Nintendo announced some good stuff that’s coming to Mario Kart 8 in a new update alongside the… controversial Mercedez Benz DLC pack. They’re incremental tweaks, but they sound like welcome improvements all the same. Here are the ones I’m looking forward to:
- Players will be able to display a map of the racetrack on their TV screen.
- The game will save the player’s most recent vehicle combination for the next time they it up.
- Players will be able to edit one another’s highlight reels.
- “Improved online stability,” which is always a good thing in my book!
I’ll take the game out for a spin once the update officially lands and report back then.
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18 responses to “Some Good Stuff Coming To Mario Kart 8 In A New Update”
I didn’t see *Fixed Battle Mode
*cries softly*
The worst part about Battle mode is that it’s clearly just pure lazieness in re-using the tracks. If they had of tried something new and it didn’t work as well, that would suck a little, but laziness is far more of an insult.
DLC for Blockfort Please
Is there a way to region filter online play? I haven’t had a single game where I don’t drop out.
I think you can already play online by Region. I haven’t tried that myself but I assume it’ll just be Australia only?
Otherwise, a few of us from Kotaku AU play regularly together, so you (or anyone else) are welcome to join :). I think the tournament code is 6219-0979-9527 and we usually play at 7:30 on Monday
Might be an issue with your router, the Wii u has router issues. I have never droppers out of Mk online.
There already is a ‘region-play’ mode but for us it isn’t great. Nintendo seems to think Australia is part of Europe, even though we get slower connection speeds there than to North America.
Yeah I always end up vsing Europeans
Well until the 1940’s, all aussies considered themselves brits, which is European. Ah another way that nintendo has trolled us with with a historical reference.
I play on global, and I generally have no issues apart from some lag now and then. I get the occasional disconnect but nothing too bad.
Same issue here, I’ve gotten maybe 3 matches down? It’s awesome because apparently I am pretty good (at least against who I’ve matched with) and I want to see where I end up. Maybe I’m in the noob end still?
Always dropping out. I think it may be my slower connection though? Just waiting for NBN in a month or two. At least it will be here in time for Smash!
Apparently there’ll be a stat screen too to check win/lose, total amount of coins etc.
Honestly most of these small updates should’ve been there from the start but I’m glad they’re at least coming. Better late than never I guess!
And although I never really played Battle Mode in past games I don’t know why they ruined it 🙁
I’m a little disappointed they aren’t tweaking the item balance a little. There’s just a few things that are slightly off about it, like 2nd place getting triple red shells while 8th place gets a single mushroom.
Glad they’re adding the track map to the screen, but that DLC, YUCK! Thank God it’s free, no-one in their right mind would pay for it. Why couldn’t they have given us some extra characters like Diddy Kong, I would’ve happily paid a few bucks for him.
fix the 59fps stutter
fix the battle mode
then I will purchase this game
At least those first two points as well as the stats screen Greenius mentioned should have already been in the game.
Hoping this isn’t a sign of things to come.
A list of all the changes would have been nice instead of cherry picking the ones you are interested in Yannick. 🙂
Yay, less lag hopefully.