MKDS Snaking: Cheap, not cheap, or something else?

[Alex Vandar]

Actually, snaking is a glitch in the games physics, so yeah. :p

It wasn't intended to be in the game or to be used.

So I still stand by what I said: It's cheap and not fair to those who can't/won't use it.

And Nikkou: You can't set up handicaps like that in MKDS unless you know the people you're playing and have a way to communicate with them.

[MisplacedIdea]

Snaking makes playing MKDS online no fun at all. When one person is trying to race legitimately and the other three are all snaking, it completely ruins the flow. It's the same thing as exploiting the standby glitch in Halo 2 on X-Box Live. I completely disagree with it.

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

Going into detail on my response of only snaking if others are:

I personally snake a bit normaly when allowed (not constantly, just on some very short straights where a snake sets me up for the next curve, think beginning of Frappe Snowland). But if I'm against a snaker online, I'm NOT going to let him walk all over me just because he snakes. But otherwise, I usually normally powerslide insanely around turns, getting like 3 powerslides a curve. In fact, sometimes just that allows me to keep up and even beat snakers when I'm not snaking at all, which is AWSOME!

[Goose]

I haven't played online yet with Mario Kart, as Advance Wars DS will have my attention for the next several years. While I certainly don't think I could do this snaking business, it sounds like fair game to me. The game makers certainly didn't intend the power slide to work in that fashion, but it's a part of the game. From what I'm hearing, it reminds me of wavedashing in Super Smash Bros Melee, which takes the utmost skill to utilize an ability that for all intensive purposes shouldn't be in the game (of course, I've beat a number of insane wavedashers, but that's another story ^.^)

So yeah, I haven't seen it in action yet, but it sounds legal to me. I'll probably try to learn it myself, actually.

[Alex Vandar]

I haven't played online yet with Mario Kart, as Advance Wars DS will have my attention for the next several years. While I certainly don't think I could do this snaking business, it sounds like fair game to me. The game makers certainly didn't intend the power slide to work in that fashion, but it's a part of the game. From what I'm hearing, it reminds me of wavedashing in Super Smash Bros Melee, which takes the utmost skill to utilize an ability that for all intensive purposes shouldn't be in the game (of course, I've beat a number of insane wavedashers, but that's another story ^.^)

So yeah, I haven't seen it in action yet, but it sounds legal to me. I'll probably try to learn it myself, actually.

Wavedashing is a seriously overrated ability. <_<