Yo Mods, Just wondering if you might just add a 2 player category, it would be pretty cool for all the individual cups.
Me and my dad are both experienced MK8DX Players, and want to do a speedrun to together on it.
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I think in the standard speedrun, 2P doesn't really offer much. I think it lacks that teamwork aspect that makes most 2P speedruns interesting.
I can maybe see it working in a shine thief category extension, where one player takes the shine and the other player defends.
Thanks for the suggestion! The mods will consider it. We've had several submissions in 2P mode and requests for this in the past, too. We'd probably only add the 16 and 48 track categories (like most other category extensions) to keep things from getting too specific. I do think optimal 2P item play has a lot of interesting strat potential. However, as @Man4r3dy mentioned, no items runs would just be regular speedruns but limited by the slower player, so we'd probably limit the new categories to items only if we add this.
2-player no items could have each player getting drafts off each other to speed up the run, while 2-player items could have player 2 stay in second and defend player 1. I think there is potential, it would just be a very niche category that only a couple players would run.
why would they be defending player 1 in a no items run, also you compromose your driving just to keep drafting each other, and really it's a speedrun for the slower player and hinders the better player of the two. crash nitro kart is in a similar spot with all cups co-op but the fact you can disable the ai, it means the run is the same as the 1 player version just with half a screen
