In my opinion, Beagle is a very underrated AND unspoken character. Give him some love by returning him!

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Hello folks of STK,

it's the first time writing to you after maaaaaany years of playing STK under Linux.

I've some questions I decided to post here all together:

1. Somewhere I read that you will use Godot for the new version. The experimental build looks like you'll continue with c/SDL? Why did you decide for the one or the other? I myself also code in Godot and C/SDL, so I'm curious about the reasons.
   
2. In the last blog article, the "Roadmap", you mentioned the 2 drifting levels that long-time STK-fans should know. I only know about the one key to drift and I use it. Is there another drift? And what will be the third drift like?
   
3. I would like to compile the experimental build you also mentioned in the blog. Just to be sure: It's the "BalanceSTK2" branch and I build this branch like the old versions of STK? And is the experimental build already playable in a basic way?
   

It would be interesting to make machinima-type videos in SuperTuxKart using the characters and that's why I'm asking.

In online games, you can always see only one message at once, which lasts for a few seconds, and then you see the next one. But this can lead to missunderstandings, for example, if a player sees the answer to his question only 2 minutes later (usually it isn't that long, just to understand better) or when there are multiple questions at once, and then you can't always understand which answer is to what question. That things are especially a problem, if there are a lot of players  on one server.

My suggestion would be just to add the possibility to see more messages at once during the race/game.

What do you think about that?

I would like the most important open source mascots to be in the game, I saw that Dashie is going to be in the evolution and Mr. Iceblock. it would be good to see Beastie, Elephpant, Mozilla and Gooey back to. Please

An overview of the roadmap for SuperTuxKart Evolution is now available!

Get all the details by reading the full blog post here.

I was thinking about the kart/combat racing genre in general, and one of the major flaws it has is that, when you're winning, there isn't much to do. The genre is built on the combination of racing and combat, but when you're in first place there's no one in front of you to attack. Some games try to remedy this through rubber-banding or by giving people in the back of the pack better items so that the leader doesn't stay in front for long, but imho that's just trading one flaw for another.

So I was thinking that a way to fix this problem is by adding a new mechanic for the race-leaders to participate in by adding boss battles to the race. Essentially, there would be a CPU-controlled enemy that would always be just ahead of the #1 racer and the goal would be to defeat this enemy using the game's weapon items. Instead of the race being determined by whoever crossed the finish line first on the last lap, it would be determined by whoever did the most damage to this enemy.

Players would still be incentivized to race well, since only the top few karts would be in attack range of the boss, but it would mean that the race leaders would still have an interesting gameplay experience. Plus, as the racers are attacking the boss, the boss could be shooting back, and if a player gets hit it would behave as if they were hit by a player's weapon, potentially causing them to fall back in the pack and allowing another player a chance to attack the boss. This would create a more dynamic racing field while still incentivizing skilled play throughout the entire race since the longer you spend in the lead the more chances you'll have to attack the boss.

Just putting this out there as STK is gearing up for a major update with Evolution and this would be an opportunity to give it a feature that other combat racers lack.

I would like Penny to return to SuperTuxKart, because: she is a very important character in SuperTux, no character has returned from old versions and it would be perfect to give more variety of SuperTux characters in SuperTuxKart in addition to Nolok

The silliest and most hardcore SuperTuxKart mod is back!

STK: Tyre Mod Edition adds, among other things:

• Tyre degradation, with 3 unique compounds
  
• Tyre allocation system to control how many tyre sets can be used over the course of a race
  
• Fuel
  
• Pitstops
  
• Tons of gameplay tweaks
  
• Longer endurance races
  
• More options for hardcore players as well as people looking to make competitions, including ways of controlling collectibles and powerups dynamically over the course of the race with Item Policy, as well as setting up rules that mimick some real-life competitions (NASCAR stages forced restarts, blue flags, KERS, dynamic fuel/tyre settings...)
  
• It packs around 15 additional circuits including some real-life tracks. A total of 21 tracks support pit stops! (Plus a small number of add-ons)
  
• High moddability for all new features
  

A few weeks ago, I saw a video of kimden, wherehe did a 200 lap speedrun at "Toys Block Raceway", and the lap counter crashed around lap 130. The player "Frog007" told me recently the same, and yesterday, when I decided to test it at a 140 laps race on Olivers Math Class, it also happened.

So it seems like it happens pretty always when you startabout lap 130, that the lap counter disappears

Would be great if you could fix it for STK Evolution, or even the version 1.5

Thanks!