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This is largely a criticism of KO Tour, or rather, how the final gate seems to have an absolutely disgusting cut before it on a LOT of these Rallies.

The absolute worst being Cherry Rally and Boomerang Rally, but I feel like the end of so many of the Rallies is just... flawed I guess is the best way to phrase it?

Nintendo needed to do more with the final section exclusively on KO Tour to not discourage just driving forward. If the pack is close on Cherry or Boomerang Rally... without a shock you're just... screwed? This is assuming the players you're with actually know how to play and aren't really far behind.

Maybe it's related to how the item pool doesn't close as you go on which I honestly feel like it should do? I shouldn't be able to pull a Golden/Bill because I dropped to 8th when the others aren't that far ahead of me. That's stupid. Especially when excluding the Rallies that don't have a massive cut but just end with a straight line, like Ice Rally, Heart Rally, Cloud Rally and Spiny Rally.

I know it would be hard to include all the tracks and not have some entrances just be straight, but on the other hand I think some of the consideration for that should've gone into crafting the Rallies in the first place. Why IS Crown City an end track when the run way upto it is just a straight boost panel road with an enormous, literal straight line leading upto its entrance gate? Why does Spiney Rally have the runway to its final gate a massive straight line of water ripe for Bullets and Goldens?

It just strikes me as odd how the final runway to a lot of the rallies is basically set up to allow baggers or slower players TO take the gate from you at the literal last second of a 8+ minute race.

Part of me just thinks when it drops to 'Be top 4', Golden and Bullet should be simply stripped from the pool of items altogether, or have item boxes designed to not have them. If you're that far behind only a bullet could save you, you should lose.

Because then Cherry Rally would get played exactly 0 times ever again. :)

I've only played Elite, and thought perhaps the original had a greater context for what occurred at the start of the game in comparison to the end. I don't think Elite did a great job at explaining how worldlines work in context with what's being said on here too well. So, just wanted to ask some questions:

At the start of the game, we know future Okabe is present from the interaction with Kurisu and we also hear his scream. It would appear based on the Metal Upa Mayuri got that this is the version (or point in time) of events where Okabe accidentally kills Kurisu himself, before being hauled back to Suzuha's time machine to try again and succeed.

I guess my question is, providing this whole thing is a loop anyway, and that future Okabe is going through what the Okabe we follow through the game is already, why was the Steins;Gate worldline not established in that moment? We know that version of Okabe is going to come back and retry the same events we do at the end of the game, allowing Kurisu to live.

It's made clear the DMail is what caused the divergence, but what I don't get entirely is why that didn't also occur at the end of the game (and if it didn't, why was that version of Okabe at the start seemingly hindered by the DMail?) when the Okabe we're following is mirroring the events of what that future Okabe was doing. The reason I say hindered is because it's established only one worldline is ever active and the rest are dormant.

It's kinda confusing to put forward what I mean.

In more clear terms I guess why was it that the future Okabe present at the start was unable to cause the S;G worldline to become the active one, but the Okabe we're following was able to? I get it's a loop, but am confused regarding the 'one worldline is only ever active' thing.

>!First off, wow this game is a heart jerker in the last 2/3rds of it.!<

>!Initially I had the criticism that the intro was so slow and spent a bit too long on slice of life but it makes what happens in the latter 2/3rds that much more effective IMO. The game establishes a great connection to every character and tears you down bit by bit as the game goes.!<

>!One story element I had an issue with was the scene with Nae that happens late game. It just felt... bizarre and extremely out of place, even for this game. If anything it pulled me out of the experience for a tad.!<

>!The characters were done really well and the end was a massive tear jerker. I went for the true ending initially because I just wanted to experience the complete story my first time but intend to go for each character ending.!<

>!Some of the art stuff is kinda a bummer. There's a lot of repeated frames in Elite and I kinda wish they had made this game a combination of OG and the Anime so you could choose.!<

>!Overall, really good. I was a tad skeptical in the beginning but the payoff was really good!<

So I got a Hub 4 the other day as my Hub 3 was seemingly on its way out. Fit it and noticed on my laptop that whenever I first connected (didn't matter if the router had remained on) to it that I would have extremely intermittent connection for the first 10-15 or so minutes, then it was fine for the rest of the day. Whenever I disconnected (so say I restarted my PC) the issue would be present again. Again, for 10-15 or so minutes.

Went into the Hub settings and noticed "Channel Optimisation" was defaulted to on. So was curious, disabled this and set it to channel 44. Tested it again and the issue was immediately gone.

Now obviously, being on channel 36-44 you're going to be subject to better/worse speeds depending on congestion of those channels... but it baffles me why Virgin would set their Hubs to auto use Channel Optimisation (I'm guessing it was the DFS channels causing this issue?) when that's seemingly going to get people with less tech expertise ringing in saying their net is awful... and whilst technically they are wrong... it's kinda making Virgin's service seem extremely bad because of one setting they don't inform you about. Most people don't even need 200+mbps and would likely be comfortable doing their everyday browsing with 50-60mbps so it's just funny they choose to make your net unusable for 15 or so mins everyday rather than offering consistency with worse speeds.

tldr; apparently the dfs checks on hub 4 are horrendous so if your wifi sucks on hub 4, do this even if temporarily