 4th nearing the last checkpoint and the guy behind you has red shells... well, only one way that's going to end, sadly.) 18 (oh, I only get ice and fire flowers while everyone else gets good items? why thank you RNG...)
5 14 19 14 8 12 12 8 18
6 6 (somehow gaining almost nothing for these good finishes) 17
15 (after this I was under 7700) 3 4 [8 or something] [something mediocre here]
(start: 7770-ish) 4 19 (break) 4 2 2 (stop while I'm ahead for once...)
17 (and then I quit in disgust to play the new version of Dead or Alive 6, Last Round, and work on my website.)
6 4 4 3 "21" (that last one had like the worst lag I have ever seen in this game. I was in 21st approaching the first checkpoint, used a golden mushroom and gained zero ground on the pack (even though this is impossible), then finally I passed a couple of them, go through the checkpoint in something like 19th... then several seconds later the game kicks me out and says I wasn't in the top 20. I have no idea what happened there but it should not happen.)
17 (somehow in about 16th or lower I got a triple shell and single mushroom. Uh yeah that's not going to cut it.) 16 (laaaag!) 4 8 4 3 17
[This is the day they added two new Knockout Tour rallies! Very exciting stuff, 25% more content instantly in the main mode I play!) 12 8 3 4 (maybe another 4) 3 8 (and I think there were a few more, none terrible)
21 6 10 24 (I was in about 20th and got a single shell and a coin shell at the last item spot before the first checkpoint. The result was obvious. How is such an absurdly bad draw even possible?) 8
8 17 (break) 4 (I should have won this, but got hit one too many times at the end...) 21 (the new wario shipyard to bowser castle rally is cool, except for the end of the first section. that part is great until you get out of the water, after that it's a narrow canyon with too few item spots. Basically it seriously punishes heavy characters because of not having enough items to make up for the chaos, I've gotten knocked out here multiple times without doing anything at all wrong.) 13 5 2 7 8
21 (four games where I finished at best 7th and mid at best twice, but yet somehow gained 100 rating points? I have no idea how that happened...) 1 (ended on Wario Shipyard, fun track. I used a feather well to get to the front late.)
21 21 24 24 12 16 (So what happened here? The RNG decided it hates me, that's what. I played fine but the game wants me to lose. Almost every single one of these races had shocks either right at the end of a segment or immediately after I go through the last item set, me getting run over or hit by someone with a star right in front of the line, and more. I'm not kidding about the shocks, either -- that happened four times in six rallies. Absolutely insane luck that I have trouble believing was random. That one 12th place finish was probably one of my best performances ever -- I survived multiple late shocks and getting hit or run over again and again, before finally falling to the second or third late shock of the rally. There's nothing I could have done about that, or almost any of these.)
12 11 13 4 17 7 8 13 19 (shocks really are ruining this game. Something needs to be done.) uh I forget... 16 9 22 1 16 10 or something like that. (I'm down 500 points from a couple of days ago.)
2 2 4 3 (then I was in 4th, well into the next rally, past the halfway point, when Nintendo's servers messed up and it Communication Errored us out of the game. This shouldn't punish me since it was Nintendo's issue, right? No, of course not. Minus, like, 75 rating or such, as if I'd gotten 24th, even though either only 8 or 12 players were left in the game by that point and, again, I did not disconnect; the issue was on their end. This game has very serious problems.)
19 19 20 12 (I don't think I made any significant mistakes here, I just was denied from getting items after going through item spots, shocked right at the end of a segment, and given useless items (coin shell in a near the back spot is inordinately cruel!).)
21 17 24 21 (I am entirely serious when I say that I made no mistakes of note here. It was all losing because of being denied items at item spots, every time.)
[here I take a week off, had vacation and decided not to take the Switch 2 with me. Good riddance to this game for a while, I'm down to like 7450.]
14 (lost because I didn't get an item from the item spot, as usual.) 1 1 (break) 1 15 (break) 1 15
1 10 22 4 4 23 (sometimes I truly hate this game.)
4 2 2 7 (7773 rating)
2 19 4 (maybe another 2 here) 15 (the existence of the shock is garbage game design which ruins this game. What determines whether I do okay or not is not skill, it's the luck of the draw of where the shock happens.)
15 11 (on the positive side, at ~7800 as I am, I'm not losing nearly as much for these mediocre finishes as I would at over 8000... but it's still big hits.) 16 (I was in first late but then there was a shock while I was off road, instant first to last.) 1 2 (this was a satisfying one) "21" (I'm not sure if I'd have made it because the game blocked me from getting an item at the last item spot, but then the screen went black and there was a communication error so I'll never know.) (break) 23 9 2 7 3 8 (break) 22 18 1 5
21 17 7 8 15 (two eliminations here from being called out of bounds when I don't think I was. The arbitrary nature of where the invisible walls are is somewhat broken, in some areas you can be past the fences and be fine while in others it calls you out if you're, like, not even touching the fence yet...)
