MKDS snaking thread

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:16 am

I've always tried snaking but just never could quite catch on. I know how to do it, but haven't become good at it enough yet to use it in a race. But now that I've experienced online play, I've decided that snaking is just not for me. There's too many assholes online that use snaking as their only means of playing. Anyone ever notice that snakers always choose Moo Moo Farm? I was racing against a snaker with 350 wins, 3 of them were from me. It was the last race, and he wanted Moo Moo Farm. Again. I instead picked the one track I know snakers fail at: Rainbow Road. He kept falling off and I got ahead for once, I started to rejoice. Then he couldn't put up with the fact that a n00b was beating him and he disconnected himself after snaking off the track again.

AgentGreen · Post by **AgentGreen** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:50 am

I snake when i come off a corner for that little speed boost but that's it.

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:21 am

AgentGreen wrote:I snake when i come off a corner for that little speed boost but that's it.

That's not considered snaking. Snaking is when you slide , whether it be a straight path or not, do a boost, then immediatly slide to the other side to get a boost. Snakers do this for the entire level so they get that "little boost' the whole time.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:26 am

Kenichi wrote:Anyone ever notice that snakers always choose Moo Moo Farm?

It always seemed to be Baby Mario Circuit when I was playing online.

Because snaking round in a big oval 6 times in a row is fun.

not just souLLy now · Post by **not just souLLy now** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:06 am

i don't play wifi mario kart but i do play a bit multiplayer and i do it once in a while, i've done it when trying to beat all of the stages on gold too. it doesn't make the game fun to play though.

Gmc · Post by **Gmc** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:33 am

I can snake, but I prefer not to...i only will if other ppl im playing are!

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:31 am

The main reason I don't like to snake is that it hurts my hands.

Snaking is not necessary to be good at the game. It's not that hard to get *** rating or beat the staff ghosts without snaking.

Online it's practically impossible to beat a snaker without snaking yourself though.

Post by **|darc|** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:30 am

I only use the boost at corners...

atf487 · Post by **atf487** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:28 pm

|darc| wrote:I only use the boost at corners...

Same here.

I power slide

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:59 pm

I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. To win online, you almost have to snake.

Yonke · Post by **Yonke** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:35 pm

Only if my oponents are doing it...........

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:43 pm

i dont know if i can, i powerslide most corners if i can, and if i do a "powerslide x times" mision i will try to slide on straigts, but i dont do it all the time in races, just the corners

so no, i dont snake

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:12 pm

Yeah, I powerslide, but don't snake. Snaking has made me not play online anymore. I got sick of MKDS online after about 15 races. Now, I only play my friends (who don't snake).

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:14 pm

On a side note, I whooped |darc|'s ass today with powersliding. Until he disconnected on the last race. "It kicked me off when it told me Covar logged on" yeah right...

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:14 pm

Same here, just on corners.

It would have been great if you could set options for racing to decide whether power boosts and/or bonus items are turned on or off. At least that way you could choose the kind of race you were participating in.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:31 pm

Kenichi wrote:On a side note, I whooped |darc|'s ass today with powersliding. Until he disconnected on the last race. "It kicked me off when it told me Covar logged on" yeah right...

its ok, |darc| got his today when I had to quit because my dad came up to visit.

atf487 · Post by **atf487** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:51 pm

Bertrude wrote:Same here, just on corners.

It would have been great if you could set options for racing to decide whether power boosts and/or bonus items are turned on or off. At least that way you could choose the kind of race you were participating in.

Actually, thats not a bad idea. It'd be a totally different game without the power slides.

Oh, and what is everyone's favorite racer + kart combo? I use Toad's Dry Bomber personally.

Vchat20 · Post by **Vchat20** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:01 pm

Yoshi+Poltergeist4000

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:02 pm

Giving more options, such as the ability to disable items and powersliding would have been great. Though...if you disabled items...it would kinda screw up the game's balance. It would be cool to be able to specify areas of the track for powerslide boosting...such as only around turns. One can dream. And...I've never been able to connect to anybody from this site. I've added everybody, but I guess nobody likes to play when I do. Oh well

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:52 pm

go on #dcemu and you'll be more likely to find people ready to play. plus you can communicate between matches.

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