Guild Wars 2

Seriously, make it so it teleports you instantly once you fall off the edge of the race track. If you going to make a “flinch” mechanic where if you fall and wait 3 seconds to continue racing, make it teleport you instantly if you fall. Not wait the 3-5 seconds to hit the ground, then teleport plus the “flinch”. It’s highly irritating. Either make us wait for the drop, or wait for the flinch. Not both.

I look at it as part of the penalty for falling. It could be worse. It could just kill you when you fall and disqualify you from the race.

I used to fall a lot when I started playing the race. After a few races I learned where I was most likely to fall and avoided it. I almost never fall anymore unless I get a little too excited and mash a wrong key or something.

I agree.

I’m thinking back to Mario Kart whre falling off the track meant the game would instantly lower you down with a cloud as a penalty. The nice thing was it was always consistent.

In this game, you can fall off the track and its very inconsistent depending on where you fall. Sometime you fall and you don’t go far enough to die, sometimes you fall for a long time, sometime it puts you close to where you fell, and sometimes way far back.

I think that if you fall off the track, it should automatically warp you back on, in the exact place you fell, and hold you for a second or so as a penalty. It just needs to be more consistent.

That would be a devious mode (if you died and were disqualified). People would be more cautious and aggressive. I’d think the guy up in front would want to turn around and slaughter everyone to ensure victory. :P

I don’t think this is so bad. What I DO hate is that there are places where you can fall but survive, and at some of them you are not teleported back. Therefore, you either find a way to kill yourself or you deal with the fact that now you are at a point that is way too far from where you fell from and there is no way of getting close to the other competitors anymore.