3 15 1 (did I say 7800? That was nice. Now it's 'wow, I just got back to 7700!')
1 6 (and I am just over 7800 again. Good rallies here, that was fun.)
10 (then I quit in irritation)
13 12 (both of these ended because of being blocked from getting an item at the last spot before the checkpoint) 2 (very narrowly avoided that happening again, I was blocked at the second to last item spot...) 13 (shock immediately after last item spot, instant loss.) (break) 7 21 (shock right after the last item spot.) 2 4 (break) 2 21 (say it with me, I went through the last item spot and got nothing, like usual. In single player this is not an issue because you can see where the other racers are, but in online, the lag correction in this game basically allows things to happen on each persons' screen that don't actually happen, then the server arbitrarily decides which persons' version of reality is the "correct" one. So, did you run that person over but they didn't slow down? On their screen you missed them. Did I go through the item box, clearly going through a box far enough other players that it shuld respawn? Ooh, sorry, on their screen they were closer to you, you die. Or maybe you don't; other times I pass through immediately behind another racer, and still get a box. This game is unacceptably inconsistent online because of its atrociously broken lag correction system, and it ruins the game as often as not -- just look at how often I complain about this! Offline it happens only a fraction as often because I would be able to actually know where the other racers are.) 7 2 (and I'm over 7900 again.)
1 11 16 20 7 7 (maybe another 20 here) 4 (I was almost at 8000 after that nice first game, but now am basically back where I started the day at barely over 7900.)
(maybe something mid here?) 15 6
20 (too tired to focus. bed. I was in first late but got hit.)
11 12 (maybe a bad one here like 20th or something? I forget) 1 (I have no idea how I won this, should have been second. Absurd ending, I fell off the track and somehow won.) 7 7 (7930-ish so still basically flat over the last few days.) 16 (I was playing badly here but that's not why I lost, a late shock was.) 23 (no clue why I was so far back here... oh well.) 15 1 5 (3?) 7 6
8 16 (was in first late, got run over. it happens.) 1 (finally over 8000 again!)
21 3 8 2 (up like two points. It's kind of depressing that three good finishes are required to make up for one killed-by-RNG one...)
4 15 4 16 (so incredibly frustrating...)
12 10
1 (what happened, somehow both people ahead of me fell behind near the end and I won...) 8
12 15 1 (fun ending here) 5 14 10 9 (these last three were incredibly frustrating!)
10 23 (talking about frustrating, there is nothing I could have done here. I was blocked from getting an item at the first two item spots, got hit five or six times including being knocked out of the air on the cannon section as you approach the airships, and then, in last place way behind everyone, got form the last item box spot... a golden. Yeah that's useless, only bullet would have had a chance of catching me up.) 10 8 18 18 10 4 (woo, only -250 on the day... erm.)
24 (second to last place at the last item spot, got a useless golden. then I got run over, though the result wouldn't have changed without that. Bullet really should be more common in the last spot.) 22 (but hey at least that time I got AN item! This time I was denied any items for no apparent reason. That you can not get an item online when you go through the item boxes because of random phantom other players who you can't see in the actual places they are in is by far the worst thing about this game and it needs to change.) 4 (the game decided to charge jump when I pushed the drift button because it thought I wasn't pushing the stick I guess even though I definitely was as it was in a turn, so I went off the side and finished 4th instead of 3rd. Why in the world are drift and charge jump on the same button? It's incomprehensibly obnoxious and bad game design!) 5
1 4 16 1 2 5
19 1 16 11 (ugh, sometimes I really hate how RNG-based this game is. Other than the 1st that I won because of RNG (the guy in first in front of me was blue shelled right near the finish), there it was good. :P But those other three... awful.)
4 4 (+15 only for two pretty good finishes? Annoying... should be more...)
8 24 (late shock. nothing I could do.) 8 14 (and I think another mid one)
8 2 3 (7879)
1 8
7 17 4 1 13 17 2 (7913) (two mid finishes next for a small gain)
11 4 5 ~7-ish 7 10 13 (and let's quit there before I lose lots of points...)
2 7 10 (over 8100, really? that 2nd got me a lot of points somehow?)
3 7 ~13 19 5 5 (break) 14 5 10
11 10 10 ~10 (so so frustrating!)
2 6 2 15 (I should have stopped while I was ahead... I got up to 8250.)
6 11 15 22 6 10 (-200 because I lost like 40 for the 11th and 30 for the 15th while gaining only two points for the second 6th, which yes makes OH so much sense! Great point system you have there!)
10 8 (somehow I gained quite a few points from these and am over 8100.)
15 7 4 (blue shelled right near the end in that last one when I was in first. Welcome to Mario Kart.) 23 (well there goes that 'about even on points' thing.)
6 (+50 rating. I have no idea how ranking in this game works anymore... like, yes I know that it varies depending on the ratings of the people you are playing against, but the variance here seems a bit extreme?)
~22-ish 24 (then I decided it was finally time to play some Mario Maker for the first time in quite a while.)
