Thread 721082624

Any anons playing this? It's basically CTR on PC with mods.

I do but I'm busy waging.

>>721084098
How do you compare it to CTR?

>>721082624 (OP)
This is the first time I've ever heard of this game
The cat has me interested though.

>>721084482
Its pretty fun but is a bit more loose specifically because the devs don't want invisible barriers in tracks, so a lot of shortcuts have you using terrain to launch yourself out of bounds. Tracks have mandatory checkpoints to ensure you cant just skip half the track
The sound design and weapon design is pretty weak and needs more work, as is the base character roster. Mods feel essential to make things visually interesting but the gameplay purely for racing does feel really fun.
The absurdity of racing as Big Smoke in a train against spongebob and sonic is overshadowed by the enjoyment I get from it being really close to CTR on PC with custom tracks, and I know Microsoft won't deliver.
I got custom team racing as well so I am happy to enjoy having 2 cakes.

I am and I'm loving it. Was actually thinking of trying to host a /v/eekend thread to play with anons in a couple more hours, maybe if this thread is alive by then I'll post in here.

>>721085107
>the devs don't want invisible barriers in tracks
I think that's just a choice by modders. Lots of maps have invisible walls and "out of bounds" trigger zones, but those need to be put in by the uploader themselves, and I'm pretty sure 80% of people are just importing the geometry of the maps as is, adding the checkpoints and call it a day

>>721085654
No the devs post devlogs on youtube so the sentiment of not having invisible walls comes from the top level.
Modded tracks are up to the modder, you can put your boundaries where you want, like in tiny arena or you could do no boundaries ever and just put checkpoints to make sure people do most of the track like hot air skyway

>>721085654
Sick driving dude

>>721085654
It's that Doremi?

>>721086969
Ye

>>721086387
I see, well it's good that people have to choice to do it the way they want, to be honest the original tracks can be pretty hit or miss.
There's this modder guy that has been uploading original tracks and they are quite good, that goblin village one is also pretty visually impressive.

>>721086425
Thanks, anon.

One very underrated feature TK2 has is the fact that the modding tools let you close/open new paths from lap to lap, and even add or remove boost pads from lap to laps. Makes the tracks more unique, it's like Crossworlds changing the track but to a lesser scale, it's really cool.

>>721082624 (OP)
It feels pretty close to CTR, to the extent where muscle memory carried me through a fair portion of the modded CTR tracks, although it's noticeably more forgiving especially given how much more air you get with jumps. Also has air breaking but no u-turning that I can tell of

>>721088378
You can press break while drifting for a weak-ish U-turn

>>721085654
>racing game turned into a button masher where you constantly have to be drifting / mini-boosting or you lose
no thanks, I don't have ADHD

>>721089373
You don't play many racing games, do you?

>>721086387
That's a weird philosophy to have imo, leaving no boundaries will just lend itself for massive skips in tracks that and basically make that track irrelevant.

It's like those skips in Oxide Station where you only experience 20% of the map jiat because you skip so much, where's the fun in that? The fun of racing is navigating tracks and doing good lines and you choose to cheese the fun part by completely skipping it.

>Billy Harrington
>On a plain wooden chair scooting around at the speed of sound
It's gaming time.

>>721091665
>moans and screams "I'm coming" when going through a boost pad
fucking kino

>>721091070
They place mandatory checkpoints to ensure that you do still have to play the track instead of skipping it.
Its more of a mentality of "you can get here, so its allowed" and only putting respawn points where its obvious that a player has left the intended circuit or has gotten somewhere they cannot get themselves out of.
In practice it's an attempt at staying out of the player's way, but they can put their foot down if a skip is found that trivializes the rest of the track

>>721082624 (OP)
I was interested as a CTR fag but looks like a dead gaem

Slop the game and dev(s) will never ever fix the bugs, shitty menus, items or add any meaningful original content in their lifetime.

>>721093478
I usually play with my friends but the times I've gone online there's always at least 4 more people playing so far, I think there is some sort of Discord integration that notifies some lobbies too, though don't quote me on that cuz I don't use discord.
My goal would be to find anons on 4chan to play a lot like in the Smash 4 /v/eekends and sometimes CTR threads.

>>721093610
idk man the weekly updates recently have been pretty good in regards of bug fixes and QoL integrations

>>721093917
wtf how are you playing as Croc

>>721093917
Come on now. List all the content that has been added or all the things that have been fixed recently. Do it.

After early access launch it's just been ranked mmr that doesn't work, middle boost bar with borked contrast, and moving the photo mode menu to be included in the normal play.

>>721094667
The magic of the Steam Workshop™

>>721094703
In these couple of weeks they added about 50 challenges to the Single Player so you get to play more modes/different tracks; they added the boost bar on the middle, fixed local saves being glitched, missing mods now get replaced with a random vanilla element so you don't always just see the cat character, and reworked the customization UI. I think it was past month when they added the Western-themed tracks too.
It's small things that add up, there's no game breaking glitches or stuff and mods keep it fresh while they add that story mode they want or whatever, only thing I'd like was optimizing the game on boot because my PC is kind of old and it takes a bit to load all the content i have installed whenever I start the game lol

>>721095153
The challenges are just play and win on this track again and do it 100 times for number go up exp. And they even dared to tease story mode. The game was supposed to be released in 2023, including consoles. Was delayed like billion times including 1 hour before the early access launch. And there are game engine level glitches than can be used to invalidated all world records if one so wishes so no glitches my ass.

>>721095927
>And there are game engine level glitches than can be used to invalidated all world records
What are they?

>>721096026
I'm not malicious enough to spread that info but it's not making my attitude towards the state of the game any better knowing that these (and the rest of the ever growing list of issues) are yet to be addressed.

>>721096190
Have you informed the devs about them at least?

>>721096370
Yeah they have been discussed.

>>721085654
This looks so fun compared to world

>>721097080
And it is. I'm happy to see more people talking about TK2 lately, hopefully it makes anons give it a chance.

Game looks great but it really needed a recognizable IP. It is up against Mario Kart World, Sonic Racing Crossworlds, Kirby Air Riders, Garfield Kart 2.

>>721098129
Yeah, a gatosexo can only get you so far.

>>721098352
It gets me pretty far if you know what I mean

Soooo, any anons up to play together?

>>721100552
I could if we get an extra anon on board

>>721100552
>>721102678
How is it on steam deck? Can you do the steam workshop stuff? I've eyed it a few times but if I got it it'd be for the deck.

>>721105034
No idea sorry, i don't know anything about the 'eck, but I've always assumed you can get workshop mods just as easily. idk about performance but it's not super intensive.

>>721106328
Hmm, might get it then. Will I find /v/ people on it?

>>721107071
>Will I find /v/ people on it?
If these threads start to pick up, probably.

I made a thread on >>>/vm/1846438 that's mainly for Crash Team Racing but I also use it for TK2 where I play with another anon sometimes, you are free to join those, or if more threads like this show up, play with us there (i'll probably play if I ever see that happen)

>>721107219
Nice, I might find you there then

>>721102678
I just got off work so if we're still down for a lobby I can participate

>>721107369
Based, see ya there

>>721107513
Would love to but I got roped into doing something else and after that I gotta go out to play some board games with friends. I'll try to host tomorrow