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beatcroc · 3 months ago

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aka ''who do you play in ringracers'' well, 1, the whole fucking roster at once, 2, every most extreme/polarized/minmaxed edge of the stat layouts, and 3, mecha sonic specifically.

everybody give it up for 100 hours of ringracers

#see magician is just the random button because she shuffles what character and therefore what *stats* she is on every lap of every race #which is really funny to have as my top played bc none of her character data shows up anywhere on the heatmap #so that's jsut like a solid third of my race playtime that's gone right in the hole and isn't really reflected anywhere else #anyway magician i use for pretty much everything if i don't have a specific other goal but mostly shes for online play #which is why my winrate there is extremely middling lmfao #i like her bc a character who is the random button is objectively hysterical and it keeps things interesting for me to have to handle #wildly varying stats on the fly like that. most importantly though her horrid 𝓞𝓞𝓞𝓗𝓞𝓗𝓞𝓗𝓞𝓗𝓞𝓗𝓞𝓗𝓞𝓗𝓞𝓗𝓞 cackle is unbeatable #mecha is largely the same in terms of being a general purpose guy but he's also both max speed and max weight #the high-speed heavyweights are my natural preference for general normal racing. and more importantly he is mecha sonic.#he's just uh. kind of unwieldy half the time because higher weight is directly proportional to worse turning and the speed exacerbates it #so i do suffer on many tracks. but that obviously hasn't stopped me #redz is the other corner; high weight low speed #he has a very high number of matches played and an abysmal winrate because i have been using him for the newly-unlocked SPB mode #which for the non ringheads is basically : the spb is this game's blue shell equivalent with the funny caveat of #you can actually outrun it as long as you play perfectly optimally and stay at or just barely below your character's max speed #so spb mode is where they make you do an entire race with that thing chasing you and pretty much if you make a single misstep you die #the high weight is preferred here because light characters lose more speed through tighter turns #so the bad handling is more of a safeguard in this case bc i want to be doing that as little as possible #low speed is directly proportional to better accel which youd think would be its own reward but frankly #you die so instantaneously if you fuck up there is no amount of good acceleration that can save you. it's ACTUALLY useful in that #the closer you are to minimum speed and maximum weight the more quickly you get turbos from drifting #which are absolutely key to survival in balancing the speed you lose from turning. also: funny snake/dinosaur robot #shadow is max speed minimum weight and he's exclusively for time trials which is why he has a perfect winrate lol #naturally; faster characters more easily get you better times and you're gonna want the handling to really tackle the turns head-on #you also more or less have effectively infinite turbo once you know what youre doing so the losing speed on sharp turns cancels itself out #metal sonic is starting roster and was just the guy i used before unlocking anyone i liked more. you'll notice that #i havent played any additional matches as him since the first pic. but he does also demonstrate my high speed high weight preference lol.#and then silver is minimum speed minimum weight. for target test. which is time trials to hit specific points on the battle arenas #you're going to be ding a lot of zipping around at crazy angles and very little sustained distance driving. so you want efficiency #for Getting Up And Going as easily possible+general good maneuverability. and of course also. he is silver. my darling baby boy

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