4 2 1 (break) 17 17 14 (here I lost because I was definitely holding over but the game decided to go into a charge jump instead of a drift because of the games' bad controls.) 7
(three games here which were pretty much even. I forget, like 12 7 14 or something?)
17 (this is the kind of infuriating garbage that makes me want to quit this game. I was in 15th, with a golden, at the 16 checkpoint. It wasn't stolen and the shock was earlier. It should be fine, right? No, somehow a big mushroom and bullet player both passed me and nobody was hit and everyone had speed items, I lose ground. This is just garbage design. What is the point of speed items when everyone has them and nobody loses ground... other than me of course even though I had one also?) ... Oh as for my rating it's about 8030.
3 5 7 2 (somehow, of these, I gained 34 rating points from the first two combined then 33 from the 7th place and about less than that from the 2nd. Yeah. I ended up a bit over 8100.)
~19 (break, ughh that one was frustrating) 13 17 10 19 (and now I'm down to 8020 after some incredibly frustrating games loaded with nonsense) 2 (I was one of three Rosalinas in the final four. Amusing stuff, heh.)
12 10 3 12
24 (under 8000 again. Have I learned anything from this game?)
12
(Nintendo Direct today, and... all we get are two more Knockout Tours and adding the ten SNES tracks hidden in the world as sort of selectable courses. Where is the DLC addon Nintendo???) 3 15 15 8 20 8 10 (and only that final one was on one of the two new rallies. Seriously, couldn't they have increased their likelihood for the launch?) (break) 24 21 17 8 18 (okay that was the worst session I've had in a long time, down over 200... and very little of it was my fault, it was almost all pure RNG, being denied items at the last item spot over and over because of blind luck, and such. Mario Kart is kind of a trash game.)
2 17 8 8 (The same rally played at least three times in a row here. What is the "randomizer" doing? It wasn't one of the new ones either.)
17 8 7 8 8 9 (I may have gained points here, but losing at just about the same point every time feels very bad. Also, did they actually add new circuits? Every one of these was the original 8.)
8 9 (more of the same, ugh. Also yeah the new tracks continue to not exist.)
17 10 4 23 10 2 20 (on the negative side it's like -200 again but on the positive side the new rallies actually appeared! Also, the bad finishes here were mostly not my fault, there's nothing I can do about things like a shock immediately after the last item spot or being run over twice in the last 30 seconds of a segment.) [some more bad ones here, I forget, ended up down to ~7650, 500 points down from my peak a week or two ago even though I am playing just as well or better. RNG game.] 5 5 (break) 16 8 (break) 13
13 20
1 (7700 now) 13 14 4 4 5 16 (I know I say it a lot, but the worst thing in this game, by far, is that you can go through an item spot and not get an item because of lag-related RNG.) 1 6 4 6 8 16 1 (I was almost back at 8000, but lost like 60+ for the 16th and gained only 47 for the 1st after it, so I'm at like 7970 or so. ah well, much better. Also, a few of the first couple of rallies today were on the new tracks but then everything else was on the original eight. It's really obnoxious how rare the new ones are! Improve the randomizer!)
And that gets us to yesterday. I haven't played yet today but I'll probably play a few rallies now.
Before I begin, I got MKW day one, of course, and played it single player first. Once I started playing the online play though, I quickly got into the online Knockout Tour mode. And that is what this is: a log of my finishes in online Knockout Tours, with comments as I get frustrated by the usual Mario Kart nonsense.
And on that note, in Mario Kart, one of the key decisions is your vehicle and character combination. I almost always use a pretty bad one: Rosalina on her snowmobile sled the Dread Sled, with her Aurora costume. I chose it because it's the best looking vehicle for her, it's clearly themed for Rosalina and her ice and snow mountain, but here's the issue: it has the lowest acceleration of any vehicle in the game. Rosalina is a heavyweight character, so she's already on the slow acceleration and high top speed side, and pairing her with the absolute worst acceleration in the game is, well, it's "if I get hit it's often instant Game Over" material. A better choice would be Rosalina with a vehicle with higher acceleration, to get the high top speed of a heavyweight character that is good in Knockout Tour but to also have some acceleration, because instantly losing every time I get hit within like a hundred yards of a checkpoint is, uh, not fun. But I like my snowmobile and I've stuck with it for the entire time since I started playing. And the results are... largely static rating. I am 7930 rating today, and the first score I mention in this document says 'got over 8000 again'. So uh yeah, I just play the game and don't really try to get better. So yeah, the constant frustration below is real, but I also know that it's what is going to happen with this character/kart combo. I choose to stick with it anyway.
But hey, is that fun? Yes. I feel kind of bad that I have never tried to actually get good at the game and still can't do most any of the cool tricks the good players can, but even so I like the game anyway and am still addicted to Mario Kart World. I know I get frustrated and close the program and go watch Youtube or play some Mario Maker, but, like, I always go back and play some more, and it's almost always online Knockout Tour with Rosalina in the Dread Sled, because it's a beautiful looking game with exceptional gameplay. It's fun, simple, easy to just chill out and play a few tours of... yeah, I'm still hooked, sadly.
