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Bleck posted:How can you tell who's a bot? I'm always telling myself that people at rank S-7 with 99 GP victories are bots, otherwise I'd get depressed with my lvl. 9, B- rear end.  I like to play a little bit each morning, which apparently puts me into some weird Eastern time zone, because my races are always like 50% Japanese names. Though sometimes you get a joker with a name like "________", which can make it hard to tell. On my free days, there's a certain time between 11-12 am local time when all those Japanese/Asian people all got to sleep, and suddenly, there's a weird spot for a couple races with only 15-30 real players, none of them Asian. Then suddenly all the other people from that new time zone wake up and races are back to normal. Anyway, are Silence I and II part of the normal or at least pro circuit now? I tried my best to unlock them when I saw Silence as GP-track, but I never managed to survive a Grand Prix for long enough to actually reach those tracks. I probably will never see them unlocked, at this rate.
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Libluini posted:I'm always telling myself that people at rank S-7 with 99 GP victories are bots, otherwise I'd get depressed with my lvl. 9, B- rear end. Silence I and White Land II are not part of any rotation right now the only way to get them are in the GP.
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MassRafTer posted:Silence I and White Land II are not part of any rotation right now the only way to get them are in the GP. Aww, that sucks. I guess I have to take GPs and hope Silence I shows up as one of the first three tracks, because that's as far as I've gotten so far.
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Libluini posted:Aww, that sucks. I guess I have to take GPs and hope Silence I shows up as one of the first three tracks, because that's as far as I've gotten so far. They're both the last tracks and will always be. You have to make it to the end. I haven't tried anything but Golden Fox and my strategy isn't to win but just survive. You can get by relying on people to crash and at most boosting at safe moments, but even then just take your lumps, fully heal, and don't get zoned out. I had to do Queen GP 3 times before I managed it. Kept getting deleted on the 2nd track before I figured out where to boost. Once you get to them, take last place but just go carefully and finish the track. I wonder if Goose also wouldn't allow you to take hits and still push through. Not getting last is tricky but not the hardest thing, I find surviving the tracks the real challenge.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:They're both the last tracks and will always be. You have to make it to the end. The Goose feels like a pretty good option for someone who is struggling at surviving, but how limited your boosts will be is a little challenging. I think for Queen cup in the Goose you have a good shot at advancing if you can do the following as a decent strategy, if not perfect: Mute City 2: Boost at the starting line if you are behind the pack and haven't taken damage, don't boost if you have. Boost through the dirt after jump and then after you corner the final turn as tight as possible. Take the skyway right after the turn before the circle. You should get two boosts that way but beware it might drop you off in the dirt before the second jump. If you get a skyway between the circle and the second jump on the 1st or 2nd lap just use it there, don't hold it an entire lap. Port Land 1: Boost through the gentle curves after the jump and after the 2nd to last turn (right after the magnets) use the skyway before the area where it skips a big section of track a few turns before the magnets. This should allow you to use that skip and skip the magnets and end up on the second to last straightaway for your boost. Red Canyon 1: Practice those early turns. If you can get the rhythm you will pass a few people here. Boost through that weird section of track with lots of dirt after the section with the jumps, it's a straight away but people get nervous because of all the curved walls, and the turn after it is very easy to take boosting. You can double up on boosts in later laps here if you have energy. Either skyway right after the pit area or before the jumps. The former skips the turns which is really slow, the later skips a big section of track. Not sure which is better. White Land 1: Boost after straightening out on the two big icy turns. Lots of people going slow and some KO opportunities near the end. Skyway through the first icy turn OR take the last jump, fly left off the course and activate it to skip a big section of track if you feel more daring. Make sure you spin before the pit areas lots of people will be low on energy.
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Also it's important to remember the closer you are to 1st, the less length your skyway time is. There are skyway sections that will carry you through even after your skyway meter is empty, like when they're over a trackless section, but you have to be on it just long enough. After a while, you get a feel for when you can safely activate the skyway relative to your position and get the most out of it. It sucks to fall short of one of those sections, because those are money
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shyduck posted:Also it's important to remember the closer you are to 1st, the less length your skyway time is. There are skyway sections that will carry you through even after your skyway meter is empty, like when they're over a trackless section, but you have to be on it just long enough. After a while, you get a feel for when you can safely activate the skyway relative to your position and get the most out of it. It sucks to fall short of one of those sections, because those are money I also swear there are other random factors that change the length of your skyway I just can't figure it out. But the most important thing to know is where you need your meter to run out so you are on a curve and will get bonus skyway. For example if you use it in 10thish on White Land 2 right before the first big hairpin turn and you will ride that thing until the icy patch right before the big jump. Also very happy to finally get 1st on Death Wind II. https://twitter.com/mongo_ebooks/status/1709009697863516603
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I'm about halfway through S rank, still ain't won a race. Falcon only.
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Does anyone else just find themselves suddenly terrible at this
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shyduck posted:Does anyone else just find themselves suddenly terrible at this "suddenly"? 
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Managed to get 6th in a queen league GP. I think that's the best I've done so far. Are we ever going to be able to run the knight league GP again?
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Breadallelogram posted:Managed to get 6th in a queen league GP. I think that's the best I've done so far. It was mixed in yesterday.
