Hey Everyone, Firstly I want to apologise for the lack of upload consistency recently, Im now back at work so I'v had to put videos on the back burner, though now that everything has settled down, Im gonna get back on track, expect the next part to this video soon, as well as the next episode of crash bandicoot cancelled, and of course coverage of any news or updates, stay safe everybody!
Man, if you do the adventure mode in one go you have 30 FUCKING MINUTES OF LOADING I'm not even kidding look at this www.speedrun.com/ctrnf Even if you're a speedrunner, loading times takes MORE THAN HALF OF TOTAL TIME
I feel sorry for anyone that bought the game after the Grand prix events just because of the customisation. It wasn't so bad if you got the game early and you had a month every time to get the coins to clear out the pitstop but for anyone getting the game now you'll have to get every grand prix item from scratch. Take into account how many characters you have to buy that are 1500 coins each, every skin being 2500, every set of wheels and paint jobs being at least 1500 and even stickers being over 1000. If you didn't play during the grand prix era you'd have all of that to get through and the highest number of coins you can possibly get at a single time is playing electron avenue or tiny arena on the weekend bonus and catching a golden wumpa which would give you 1000 coins and that's only if you win. The ctr community is so good at the game that anyone coming into now wouldn't even have a chance of winning most races. Considering that a lot of players would have most items from the pit stop by now I think they should double the coin earnings both in online and offline play cause for newcomers the only way to realistically get everything is to buy it all with real money
I think all items are now available in the pit stop though aren't they? I bought it at the start so luckily I didn't miss out but I see your point. Not sure if you'd be able to get legendary skins?
I got it a month ago and it's so grindy. I love the game but I want to play with different karts and paint jobs. I'm stuck with the hoverkart and N Tropy to play
“The only way to realistically get everything is to buy it all with real money.” Yep that was Activision’s plan all along. They’re to blame for ruining the longevity of this game.
Battle was sooooooo slept on, it was basically tacked on and people only remembered from random Grand Prix tasks, and nobody played battle online so I could never fully enjoy it
As a competitive player the WORST problem for me is the lack of no item races and ghost modes in privates so collisions don’t occur when multiple players are neck and neck
These are my top 5 issues to this day. 5. Pit Stop rotation 4. The need to have an internet connection 3. Pit Stop overpriced 2. Local online awful coin payout 1. Online subscription
One thing I don't think they necessarily did wrong but was definitely a missed opportunity was not adding in the CNK adventure mode. I understand why they didn't have the CNK adventure mode along with the CTR adventure mode at launch as this was a CTR remake first and foremost and new players would probably be confused why there were two different adventure modes. Plus they were probably still working on the soon to be released first Grand Prix and all the other grand Prix after. But I do think the perfect time to make and release the CNK adventure mode would have been either in the Gasmoxia Grand Prix(where they could have used this to not only show off Velo when he was first released but also the other CNK bosses) or in the update after that brought the dev times(this way, the CNK adventure mode wouldn't interfere with the development of the Grand Prix). They already had the crystal challenges, time relics, and CTR challenges in the game for the CNK tracks so all they would have had to do was remake the hub worlds and cutscenes. However, I still appreciate everything Beenox has done to make this game not only my favorite Kart racer of all time but also, my favorite game ever with how much love they put into each character, skin, track, and game mode. Not to mention how they listened to us often by doing stuff such as 'fixing' Rilla roo and adding engine swapping. The first 3 Grand Prix was pretty rough and I almost quit due to fatigue but every Grand Prix and content drop after that just hooked me into the game more and more to the point where even now I still play the game very often attempting to beat the dev times and get the master wheels. Thank you Beenox.(also, sorry for this being very long. Lol)
this game should have had a ranked mode with no power ups. strictly skill based, allowing the better players to play online with no bullshit power ups. power ups personally ruin online for me and i'm sure most "advanced players" would agree that a no power up mode would have improved this games quality of life tremendously. like, each grand prix could have had a no power up ranked system, and power up game modes would have been where the "casuals" play, kind of like how mortal kombat 11 has their ranked/casual modes set up.
While I don’t fully disagree, the game is designed in a way that if you mess up in the slightest in some tracks you’re never going to catch up, specially in blue fire tracks. Why even try to finish the race then? Items help balance that, while not perfect in this game, keep things interesting. Ranks would have been nice
My list for this video 1) No actors reprising their previous roles. 2) No more updates. 3) No more then three or one characters reintroduced after the Nitro Squad. 4) No remade campaigns of Nitro Kart and Tag Team Racing. 5) The possibility that none of the actors in this game will reprise their roles in later Crash Bandicoot games.
1. The loading screen is disgustingly long 2. The Hard difficultly is disgustingly broken.. 3. The Time Clock is OP.. Besides those 3 the game is Perfect
I agree with 1 and 3, as for number 2: Just keep practicing. I couldn't keep up with the Hard AI until I'd played for a few hundred hours and finally beat all of the Oxide Time Trials. Since then I hardly ever lose to the Hard AI.
My list of top five issues; 5) The whole structuring of how the Grand Prix systems were handled (in terms of how progression was handled with the Nitro Bar with how tedious, repetitive and boring the challenges were to do in addition to how much of a grind it was to earn points, granted they're no longer around anymore thankfully but I feel like this is worth bringing up based on how much of a focus was put into these for the past several months) 4) So much loading 3) No remade CNK main campaign 2) Online mode (both in terms of how broken and unplayable matchmaking is with the lack of any proper host migration as well as how bare bones it is with the lack of any extra modes like gem cups, itemless modes and so on) 1) Microtransactions(more specifically how they were handled in the game in terms of the balancing of pricing in the pit stop, the daily rotation, how only any substantial amount can be earned in online modes and only for an hour per day)
It's a great remake well done by Beenox. We got tons and tons of new character and karts that we didn't even expect to get and all them for free. This is one of my most favourite games of all time but here is my list: 1) The main menu and character icons were and still is my biggest disappointment to this day. The main menu with the white flag in the background and the 2D icons of characters had a special charm and they could easily add them 2) Online is not nearly as fun as I imagined and that's because of bad servers and lack of game modes 3) Wumpa coins are obtainable only with an internet connection and even with that the local races rewards is nothing compare to the online ones 4) With a remake of the CNK cutscenes and hub worlds they could easily add the CNK adventure mode. They had all of the characters, tracks, and karts 5) Some items feels really different from the original. The bowling bombs were more controlable in the original but in the remake it just goes where ever it feels like 6) The fact that they said they won't put microtransactions in the game but they did it anyways was a really cheap move 7) The loading times are SO GODDAMN LONG! 8) This is not a criticicm but it would have been really cool to add the original game in Nitro-fueled aswell like how they did with the Medievil remake. It could have been a great easter egg for completing the story mode 101%
Several of these problems really should've been polished during the game's lifetime. More specifically issues #2, 3, 4, 6 & 7. But you've made a good point with these BTW.
The Cove Cruiser was horrible, because sour patch kids isn't avaible on my country, i would need to travel to a whole other continent to get it, same thing with Xfinity Kart...
1.lobby/online mode needs a cup tournament and team races. 2. The promotion karts should have been available as DLC for folk outside USA. 3. Wish legendary skins were balanced out more.
The point of this game is that it rewards you for skill. It’s not like Mario kart where you can be In first throughout the whole race and you can still get fucked up by a Blue shell. In this game if you can maintain your speed, keep your reserves up and pull those tight corners without crashing and keeping Blue fire and Sacred Fires up then that’s true skill and it will be awarded with a 1/20 chance of getting a Mask or Shield bubble. It’s VERY rare for it to happen when you’re in first. Take it from someone who played CTR PS1 Religiously when I was a kid and 102% completed the game back in the day. This game isn’t your typical Easy Mario Kart racer, it’s more skill based and challenging depending on what your racing for.
Having a pro player jump into your lobby, finish first and then having 30 or 20 seconds for everyone else to finish the race was really really annoying. I stopped playing after a month as I found it more of a chore than a fun experience.