So uh Nintendo, will we ever get DLC with new tracks for this game? Please? :(
The below list starts in late April. Each line or paragraph is the games I played that day. If I skip a day, well, I just didn't add to the document, so it's unmentioned unless I say something in the comments.
12 12 12 18 4 2 4 21 (or something like that, there may have been a few more mid-placement finishes)
18 1 24
18 13 1 24
I don't remember, there were too many. uh, 22 18 4 (some low ones) 6 (more low ones) 1 22 (quit for a bit here) 18 1 16 12 (quit)
2 6 17 2 5
3 6 (maybe something here?) 8 6
4 3 8 12 (quit for a while here) 11 5 [that 11... argh. I finished 16, ~14, 12, 11, with the 11 because I was hit like a million times and got useless items. Thanks Nintendo.]
3 15 (followed by crashout because of how nonsense that second one was)
14 4 11 17 8 (that last one was such infuriating nonsense, I was shot down midair in the flying cutscene going to the beginning of the track at the very end... so insanely unfair! ruined a game where I only barely avoided getting eliminated at the first checkpoint because of a late shock, I was in 23rd right at the end but managed to draft off of the guy in 22nd and passed 22 and 21 with that boost just in front of the line...)
22 2 4 8 8 (in ranking points, the 2 and 4 left me -3 for the day, after that first one. then the first 8th was a -14 and the second a ... +26? uh, okay. weird.)
2 15 (quit in frustration here)
9 (six finishes between 12 and 16 in a row here, like none of which felt like they happened because I played badly but because of bad luck or RNG) 1 (quit here down "only" like 90 points. Yes I'm surprised I didn't lose more rank too after so many bad finishes.)
15 7 4 7 1 (pretty good, got over 8000 rating again!)
(something like 12 or something, maybe 16? not sure) 16 4 16 This game is so stupid, I need to stop wasting my life with this RNG trash... but somehow I ended still over 8000.
20 (TWO shocks in the last section of the second segment, one immediately after both of the last two item spots. Absolutely absurd garbage. They were what like 15 second apart?)
2 4 24 (nothing I can do about getting hit out of the air, dropping from 2nd to 20th instantly, then getting a triple mushroom at the next and last item spot, in 22nd, while everyone else got good items. Exceptionally unlucky.) (later...) 11 12
14 7 3 8 7 5 (that may seem good but it didn't feel good. That last one, for instance? I was definitely in the top four, but this game, which doesn't seem to know what position you are actually in in online races, said I was in 5th, you lose. It's just absurd how bad the lag correction is and that the game really doesn't seem to know what positions the players are in online and then just makes something up or something.)
2 20 (The usual story: I do well in a race, then the game targets me and makes sure I do badly in the next one. This has happened far too many times for it to be a cooincidence. I honestly think it is more likely intentional design than an accident by this point.)
3 18 4 2 4 15 (yeah, the usual pattern.)
9 18 20 5 5 13 (worst, most frustrating session in a long time. Why am I addicted to this RNG trash? For example, in BOTH of those fifth place finishes, I was in first or second entering the final turn, only, of course, to be hit repeatedly and get eliminated at the last possible second. Could I see them passing me? In the first of those no, of course not, they were invisible or on another route or something. Naturally. And that 13th was basically the same, 'hit right in front of the line, you're out'. Over and over and over.)
I don't remember, a bunch of games. uh, like, 3, something middling, something, ended with a 1st. overall I think I gained points, ended at 7994.
9 (had a big lead right near the checkpoint, shock+run over = incredibly frustrating RNG 9th.)
13 7 (somehow, I lost like 18 rating points with a pretty solid 7th place finish. How they decide the points makes no sense to me. I'm down to near 7900.) 18 (went off the side on the ice road. my mistake. pretty dumb in a race with 8 AIs, though... oh well.) 9 3 6 4 (break here) 6 13 16 20 (or something like that, there may have been another decent one in between the 6 and 16. On that last 20, there's really nothing I could have done; I got unavoidably hit repeatedly and then the game blocked me from getting any powerups for the last several powerup spots. The way this game punishes you so harshly for the complete random chance that is 'lol you went through the powerup spot but not nothing' is garbage game design, but that's how this game is. I'm not upset, it's just incredibly poor design that it can happen.)
3 15 9
2 24 (the usual pattern yet again.)
(several days off here)
1 23
14
6 10 22 12 5 (overall down a bunch, I'm down to like 7800. It felt like I got hit by one or two shells almost every single time I tried to use a mushroom the entire session, utterly absurd.) (break here) 15 22 18-ish (the game blocked me from getting anything from the last TWO item sets. result was obvious.) 2 2 6 (that last one was so frustrating, I had a huge lead... until I ran into an obstacle for no reason and then failed to go off the track to dodge the blue shell, 6th. bad play by me.)
