A branch containing experimental balance changes can be found here :
https://github.com/Alayan-stk-2/stk-cod ... alanceSTK2
It is very much WIP, and the focus is on SuperTux before looking at lower difficulties, but here are the main changes currently:
- Increase the max speed of karts by about 5%
- Make nitro respawn much faster
- Nerf the swatter
- Big nitro gives 2.5 instead of 3.0
- Rebalance of nitro efficiency, lighter karts get a bigger speed boost from nitro than before but they use it faster.
- The bonus duration of a nitro burst (time of full boost without consumption) is reduced by 20%, the minimum burst length is reduced from ~0.534s to 0.5s.
- Increase the turn radius values of all kart classes.
- Make skidding more useful at taking tight curves.
- Reduce the difference between kart classes when "skidding straight"
- Increase the physics FPS
- Yellow skid gives 4.0 speed instead of 4.5
- Red skid is triggered slightly faster
Testing feedback is very welcome.