Was i the only one that waited for 2nd place to catchup before finishing a race? Seems like it when i'm receiving so many messages saying thanks when i also let them finish first if it's a 1v1 in this very skill based matchmaking that may or may not have ruined the online experience even further.
5. Slow loading times 4. CPU difficulty is basically faster than more skilled in harder modes 3. Grindy content achievement 2. Lack of natural incentive to play extra content 1. No way to diversify races
They seriously messed up the weapon system and made it worst. Now the races so bland and less chaotic. It’s impossible to catch up or stop the 1st position player even while you’re in 2nd place. Warp holes and clocks are so friggin rare I haven’t even had one for ages now.
The weapon system has been fucked for a while but I do agree its a lot worse than it used to be. I havent seen a clock online in I dont know how long but I did get orbed in a race last night which pissed me off due to it being the only race in the entire lobby that one managed to be used
Things that they should have done: 1) Online lobby: when the host leaves, instead of kicking everyone else off, it should randomly choose a new host. 2) Online modes: Why not put the battle arenas and tracks into one lobby? Why not put mirror mode, Cups, and other stuff online? 3) Pit stop: Balancing out prices and getting rid of the daily rotation cycle 4) Online play: Make players vote for # of laps; Fix everything else
The competitive gap online was brutal. Every lobby had one dominant player, items were not balanced to keep everyone in the race. Stopped playing after a month because of it. Offline content was scarce. Honestly was so disappointed the game had so much potential but was executed so poorly.
The item imbalance and lag was what pissed me off the most online. The game loves to give bowling bombs more than anything else, but can't give you the appropriate offense/defense power-ups when you need it most. Seeing someone in first place with master wheels with a mask while you have a stupid bomb will annoy anyone.
Let all the other things, the biggest mystake was number 1 OF COURSE. The game start in 2019, now we have 2020, it's not right to have this simple online mode, they can do many many things and the must do. I hope in the future for an update that fix this online.
Towards the end, though, Beenox decided to make the microtransactions obsolete by adding Golden Wumpas and rewarding Grand Prix Challenge completion with Coins.
I think we can all agree what this game needs is cup tournaments, maybe then it would be feel less like I'm waiting 5 minutes for the game to load, while I play the track for 3 minutes because some sweaty dude with the developer master wheels has already completed the track and I'm on lap 2. Not to mention how long it takes to recover after you've been hit by an item, most of the time you just end up falling off the track. Back in the old Crash Team Racing for the PS2 the power ups were balanced and designed to give you more boosts right at the end of the race so it was always a close call, and that's what made it fun, Beenox and Activision totally missed that. One thing that I hate more than anything is that when the first guy finishes a race, it's a 30 second countdown timer, I don't really understand that. Shouldn't the timer start when the 3rd person finishes at least? Then maybe other people will have more of a chance to actually finish a race if you've been constantly bombarded with items, seeing as though items to take out players in 1st are incredibly hard to come by.
NO ONE even plays the online matchmaking battle mode! It's just the same repetitive single races over and over! it's a shame really, because the battles are so much fun.
@MichaelVDragon because that led to microtransactions and lowers the overall quality of the game since Activision is greedy; if sales aren’t going well they won’t be very inclined to keep the game alive for very long. As much as I like some stuff in the pit stop its poor management was a part in the decline of CTR’s longevity.
Completely agree with points about online mode. Beenox put so much love and attention to detail into Nitro Feuled but the online mode is absolutely prehistoric. Once a player has completed the adventure mode, time trials etc, the only thing keeping them playing the game is their own enjoyment. This is where the online mode should come into its own. Love this game but the online issues are a joke. When they were rolling out grand prix's, at least the game was providing new tracks, challenges etc but now, once someone completes the offline features and has unlocked their desired characters and customisable items, the game itself offers no further incentive for the player to continue playing. When you consider Call of Duty is pretty much made by its online modes, I just thinks its baffling Activision has pretty much neglected CTR in that sense. How difficult would it be to incorporate no item races, tournaments, ranked races etc into the online mode. The single race only is made even worse when you consider that more often than not, you'll spend more time waiting for a race than you will actually racing. Beenox did an incredible job remaking a classic, improving upon it from a gameplay sense and adding so much additional content but the newest and arguably what should have been the most important mode was completely shunned and that's a shame.
What about sound effects... they are awful. Rivals no longer hilariously taunt you or groan when hit, explosions sound cushioned and far away, you can barely hear missiles when launched, the turbo sound effect is not nearly as satisfying as the original (where it used to sound like literal flames coming out of the kart now you just hear a little boom and then something like nitro... dull). And that effect when you crash into a beaker sucks! That's what happens with all these remasters nowadays: pure play-doh cosmetics and muffled, overly echoy, sound effects.
My list of negative issues about the game 1-battle mode been dumped by beenox 2-it took them 9 months to fix the invisible walls on a tracks that came at the game's launch 3-no servers 4-and the AI hitting you with an item if you overlapped them and iom if they wanna fix that they should make the player on lap 3 immune from Receiving damage from someone still in lap 2 or 1 cuz that can solve the AI issue and the trolls who stay behinde and wait for the first place to complete a lap and then hit him with an item
One of my biggest gripes with the game is, and this is gonna sound trivial, is how Beenox keeps fucking up the Podium Themes for the majority of characters they add - some of the CNK characters had some unfitting theme choices too in my opinion. Crash Team Racing? More like: Bandicoot Podium Theme Simulator. Seriously, Beenox has like a fetish for the Bandicoot Podium Theme or something. No love for the Pinstripe/Komodo Bros or Polar/Pura themes. I made a video of my fixes for every character up to Winter Festival.
Rose Supreme since I heard that CTR NF might stop updating due to the New Crash game being announced, which would mean that Ripto and The Sorceress will not be in CTR NF and Willy Wumpa Cheeks will be a one off character but I hope it’s not the case but hope isn’t guarantee
@@nickytembo4112 I'm sure they would've told us if the last update has happened. They probably need a little more time to iron out the next update, especially with the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour (that's what the Game Grumps refer to the Coronavirus since they can't mention the name because they'd get demonetized or something) going on.
Rose Supreme oh my bad and do you know about Tre Shepperd you know the guy who says that things about I can’t for the new Crash game for 2020 and new Spyro for 2021?
Agree with you 5th is most annoying and silly thing But to reach out to death threat for the code this realy mess it up I know it's cool car but shh dude chill out is a game
I heavily agree with you on the Pit stop and item balance (why can a bot get a blue orb when I'm trying to do a grand prix challenge ffs. One point I would make is that the older shortcuts were artificially enhanced and still feel inconsistent. Sewer Speedway on release had such a bad interaction and even now it still feels odd (BLIZZARD BLUFF !!!).
I've only recently started playing online, and #3 is something I noticed almost immediately. I still fairly enjoy playing online for the most part, but I hate how once you get through the first lap, the person in 1st place is literally unstoppable, unless they straight up willingly stop moving. Also, I have Xfinity and I didn't even know that the Xfinity cart was a thing. Anyone know if it's still available?
The main thing i find that CTRNF has done wrong is having attracted the wrong community to the game. Very little players have ever even played the original CNK and CTR games, which are the foundation of everything you see in CTRNF except for the online mode. I also see a lot of boasting with these WORLD RECORDS, making people think they are some legendary gamers. Don't get me wrong, i love speedrunners, but i hate the toxic "possessive" attitude towards the levels like THIS IS MY WORLD RECORD, THEREFORE MY TRACK. It's almost like fortnite as this point. The only reason i would play CTRNF is to revisit the nostalgia of OG CTR & CNK, not to compete against strangers for some numbers on a clock.
