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1. captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 13:53:18 EDT captain typ0

   So, uh, it kind of sucks, which is disappointing because I love Mario Kart games.

   The controls are truly awful: "If you'd like to perform drifts on command, you'll have to select the Manual Drift mode in the options, but this is even worse than the regular steering mode since you can't turn and can only drift."

   https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/09/25/mario-kart-tour-android-release/

   1. captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 14:03:00 EDT captain typ0

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      BTW: I quoted from the Android Police article partly because they said it well, and partly because it proved to myself that I'm not just terrible at the game.

      I selected "Manual Drift" during initial setup, because that's normally the best way to play Mario Kart when given an option between "auto" and "manual" modes. I was confused why I could *only* drift and not just turn normally until I read that this is, in fact, the way the controls are designed.

      1. captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2019 18:06:18 EDT captain typ0

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         I learned there's a "gyro steering" mode hidden under the settings menu. Technically, it's not hidden, but it's not actively mentioned in the tutorial so I didn't think to look for it. The game is less aggressively shitty with gyro steering + manual drifted used together. The auto steering is pretty aggressive, so I might try turning that off...unfortunately, it is helpful to have on because the vertical view means it's hard to see what's coming up around corners and I crash lots.