3 1 2 8 (break) 8 2 (back over 8000! very good so far...) [after this I played the single race mode for a while for the first time in some time. I'm only 7000 rated there, I haven't played it much and aren't any good. Yes, after most of a year of playing this game, I still haven't tried to get good. I can't charge jump up to shortcuts and secret routes and such, for instance. My lack of skill immediately shows when I try this mode and start struggling immediately. Still, my rating was so low that despite finishing 12th or lower in all races but one, I gained rating so longas I finished at least, like, 22nd... which I didn't always do. This mode is kind of fun but requires a lot more skill and concentration than knockout tour. It just depends on what you want. I ended for the moment at 7190, dropping to that after a couple of last place finishes. Given that most people in the room were over 8000 rating though, I think I did fine.] 5 15 8 5 12 [or something like that for those last four, but it must have been high-rated opponents because I stayed over 8000 at the end.]
12
[If I quit this game it will be because of how garbage the lag correction is.] 24 5 20 8 22 14 (and now I'm down a lot of points and well under 7800. just great. At one point it changed my position from 19 to 21 without me passing anyone or without anyone passing me. Then I got eliminated because I was below 20. Do they have any idea what it happening at any given time in this game?) (later...) 3 4 3 15
15 6 3 8 16 24 6
5 2 9 (9? yeah, no. I was in 6th at worst. I have no idea where they got 9th from but there is no way that was accurate.)
5 3 (maybe a 5th to 8th here?) 4 (7990 something, several good races, time for it to target me...) 16 (yup! as I said. I got run over so many times in this one it's absurd. I made some mistakes also that hurt, though, so it was also my fault. But it was a late shock that doomed me, not much I could do about that.) 21 (another late shock. thanks Nintendo.) [service disconnection here, lose a bunch of points because of Nintendo server issue] 5 12 12 (I am sure I speak for everyone who plays this game regularly when I say that this game is both addictive and infuriatingly unfair and frustrating. Those last two... I hate this game sometimes.)
6 21 9 16 (down a LOT, to barely over 7700.)
5 5 3 8 (7775) 14 (my own fault here, went off the side.)
9 1 1 (7850, it was satisfying but I wasn't getting many points for these wins) 21 (oh, you just won twice in a row? Nice! We'll make sure to block you from getting any items this time, blocking you entirely the first few item spots and ending with a shock right after the last item spot. Have "fun"!) 13 5 16 4
4 (in this one, two people literally fell out of the sky in front of me as I crossed the finish line in second. "fourth".) 8 13
14 13 10 19 (when you repeatedly get eliminated because of RNG nonsense like shocks and being denied getting any items from multiple item spots at the end of a segment, as happened in one form or another in all four of these rallies, this game feels like one of the worst games ever made. Getting through the first checkpoint in 20th twice in these four rallies was tense, but who cares when the game's just about to completely destroy me with RNG I can do absolutely nothing about a few minutes later?)
4 3 17 (down to below where I started with that one) 4 3 1 (golden mushroom at the last stretch of far away oasis propelled me to a somewhat undeserved win from behind, fun stuff!) 3 6 (this race was a total mess, there must have been so much lag! Stuff kept happening that has no explanation, first I hit a shell but no I kept going and the shell broke, then at the 16 checkpoint I was in 18th and it was over, but for some unexplained reason four people stopped just before the line (I don't think they were all hit?) and I somehow was in 14th, I have no clue what happened there, and then I was in a great position to be in the top four nearing the start of the final lap... only to be hit by ice flower shots right near the goal. Sad end to a previously absurd rally.) 8 (maybe another 5 to 8 here) 2 8 12
2 3 17 3 (back over 8000 at last, whew...)
12 (oh, so I get an ice flower and a single mushroom in like 8th at the last item set before the checkpoint, while everyone behind me gets good items, bullet and goldens, and obviously I finish in last? I hate this game sometimes...) 1 3 (the player list said that there were only five humans in this one, which was very odd if true. usually lobbies are mostly full. two of those five were really good though, one was over 9000 rating, in knockout tour! don't see that very often.)
3 7 (should have slowed down and gotten passed so I'd get a better item, with that huge shortcut right at the end before the savana track what was I doing staying in 2nd? I didn't have enough of a lead for that...) 7 11 11 8 (maybe a 6 here) 12 13 (this game is so deeply unfair sometimes that I don't know what to say, how are repeated shocks right near the end of the rally reasonable design? Being in a better spot should be good, not bad... but no, killed by shocks over and over here.)
(8 or 12 or something) 11 (maybe another 12?) 8 (in this one I got like 18th, 12th, and 8th at knockout checkpoints, but sadly I couldn't get above that. I had a bullet and was way behind in 8th after being hit, heading towards DK Mountain, and used the bullet. That got me to 4th. After that I got basically no items and was of course passed back again. I could have waited for the ending shortcut for the bullet, but with how far behind I was I'm unconvinced that it would have caught me up... not sure though. Ah well.) 6 (at this point I was about even on the day) 15
16 21 8 23 10 12 8 (I could complain at length about several of these games -- and I should because I lost like 200 rating here, back down to the mid 7800s -- but like, the RNG decided I needed to die, so it killed me, with the perfect selections of incidents, over and over. Not once did it feel like I had a strong chance of doing any better than I did, it was more like 'it's a miracle that I wasn't eliminated even sooner!' every single time. Just ludicrous nonsense - getting my items stolen by ghosts over and over at the worst possible times, blue shells combined with ghosts, shocks after the last item set repeatedly, red shells of course, etc, etc.)