Playing this game 3 years later. Agree with everything you said, mostly your top picks. Though if I had to rank it today.. I'd definitely swap 1 and 2 for a very simple reason: Online is unplayable right now. Literally. I play on Xbox One and it's a hellish grind to get a single race going since everything can disconnect you, lobbies can glitch out and kick everybody, or simply fail to fill up. And the most stupid thing of them all: New consoles break the races. If you play on a new console, you load into a race much faster than everybody else. Because of this if you skip the little track cutscene, most of the time you will boot everyone that plays on an old console and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it other than pray it doesn't happen. And it happens a LOT. Add to that all the glitchy lobbies and races that never start while everyone just sits there at the starting line and you get the current online ctr nt experience which is absolutely abysmal. It sucks really hard because I love this game. I like everything about it, ever since I was a child and played the original CTR. What a shame.
IMO the worst is how online centric it was. I wanted to check online every now and then but mainly play locally. Turns out that screw me, play online or you can't unlock anything on the Pit Stop. I would've enjoyed the game so, so much more if it wasn't for this...
Agree with the list 100%, maybe not the same order but completely agree. They missed a trick with itemless lobbies. All they had to do was select "with/without" items when you choose the character. Similar to the way you choose driving style. Would have been so much better and would probably have encouraged more people to play online if they knew no one could spam items!
And once the Super Engine was added, it was a matter of, "You know how to spam this? Good, 1st Place", and, "You don't know the ins and outs of this as you're focusing on everything else? Too bad, no fair game for you". One time I managed to get FOUR Super Engines IN A ROW!
Few things that I want in a sequel to fix. Offline racing allowing everyone to to use their stuff that they unlocked. As of now, everyone uses player 1 stuff. Local multiplayer games should also allow other players to change the controller scheme. Player 2+ is stuck in default. Allow local multiplayer games to be online vs others. Online needed a lot, but I think having multiple people on each machine would make playing against friends so much easier.
I agree that there are no longer enough warp orbs and N. Tropy Clocks for number 3. But I don't think that the items are a big problem with the game. I manage to get items that help me beat players that are better than me sometimes but not super often. So I think the items are reasonably balanced. They could be better but I don't think it's a bigger problem than the exclusive promotional karts or the wumpa coin payout.
The online mode could really use a complete revision. That is one thing Mario Kart 8 gets right, and what really holds back CTR. Unless you're with friends, you cannot pick the tracks, and even then you can only do one at a time, rather than make a cup or tournament.
The way you vote for races is a bad system. Since its not randomly selected like Mario Kart there’s literally no reason to vote random or if everyone is voting random there’s no reason to vote anything else.
No Willie Wumpa Cheeks was a let down for me but I honestly can't deny that they gave us way more characters than I expected or could have wanted. However, giving us Chick, Stew, CNK bosses, Emperor Velo, Yaya, and Spyro (who weren't playable in at least the console versions of the 3 racing games) kind of led me to believe that we would get him.
I agree with CNK's Adventure Mode not being present, sure, it could be added now that Emperor Velo is in the game, but the issue there is that there'd almost be no challenge because we've played the tracks for so long, we know all the tricks, plus, unlike CTR, you can't exactly unlock the CNK bosses, most of the player will have them be now (and if we're being technical given the GBA port, it would include Spyro), so the next best things would have to be skins and a big coin payout for those have the CNK bosses so it's not wasted time. Plus, since CNK was a shorter game track-wise, they could also include four of the Grand Prix maps as extra tracks for the mode to add to the run time For me though, one minor thing is the lack of a Custom Cup option, I like the cups because it helps me get coins and speeds up the process for unlocking colour change skins, but having to play the same sets of tracks over and over is tedious too. If they allowed you to make and save Custom Cups, there'd be potential with what themes you could do, like recreating Adventure Mode's cups because they aren't an option, making a Team Crash Cup, or a Team Cortex Cup, Cups of the CTR and CNK boss tracks, themed-Cups not done by Beenox, or even just rearranging the default cups to have a better flow, just so many ideas to shake up the Cup Race mode.
With the items I'll say that the best way to fix it is to change the way specific items work. For example I'd change the clock to affect only 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th allowing the rest of the group to catch up when one goes off... I'd also change the Orb to ALWAY hit all targets from 7th to 1st regardless of Wumpa, however to balance it make the default speed it's slow speed again from before the patch and the 10x Wumpa the increased speed from the current patch so players up front may have a change to get away if it's the slower speed and they have Blue Fire. The Orb is pretty useless for 8th place if it misses all the players along the way and hitting 1st but not 2nd is pointless when you are ALL the way in 8th place... It won't help you at all, just the guy in 2nd.
"At launch", they said they weren't going to add them _at launch_ which was technically true, but I won't lie the wording of that statement was slimy. Blame the ScreenArticle written with no sources backing their claim saying they were never going to add microtransactions at all
@Kawaii Mika I mean if the creator of this video couldn’t make a point to you on this exact matter, I don’t know why I bothered since he explained it clearly and in better detail. The microtransactions themselves aren’t the problem. 😒
Why don't we all come together and spread the huge word about all these gripes of CTR to Beenox & Activision, while they're continuing with the new monthly updates with massive amount of new content. And maybe, just maybe they can actually perfect & polish all these issues and add everything we ever wanted in CTR, RIGHT NOW!! Update: If the Microsoft acquisition deal is complete and goes through, we could possibly see everything and I mean EVERYTHING we have in mind beyond belief come to reality in a future CTR 2 by Toys for Bob & Beenox in a way someday in the future.
The pit stop structure is a huge negative to me. I feel like even the offline wumpa coin distribution rate would have been fine if players could go into the pit stop and directly purchase any item they wanted without relying on random chance or buying other items to get to it. Even in the worst of situations you can easily just go into Electron Avenue easy mode and grind out 80 coins per race, plenty to save up enough coins to buy any individual item you desire within fairly reasonable time. The problem is that what you actually want isn't always available, and so the amount of work required to get what you want is actually multiplied if you are impatient, and you aren't even guaranteed to ever get the item you want in the pit stop if you aren't buying anything else. There should never be a situation in which the player is required to buy crap they don't want to get to the items the actually do want. However, for me the biggest let down was actually the lack of the CNK adventure mode. I know that sounds like a selfish nitpick, but it should have been incredibly easy for them to add it. The CNK tracks are all already in the game, including the battle mode stages. They would just have to make hub areas and cutscenes for it. It was an opportunity to put a unique twist on it and everything and they just did nothing with it.
Yeah, you reallyed nailed all the issues the game haves. The online lobbies are super instable and the lack of variety really can result in a dwindling player base and that is really sad for such a great supported regarding the content for characters, skins, karts etc.
This is more a personal thing because I like singleplayer more than multiplayer. They gave us the ability to play Crystal and CTR challenges in singleplayer mode.....but no way to tell what our previous records in the modes were? Or even something to denote which tracks and arenas had been played on already? I was trying to get the achievement for doing all the Crystal challenges, left it alone for a bit and when I came back, I had forgotten what arena I was doing and basically had to haphazardly play all the bonus and CNK arenas over until the achievement just popped up arbitrarily.
I still play it a lot but I agree, I think the worst thing for me is how lacking the item list is. For all the new content Beenox did here a patch where they could add like 3 or 4 brand new items would’ve been great. I don’t think the online is as bad as I just see it on par with Mario kart 8
Cups would had been nice, I thought hey would add them to keep the game flowing. All the loading and waiting between races make you play a few races and move on.
