Ever since Mario Kart 8’s second DLC pack arrived last week, fans and players have been deliberating on just how game-changing the new high-speed 200CC difficulty mode truly is. Apparently, it changes things up enough to render “fire hopping,” the game’s most controversial exploit, effectively inert.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Fire hopping was first discovered shortly after Mario Kart 8 came out last summer as a way to artificially extend a racer’s speed boosts. By flipping the joystick on the Wii U controller back and forth in a rapid, repetitive motion at just the right moment when coming off a boost, players could maintain their enhanced speed indefinitely. Since players found it, they’ve continued to debate about whether it counts as a legitimate technique in the Mario Kart 8 toolkit, or if its a cheap exploit that people should stay away from in the interests of maintaining fair play.
https://kotaku.com/mario-kart-has-a-new-controversial-technique-1585596362 Here’s a video IGN made showing how it’s done:
Mario Kart 8’s second batch of DLC arrived with a software update for the
Yono All APP game—the 4.0 patch that included the amped-up 200CC speed for all players, regardless of whether or not they bought the new premium stuff Nintendo released. Since all the new content dropped last
l86 week, serious Kart racers have been wondering what happened to fire hopping. Some think Nintendo did
away with the mode entirely: Great news we should make a note of: Fire hopping has been nerfed and is now essentially useless. Watching the firehoppers complain is bliss — Dennis =චᆽච= (@LyonHart_) April 24, 2015 Fire-hopping is dead. http://t.co/8DHRhRrOIj — Luther from NintendObs Daily (@NintendObserver) April 25, 2015 Other Mario Kart 8 players don’t agree, however. Over at the Mario Kart
forum MKBoards—as intense and exclusive a haunt for diehard Kart-ers as there is on the internet—players remarked that fire hopping actually does still work:
Just…not in quite the same way it used to: Whether or not the changes made for 200CC count as a “nerf,” most players seem to agree that fire hopping in the new mode just ain’t what it used to be:
If Nintendo didn’t patch fire hopping out specifically, then how did they effectively render it inert all of a sudden? Well, as I said last week, the new difficulty level speeds things up so much that it ends up changing the whole Mario Kart 8 meta game in some interesting ways. Whereas previously heavy-weight characters were considered the most valuable because their extra weight helped them achieve a higher top speed, for instance, in 200CC lighter characters and vehicles are suddenly considered more powerful because they tend have better handling and acceleration. Effective braking and power-sliding are more important than ever as well. Since fire hopping is a valuable technique to temporarily boost one’s overall speed, then, it doesn’t give
players as crucial an advantage as it used to. Braking! In a Mario Kart game. God, I don’t even know what to believe in anymore. With the decline
l86.com สล็อต of fire hopping in the crazy 200CC mode that fans have taken to with a gusto, it’ll be interesting to see what new high-level techniques might appear to replace it. Contact the author at [email protected]