2 2 20 (item theft and shock really need to be nerfed.) 11 10 3 17
10 21 (both of these ended because of being run over right in front of the checkpoint. Nothing more infuriating exists in this game. back to 7770.) 5 3 21 5 (maybe not in that order for these four, but there was a third, another bad finish, and it ended with a 5th. In both 5ths I should have made the final four but got hit right at the end close to the line. So yeah that's five 'hit right by the line and thus eliminated' endings in six rallies. "Fun".) (3 finishes in a row between 10th and 12th here) 7 (shock after last item set.) 17
19 4 2 1 (I fell back a bit somewhat on purpose and was in 6th at the final item spot approaching the big curve to Faraway Oasis... and got blue shell + golden. Used immediately that jumped me up to 1st, which I easily held through the lap.) 9 (there is nothing I could have done to finish higher in this one, I was hit WAY too many times. Got targeted hard.)
19 8 11 (two eliminations here because the game didn't give me any speed items at the end of a segment. Awful awful RNG.) 4 7 8 21
6 11 11 4 (start: 7850. end: 7820. Inordinate punishment for the decent 11th place finishes, that's for sure.)
14 (shock right before the checkpoint killed me from 6th place.) 19 (I did nothing wrong here, not sure how I was so far back...) 1 5 (very frustrating but a decent finish...)
8 (when you're in 4th nearing the last checkpoint and the guy behind you has red shells... well, only one way that's going to end, sadly.) 18 (oh, I only get ice and fire flowers while everyone else gets good items? why thank you RNG...)
5 14 19 14 8 12 12 8 18
6 6 (somehow gaining almost nothing for these good finishes) 17
15 (after this I was under 7700) 3 4 [8 or something] [something mediocre here]
(start: 7770-ish) 4 19 (break) 4 2 2 (stop while I'm ahead for once...)
17 (and then I quit in disgust to play the new version of Dead or Alive 6, Last Round, and work on my website.)
6 4 4 3 "21" (that last one had like the worst lag I have ever seen in this game. I was in 21st approaching the first checkpoint, used a golden mushroom and gained zero ground on the pack (even though this is impossible), then finally I passed a couple of them, go through the checkpoint in something like 19th... then several seconds later the game kicks me out and says I wasn't in the top 20. I have no idea what happened there but it should not happen.)
17 (somehow in about 16th or lower I got a triple shell and single mushroom. Uh yeah that's not going to cut it.) 16 (laaaag!) 4 8 4 3 17
[This is the day they added two new Knockout Tour rallies! Very exciting stuff, 25% more content instantly in the main mode I play!) 12 8 3 4 (maybe another 4) 3 8 (and I think there were a few more, none terrible)
21 6 10 24 (I was in about 20th and got a single shell and a coin shell at the last item spot before the first checkpoint. The result was obvious. How is such an absurdly bad draw even possible?) 8
8 17 (break) 4 (I should have won this, but got hit one too many times at the end...) 21 (the new wario shipyard to bowser castle rally is cool, except for the end of the first section. that part is great until you get out of the water, after that it's a narrow canyon with too few item spots. Basically it seriously punishes heavy characters because of not having enough items to make up for the chaos, I've gotten knocked out here multiple times without doing anything at all wrong.) 13 5 2 7 8
21 (four games where I finished at best 7th and mid at best twice, but yet somehow gained 100 rating points? I have no idea how that happened...) 1 (ended on Wario Shipyard, fun track. I used a feather well to get to the front late.)
21 21 24 24 12 16 (So what happened here? The RNG decided it hates me, that's what. I played fine but the game wants me to lose. Almost every single one of these races had shocks either right at the end of a segment or immediately after I go through the last item set, me getting run over or hit by someone with a star right in front of the line, and more. I'm not kidding about the shocks, either -- that happened four times in six rallies. Absolutely insane luck that I have trouble believing was random. That one 12th place finish was probably one of my best performances ever -- I survived multiple late shocks and getting hit or run over again and again, before finally falling to the second or third late shock of the rally. There's nothing I could have done about that, or almost any of these.)
12 11 13 4 17 7 8 13 19 (shocks really are ruining this game. Something needs to be done.) uh I forget... 16 9 22 1 16 10 or something like that. (I'm down 500 points from a couple of days ago.)
2 2 4 3 (then I was in 4th, well into the next rally, past the halfway point, when Nintendo's servers messed up and it Communication Errored us out of the game. This shouldn't punish me since it was Nintendo's issue, right? No, of course not. Minus, like, 75 rating or such, as if I'd gotten 24th, even though either only 8 or 12 players were left in the game by that point and, again, I did not disconnect; the issue was on their end. This game has very serious problems.)
