Story mode balancing
Posted: 31 Aug 2014, 17:21
I think some bronze or silver challenges in the story mode are trivial. I suggest to make some balancing here.
There are many races, but some of them don’t have any place requirement whatsoever. Which makes the challenge basically just a time trial. You can finish last and still win the challenge. This feels just wrong. I think pure time trial challenges should not have any AI karts. Otherwise stick to normal race. I think it is also OK to mix time-trial with normal race. But I think it is just weird to make a time trial with AI karts and then completely ignoring the place. In a race against other karts, I (and probably many others) would expect that I don’t win anything if I finish last.
I have the impression that the bronze cups are not only easy, they are sometimes trivial. I think bronze cups should be easy but not trivial.
I would add a place requirement for all race challenges. I have looked into all challenges and think that the only place requirement which makes sense for all races in all difficulties is rank 1. There are only 2-5 karts per race challenge, also the AI difficulty drops significantly in the lower difficulties.
Here are my concrete suggestions for challenges:
1st: Add the requirement “rank 1” for all difficulties of the following challenges:
Bovine Barnyard, Northern Resort, Snow Peak, Subsea, The Island, Scotland, Around the Lighthouse, Amazonian Journey, Old Mine
Random notes:
The bronze challenge on the Island is trivial: It just requires a rank of 3 but there are only 3 karts in the challenge. Which means you always win the challenge, no matter how bad you are.
Hacienda has rank 2 requirement for GOLD. Oh, come on … xD
If you too have comments about the balancing in Story mode, please write it here, in this thread. Do you too think that some of the challenges are trivial?
There are many races, but some of them don’t have any place requirement whatsoever. Which makes the challenge basically just a time trial. You can finish last and still win the challenge. This feels just wrong. I think pure time trial challenges should not have any AI karts. Otherwise stick to normal race. I think it is also OK to mix time-trial with normal race. But I think it is just weird to make a time trial with AI karts and then completely ignoring the place. In a race against other karts, I (and probably many others) would expect that I don’t win anything if I finish last.
I have the impression that the bronze cups are not only easy, they are sometimes trivial. I think bronze cups should be easy but not trivial.
I would add a place requirement for all race challenges. I have looked into all challenges and think that the only place requirement which makes sense for all races in all difficulties is rank 1. There are only 2-5 karts per race challenge, also the AI difficulty drops significantly in the lower difficulties.
Here are my concrete suggestions for challenges:
1st: Add the requirement “rank 1” for all difficulties of the following challenges:
Bovine Barnyard, Northern Resort, Snow Peak, Subsea, The Island, Scotland, Around the Lighthouse, Amazonian Journey, Old Mine
Random notes:
The bronze challenge on the Island is trivial: It just requires a rank of 3 but there are only 3 karts in the challenge. Which means you always win the challenge, no matter how bad you are.
Hacienda has rank 2 requirement for GOLD. Oh, come on … xD
If you too have comments about the balancing in Story mode, please write it here, in this thread. Do you too think that some of the challenges are trivial?