The thing is for fox to stay ahead is has to spend the power bar on boosting a lot since it has the lowest top speed. So if you're playing to win and not to place 50 or 30 you'll be dangerous low on fox (where doing a single mistake will pretty much crash you out) for a good chunk of the race. And if you're playing just to finish races then goose is better as its the only machine that can actually stay in the mosh pit at the middle and not getting tossed like a salad, if you want to boost a lot falcon is a better begginer machine since it is basically fox but more forgiving since it usually stays at higher health.

crashing with any ship is super bad on any ship you just go to fucked to really fucked with G fox but regardless you are screwed with any ship @@Andre-od5hf

I suck outright, and I use the Wild Goose because it's hugely durable. That way, when people crash into me or I crash into bumpers and walls, I don't lose half my health. I also like its top speed. Sometimes I go Fire Stingray just because it is numerically superior on top speed, but.... I love my green tank. Gotta have my green tank.

Much like Andre said, your logic isn't bad, but you very much need to use your energy for boosts in order to stay on pace. A Golden Fox that doesn't boost is the perfect candidate to rank out. There's literally nothing slower, aside of a crashed Machine, I suppose.

I am sorry to say this but. I don't think it's THAT great for beginners. Personally, while I do LOVE playing the golden fox (I love high recovery and good speed). I dislike the fact that the golden fox, while being the best healer, is also the most fragile machine. Honestly, each time I crash with that gold car, I feel like I have been brutally wounded out of some of my life. And since now once Queen Luegue was added, I dare say that the golden fox effectively "nerfed". Since more dangerous tracks with less "straight lines" or "easy turns" has been added. I ain't a F Zero professional. And I like playing with all machines (except Wild Goose, screw that machine so hard! Also Golden Fox is my personal favorite). But while I do agree that Golden Fox is still top tier (for now). I don't think it's really "beginner friendly". A crash with that dude cost a lot more than a crash with anyone else, especially for Wild Goose (I still hate that machine personally, I get surprised each time I see someone winning with that machine bruh).

THIS, it's incredibly important to get KOs to get better chances at winning overall, especially when it comes to Prix events. You can just focus on survivinga and getting as many KOs as possible on the first track, to then take advantage of your increased Power Meter and try taking the lead in the other tracks.

Go for grey bumpers and KOs constantly. It'll help you get a massive energy bar for the subsequent races in the grand prix

I love how every vehicle’s meta is luck dependent in a unique way.

Fr, im a Falcon guy but i used Goose in a GP and I got full boost last lap from destroying a player. I was flying through the pack. Now whenever I play it im hunting for low energy machines to destroy lol

KO bonuses stay with you during the Grand Prix. A big part of the Wild Goose GP meta is to just grind KOs on the first race and then just leisurely drive through ""Silence" knowing you have more health and boost then you'll ever need.

Exactly my experience. It’s awesome having a consistent shot for 1st with Golden Fox, but make a mistake and you’re dead

For your information, the plural of »Grand Prix« is »Grands Prix«, with no change in pronunciation. Cheers.

The Golden Fox is so fragile, my goodness.

​@@isaiahthechristiangamer8716 fr. And its not like i dont trust my driving skills. Its the fact that all it takes is a group or even one driver to throw me off course and drop my placing. Yeah top 25 isnt terrible but at that point i could have just driven any other car with less stress

How is it less risky if it recovers worst?

What helped me alot is realizing that if you release the acceleration button your grip instantly comes back. If you learn to do that its all fine especially in tight corners.

Team races are great for experimenting as well. Then you can see how it handles in traffic and how other people play.

@@pyromaniacguy8499 yes that definitely helps with the Golden Foxes tendency to swing too hard during turns if you gas or lean too much

Personally, I want to power through turns and run circles around the bomb and gray cars so the rest of the cars aren’t much of an option for me outside Fire Stingray. It feels gratifying to climb through everyone to take 1st, and if you make no mistakes up there in later laps knowing you’ll lose the most speed out of all the other cars from the obstacles, you’re just gone from the rest. I’ve touched Fire Stingray and never looked back.