19 19 20 12 (I don't think I made any significant mistakes here, I just was denied from getting items after going through item spots, shocked right at the end of a segment, and given useless items (coin shell in a near the back spot is inordinately cruel!).)
21 17 24 21 (I am entirely serious when I say that I made no mistakes of note here. It was all losing because of being denied items at item spots, every time.)
[here I take a week off, had vacation and decided not to take the Switch 2 with me. Good riddance to this game for a while, I'm down to like 7450.]
14 (lost because I didn't get an item from the item spot, as usual.) 1 1 (break) 1 15 (break) 1 15
1 10 22 4 4 23 (sometimes I truly hate this game.)
4 2 2 7 (7773 rating)
2 19 4 (maybe another 2 here) 15 (the existence of the shock is garbage game design which ruins this game. What determines whether I do okay or not is not skill, it's the luck of the draw of where the shock happens.)
15 11 (on the positive side, at ~7800 as I am, I'm not losing nearly as much for these mediocre finishes as I would at over 8000... but it's still big hits.) 16 (I was in first late but then there was a shock while I was off road, instant first to last.) 1 2 (this was a satisfying one) "21" (I'm not sure if I'd have made it because the game blocked me from getting an item at the last item spot, but then the screen went black and there was a communication error so I'll never know.) (break) 23 9 2 7 3 8 (break) 22 18 1 5
21 17 7 8 15 (two eliminations here from being called out of bounds when I don't think I was. The arbitrary nature of where the invisible walls are is somewhat broken, in some areas you can be past the fences and be fine while in others it calls you out if you're, like, not even touching the fence yet...)
3 15 1 (did I say 7800? That was nice. Now it's 'wow, I just got back to 7700!')
1 6 (and I am just over 7800 again. Good rallies here, that was fun.)
10 (then I quit in irritation)
13 12 (both of these ended because of being blocked from getting an item at the last spot before the checkpoint) 2 (very narrowly avoided that happening again, I was blocked at the second to last item spot...) 13 (shock immediately after last item spot, instant loss.) (break) 7 21 (shock right after the last item spot.) 2 4 (break) 2 21 (say it with me, I went through the last item spot and got nothing, like usual. In single player this is not an issue because you can see where the other racers are, but in online, the lag correction in this game basically allows things to happen on each persons' screen that don't actually happen, then the server arbitrarily decides which persons' version of reality is the "correct" one. So, did you run that person over but they didn't slow down? On their screen you missed them. Did I go through the item box, clearly going through a box far enough other players that it shuld respawn? Ooh, sorry, on their screen they were closer to you, you die. Or maybe you don't; other times I pass through immediately behind another racer, and still get a box. This game is unacceptably inconsistent online because of its atrociously broken lag correction system, and it ruins the game as often as not -- just look at how often I complain about this! Offline it happens only a fraction as often because I would be able to actually know where the other racers are.) 7 2 (and I'm over 7900 again.)
1 11 16 20 7 7 (maybe another 20 here) 4 (I was almost at 8000 after that nice first game, but now am basically back where I started the day at barely over 7900.)
(maybe something mid here?) 15 6
20 (too tired to focus. bed. I was in first late but got hit.)
11 12 (maybe a bad one here like 20th or something? I forget) 1 (I have no idea how I won this, should have been second. Absurd ending, I fell off the track and somehow won.) 7 7 (7930-ish so still basically flat over the last few days.) 16 (I was playing badly here but that's not why I lost, a late shock was.) 23 (no clue why I was so far back here... oh well.) 15 1 5 (3?) 7 6
8 16 (was in first late, got run over. it happens.) 1 (finally over 8000 again!)
21 3 8 2 (up like two points. It's kind of depressing that three good finishes are required to make up for one killed-by-RNG one...)
4 15 4 16 (so incredibly frustrating...)
12 10
1 (what happened, somehow both people ahead of me fell behind near the end and I won...) 8
12 15 1 (fun ending here) 5 14 10 9 (these last three were incredibly frustrating!)
10 23 (talking about frustrating, there is nothing I could have done here. I was blocked from getting an item at the first two item spots, got hit five or six times including being knocked out of the air on the cannon section as you approach the airships, and then, in last place way behind everyone, got form the last item box spot... a golden. Yeah that's useless, only bullet would have had a chance of catching me up.) 10 8 18 18 10 4 (woo, only -250 on the day... erm.)
