Mario Kart World update finally adds much-needed quality-of-life options and more

Mario Kart World has had an interesting life so far. Released alongside the Switch 2, the latest and greatest Mario kart racer saw plenty of praise but an equal amount of criticism due in part to Nintendo’s rigid approach to player options across the board. Though it should have been available from the off, Nintendo has now released a massive update for Mario Kart World, bringing with it a ton of requested features.

Sharing the full patch notes to their support page, the team at Nintendo detailed Mario Kart World’s update 1.4.0. Available now, the patch brings with it a ton of welcome changes and additions, including but not limited to:

• Added Custom Items to the item rules
• Music track name and source title of the track that is playing will be displayed on the Pause Menu
• Added ‘Music Volume’ to Settings/Controller
• Added ‘Restart’ and ‘Next Race’ in the Pause Menu for ‘VS Race’ in ‘Single Player’
• Changed the course layout of multiple intermission tracks
• Made it so you can join in with friends who are playing Knockout Tour from ‘Friends’ in ‘2p’ and ‘Online Play’
• Made it so players who gathered in a Room of Online Play can participate in Race, Knockout Tour, and Battle.
• A ton of bug fixes

While there is no denying that these fixes, changes and additions are all welcome to see, pretty much everything added arguably should have been available from day-one, with the omission of a restart option, a music volume slider and more being rather unacceptable.

Hopefully once they have added all the necessary quality-of-life improvements, we might start to get actual new content.

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