The whole online mode is just trash and has been since launch. It could have been so good and I’d probably still be playing it if it was good. I haven’t played it properly since last year now. I was really looking forward to the online pre launch and it was such a let down and it’s never been addressed apart from nerfing the orbs and clocks
This list is very accurate! However, I still think there are a few things people still want to sweep under the rug with what this game did not do well: 1. 200 Time Trials minimum is overboard. They also do not overlap if you beat the next time. Velo and Dev times were added way too late in the games lifespan too. Also, if I have the Pit Stop cleared out, all Platinum relics, 101% Adventure Mode, all cups cleared on Hard, and beaten all Velo’s times wouldn’t that be a good alternative to get the Master wheels? An alternative method may have been a better choice, or give them to the players that were always in the top 1% of every Grand Prix? But no... 2. Engine swap may be nice but to me it felt like a cop out. Vehicles don’t have stats, therefore making them nothing but overpriced cosmetics. It shouldn’t matter if Pura is turning if there was a vehicle that specialized in speed. As much as the Pit Stop charged for bodies, this kinda makes buying ones you don’t need moot. That’s my opinion anyway. 3. How long it took to get invisible walls fixed as well as some other things. 8 months is too long and they didn’t fix everything. 4. For a technical racer, they don’t explain some advanced stuff required to do well, and lack advanced statistics such as weight and grip for both characters, bodies, and parts. 4. For all the customizable colors there seems to be A giant lack of pinks, purples, and blacks. But tons of red, green, yellow, and blue. Pink and purple are my favorite colors and I hate green. Just wanted to share what I feel we look over as players of this game sometimes.
One thing they have also, done wrong, is not extend the story mode more. I know it’s a remake, but they could of added some more trax to it, seeing as there is, so many CNK trax added. I never had the original (v)
I'm still sad I don't have a sour patch kids code and I think every code expired (I know the Xfinity codes expired) Edit: if the sour patch kids code hasn't expired give me a code for the cart if you have one I would really appreciate it
I saw in CTTR the other day, for first race, you would get 800 wumpa coins. It's so stupid that in offline there isn't even a possibility to come near that. And to me, customizing me kart is the most fun part of the game, but now I'm just annoyed as f***. I can't believe how much time I made me and me brorher play this game for no reason. Like this game has positives but only the ones based on nostalgia. Like post naughty dog characters, but I feel like negatives outrun the positives.
The REALLY crappy thing is, legit EVERYTIME we've come across a fun & easy way to earn coins in this game, it's normally due to a glitch & they always patch it out. The coin buff back in Rustland? Wasn't anyone growin' a brainstem, just another BENEFICIAL glitch. Yet we still run the possibility of hittin' invisible walls on the track itself. Seems legit 👍
#1 for me is that when you slightly touch a wall and lose all reserves. That's complete bs and Beenox never addressed the issue. Also hitboxs on certain areas of tracks being larger then they seem.
You can put the oxide edition in with #5 too. Especially with no way to upgrade to it if you bought the game. Although they didn't impact the community like the promo items those are lame. #4 deserves to be higher (it's my own #1 issue). I consider it a gameplay kind of issue, the feedback loop is so messed up in this game. With such a bad feedback loop there's so much less incentive to play. The pit stop is also just aged to doom, since it's online-only then the overwhelming majority of unlockables will become inaccessible some day. Someone already said the load times are an honorable mention but I think those are also a big issue compounding everything, 30fps is not good for a racer either. But the load times make everything feel so so much slower than it should. It's really hard to just pop in and play without getting annoyed at that stuff and it makes me just want to stick to and restart one course to avoid worse load times. I can get over 30fps even though I think it's yikes for CTR. Really a shame we never got a PC port because of these things. (and motion blur i guess.) I love this game but the frustrating parts of it are SO frustrating. Lost potential. So much over other party racers but still so much rubbish.
I'm thinking of buying the game with the sale it got on PS4. Thankfully the main reason for me to play this game is couch/split-screen co-op and I'm glad there were no issues regarding this stated in the video as I'm not very interested in online mode! 😊
Game is a perfect remake with si much content. Main problems are the online waiting times, lobby falling apart, and wumpa coin payout rate Apart from that, its fantastic.
For some reason i was kinda bummed when switch couldn’t get the retro items. (The old karts and skins) but now I understand they’re exclusive items since the game came from the Ps. Would’ve been cool though to get them if you 101% the story mode.
You know I feel like people would’ve been more enticed to just buy grand prix stuff through microtransactions had it cost less wumpa coins, they’d be able to get more items rather than like two or three things. But hey, I don’t work at Activision, what do I know?
Here are my promblems with ctrnf. -contact with other players when playing online. I cannot explain how many times I’ve lost races because me and other players are fazing through one another but still having some type of contact feel. And it’s made me run into walls or lose my boost and it’s really still there. There should be contact when trying to hit people with something but nothing else! -Items, they must balance this...there should really be much more consistent items. I barely see clocks or orbs anymore and they nerfed it wayy to much. Also please take out the super engine it doesn’t need to exist and it does more harm than good. You should not lose Fire at all once you use it if you boosting and building up a lot of reserves. -engine sounds(idk if this is just me) but I really miss the old engine sounds from the original and wish there was some way to have them in the game. Just really felt they were more loud and aggressive sounds. -grand prixs. They really should’ve slowed down with them. Like really they should’ve taken a month long break after the spyro Grand Prix and then come back with 3 new grand prixs. I felt exhausted and tbh spyro Grand Prix was the most disappointing.
Also horrible glitches with the rockets hitting you but doesn’t register so therefore the rockets will hit you from a distance. Something like that but is so frustrating. I’m a classic racer I don’t exploit or anything like that. From what I’m seeing a lot of glitches and the gameplay needs another good fix.
I’d say online balance was non existent main reason when I myself who hasn’t done all the oxide trials yet is going against ctr Ross who holds several records on tracks
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Mostly the glitchs online
Honorable mention: Loading times.
Im almost convinced I'v spent just as much time waiting for things to load as I have playing the game
Make it twice on Nintendo Switch.
👿And glitches online and I hate it 👿
next gen is solving loading times
Man, if you do the adventure mode in one go you have 30 FUCKING MINUTES OF LOADING
I'm not even kidding look at this www.speedrun.com/ctrnf
Even if you're a speedrunner, loading times takes MORE THAN HALF OF TOTAL TIME
I feel sorry for anyone that bought the game after the Grand prix events just because of the customisation. It wasn't so bad if you got the game early and you had a month every time to get the coins to clear out the pitstop but for anyone getting the game now you'll have to get every grand prix item from scratch. Take into account how many characters you have to buy that are 1500 coins each, every skin being 2500, every set of wheels and paint jobs being at least 1500 and even stickers being over 1000. If you didn't play during the grand prix era you'd have all of that to get through and the highest number of coins you can possibly get at a single time is playing electron avenue or tiny arena on the weekend bonus and catching a golden wumpa which would give you 1000 coins and that's only if you win. The ctr community is so good at the game that anyone coming into now wouldn't even have a chance of winning most races. Considering that a lot of players would have most items from the pit stop by now I think they should double the coin earnings both in online and offline play cause for newcomers the only way to realistically get everything is to buy it all with real money
Its easier to get coins now than at launch though
Activsion is to blame for. Bunch of idiots.
I think all items are now available in the pit stop though aren't they? I bought it at the start so luckily I didn't miss out but I see your point. Not sure if you'd be able to get legendary skins?
I got it a month ago and it's so grindy. I love the game but I want to play with different karts and paint jobs. I'm stuck with the hoverkart and N Tropy to play
“The only way to realistically get everything is to buy it all with real money.” Yep that was Activision’s plan all along. They’re to blame for ruining the longevity of this game.
Criticism for the things you like, this is how you know you love something
The amount of post-launch content in CTR is more than amazing. All the same, it's weird that Battle Mode never received any new arenas or features.
Battle was sooooooo slept on, it was basically tacked on and people only remembered from random Grand Prix tasks, and nobody played battle online so I could never fully enjoy it
I don't hate myself enough to play battle online, as unstable the online is
I forgot that existed
Skins being wasted on the same characters over and over again, while most of the roster didn’t get anything.
ashame that Yaya didn't get a special costume
As a competitive player the WORST problem for me is the lack of no item races and ghost modes in privates so collisions don’t occur when multiple players are neck and neck
These are my top 5 issues to this day.