24 (second to last place at the last item spot, got a useless golden. then I got run over, though the result wouldn't have changed without that. Bullet really should be more common in the last spot.) 22 (but hey at least that time I got AN item! This time I was denied any items for no apparent reason. That you can not get an item online when you go through the item boxes because of random phantom other players who you can't see in the actual places they are in is by far the worst thing about this game and it needs to change.) 4 (the game decided to charge jump when I pushed the drift button because it thought I wasn't pushing the stick I guess even though I definitely was as it was in a turn, so I went off the side and finished 4th instead of 3rd. Why in the world are drift and charge jump on the same button? It's incomprehensibly obnoxious and bad game design!) 5
1 4 16 1 2 5
19 1 16 11 (ugh, sometimes I really hate how RNG-based this game is. Other than the 1st that I won because of RNG (the guy in first in front of me was blue shelled right near the finish), there it was good. :P But those other three... awful.)
4 4 (+15 only for two pretty good finishes? Annoying... should be more...)
8 24 (late shock. nothing I could do.) 8 14 (and I think another mid one)
8 2 3 (7879)
1 8
7 17 4 1 13 17 2 (7913) (two mid finishes next for a small gain)
11 4 5 ~7-ish 7 10 13 (and let's quit there before I lose lots of points...)
2 7 10 (over 8100, really? that 2nd got me a lot of points somehow?)
3 7 ~13 19 5 5 (break) 14 5 10
11 10 10 ~10 (so so frustrating!)
2 6 2 15 (I should have stopped while I was ahead... I got up to 8250.)
6 11 15 22 6 10 (-200 because I lost like 40 for the 11th and 30 for the 15th while gaining only two points for the second 6th, which yes makes OH so much sense! Great point system you have there!)
10 8 (somehow I gained quite a few points from these and am over 8100.)
15 7 4 (blue shelled right near the end in that last one when I was in first. Welcome to Mario Kart.) 23 (well there goes that 'about even on points' thing.)
6 (+50 rating. I have no idea how ranking in this game works anymore... like, yes I know that it varies depending on the ratings of the people you are playing against, but the variance here seems a bit extreme?)
~22-ish 24 (then I decided it was finally time to play some Mario Maker for the first time in quite a while.)
4 2 1 (break) 17 17 14 (here I lost because I was definitely holding over but the game decided to go into a charge jump instead of a drift because of the games' bad controls.) 7
(three games here which were pretty much even. I forget, like 12 7 14 or something?)
17 (this is the kind of infuriating garbage that makes me want to quit this game. I was in 15th, with a golden, at the 16 checkpoint. It wasn't stolen and the shock was earlier. It should be fine, right? No, somehow a big mushroom and bullet player both passed me and nobody was hit and everyone had speed items, I lose ground. This is just garbage design. What is the point of speed items when everyone has them and nobody loses ground... other than me of course even though I had one also?) ... Oh as for my rating it's about 8030.
3 5 7 2 (somehow, of these, I gained 34 rating points from the first two combined then 33 from the 7th place and about less than that from the 2nd. Yeah. I ended up a bit over 8100.)
~19 (break, ughh that one was frustrating) 13 17 10 19 (and now I'm down to 8020 after some incredibly frustrating games loaded with nonsense) 2 (I was one of three Rosalinas in the final four. Amusing stuff, heh.)
12 10 3 12
24 (under 8000 again. Have I learned anything from this game?)
12
(Nintendo Direct today, and... all we get are two more Knockout Tours and adding the ten SNES tracks hidden in the world as sort of selectable courses. Where is the DLC addon Nintendo???) 3 15 15 8 20 8 10 (and only that final one was on one of the two new rallies. Seriously, couldn't they have increased their likelihood for the launch?) (break) 24 21 17 8 18 (okay that was the worst session I've had in a long time, down over 200... and very little of it was my fault, it was almost all pure RNG, being denied items at the last item spot over and over because of blind luck, and such. Mario Kart is kind of a trash game.)
2 17 8 8 (The same rally played at least three times in a row here. What is the "randomizer" doing? It wasn't one of the new ones either.)
17 8 7 8 8 9 (I may have gained points here, but losing at just about the same point every time feels very bad. Also, did they actually add new circuits? Every one of these was the original 8.)
8 9 (more of the same, ugh. Also yeah the new tracks continue to not exist.)
17 10 4 23 10 2 20 (on the negative side it's like -200 again but on the positive side the new rallies actually appeared! Also, the bad finishes here were mostly not my fault, there's nothing I can do about things like a shock immediately after the last item spot or being run over twice in the last 30 seconds of a segment.) [some more bad ones here, I forget, ended up down to ~7650, 500 points down from my peak a week or two ago even though I am playing just as well or better. RNG game.] 5 5 (break) 16 8 (break) 13
13 20
1 (7700 now) 13 14 4 4 5 16 (I know I say it a lot, but the worst thing in this game, by far, is that you can go through an item spot and not get an item because of lag-related RNG.) 1 6 4 6 8 16 1 (I was almost back at 8000, but lost like 60+ for the 16th and gained only 47 for the 1st after it, so I'm at like 7970 or so. ah well, much better. Also, a few of the first couple of rallies today were on the new tracks but then everything else was on the original eight. It's really obnoxious how rare the new ones are! Improve the randomizer!)
And that gets us to yesterday. I haven't played yet today but I'll probably play a few rallies now.
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