Chocobo racing and MGP...

[Aphel]

Yeah I get what you mean Soki. I don't think they implemented a rubber-banding solution for people in last place to catch up. I don't understand the logic behind putting multiple meteors in the same box, or in the same race for that matter.

Also, SE designed the NPC AIs to get you. I encountered this on 2 separate occasions: I was in 2nd place and the NPC in front of me (let's call this NPC Tom) is holding onto a Heavy Powerup. Because of Lizard/Malboro AOEs hitting us at the same time, the both of us get slowed down. 2-3 NPC racers then start to overtake me and Tom. Tom DOES NOT use his Heavy on them, and uses it on me instead as I overtook him. It's as if it was targetting me as priority instead of the other NPC racers. They're that NASTY!

Here's some screenies of R180 races.

Sagolii R180: A heavy panel followed immediately by a speed panel. Along with a wandering cactuar and lizard on the right.


Sagolii R180: Heavy panels that you can't cheese through lol


Tranquil R180: Heavy panels again.


Tranquil R180: If you pick up that box, get ready to eat a Malboro breath.


Tranquil R180: The jump-box that's right above a speed panel. Though with good timing you can jump a little early, snag the box while you're coming down from the jump and touch the speed panel.



A peek into R200 races

Sagolii R200: This might be painful.


Costa R200: That Apkallu AOE right at the start LMAO! Designed to catch players who dash out of the starting gates with Headstart + Dash.


And oh yes every race in these brackets has at least an NPC who has Choco Steal, sometimes two. The amount of left-right movements you make are so much that Cunning starts becoming a useful stat.