My new ghost on TC gets a mystery boost at the straight after first turn on lap 1 =/

Edit: Just did it again and I can't believe it, but it seems to work exactly like alaktorn said - tap left at the end of your boost... Except here it's from a zipper boost, guess zipper and startboost are the same just like in mkds where they both activated PRB. This game is fucking weird.

Do you guys ever notice that sometimes, when you land after a trick, instead of having a left drift you get a right drift? (and this especially if you were pressing R + left from the beginning of the jump)
It's really weird, as if right drift was the "neutral position" after a trick. I wonder if this has something to do with the mystery boost.

Sure that isn't just you guys pressing/releasing the original direction too early? This happens to people in all mariokarts.

Really, i'd recommend trying to release the button after you trick and press it down as you land. If it still happens to you then, then i'll believe you

it kept happening to me too, then I did this:

stelzig wrote on 12/12/11 at 11:52:09:


and wow Stelzig, if pressing a direction at the end of a boost prolongs it… this game fucking sucks

edit: Stelzig here’s an idea: what happens if instead of tapping you hold it? did you try that? inb4 PRB

TellTale wrote on 12/12/11 at 18:14:55:

I was saying that myself

you can’t prove that it isn’t

TellTale wrote on 12/12/11 at 20:17:35:

because it works for LR’s startboost, and TC’s zipper

those are the proven examples, but I don’t see why it would work only there, certainly there is more to it

Hmmm this might be what happened to me, I was racing LM and I noticed I was a good karts length in front of my ghost after the start boost for no reason at all (since we both got the same 'best' boost), and I had no idea how it happened.

It's only ever happened once, though.

Well for what it's worth, on LR before the tunnel I seemed to get a mystery boost sometimes only when I would take to the right side of the track and drive straight a while after the 2nd red mt.  But the boost of that mt had already worn off for several seconds before I got the mystery boost.

I don't know if someone has already noticed that, but there're clearly two ways to do a mt, and there is one that actually save more time compared to the other.
I think many players are already playing with the "right way", but I discovered it yesterday and beat my time on TC by 0.8 in a few runs.

I mean the traditional way to make a mt is to "turn" and "jump with R" at the same time. But it saves really more time when you "jump", and then "turn" when the kart touch the road.. It's a subtlety but TC is a perfect reace to see the difference.

So I try to make the most of my MT in the "right way" and I beat all my time quicly since yesterday. (even If my time weren't that hard to beat   ) (got 1:21:4 on TC easily)

Does anyone see the difference ?

Note : Sorry for my english.

stelzig wrote on 12/12/11 at 22:22:18:


inb4 super ghost is found in mk7