2021 Christmas Presents – page 2
This is unironically one of the top things I want to see the Far Out There name slapped onto. I couldn’t care less about a Far Out There AAA open-world cinematic adventure or something like that. Give me a cheap throwaway generic kart racer, THAT’S the sign that a franchise as truly made it! Also, I haven’t the slightest idea what would happen if you threw a Xal-Gox at another kart.
BUT GUESS WHAT?!?!?!?!? At long last, the TWC Voting Incentives are back! I’m still only doing one a week, but they’re back every Thursday, and they’re actually another ongoing series, too! …well, the covers to a “series” anyway. Go vote and see what I mean!
The cart would become edible , but horrifying, and other racers could eat it for a power up.
…meaning you’d have to be careful when you used it on another racer, for fear that it might actually help some of the OTHER other racers. Diabolical!
surely there’s got to be some software on the internet somewhere where someone has written a super generic kart racer that people can just slap their own graphics onto? i mean, it’s the internet, right? it’s supposed to have everything!
I mean if all else fails, SRB2Kart exists, and would probably be pretty easy to adapt for that.
Though I guess that’d be more of a mod (to a mod (to a Sonic fangame (that’s technically also a mod))) than a game of its own, but.
I’m a little afraid to spend too much time looking into this sort of thing, for fear that I might actually find something and get WAY too into it.
what broken op abilities would each character reasonably get?
avatar i would say a toss up between immunity against attacks, or lean into her knows everything and have the player see a dotted line that directs them to the optimum route, short cuts, avoid hazards
trigger i want to give so many op abilities to match his sabotage skills, i think the best is let him overclock his cart by stealing parts from other players (giving them a temporary debuff) after he activates his overclock ability he has a time limit until he stalls out, timer reset by stealing from a different player
ichabod can see what power up different dispensers have no RNG, highlight when looking at short cuts
layla can steal power ups from other players
tabitha has all skins unlocked and can change anyone’s skins
bridget punches you backwards if you try to ram her
alphonse is driving a digital kart, no power ups, no damage from power ups, no ramming
sky has a similar ability to trigger but her overclock is half as powerful but she has no penalty when her overclock ends
jenna has a magnet that draws weapons to hit her, she stalls out like normal, but each hit boosts her base speed. if she has a bad day she becomes the fastest.
megaweapon is drawn toward other players, on contact he damages their karts giving them a debuff
May would have bursts of tremendous speed but would be virtually uncontrollable at the time
Avi’s ability description lists a ton of OP abilities, none of which his character actually has, but at the end of each race a message is displayed indicating you came in 1st, regardless of what place you actually finished.
oh my god could you imagine the trolls people would do with Avi? would be the first character banned in any tournament. or people playing as all Avi to have the screen have all first place. “every one is a winner” memes
Tabitha’s unique power seems underpowered, when compared to everyone else’s. I would instead suggest that her, Alphonse & Bridget are one character, with a passive of Bridget knocking other ramming cars away & an active of Alphonse disrupting & dispersing all held power-ups for a short period of time.
Jenna’s honestly seems like a pure detriment. She needs half or three-quarter length stalls/wipe-out’s, and her Acceleration to be improved more than her Max Speed.
And getting in on the unmentioned-character additions:
– Cap’n Crosby has all of his Stats higher (better) than average, but can’t use any pickups.
– Blip has all his all of his Stats lower (worse) than average, but can hold twice to three times as many pickups, and has a chance to pick up two at once.
– Frank, the Third Most Important Person In The Universe, isn’t a racer. Instead, he travels around the inside of the racecourse, throwing additional hazards onto the track. No, you cannot run Frank over. Not even by wall-clipping, his guards get in the way while he wanders off.
– Mariska has unique her-only shortcuts that are guaranteed to make her car stall at least once.
– Marshall… let’s say he has the ability to become four carts at once for a second or two, allowing him to artificially increase the number of projectiles he’s using.
– Stilez is a course hazard, like Frank, but she actually goes onto the course. She also brings Tax along, onto the course. Stilez has a chance of attacking passing cars, but running her over is actually quite safe. If you hit Tax, however, you immediately are punted from the course (and future courses if you’re in any type of Cup Race), and the course is changed to it’s Apocalyptic Form, where a Stilez with Tax on her shoulder is running the opposite direction & bashing EVERY cart with a triple stall punishment that resets all buffs to pre-match levels.
– Kevin & Vengeance need to be included somehow, but I don’t know how.
Tabitha’s unique power is under rated, i thought about a mad science based power for her, but honestly ignoring the point of the event to have fun with her interests just feels so on point for her.
good point about acceleration more important than max speed for Jenna
i really like the Stilez course hazard idea
i tried to think of something for Vengeance but all i could think of was the idea of a void absorbing everything, and not sure how to implement that as an actual mechanic
Considering how popular the idea of unlocking new skins in games seems to be, to the point that people will actually pay real world money to get access to them, Tabitha would probably be one of the most popular characters to play, even if her abilities weren’t as helpful in-game as others.
Vengeance has shown the ability to lurk in darkness unnoticed by others, perhaps he could briefly blackout the entire course, during which time only he could see to navigate?