@@LostChildOfTime Thats a good point too. Ive seen people snake through bumper cars while boosting with the Golden Fox, and I just don't quite have the nerves or practice to pull that off haha. I get really squirrely on that last lap when all the CPU cars start coming in, so the Stingray helps mitigate that a lot

Yes this cannot be overstated. If you aren't an expert at the tracks and boosting the optimal number of times per lap then you can basically throw this tier list out the window. No one ship is good enough to negate a significant gap in skill between players but the Fox is coming close as evidenced by the increasing number of top 5 placements we're seeing with it.

I cant stand how the Golden Fox or the Wild Goose handle when it comes to corners. Golden Fox and Wild Goose dominate right now, but I definitely think the Queen and King leagues will change it up.

Longer tracks will suite the Stingray better, it needs as much time as possible near the front of the pack to flaunt its top speed.

The Falcon is in a weird spot. The only track out so far that it really shines in is Silence, where having no glaring deficiencies gives it a HUGE advantage on that technical track.

I've only used Blue Falcon, and it's my opinion that victory with it requires optimal Super Boost usage. Using a super boost to get out in front at the end of the final lap is critical. But good driving is of course important in order to maintain a top 20 position, so you can Super Boost to victory.

yeah I agree, especially on sand ocean, maintaining top speed and managing HP can be quite the chore.

Yea like Fox in smash melee

@@Macarow I can’t get over the fact that, in the world of F-Zero, Captain Falcon is well-rounded.

​@@nameforcomments4092Makes sense tho, the main character of a game are usually well rounded.

But usually well rounded character of game doesn't suck like Captain Falcon.@@superxavxii421

I dont think falcon is hard to use, on the contrary, falcon seems pretty good for a begginer since it basically is a more forgving fox (falcon usually will spend most of the race at much higher health than fox is), a bit faster and slightly better durability/grip at the cost of less boosts and a bit slower accel. The thing is that having more boosts effectively makes fox outspeed falcon so in turn that leaves falcon with almost no real advantages over fox in the hands of a skilled player (which is why you usually see so many falcons place around 20~50 but you very rarely see falcons on top 10 or 5). The only track in the game where falcon has an actual advantage right now is silence, and that track can only be seen as the track 5 of the knight GP so most of time you'll just feel disavantaged compared to other machines. Maybe the meta delevops in a way that makes falcon better or the future tracks end like silence where the specific mix of falcon stats fits it really well, we'll see.

@@Andre-od5hf yeah exactly. It’s not that the falcon is hard to use - it’s just extremely difficult to *master,* especially on the range of tracks we have now.

Yeah, Falcon is generally looking at 1.5 boosts per lap on most tracks plus adjustment for damage taken since it can't front-run consistently and doesn't have the durability of a Goose. It's a machine that takes extremely precise management to stay competitive, which does make me question how much weaker it is than the other machines overall.

@@wesnohathas1993 and while the goose is the worst front runner of the 4, it makes up for it with its GIANT energy pool giving you 6 boosts at full energy, giving it an edge on the last lap.

Maximum velocity 🏓🏓🏓🏓

Agreed; White Land 2 is gonna be a vicious shake-up.

Not really since Fox has the best sharp turning in teh game. The grip stat doesn't tell you the actual turning stats and every stat for every vehicle isn't shown. IF GF is so broken nothing will change with the new cups.@@Gigawood

@@dave9515 true; but most people (including me) discussing how broken the GF is at the moment acknowledge that it’s mainly just easy tracks that have been released. And even NOW I’m seeing the GF fall out of favor; there’s so many of them at the front that they waste all their energy bumping into each other and crashing out. That’ll only get worse on longer tracks and White Land 2 is gonna be one of the worse.

@@dave9515 and to the turning point you mentioned - yeah, the wild goose is the absolute worst in sharp turns; it loses more speed than any other ship while cornering and it’s a pain to get back up to speed.

