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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled |OT| Start Your Engines!
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You have to search for it but it is apparently not considered part of CTRNF's list of available add-ons so it can be a bit tricky to locate
I still cannot find it. I'm on PS4 if that makes a difference.
Player engagement seems to be on the rise this GP. We're still 9-10 days out from the end and the top 5% Nitro on PS4 is now a little past the amount needed to get all the GP rewards, even with nearly 600,000 players. And on Switch you've got to have almost 50,000 Nitro.
you can farm with a turbo controller. Set it to repeat accelerate and do the Lab Basement crystal challenge on Hard and let it go. Other than that IDK.
Oh yeah, matchmaking has been absolutely trash. Just a bunch of lobby's that just keep disbanding or games that get stuck at the starting line. Just spend 20 straight minutes in the matchmaking screen because the only couple of people the game tried to match me up with were people that were queue dodging me probably because I kept winning.
The amount of downtime I experience on this game is the main reason I stopped playing this game as much anymore. Outside of the 4 moments in the week where x10 wumpa is active I just don't play anymore, on average I spend twice or triple the amount of time in menu's and load screens than in actual racing and it's honestly not fun anymore.
I moved recently and my PS4 is still in a box buried under more boxes, and basically missed all of Spyro and now the Halloween event :(
How has the game been holding up? I miss any fixes or big changes?
How has the game been holding up? I miss any fixes or big changes?
Skill-based matchmaking. Ability to pick any driving class on any character. New driving class called Drift. Halloween came with a gimmick where ghost can come out of boxes which can than catch to complete certain challenges, presumably every GP from now on might come with a unique gimmick. GP contents seemingly coming available 3 GP's later in the regular pit stop as all the stuff from GP 1 is available as of the Halloween GP.
That's about it for the big stuff I think.
Oh my god, that all sounds incredible!!
Matchmaking? New Class?? Character/class mix matching??? That's everything everyone wanted, right?
And has this all been received well? How has the matchmaking been? How is the new drift class? (doesn't this make the already irrelevant turning class even more so?)
Thanks for the update!
All positive changes, pretty well received afaik. The sbmm definitely seems to be working from my experience and hasn't negatively influenced the matchmaking experience for me, though it's the same matchmaking system as before so the lack of host migration will still cause a bunch of lobbies to disband way too often. The new drift class was trash initially, but they quickly patched it to be around accel/speed tier. The way I would describe the class is similar to accel speedwise but with way better turning, so I would guess balanced mains would recognize this class as a actually fast balanced class. I personally got turned off by the way it exits drift so I don't use it, but stat wise it's definitely up there, at least worth trying out I'd say. Turn and Balanced are indeed still trash atm, hopefully they'll finally get something next patch. This GP ends on November 3rd so I would assume the next GP is only about a week out from now.
I'm kind of irrationally bothered that in Android Alleyway, the power shield protects against the train, but the mask does not. I know it's been like that since launch, but it has to be a bug, right? It makes no sense.
Also, what is Nina saying when she gets hit by something? It sounds like "Ow, my sinus headaches". WTF, that's such a bizarre line.
Also, what is Nina saying when she gets hit by something? It sounds like "Ow, my sinus headaches". WTF, that's such a bizarre line.
Hit the switch block on the first lap and just take the right lane on the blue fire laps. Just stick to the right when you go outside as well, those jumps on the left aren't worth it. Oxide actually slams into the wall at the end of the third lap, so don't go resetting if he just stays ahead of you for most of the race, he throws real hard at the end.
First things first, prepare for your momentum to just die for absolutely no reason.
The key to it is to not jump at all during the first lap. Just do triple boosts off every ramp, because you need to build up a load of reserves. So don't take the shortcut on lap 1, just drift along that snaking path.
On the other two laps, try to keep your triple boosts going, but feel free to jump whenever you need to, and take the shortcut.
YES! 1:46:16! Digital N Tropy at last!
I was already doing most of that, but what really helped me improve my time (best was 1:50 until today, always losing the fire in the second lap) was to get the shortcut on the blue fire laps, switching to the Drift class (it's so much easier than with Speed) and knowing that Oxide crashed at the end, which also prevented me from resetting this particular race.
Thank you so so much for the tips!
Congrats!
Yeah, Oxide is kinda crap on every track lol. I don't think there are any where he does a 'perfect' race.
It's only gone to $30 on both digital stores, slightly more recently on PS4 than on Switch. Physical copies of the Switch version tend to be on slightly bigger sale from various retailers more frequently though.