5. Pit Stop rotation
4. The need to have an internet connection
3. Pit Stop overpriced
2. Local online awful coin payout
1. Online subscription
One thing I don't think they necessarily did wrong but was definitely a missed opportunity was not adding in the CNK adventure mode. I understand why they didn't have the CNK adventure mode along with the CTR adventure mode at launch as this was a CTR remake first and foremost and new players would probably be confused why there were two different adventure modes. Plus they were probably still working on the soon to be released first Grand Prix and all the other grand Prix after. But I do think the perfect time to make and release the CNK adventure mode would have been either in the Gasmoxia Grand Prix(where they could have used this to not only show off Velo when he was first released but also the other CNK bosses) or in the update after that brought the dev times(this way, the CNK adventure mode wouldn't interfere with the development of the Grand Prix). They already had the crystal challenges, time relics, and CTR challenges in the game for the CNK tracks so all they would have had to do was remake the hub worlds and cutscenes. However, I still appreciate everything Beenox has done to make this game not only my favorite Kart racer of all time but also, my favorite game ever with how much love they put into each character, skin, track, and game mode. Not to mention how they listened to us often by doing stuff such as 'fixing' Rilla roo and adding engine swapping. The first 3 Grand Prix was pretty rough and I almost quit due to fatigue but every Grand Prix and content drop after that just hooked me into the game more and more to the point where even now I still play the game very often attempting to beat the dev times and get the master wheels. Thank you Beenox.(also, sorry for this being very long. Lol)
I thought not having an extended adventure mode was the biggest let down
this game should have had a ranked mode with no power ups. strictly skill based, allowing the better players to play online with no bullshit power ups. power ups personally ruin online for me and i'm sure most "advanced players" would agree that a no power up mode would have improved this games quality of life tremendously. like, each grand prix could have had a no power up ranked system, and power up game modes would have been where the "casuals" play, kind of like how mortal kombat 11 has their ranked/casual modes set up.
While I don’t fully disagree, the game is designed in a way that if you mess up in the slightest in some tracks you’re never going to catch up, specially in blue fire tracks. Why even try to finish the race then? Items help balance that, while not perfect in this game, keep things interesting. Ranks would have been nice
My list for this video
1) No actors reprising their previous roles.
2) No more updates.
3) No more then three or one characters reintroduced after the Nitro Squad.
4) No remade campaigns of Nitro Kart and Tag Team Racing.
5) The possibility that none of the actors in this game will reprise their roles in later Crash Bandicoot games.
Online seriously needs to be fixed before Beenox ends Nitro Fueled’s life cicle.
It didnt
1. The loading screen is disgustingly long 2. The Hard difficultly is disgustingly broken.. 3. The Time Clock is OP.. Besides those 3 the game is Perfect
I agree with 1 and 3, as for number 2: Just keep practicing. I couldn't keep up with the Hard AI until I'd played for a few hundred hours and finally beat all of the Oxide Time Trials. Since then I hardly ever lose to the Hard AI.
Uka uka's voice is one for me ....
My list of top five issues;
5) The whole structuring of how the Grand Prix systems were handled (in terms of how progression was handled with the Nitro Bar with how tedious, repetitive and boring the challenges were to do in addition to how much of a grind it was to earn points, granted they're no longer around anymore thankfully but I feel like this is worth bringing up based on how much of a focus was put into these for the past several months)
4) So much loading
3) No remade CNK main campaign
2) Online mode (both in terms of how broken and unplayable matchmaking is with the lack of any proper host migration as well as how bare bones it is with the lack of any extra modes like gem cups, itemless modes and so on)
1) Microtransactions(more specifically how they were handled in the game in terms of the balancing of pricing in the pit stop, the daily rotation, how only any substantial amount can be earned in online modes and only for an hour per day)
Pretty accurate.
Maybe with a future CTR sequel in a way, they could fix these as much as possible.
Leaving certain characters of the two not getting them a Grand Prix but overall I’ve agreed with the list.
It's a great remake well done by Beenox. We got tons and tons of new character and karts that we didn't even expect to get and all them for free. This is one of my most favourite games of all time but here is my list:
1) The main menu and character icons were and still is my biggest disappointment to this day. The main menu with the white flag in the background and the 2D icons of characters had a special charm and they could easily add them
2) Online is not nearly as fun as I imagined and that's because of bad servers and lack of game modes
3) Wumpa coins are obtainable only with an internet connection and even with that the local races rewards is nothing compare to the online ones
4) With a remake of the CNK cutscenes and hub worlds they could easily add the CNK adventure mode. They had all of the characters, tracks, and karts
5) Some items feels really different from the original. The bowling bombs were more controlable in the original but in the remake it just goes where ever it feels like
6) The fact that they said they won't put microtransactions in the game but they did it anyways was a really cheap move
7) The loading times are SO GODDAMN LONG!
8) This is not a criticicm but it would have been really cool to add the original game in Nitro-fueled aswell like how they did with the Medievil remake. It could have been a great easter egg for completing the story mode 101%
Several of these problems really should've been polished during the game's lifetime.
More specifically issues #2, 3, 4, 6 & 7.
But you've made a good point with these BTW.
You forgot that you cant play with friends if you have Different NAT type
The Cove Cruiser was horrible, because sour patch kids isn't avaible on my country, i would need to travel to a whole other continent to get it, same thing with Xfinity Kart...
Just so you know, Trident sells chewing gum. Not energy drinks.
1.lobby/online mode needs a cup tournament and team races.
2. The promotion karts should have been available as DLC for folk outside USA.
3. Wish legendary skins were balanced out more.
The point of this game is that it rewards you for skill. It’s not like Mario kart where you can be In first throughout the whole race and you can still get fucked up by a Blue shell. In this game if you can maintain your speed, keep your reserves up and pull those tight corners without crashing and keeping Blue fire and Sacred Fires up then that’s true skill and it will be awarded with a 1/20 chance of getting a Mask or Shield bubble. It’s VERY rare for it to happen when you’re in first. Take it from someone who played CTR PS1 Religiously when I was a kid and 102% completed the game back in the day. This game isn’t your typical Easy Mario Kart racer, it’s more skill based and challenging depending on what your racing for.
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Having a pro player jump into your lobby, finish first and then having 30 or 20 seconds for everyone else to finish the race was really really annoying. I stopped playing after a month as I found it more of a chore than a fun experience.
What platform are you on?
Was i the only one that waited for 2nd place to catchup before finishing a race? Seems like it when i'm receiving so many messages saying thanks when i also let them finish first if it's a 1v1 in this very skill based matchmaking that may or may not have ruined the online experience even further.
@@ShellshockDM187 I was on Xbox.
@@XpertGreekGamer A point system like in Mario Kart would improve the online imo.
@@bagobeans1444 Kk. Coz if you were on Ps4 you could have joined on TRNs discord. Pretty cool people and fun races
5. Slow loading times
4. CPU difficulty is basically faster than more skilled in harder modes
3. Grindy content achievement
2. Lack of natural incentive to play extra content
1. No way to diversify races
What CTR: Nitro-Fueled needs to do is bring back the online ranked races.
They seriously messed up the weapon system and made it worst. Now the races so bland and less chaotic. It’s impossible to catch up or stop the 1st position player even while you’re in 2nd place. Warp holes and clocks are so friggin rare I haven’t even had one for ages now.
The weapon system has been fucked for a while but I do agree its a lot worse than it used to be. I havent seen a clock online in I dont know how long but I did get orbed in a race last night which pissed me off due to it being the only race in the entire lobby that one managed to be used
Things that they should have done:
1) Online lobby: when the host leaves, instead of kicking everyone else off, it should randomly choose a new host.
2) Online modes: Why not put the battle arenas and tracks into one lobby? Why not put mirror mode, Cups, and other stuff online?
3) Pit stop: Balancing out prices and getting rid of the daily rotation cycle
4) Online play: Make players vote for # of laps; Fix everything else
The competitive gap online was brutal. Every lobby had one dominant player, items were not balanced to keep everyone in the race. Stopped playing after a month because of it. Offline content was scarce. Honestly was so disappointed the game had so much potential but was executed so poorly.
