Another Category?
3 years ago
New Zealand

I think we can all agree noone uses inside drift bikes so why not make it a category extension

England

Well, there is already 25 different category extensions, as well as a few people do use inside drifting bikes, if this was made into a category extension, what type races would there be? (e.g. 8 races or 16 races? Items or no items?)

linny356 likes this
Maryland, USA

And some can’t tell the difference without a side-to-side difference. I use the biddybuggy and I have no ides if that’s inside or outside.

Washington, USA

@linny356 It’s definitely very, very different. Biddybuggy is an outside drifting vehicle, and if you try an inward bike you should be able to notice significant differences in many aspects of the drifting behavior.

@Chxchamp123 If we were to add this, it would probably be Items/No Items for the 4 main track pings (48 tracks, Nitro, Retro, Bonus).

I’m not entirely opposed to the idea myself, but I asked the other mods on Discord what they think. The main problem I see is that there’s nothing about this that wouldn’t be allowed in a regular speedrun, and using inside drift isn’t even much of a disadvantage compared to outside drift if you know what you’re doing. It might be better to just add a filter on regular runs for outside/inside, like the existing filter for digital/cartridge, rather than a bunch of category extensions.

Coincidentally, I’ve actually been playing around with learning inside drift over the past week or so. My sum of best for 48 tracks is already only 3 minutes slower than my regular PB, and many of my golds are bad. I haven’t learned any advanced strats, and overall I’m terrible compared to the best inward players.

VikeMK likes this
Denison, TX, USA

How about losing in 12th place for all races it makes an good extention

Donegal, Ireland

12th place would be an interesting one with items on but with items off there isnt much apart from luck

Denison, TX, USA

or you could do nothing