I’m with you on this. 😄 Most of my “top machine” places are blue falcon. I’ve really had to dig into the mechanics to handle the falcon well…and it’s been rewarding. It’s going to be interesting how the falcon will do with the rest of the tracks. Right now it’s hard to tell if the falcon is undertuned, requires the most mastery of the game to win, or if the lack of challenging tracks is why it’s a slightly lower tier.

@@Gigawood yeah. Later tracks will likely have more sharp twists and turns(RIP Golden Fox), if my memory of the snes game is right, which the blue Falcon can handle well due to its good grip and acceleration. Doesn’t mean it’ll be easy, of course. lol

@@Ichigo111293 the first real big test is gonna be White Land 2, lol

Yeah Blue falcon feels like its easy to pick up and play but difficult to master as while it's jack of all trades nature makes it solid for beginners, learning to utilize boosting and skyway to keep up and outright beat the competition requires a lot of skill and knowledge

I mentioned it with the Wild Goose. Grip mostly comes into play when bumped and when dealing with low grip surfaces.

well yeah the main strenght of the stringray isnt only the top speed, is the fact it can keep that speed on most corners thanks to high grip since other machines arent as fast AND they have to slow down more to make turns. Ofc the bad thing is that its accel is very low below 400 and specially 300/200 mph so making a bad mistake or getting pushed aside means you have to basically boost to get your top speed back (and thats how most stings should be using their boosts, to correct a crash or mistake since boost basically sets you to max speed after using it), you cant overuse it though because even though stingray is rather durable its boost cost the most of of every machine (as it takes away more power per use than on other machines).

However, not everybody can be 1st, or top enough ton avoid the pack. You can't have 10 golden fox front. The one too much behind will die to contacts dued to their low durability.

@@ingeniussoul8390 thats the funny thing, the more foxes are in the front the worse fox itself becomes since then it cannot stay there forever figthing other foxes.

Hit ALL of the jumps and hold down on landing. Jumping gives you a noticeable speed boost and holding down when you land preserves it. Absolutely necessary for the Stingray to get up to/recover speed.

Why do people want a SinglePlayer F-Zero, anyways?

​@@Eldoofusbecause it whips ass

@@Eldoofus maybe not entirely single player but it would be nice to get a new mainline F-zero game with some kind of story mode and single player gp

Boost speed and duration are all standardized, but energy consumption does vary. Stingray: High (slightly less than 4 boosts from full meter) Fox/Falcon: Medium (slightly more than 4 boosts from full meter) Goose: Low (6 boosts from full meter)

I've been basically only using the Blue Falcon and currently have 10W, might try out the fox to see how broken it is

Everyone in the back say nerf fox? I'd like to see more machines being added. Dragonbird being the true jack of all trades and very very durable would mess Golden Fox meta real good. Also the game would looks really badass with the different machines

Yes

cause it's cool

Ikr? Maximum Velocity and GP Legends machines would fit 99 perfectly even if they were just reskins of the basic four

maybe, they've added the four selectable ships from the original game already but they might want to add new ones from later games to keep it fresh

why are all the guys winning in queen league using blue falcons tho?

@@hr-g4640 Cause all the vehicles are viable really. You can use any of em and do just fine. People just like to overreact the gap between the vehicles

Pimp 😎

Acho não, talvez nos ranks mais baixos, mas de A a S³ só ganha fox e Goose

It's durability has become a bigger weakness since the game's launch as players have become much more aggressive now.

Yeah and as time keeps progressing we might see people start dropping this game once they realize how luck reliant wins are and how the skyline dictates everything about matches on top of how annoying blue bumpers can truly be. Game is a ticking time bomb. I have started to really dislike it more and more because i can't consistently knock people out myself, teh lack of side attacks is unfun, i get real mad when i bump someone out of bounds and see them magically get back on the track, and the lack of the cockpit mechanic in X and GX where ramming a driver's cockpit does increased damage. I wish more and more that the cockpit mechanics and aggro from x and GX were in 99 especially so i can punish passive players by instantly knocking them out. Whats the point in an Fzero game when there aren't up to at least 15 knockouts a race? I feel like you get punished for trying to knock people out so its just better to knock them back and slow them down immensely while people behind will likely get to knockout the driver you bullied.@@Relugus