I thought it was a joke, but that would explain even more why this track is so unpopular

I tried really hard to keep up with the pro gamepad, but at the 3rd turn I already lost almost .5xx . Not sure if WW is faster in other tracks.

I made a ghost which holds right at the start. I raced it with motion controls, and was able to turn sharper.
However: I found a place underwater big enough to drift in circles. When I switched to motion controls mid-game while doing this, I started drifting notably slower.
I then went to rDDD and drifted inside the quicksand area. With motion controls I was able to do a tight drift right on the edge of the hole in the middle, but with regular controls a tight drift would always make me go too sharp and fall in.

I haven't found a piece of regular road large enough to drift in circles.

r Sherbet Land gives the same drift results on the ice (motion controls are worse) but the difference is not as big as it was under water.
An odd thing, though: not only did my turn rate change when I switched controls, but my direction as well. Changing to motion controls made me suddenly go more inside, and to regular more outside. (opposite of their relative turning abilities.)

Can any character/vehicle drift on any off-road w/o boosting?

Thanks, but I just found a different one, near the end of Electrodrome.
Tests on normal road also show the instant direction change, but motion controls here seem to allow slightly SHARPER drifting.


If motion controls are better, I'm still not using them.

Suuper wrote on 06/02/14 at 05:01:20:


Have you made sure the Wii Wheel / Gamepad was standing completely upright ? We do know that on MKWii vertical input has a slight effect on the handling and drifting.

I'm playing rDDD right now with standard controls, it does seem to me that holding forward while drifting helps me a bit keeping up with Alexony, but I still loses time whenever I have to turn sharp. So in that case, having the full directional range in the angle would allow for tight drifting without slowing down significantly.

Brionac wrote on 06/02/14 at 10:19:02:

yeah, the fact that you can change mid-race is all the more retarded…

Honestly, Nintendo MUST do something about this.

Oh yeah, I'm talking about Nintendo. It will never happen.  

I just tried the track today and had fun with it... But if that wheel shit is true kthx (changing controllers before and after the sc could be an alternative, but it would be too annoying)

Has anyone tried the hop strat with wheel? I think that would kill the wheel on most of the tracks.

Well, that is really messed up. Probably Nintendo decided to give Wii Wheel users an advantage to balance out the control types a little more.

If it proves to be an advantage on a high number of tracks, we should (once again, yeah I really like them) think about seperate charts for non-Wheel times. Otherwise I will not have a real motivation to keep playing TTs for a long time

Similarly the D-Pad cannot take turns as tight as the circle pad.  On day 1 of release I was doing mk stadium tts for a few hours and could not figure out why the wr ghost was gaining .2 on me every time at the u-turn before the glider and I got a 1:41.5 and quit before I knew what the problem was.  I thought it was just because my lines before the uturn was bad but nope the d-pad literally cannot turn as hard as the circle pad and I guess the wii wheel can turn even harder than that.  Theres some kind of turning heirarchy i guess?  lol i really hope i dont have to use the wii wheel for tts that sounds really shitty but i could adapt i guess.

ρf☆Pαμl wrote on 06/02/14 at 10:51:57:

I can confirm that hopping is definitely effective with wii wheel.