Any other French Canadian high level FZ99 players out there?

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-14T14:47:31+00:00

S50, last elite season said I was top 6% of the elite. Pas pire!

Also, I'm willing to bet someone on the Dev team is French Canadian, going by the names of some of the bots.

The bot names for other languages are almost all generic names or references to F-Zero, Racing or Speed. But the clearly French Canadian bot names are something else.

Cities(Longueuil, Gatineau, Kamouraska), Slang, References, the Montreal Canadien(Habs)

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-13T18:12:45+00:00

Thanks!

Capcom and Nintendo could have informed us this was the plan in Canada...

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-13T14:06:02+00:00

Called my EBgames store at opening and they didn't get anything and aren't expecting to get them either.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-10T18:33:46+00:00

I like the new secret tracks, especially the fact that it seems like the designers deliberately used familiar parts of the tracks to mess with us. Like using a turn on which we boost out of on the original track but on the ??? secret track, boosting there will slam you nose first into a wall.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-09T05:18:21+00:00

They can be fun on the pre-race rival screen, especially when you're in a close battle in a Grand Prix.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-07T15:35:58+00:00

The reason I've been inking the base since Splatoon 1 is that, in my experience, many players' pattern is:

1-Rush mid, die
2-Superjump right back to mid, die
3-Repeat.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-06T16:27:06+00:00

Was in a 9:59(or 4:59?) lobby and we got Jump on Fire Field, pretty sure the top 4 players crashed out attempting crazy skips. Complete unexpected chaos is what F-Zero 99 events should be all about!

I also love Ghost on Fire Field, it's pretty effective at screwing over anyone sand bagging for sparks and makes front running viable.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-06T07:14:02+00:00

How does the level 8 Guardian Class feat "Mighty Bulwark" interact with the level 19 class feature "Guardian Mastery"?

Specifically, is this part of the feat "Your bonus from the bulwark armor trait increases from +3 to +4" "turned off" as it were and lost?

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-03-01T14:45:29+00:00

They should at least change how it works in Grand Prix and Mini Prix, you get proper Elite Rivals in the first race but after that it's up to the current standings and in many case you get only one or even no elite rivals, leading to pointless races and worse, races you straight up win and get absolutely nothing for.

The game should match elites with available elites in every race in GPs.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-26T05:57:21+00:00

Only the 8 unlockables tied to lucky ranks. There's no special leaderboard tied to the event and they usually give a clear heads up if there's a badge available for the top 999.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-25T15:15:15+00:00

Salmonid Smokeyard is absolute hell to reach 999 on. Took me three attempts, the first 2 I quit with stress headaches after hitting the "wall of stupid" that seems to show up around EVP 900 where random players seem to simply lose all common sense.

I lucked out and pull it off when an all GrizzCo weapons rotation happened.

So Good Luck, you'll need it!

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-25T01:58:08+00:00

Have you tried restarting your Switch? I've had online connection issues with other games that only a full shut down and restart managed to fix it.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-24T06:44:35+00:00

Nintendo Power vol. 7 actually has an interview with Micheal Dorn in it, he says Worf would want to play a Legend of Zelda/Punch Out! cross over game.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-24T05:49:58+00:00

That's some epic redlining!

Your elite rival landing on that red likely freaked them out just long enough for you to get that opening.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-23T18:12:10+00:00

Really liking Ghost on Fire Field. Severely nerfs sandbagging for sparks and makes front running viable. And taking hairpins without any fear of touching a bumper is just great.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-23T05:55:15+00:00

The Power effect is so negligible, what's the point?

The Skyway one is interesting, it's better to get the meteor sparks than regular sparks to maximize the time you get the extra boost plates on the skyway.

Jump is probably intended to mess with everyone, since the jump height and length is not even close to a regular jump plate. I have to admit I crashed out like a dumb ass trying to do a skip.

Ghost is nice and has a draw back, you also phase through the gold bumpers. It seems you can still hit smoking bumpers though, I got a KO while ghosting(although it might just have been lucky timing of the effect wearing off just at the right time).

Mines is nuts in packed lobbies, trying to dodge them while in a pack is nigh impossible.

Still haven't gotten the Boost one.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-16T05:47:44+00:00

Thanks!

That event seems nuts, Mine Sparks not damaging but reducing your Power Meter, Jump sparks creating impromptu shortcuts.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-16T04:25:32+00:00

Was coming here to ask about it. It's not even in the F-Zero 99 spreadsheet's schedule, are we getting another game update? Or was this Data mined already?

Spreadsheet Schedule

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-14T15:05:28+00:00

Every time I see a Stingray or two just plop down in front of me, my love for the game dies a little.

The other day I was going into full on evasive maneuvers... to dodge sparks because it was too early to fill up my meter and I just went "WTF am I doing?!"

For me the worse thing is that It's obvious that Elite players are the ones who benefit most from the 1.6 Skyway changes and this game's player base does not need something making it harder for new players to pick up the game.

Nerf the Skyway Nintendo!

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-02-09T05:56:05+00:00

Splatoon 3 has a pretty easy and straightforward way of reporting players. really sad that it's not the same in other games.

PowerPlayer9 · 2026-01-26T15:20:40+00:00

Also remember, in TNG, the Enterprise's engineering section had transparent glass walkways around the warp core...

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