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I'm kind of addicted to unlocking poo poo. Will I use that racer card? Never. Do I need to unlock it and more? Absolutely. Whatever innate desire that is inside some of us is extremely strong with me. Same goes for achievements. I don't *need* them, but goddamn do I love having them. This game having unlocks is both the next best thing and actually better. It's a permanent thing on your F-Zero 99 profile and it unlocks cosmetics, so that makes it better than regular achievements. But they're not system-wide because Nintendo doesn't do that, which bugs me. Still.... There's a little bit of pure joy when I get a new paint job for my vehicles. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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EightFlyingCars posted:"suddenly"? shyduck fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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shyduck posted:I'm definitely being overdramatic, but I think I've stalled out at the moment in terms of rank. I've also been using all the cars now and my DNFs have been piling up. I think I subconsciously default to driving everything like Wild Goose during races and that's just a big nope it does kinda feel like a lot of the less serious players are getting filtered out before our eyes
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Do you get more points if your rival happens to be a much higher rank than you and you beat them? I realize for the first race in a GP, you're situated by people of the same or similar rank, but sometimes, you finish 25th, and an S-rank racer finished just before or after you.
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EightFlyingCars posted:it does kinda feel like a lot of the less serious players are getting filtered out before our eyes
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I never gave the original F-Zero much of a shot (I'm an X fan, myself), but I think playing it now after hours of 99 would be a much simpler experience. I know the SNES version doesn't have all of the tricks that 99 does, but I've finally gotten my head around tilting and slowing down during a turn, so I should really try and 100% the original now.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Do you get more points if your rival happens to be a much higher rank than you and you beat them? You are asking about points, but I would like to separately point out that the ranking up and down seems to be consistent per each time you beat 1, 2, 3, 4, or none of your rivals each race. The randomness of rivals' performance is fun to me - sometimes I finish 50th and wind up smoking all four of my rivals, while other times I make top 15 without beating anyone, setting me back a tiny amount.
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Space Fish posted:You are asking about points, but I would like to separately point out that the ranking up and down seems to be consistent per each time you beat 1, 2, 3, 4, or none of your rivals each race. Sorry, called them points, I just meant the amount your rank increases. But I think you answered my question, if you're saying that beating 1 rival, regardless of their ranking, always gets you the same amount, and the same goes for 2, 3, and 4. Right?
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Correct, or at least, the amount seems consistent for me - the bar increases a smidge every time I beat one rival, gets a nice bump for beating four rivals, etc. Also, since I am seeing more "wah when will I finally get a win" reactions to the game online (ahem, reddit), let me point out that sometimes the glory belongs to sticking around after you rank/crash out to watch the pixel-perfect first-place racer make one wrong move at max speed and self-destruct. Or they take a turn sliiightly too wide and four other racers zip through the gap. The F makes zeroes of us all.
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I got a Nitro Deck and the sticks are so drat nice that I'm now better at this game.
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I have noticed the overall skill level since Queen League released has upped considerably. Even this time last week I was able to pretty consistently get top 5 at Death Wind I, but the last couple of times I've been lucky to get top 10 even running a decent race.
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99 was undergoing maintenance when I tried to play earlier, so I decided to play the original F-Zero on the Switch Online SNES emulator. I've hardly played this game in my life. We are all toast when they add Mute City III and Fire Field to 99.
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Breadallelogram posted:99 was undergoing maintenance when I tried to play earlier, so I decided to play the original F-Zero on the Switch Online SNES emulator. I've hardly played this game in my life. We are all toast when they add Mute City III and Fire Field to 99. If Silence is anything to go by the field will clear out the minefield in Mute City III pretty quickly. Fire Field should be brutal, but somehow White Land II feels easier to survive in this game than the original so maybe Fire Field will be too.
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It's great to have a game with decently high skill-demand but simple inputs that I can keep coming back to This is tickling all the same spots in my brain that love schmups and the like, so I can see myself sticking with it for wayyyy longer than Splatoon 3, or really any of the other multiplayer games I have gotten really into in recent years I'm loving racing my own ghosts, which is my main barometer for this kind of thing. It just feels good to be good at this game Ramie fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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Since this seems to be the defacto F-Zero thread, at least for now, I'm enjoying this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl9xTw2iR8A It mentions that Famicom Grand Prix F1 Race was the precursor to F-Zero (along with Tim Burton's Batman... Yes, really), but I always thought Mach Rider was essentially F-Zero on the NES? I mean, even the main Mach Rider theme song is available in Smash Bros Melee, in the F-Zero section. 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Since this seems to be the defacto F-Zero thread, at least for now, I'm enjoying this video: grand prix f1 race came out before mach rider and mach rider is essentially a reskin of f1 with some combat added in, so
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:grand prix f1 race came out before mach rider and mach rider is essentially a reskin of f1 with some combat added in, so Famicom Grand Prix F1 Race is top down and looks like RC Pro-Am, whereas Mach Rider is behind the driver like Rad Racer.  Behold! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5DHXUP360 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgxK8bjBTg8
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Famicom Grand Prix F1 Race is top down and looks like RC Pro-Am, whereas Mach Rider is behind the driver like Rad Racer. oh i was thinking of the very similarly named f1 race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1nX-qnNo2E i assume that's prolly what slopes meant in that video as well
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Welp, John from DF Retro sets the record straight. Of course, they've done a deep dive into the series. Turns out, we're both right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1O2zPrBs0
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Welp, John from DF Retro sets the record straight. Of course, they've done a deep dive into the series.  lol
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Croccers posted:
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Croccers posted:
Need this person to say "Given the ________ craze, a "Star Fox sequel that is true to the gameplay of Star Fox 64 but not a remake and F-Zero GXXX should be obvious projects at Nintendo right now." A Star Fox Battle Royal could be fun...
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MassRafTer posted:Need this person to say star fox adventures 99 is coming out next year you heard it here first
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I'm just waiting for Kirby Air Ride 99
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