Mario Kart Worldwent from one of the year’s most exciting gamesto one of its most vilified real quick. Earlier this year, Nintendo updated Mario Kart World in arguably one of the worst ways possible,making it far more difficult to play lap-only tracksin the game’s multiplayer modes and making intermission tracks more frequent.
For many, this was a real dealbreaker, as the intermission tracks are considered some of the weakest parts of Mario Kart World as a whole. It felt like Nintendo was forcing players to have fun the way it wanted them to, and the backlash was so fiercethat review bombings soon followed. Thankfully, it seems like Nintendo has listened this time around.
Mario Kart World Update Will Make Lap-Type Tracks More Frequent
It may have taken a little while,but Nintendo has announced in the game’s most recent patch notesthat Mario Kart World’s next update will increase the frequency of lap-only courses appearing on the selection screen when choosing the next course. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear as though there will be a way to guarantee a lap-only track like many have been calling for, but this should reduce the amount of intermission tracks you’ll see.
There are a couple of other interesting changes in the patch notes that Nintendo released, including the decision to make COM easier in every single mode the game has to offer apart from Battle. It’s possible that this is a reaction to all the complaints regarding item spam that were frequent back when the game launched, though we’ll have to play for ourselves to see how it changes actual races.
This update will download and install automatically as long as your Nintendo Switch 2 is connected to the internet, and you have Auto-Updates enabled. We don’t have specific times, but Nintendo say the update will be rolled out later today, so you should be able to start racing in some lap-only tracks very soon.
