Did you think that, as the game has already been released a long time ago, and there is a new game of the series on the horizon, support for this title is over? Surprise! This is an unannounced, unexpected, big update. Since the Ribbon Racer from the very beginning was oriented towards the multiplayer, I decided to take another step in this direction and so the Team Mode was created.
Here are the details of how it works:
+ team mode can be set only for multiplayer games (2-4 players). Players will be divided into teams as follows:
+++ if only two players playing, both will form one team, while all opponents controlled by AI will also form two-person teams
+++ if the three-player game, all three will form one team, while all opponents controlled by AI will also form three-person teams
+++ if 4 players are in game, players 1 and 2 will form one team, players 3 and 4 will form another one, while all opponents controlled by AI will also form two-person teams
+ collected boxes will work on all team members, i.e., if a player take a maximum speed bonus box, the other team members will also receive this bonus, however, if any player falls into the paralysis trap, his entire team will also be influenced by the paralysis
+ all powers, except slowing down the time, now have a team effect - that is, if one player uses turbo power, his whole team will be under the effect of turbo power, and if the player uses the power of flying, all members of his team will also start flying
+ missiles don't work on members of the same team (there is no friendly fire), and unlike boxes, missiles don't have a team effect - hitting one opponent will not cause that other members of his team will also be hit
+ while playing the tournament, players will still earn points individually for the achieved places in the race, however, on the summary list of the tournament will count the achievements of the whole team, and the number of points of the team will be the sum of points earned by all its members.
The team mode can be activated in the race settings (I replaced SkyView button, if you really used SkyView mode and want me to restore it, write in comments). Of course, to be able to use this mode, you must first set a number of players to at least 2.
Here is the general list of changes in this update:
+ SkyView mode removed
+ Team Racing added (action description above)
+ all routes have been optimized (although Amazing Amazon will probably continue to lower fps on low and medium computers)
+ changed the default number of opponents from 0 to 5 (because nobody's going to race with themselves anyway)
+ the appearance of the trap boxes has been changed to distinguish them from the bonus boxes
+ fixed some minor bugs