The item imbalance and lag was what pissed me off the most online. The game loves to give bowling bombs more than anything else, but can't give you the appropriate offense/defense power-ups when you need it most. Seeing someone in first place with master wheels with a mask while you have a stupid bomb will annoy anyone.
Let all the other things, the biggest mystake was number 1 OF COURSE. The game start in 2019, now we have 2020, it's not right to have this simple online mode, they can do many many things and the must do. I hope in the future for an update that fix this online.
Towards the end, though, Beenox decided to make the microtransactions obsolete by adding Golden Wumpas and rewarding Grand Prix Challenge completion with Coins.
I’ve had the xfinity cart and I never realized it was so rare
I think we can all agree what this game needs is cup tournaments, maybe then it would be feel less like I'm waiting 5 minutes for the game to load, while I play the track for 3 minutes because some sweaty dude with the developer master wheels has already completed the track and I'm on lap 2.
Not to mention how long it takes to recover after you've been hit by an item, most of the time you just end up falling off the track. Back in the old Crash Team Racing for the PS2 the power ups were balanced and designed to give you more boosts right at the end of the race so it was always a close call, and that's what made it fun, Beenox and Activision totally missed that.
One thing that I hate more than anything is that when the first guy finishes a race, it's a 30 second countdown timer, I don't really understand that. Shouldn't the timer start when the 3rd person finishes at least? Then maybe other people will have more of a chance to actually finish a race if you've been constantly bombarded with items, seeing as though items to take out players in 1st are incredibly hard to come by.
NO ONE even plays the online matchmaking battle mode! It's just the same repetitive single races over and over!
it's a shame really, because the battles are so much fun.
Battle mode should’ve had separate Wumpa Time.
The pit stop....it needs an overhaul. Ruined the game for me. Have no idea what they were thinking.
One word, MONEY!!!!!
How does a shop with Cosmetic items which wasn't included in the original game ruined the game for now. That's just silly.
@MichaelVDragon because that led to microtransactions and lowers the overall quality of the game since Activision is greedy; if sales aren’t going well they won’t be very inclined to keep the game alive for very long.
As much as I like some stuff in the pit stop its poor management was a part in the decline of CTR’s longevity.
@@Quickword15I really hate that they make you buy the same skins with different colors, and at a full price of 2500 wumpa coins.
@Oscar Lopez Yeah seriously. 🤦♂️
Completely agree with points about online mode. Beenox put so much love and attention to detail into Nitro Feuled but the online mode is absolutely prehistoric. Once a player has completed the adventure mode, time trials etc, the only thing keeping them playing the game is their own enjoyment. This is where the online mode should come into its own. Love this game but the online issues are a joke. When they were rolling out grand prix's, at least the game was providing new tracks, challenges etc but now, once someone completes the offline features and has unlocked their desired characters and customisable items, the game itself offers no further incentive for the player to continue playing. When you consider Call of Duty is pretty much made by its online modes, I just thinks its baffling Activision has pretty much neglected CTR in that sense. How difficult would it be to incorporate no item races, tournaments, ranked races etc into the online mode. The single race only is made even worse when you consider that more often than not, you'll spend more time waiting for a race than you will actually racing. Beenox did an incredible job remaking a classic, improving upon it from a gameplay sense and adding so much additional content but the newest and arguably what should have been the most important mode was completely shunned and that's a shame.
Especially since it was the most demanded thing before launch for CTR.😔
What about sound effects... they are awful. Rivals no longer hilariously taunt you or groan when hit, explosions sound cushioned and far away, you can barely hear missiles when launched, the turbo sound effect is not nearly as satisfying as the original (where it used to sound like literal flames coming out of the kart now you just hear a little boom and then something like nitro... dull). And that effect when you crash into a beaker sucks! That's what happens with all these remasters nowadays: pure play-doh cosmetics and muffled, overly echoy, sound effects.
My list of negative issues about the game
1-battle mode been dumped by beenox
2-it took them 9 months to fix the invisible walls on a tracks that came at the game's launch
3-no servers
4-and the AI hitting you with an item if you overlapped them and iom if they wanna fix that they should make the player on lap 3 immune from Receiving damage from someone still in lap 2 or 1 cuz that can solve the AI issue and the trolls who stay behinde and wait for the first place to complete a lap and then hit him with an item
One of my biggest gripes with the game is, and this is gonna sound trivial, is how Beenox keeps fucking up the Podium Themes for the majority of characters they add - some of the CNK characters had some unfitting theme choices too in my opinion. Crash Team Racing? More like: Bandicoot Podium Theme Simulator. Seriously, Beenox has like a fetish for the Bandicoot Podium Theme or something. No love for the Pinstripe/Komodo Bros or Polar/Pura themes.
I made a video of my fixes for every character up to Winter Festival.
Rose Supreme since I heard that CTR NF might stop updating due to the New Crash game being announced, which would mean that Ripto and The Sorceress will not be in CTR NF and Willy Wumpa Cheeks will be a one off character but I hope it’s not the case but hope isn’t guarantee
@@nickytembo4112 I'm sure they would've told us if the last update has happened. They probably need a little more time to iron out the next update, especially with the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour (that's what the Game Grumps refer to the Coronavirus since they can't mention the name because they'd get demonetized or something) going on.
Rose Supreme what’s the Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour?
@@nickytembo4112 ...I already explained it.
Rose Supreme oh my bad and do you know about Tre Shepperd you know the guy who says that things about I can’t for the new Crash game for 2020 and new Spyro for 2021?
When they announced the final GP, me and my friends had a sigh of relief. We rarely play this now.
Agree with you
5th is most annoying and silly thing
But to reach out to death threat for the code this realy mess it up
I know it's cool car but shh dude chill out is a game
Lacking players in online and glitches in online showing up out of nowhere
TheNawaf258 They Should Add Crossplay With The Xbox One PS4 And The Nintendo Switch
I heavily agree with you on the Pit stop and item balance (why can a bot get a blue orb when I'm trying to do a grand prix challenge ffs. One point I would make is that the older shortcuts were artificially enhanced and still feel inconsistent. Sewer Speedway on release had such a bad interaction and even now it still feels odd (BLIZZARD BLUFF !!!).
I've only recently started playing online, and #3 is something I noticed almost immediately. I still fairly enjoy playing online for the most part, but I hate how once you get through the first lap, the person in 1st place is literally unstoppable, unless they straight up willingly stop moving. Also, I have Xfinity and I didn't even know that the Xfinity cart was a thing. Anyone know if it's still available?
The main thing i find that CTRNF has done wrong is having attracted the wrong community to the game. Very little players have ever even played the original CNK and CTR games, which are the foundation of everything you see in CTRNF except for the online mode. I also see a lot of boasting with these WORLD RECORDS, making people think they are some legendary gamers. Don't get me wrong, i love speedrunners, but i hate the toxic "possessive" attitude towards the levels like THIS IS MY WORLD RECORD, THEREFORE MY TRACK.
It's almost like fortnite as this point. The only reason i would play CTRNF is to revisit the nostalgia of OG CTR & CNK, not to compete against strangers for some numbers on a clock.
Playing this game 3 years later. Agree with everything you said, mostly your top picks. Though if I had to rank it today.. I'd definitely swap 1 and 2 for a very simple reason: Online is unplayable right now.
Literally.
I play on Xbox One and it's a hellish grind to get a single race going since everything can disconnect you, lobbies can glitch out and kick everybody, or simply fail to fill up. And the most stupid thing of them all: New consoles break the races. If you play on a new console, you load into a race much faster than everybody else. Because of this if you skip the little track cutscene, most of the time you will boot everyone that plays on an old console and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it other than pray it doesn't happen. And it happens a LOT. Add to that all the glitchy lobbies and races that never start while everyone just sits there at the starting line and you get the current online ctr nt experience which is absolutely abysmal.