1. It's so nice to see Crash in a Playstation commercial again.
2. There's a mask following either Cortex or Coco that I've never seen before. Is this some kind of hint?
2. There's a mask following either Cortex or Coco that I've never seen before. Is this some kind of hint?
Nice Catch.
Doesn't match neither the elementals nor any of the mutant era masks, tho the closest would be mutant era Uka Uka it's still not nearly close enough to be that.
Weird seems like Koala Kong is the star of the show despite teasing Pasadena.
That Ringmaster Ami costume is legit.
Also, glad to see I can spend my Wumpa Coins on costumes and karts rather than characters this time.
Also, glad to see I can spend my Wumpa Coins on costumes and karts rather than characters this time.
well it is his track so i can understand why
maybe they just wanted people to get excited over more post naughty dogs characters
I never liked Pasadena or Von Clutch lol.
I never minded CTTR, even if I thought the platforming stuff was more fun, which is a bit silly for a racer, but I never liked the new characters.
Oh lol, I thought it was a new feature that I didn't understand.
New content looking good.
This Pasadena redesign looks terrible to me but Koala and Von Clutch are looking good. King Chicken is a fun addition as well, definitely wasn't expecting that wall in adventure mode to actually lead up to something.
The new track gives me Excitebike from MK8 vibes with it possibly just being a oval loop with a bunch of jumps and two wide left turns which I might dislike, but the trailer shows off too little of the track for me to put a judgement out yet. At least it looks pretty.
The skins are ok so far I guess. I'm not into circus aesthetics so I'm expecting this GP to be mostly lost on me anyway, but from what I've seen so far they're pretty funny. I love the bumper kart tho, will definitely be using that throughout this GP.
Now the Ring mode being a new singleplayer addition is kinda shocking to me. Especially after the ghosts from last event I was just expecting this to be a fun gimmick tacked onto regular races, not an entirely new mode! Seems like it's similar to the ring mode in the Sonic racing games, which was a fun side mode there as well, looking forward to it.
This Pasadena redesign looks terrible to me but Koala and Von Clutch are looking good. King Chicken is a fun addition as well, definitely wasn't expecting that wall in adventure mode to actually lead up to something.
The new track gives me Excitebike from MK8 vibes with it possibly just being a oval loop with a bunch of jumps and two wide left turns which I might dislike, but the trailer shows off too little of the track for me to put a judgement out yet. At least it looks pretty.
The skins are ok so far I guess. I'm not into circus aesthetics so I'm expecting this GP to be mostly lost on me anyway, but from what I've seen so far they're pretty funny. I love the bumper kart tho, will definitely be using that throughout this GP.
Now the Ring mode being a new singleplayer addition is kinda shocking to me. Especially after the ghosts from last event I was just expecting this to be a fun gimmick tacked onto regular races, not an entirely new mode! Seems like it's similar to the ring mode in the Sonic racing games, which was a fun side mode there as well, looking forward to it.
Biggest news though is that Rilla Roo is actually teased in the track, can't wait for him to be added in the future as that's my childhood right there.
From the blog update. Now you get a third chance to buy items you missed from the previous GP without waiting three months.
More interesting to me is the openness with which they talk about new GPs. Maybe it's just standard, base-covering wording, but it gives me good vibes about support beyond the December GP. Beenox has done an incredible job. Truly outstanding stuff.
Sounds like it's doing good since it has a dedicated part in their PS4 promo with a tease.
Track looks great. Hopefully it's a longer track just shy of Electron Avenue and Tiny Arena.
Will the ghost catching completely removed from the game, or be put in its separate mode? Cause I don't want to wait 6 months or even till Halloween 2020 to play the first actually fun mode that isn't racing.
Will the ghost catching completely removed from the game, or be put in its separate mode? Cause I don't want to wait 6 months or even till Halloween 2020 to play the first actually fun mode that isn't racing.
1. It's so nice to see Crash in a Playstation commercial again.
2. There's a mask following either Cortex or Coco that I've never seen before. Is this some kind of hint?
What the heck. This has gotta be a tease for something, right? The new Crash game presumed to be in development at VV maybe?
What other explanation is there?
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Worthy of a new thread over on the gaming side perhaps?
It could be the Tag Team Racing mask? Von Clutch and Possum wouldn't use any of the current masks, I imagine.
I don't ever recall CTTR ever introducing new masks, the closest thing was the Elementals from WoC
Tag Team Racing didn't have mask power-ups or any power-ups from the previous racers (nor did they have anything much to do with the Crash series at all).
Correct, but I'm saying they'll need.. some kind of mask as a representitive here? I guess we'll know in a few hours. MIght just be a Von Clutch mask
Guessing they'll probably just end up with Aku Aku since they side with the Bandicoots.