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Shikamo on 18 April 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkHw2WLVj10

Fire hopping was pretty prevalent in Mario Kart 8 on Wii U. Basically, the technique allowed players to extend mini turbos. The underlying idea is to hop in alternating directions during the turbo.

With Mario Kart 8 Deluxe nearly here, you might be wondering if fire hopping has returned. GameXplain tested things out, and based on what they’ve seen, it looks like the technique is gone. We don’t have an absolutely definitive answer, but this appears to be the answer right now.

Source 2: NintendoEverything



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Mystro-Sama on 18 April 2017

What was the purpose of removing this though? Tricks like this only raises the skill ceiling. Removing it just seemed like a dick move.



Platina on 18 April 2017

I never really used this technique anyways so don't really have an issue with it being removed



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Lonely_Dolphin on 18 April 2017
Mystro-Sama said:
What was the purpose of removing this though? Tricks like this only raises the skill ceiling. Removing it just seemed like a dick move.

Nothing was removed, rather it was fixed as glitches are supposed to be. That and it caused further inbalance between outside and inside drift, making the former significantly superior to the latter.



monocle_layton on 18 April 2017

He managed to win at PAX without fire hopping. Is it truly big enough for Nintendo to remove? Feel like it wasn't gamebreaking