It sucks really hard because I love this game. I like everything about it, ever since I was a child and played the original CTR. What a shame.
8:30 F in the chat
Number one thing no CNK STORY MODE !!!!!!
IMO the worst is how online centric it was. I wanted to check online every now and then but mainly play locally. Turns out that screw me, play online or you can't unlock anything on the Pit Stop. I would've enjoyed the game so, so much more if it wasn't for this...
Im still waiting for the pc port since june 2019
Agree with the list 100%, maybe not the same order but completely agree. They missed a trick with itemless lobbies. All they had to do was select "with/without" items when you choose the character. Similar to the way you choose driving style. Would have been so much better and would probably have encouraged more people to play online if they knew no one could spam items!
I love how at the start you had Oxide lip syncing almost perfectly to what you were saying. That alone just earned you a subscriber.
Yes the limited x finity cart js really annoying i dont have it!😡💔😭
It's funny how NaughtyDog got item randomization right back in the 90's and it also was their first time trying to make a mascot kart racer
Just a little note. I've unlocked EVERYTHING last week. It took me nearly 500 hours to be able to afford it all.
Even the master wheels?
@@ShellshockDM187 yup got those too. I suppose to unlock those it may take someone more or less time depending on their skill.
@@alminhelex It does take time, I got them like 4 days ago. The nightmare is over.
@@ShellshockDM187 until the William P trials drop. Get the master paint job
@@alminhelex Oh my God NO. That would kill me entirely.
And once the Super Engine was added, it was a matter of, "You know how to spam this? Good, 1st Place", and, "You don't know the ins and outs of this as you're focusing on everything else? Too bad, no fair game for you".
One time I managed to get FOUR Super Engines IN A ROW!
Few things that I want in a sequel to fix.
Offline racing allowing everyone to to use their stuff that they unlocked. As of now, everyone uses player 1 stuff.
Local multiplayer games should also allow other players to change the controller scheme. Player 2+ is stuck in default.
Allow local multiplayer games to be online vs others. Online needed a lot, but I think having multiple people on each machine would make playing against friends so much easier.
Why did they add microtransactions
Money
because activision likes to taint everything that is sacred in this world
You are late on the news if you haven't heard this by now
Money Money Money Money.....MONEY!!!!!
No power up races could’ve been pretty good
Only reason i put up with online mode at al was wumpa time and gp challenges...sad really....
I agree that there are no longer enough warp orbs and N. Tropy Clocks for number 3. But I don't think that the items are a big problem with the game. I manage to get items that help me beat players that are better than me sometimes but not super often. So I think the items are reasonably balanced. They could be better but I don't think it's a bigger problem than the exclusive promotional karts or the wumpa coin payout.
I had been looking for the codes, but nobody ever gave a crap so I have yet to see that positive side of the community.
The only thing CTR did wrong was put Gnasty Gnorc instead of Ripto in the Spyro Grand Prix.
If they really had to put a Spyro villain in... it should’ve been Ripto. I’d rather have had Bianca as the third Spyro character but that’s just me.
Two years later but gnasty is better actually
The online mode could really use a complete revision. That is one thing Mario Kart 8 gets right, and what really holds back CTR. Unless you're with friends, you cannot pick the tracks, and even then you can only do one at a time, rather than make a cup or tournament.
Online sucks :(
TREMENDOUSLY 😆
The way you vote for races is a bad system. Since its not randomly selected like Mario Kart there’s literally no reason to vote random or if everyone is voting random there’s no reason to vote anything else.
No Willie Wumpa Cheeks was a let down for me but I honestly can't deny that they gave us way more characters than I expected or could have wanted. However, giving us Chick, Stew, CNK bosses, Emperor Velo, Yaya, and Spyro (who weren't playable in at least the console versions of the 3 racing games) kind of led me to believe that we would get him.
I agree with CNK's Adventure Mode not being present, sure, it could be added now that Emperor Velo is in the game, but the issue there is that there'd almost be no challenge because we've played the tracks for so long, we know all the tricks, plus, unlike CTR, you can't exactly unlock the CNK bosses, most of the player will have them be now (and if we're being technical given the GBA port, it would include Spyro), so the next best things would have to be skins and a big coin payout for those have the CNK bosses so it's not wasted time.
Plus, since CNK was a shorter game track-wise, they could also include four of the Grand Prix maps as extra tracks for the mode to add to the run time
For me though, one minor thing is the lack of a Custom Cup option, I like the cups because it helps me get coins and speeds up the process for unlocking colour change skins, but having to play the same sets of tracks over and over is tedious too.
If they allowed you to make and save Custom Cups, there'd be potential with what themes you could do, like recreating Adventure Mode's cups because they aren't an option, making a Team Crash Cup, or a Team Cortex Cup, Cups of the CTR and CNK boss tracks, themed-Cups not done by Beenox, or even just rearranging the default cups to have a better flow, just so many ideas to shake up the Cup Race mode.
With the items I'll say that the best way to fix it is to change the way specific items work.
For example I'd change the clock to affect only 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th allowing the rest of the group to catch up when one goes off...
I'd also change the Orb to ALWAY hit all targets from 7th to 1st regardless of Wumpa, however to balance it make the default speed it's slow speed again from before the patch and the 10x Wumpa the increased speed from the current patch so players up front may have a change to get away if it's the slower speed and they have Blue Fire.
The Orb is pretty useless for 8th place if it misses all the players along the way and hitting 1st but not 2nd is pointless when you are ALL the way in 8th place... It won't help you at all, just the guy in 2nd.
They said they were not going to add them 😠
"At launch", they said they weren't going to add them _at launch_ which was technically true, but I won't lie the wording of that statement was slimy. Blame the ScreenArticle written with no sources backing their claim saying they were never going to add microtransactions at all
Honestly why is everyone still bothered about this, you can barely see them in game
@Kawaii Mika Because it has long term lasting effects which will overall ruin the longevity of the game. Especially when its Activision.
@@Quickword15 Then don't play the new games XD
@Kawaii Mika I mean if the creator of this video couldn’t make a point to you on this exact matter, I don’t know why I bothered since he explained it clearly and in better detail. The microtransactions themselves aren’t the problem. 😒
Why don't we all come together and spread the huge word about all these gripes of CTR to Beenox & Activision, while they're continuing with the new monthly updates with massive amount of new content.
And maybe, just maybe they can actually perfect & polish all these issues and add everything we ever wanted in CTR, RIGHT NOW!!
Update: If the Microsoft acquisition deal is complete and goes through, we could possibly see everything and I mean EVERYTHING we have in mind beyond belief come to reality in a future CTR 2 by Toys for Bob & Beenox in a way someday in the future.
The pit stop structure is a huge negative to me. I feel like even the offline wumpa coin distribution rate would have been fine if players could go into the pit stop and directly purchase any item they wanted without relying on random chance or buying other items to get to it. Even in the worst of situations you can easily just go into Electron Avenue easy mode and grind out 80 coins per race, plenty to save up enough coins to buy any individual item you desire within fairly reasonable time. The problem is that what you actually want isn't always available, and so the amount of work required to get what you want is actually multiplied if you are impatient, and you aren't even guaranteed to ever get the item you want in the pit stop if you aren't buying anything else. There should never be a situation in which the player is required to buy crap they don't want to get to the items the actually do want.
However, for me the biggest let down was actually the lack of the CNK adventure mode. I know that sounds like a selfish nitpick, but it should have been incredibly easy for them to add it. The CNK tracks are all already in the game, including the battle mode stages. They would just have to make hub areas and cutscenes for it. It was an opportunity to put a unique twist on it and everything and they just did nothing with it.
Yeah, you reallyed nailed all the issues the game haves. The online lobbies are super instable and the lack of variety really can result in a dwindling player base and that is really sad for such a great supported regarding the content for characters, skins, karts etc.
Microtransactions
This is more a personal thing because I like singleplayer more than multiplayer.
