| useruserB said: Some negatives for me - the racing stats only come from the characters, and there's only 3 types of character stats, balanced, speed and acceleration. Karts are just for decoration. It's not that big of a deal but worth mentioning, and if I did any research I probably would have known that before buying. Also another negative is the low amount of Wumpa coins earned per race when compared to the amount required to unlock a skin/cart. Wumpa coins can only be earned while connected to the game servers and the game servers determine the amount earned. Though once a day there seems to be a considerable boost in earnings when racing online for the first hour or so. The duration of the boost seems both timed and quantity based, whatever comes first, 5000 or so coins earned or 1 hour elapsed, then the boost ends. Not really sure on the exact specifics of that. You're Wumpa coin earnings are at the whim of Activision it appears. They'll probably start doing MTX and sell coin packs soon enough(which sucks and explains why races give 20-80 coins when not boosted depending on the track while skins are 2500 and karts are 4000ish). The online is kinda meh, only single races are possible atm and it also lacks 2 player co-op online. Anyways, CTR Nitro Fueled definitely scratches the challenging/skills based kart racing itch that Mario Kart couldn't, but I'll always long for a Modnation Racers type kart racer with custom level creation. |
Technically you have 4.
Crash being the average gamer who doesn't know where to put his stats so all his stats are are the same.
Tiny/Dingodile being 'Kart has to go fast' so their speed stats are full
Coco/N.Gin being the smarter ones and choose to go for accelartion
And at last you have the ones who can't drive like Polar (who even has his driving book upside down) and go for full Turn speed stats.
In the original game you only had one kart and the stats are based on the 'lore' of the characters.
I am fine with the wumpa coins for the moment and I have basically unlocked everything that I want.
What's going to make the game potentially great is the grand prix because I am sure you will also unlock bonus wumpa coins.
The online I agree with but not sure what they can do, I love the idea of racing with no power ups and cups but people log out frequently so how fun will a cup be.
Edit: Oh yeah this week this will online stuff like online ranking so it is possible you will race against people who played it a lot or who are on the same skill level.