They gave us the ability to play Crystal and CTR challenges in singleplayer mode.....but no way to tell what our previous records in the modes were? Or even something to denote which tracks and arenas had been played on already? I was trying to get the achievement for doing all the Crystal challenges, left it alone for a bit and when I came back, I had forgotten what arena I was doing and basically had to haphazardly play all the bonus and CNK arenas over until the achievement just popped up arbitrarily.
haha i really enjoyed this a year after it was released. Such a genuine take
1. Slow loading times
2. Slow loading times
3. Slow loading times
4. Slow loading times
5. Slow loading times
yeah but what about the slow loading times?
@@ZEECRAZYGEE that's not as worse as Slow loading times
I still play it a lot but I agree, I think the worst thing for me is how lacking the item list is.
For all the new content Beenox did here a patch where they could add like 3 or 4 brand new items would’ve been great.
I don’t think the online is as bad as I just see it on par with Mario kart 8
Agree with the list, and if it werent for grand prixs i would regret buying the game, it gets boring fast its not 1999 anymore.
Cups would had been nice, I thought hey would add them to keep the game flowing. All the loading and waiting between races make you play a few races and move on.
The whole online mode is just trash and has been since launch. It could have been so good and I’d probably still be playing it if it was good. I haven’t played it properly since last year now. I was really looking forward to the online pre launch and it was such a let down and it’s never been addressed apart from nerfing the orbs and clocks
I cant believe i used my hard earned money On a stupid candy kart 😓
I spent 30 eur in total to get the 2 karts lol
This list is very accurate! However, I still think there are a few things people still want to sweep under the rug with what this game did not do well:
1. 200 Time Trials minimum is overboard. They also do not overlap if you beat the next time. Velo and Dev times were added way too late in the games lifespan too. Also, if I have the Pit Stop cleared out, all Platinum relics, 101% Adventure Mode, all cups cleared on Hard, and beaten all Velo’s times wouldn’t that be a good alternative to get the Master wheels? An alternative method may have been a better choice, or give them to the players that were always in the top 1% of every Grand Prix? But no...
2. Engine swap may be nice but to me it felt like a cop out. Vehicles don’t have stats, therefore making them nothing but overpriced cosmetics. It shouldn’t matter if Pura is turning if there was a vehicle that specialized in speed. As much as the Pit Stop charged for bodies, this kinda makes buying ones you don’t need moot. That’s my opinion anyway.
3. How long it took to get invisible walls fixed as well as some other things. 8 months is too long and they didn’t fix everything.
4. For a technical racer, they don’t explain some advanced stuff required to do well, and lack advanced statistics such as weight and grip for both characters, bodies, and parts.
4. For all the customizable colors
there seems to be A giant lack of pinks, purples, and blacks. But tons of red, green, yellow, and blue. Pink and purple are my favorite colors and I hate green.
Just wanted to share what I feel we look over as players of this game sometimes.
One thing they have also, done wrong, is not extend the story mode more. I know it’s a remake, but they could of added some more trax to it, seeing as there is, so many CNK trax added. I never had the original (v)
they could add more items like the swapper the shock mine and ice mine the traps so many traps and abilities that whould be fun
I'm still sad
I don't have a sour patch kids code and I think every code expired
(I know the Xfinity codes expired)
Edit: if the sour patch kids code hasn't expired give me a code for the cart if you have one
I would really appreciate it
Which state
I saw in CTTR the other day, for first race, you would get 800 wumpa coins. It's so stupid that in offline there isn't even a possibility to come near that. And to me, customizing me kart is the most fun part of the game, but now I'm just annoyed as f***. I can't believe how much time I made me and me brorher play this game for no reason. Like this game has positives but only the ones based on nostalgia. Like post naughty dog characters, but I feel like negatives outrun the positives.
The REALLY crappy thing is, legit EVERYTIME we've come across a fun & easy way to earn coins in this game, it's normally due to a glitch & they always patch it out. The coin buff back in Rustland? Wasn't anyone growin' a brainstem, just another BENEFICIAL glitch. Yet we still run the possibility of hittin' invisible walls on the track itself. Seems legit 👍
@@themenacingsloth OMG YEAH I FORGOT ABOUT THIS, HONESTLY WE NEED TO PAY RESPECT TO THUNDERSTRUCK 😍😍😍😍
@@kawaiimika7974 Can't forget the N.Gin Labs glitch too. May it rest its digital soul
@@themenacingsloth Oh yeah that one as well XD
I am still hoping one day to be able to play classic races with the AIs having their vanilla looks and karts
Check out Karters 2 on Steam, ppl. It isn't out yet but it might be up your alley.
#1 for me is that when you slightly touch a wall and lose all reserves. That's complete bs and Beenox never addressed the issue. Also hitboxs on certain areas of tracks being larger then they seem.
You can put the oxide edition in with #5 too. Especially with no way to upgrade to it if you bought the game. Although they didn't impact the community like the promo items those are lame.
#4 deserves to be higher (it's my own #1 issue). I consider it a gameplay kind of issue, the feedback loop is so messed up in this game. With such a bad feedback loop there's so much less incentive to play. The pit stop is also just aged to doom, since it's online-only then the overwhelming majority of unlockables will become inaccessible some day.
Someone already said the load times are an honorable mention but I think those are also a big issue compounding everything, 30fps is not good for a racer either. But the load times make everything feel so so much slower than it should. It's really hard to just pop in and play without getting annoyed at that stuff and it makes me just want to stick to and restart one course to avoid worse load times. I can get over 30fps even though I think it's yikes for CTR. Really a shame we never got a PC port because of these things. (and motion blur i guess.)
I love this game but the frustrating parts of it are SO frustrating. Lost potential. So much over other party racers but still so much rubbish.
For me the biggest two are 1-30 fps
2- bad online
I'm thinking of buying the game with the sale it got on PS4.
Thankfully the main reason for me to play this game is couch/split-screen co-op and I'm glad there were no issues regarding this stated in the video as I'm not very interested in online mode! 😊
Game is a perfect remake with si much content.
Main problems are the online waiting times, lobby falling apart, and wumpa coin payout rate
Apart from that, its fantastic.
For some reason i was kinda bummed when switch couldn’t get the retro items. (The old karts and skins) but now I understand they’re exclusive items since the game came from the Ps. Would’ve been cool though to get them if you 101% the story mode.
An overhaul on the online mode would have given new blood to the game
When one person leaves the race then everybody leaves
You know I feel like people would’ve been more enticed to just buy grand prix stuff through microtransactions had it cost less wumpa coins, they’d be able to get more items rather than like two or three things. But hey, I don’t work at Activision, what do I know?
Here are my promblems with ctrnf. -contact with other players when playing online. I cannot explain how many times I’ve lost races because me and other players are fazing through one another but still having some type of contact feel. And it’s made me run into walls or lose my boost and it’s really still there. There should be contact when trying to hit people with something but nothing else! -Items, they must balance this...there should really be much more consistent items. I barely see clocks or orbs anymore and they nerfed it wayy to much. Also please take out the super engine it doesn’t need to exist and it does more harm than good. You should not lose Fire at all once you use it if you boosting and building up a lot of reserves. -engine sounds(idk if this is just me) but I really miss the old engine sounds from the original and wish there was some way to have them in the game. Just really felt they were more loud and aggressive sounds. -grand prixs. They really should’ve slowed down with them. Like really they should’ve taken a month long break after the spyro Grand Prix and then come back with 3 new grand prixs. I felt exhausted and tbh spyro Grand Prix was the most disappointing.
Also horrible glitches with the rockets hitting you but doesn’t register so therefore the rockets will hit you from a distance. Something like that but is so frustrating. I’m a classic racer I don’t exploit or anything like that. From what I’m seeing a lot of glitches and the gameplay needs another good fix.
I’d say online balance was non existent main reason when I myself who hasn’t done all the oxide trials yet is going against ctr Ross who holds several records on tracks